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Even Celebrities Willing
to Get Their Hands Dirty
by Swasti TC
“S
ince today we are celebrating Youth Plege Day, I want
to know who can recite
the Youth Pledge script?” asked by
Indra Bekti on stage to the participant of 28UILD.ID. Some giggled,
some blushed and some pushed
their friends to move forward. Apparently, there were a lot of them
who could not recite the script—
or
even
did
not
know—
about Youth Pledge 28th October
1928, one of the important dates
in the history of Indonesia. Most of
the participants who came to the
event were expatriates and students
from different international schools.
Language barriers could
be a problem. However, some participants who couldn’t speak that
much Bahasa Indonesia still managed to recite the Youth Pledge,
led by Indra Bekti (presenter) and
Kelly Tandiono (model/actress).
Then, they were divided into 11
groups and started the activities.
The
event
28UILD.
ID on Saturday, 18th Octo-
HEADLINE NEWS
28UILD.ID
Jakarta
Bandung
Batam
Medan
Surabaya
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BRANCH UPDATE
Building Houses to
Celebrate Volunteer
Month
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Flashmob in Supporting of World Habitat
Day
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COLLABORATION
From Building Homes
to Giving Instant
Noodles
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ber 2014 was conducted for the
fourth time by Habitat for Humanity (HfH) Indonesia. While the last
year event was held around Jakarta area, in this year it was simultanously conducted at 5 branches
of HfH Indonesia, which are Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Medan, and Batam. Jakarta branch is
handling activities in the areas of
Kampung Cimangurang, Desa
Cijayanti, Babakan Madang Subdistrict, Sentul, Bogor, West Java.
Around 180 people signed
up to become a volunteer in building
10 houses and 1 elementary school.
The activities have started from digging the foundation, building the
house column, placing the building blocks, and painting the walls.
“We are very grateful to all
participating schools. We give a
medium to these youth to see what
is going on in the actual place and to
be involved in the activities of helping the society,” said James Tumbuan, National Director of HFH Indonesia. Some of these participating
schools are Binus, Mentari, Ichthus,
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Volunteers set up the bricks to build a wall.
National High, Gandhi Memorial,
Global Sevilla, JIS, and Santa Ursula.
Indra Bekti and Kelly
Tandiono also participated in the
activity. Kelly was spotted blending in with the other volunteers
painting the school, while Indra
tried several works, like painting
the house and assembling the
column. They did not mind to get
their hands dirty with soil or paint.
“It is a very
different experience
altogether. We were
involved
directly,
worked,
interacted
with the people in
the community and
the residence who
live in that community. Feels like we have
more meaning as a
human being. That’s
the essence from us
as a social creature.
We need to share, to
care, to give emphaty
to the people who lives
eo
surround us, especially the less fortunate ones. At least, we can give our
time and attention for them, so our
presence can bring them happiness.
Their smiles, their happines, turns
out to be my personal source of energy,” Indra Bekti gave his opinion.
“We have our freedom, independence, and the good life because of the Youth Pledge, too. Now
to be the pioneer in helping others,
and be the active and productive
youth,” he added, closing the interview with several media on that day.
Volunteers were doing
the foundation casting.
Kelly Tandiono painted the elementary school with
other participants. She also brought along her
sibling and friend to be a volunteer.
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BA NDUNG
Encouraging Society to be
Actively Involved
by Yohanes Sigit Purwantara/Swasti TC
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8UILD.ID activity that was held
in RW 01 Pasirhalang Village,
Cisarua district, West Bandung, might be far from the
source of publication, but it actually
deserved to be highlighted. Instead
of inviting volunteers from outside of the village, HFH Indonesia
Bandung Branch encouraged local
young people through youth society (karang taruna). They were invited
and devoted to paint some public
facilities such as mosque (mushola),
neighborhood health center, and
a local Islamic school (madrasa).
On Saturday, October 18,
2014, approximately 35 participants
attended, but then at the end of
the volunteer program, the number of participants decreased to 20
people due to their own errands at
school, college, or jobs that cannot be missed. However, the essence of togetherness to build was
still on. Moreover, the active role
of other members of society have
been clearly showed, like the father
and mother were also heavily involved in preparing the location and
lunch, even residents of other RW
(neighbourhood) also helped them.
Not to mention, Indonesian Armed
Forces (TNI) from local military command (Koramil) also offered help.
Through this activity, it
seems that Habitat has quite successfully changed the passive be-
havior of the community, instead of
passively accepting the help and
watching the development, now
they have become actively involved
for the better living of their village.
“We do not have any other intention but to build our village. Thanks to Habitat that has
awaken and strengthen our intention,” said a member of the Karang
Taruna Desa Pasirhalang (the youth
society of Pasirhalang Village).
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College Students
Showing Their Careness
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n Batam, 42 students from International University of Batam
(UIB) have actively gathered
to involve, volunteer and participate in 28UILD.ID activities
at the Kabil village, Nongsa district. They helped the builders
and family partners to build three
simple houses and drainage for
public facilities in the neighborhood health center (posyandu).
Before heading to the point
of the project and doing some “cargathered under a tent. Some had
their speech from the various
parties initiated the program
that morning. Also present
the DPRD Batam (regional
representatives of Batam)
member Hendra Asman,
representatives of several companies and the
21 RWs in Kabil village.
RW 20 will be the construction site on that day.
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The sun started to rise and
the weather was getting hot. The
volunteers, who were divided into 4
groups, have been gathered in their
own group. There were activities
such as digging the ground, lift the
stone, as well as cut and assemble
the legs of iron columns and foundations. They certainly did not work
without supervision. Some construction supervisor of HFH Indonesia
and craftsman who have been the
in building a house, we usually only
see how it’s been done. It seems
easy, but it’s not as easy as it seems.
But if there is an opportunity sometimes in the future, we hope to help
again” said Nichy (18), one of the UIB
students, while hoeing the ground.
Two of the three houses
they were working on was the contribution of these students. They
managed to raise funds from their
own ways such as donation personally from
aged to collect IDR 60 million to help two families
to have a decent home.
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Larson Napitupulu (29), one of
the partner families was very
grateful to the volunteers, “I
am grateful to Habitat and
UIB. May God repay all of
your kindness.” Larson family previously rented a house
around RW 20. It has been
1.5 years they lived in semipermanent houses roof with
zinc, some parts of the house
have been leaked. Her husband works as a driver and
his wife Ria as a housewife.
With the household composition of 3 people, make the family
not being able to repair the house,
even to dream of owning a new
home due to their economic status.
Building
activity
was
stopped at 12 to 1 p.m, break time
for the participants to relax and
have their lunch box that they personally brought with them. The
activity was resumed again after
Nia Fitria (18), one of the student volunteers shared, “This is an
extraordinary event. A lot of things I
can experience, now I know how to
bind iron with wire. I hope this activity can be carried out continuously
with more partner and coverage”.
Meanwhile, Hendra Asman expressed his commitment
to support this activity. “This is
an outstanding program. Let us
help each other to create a habitable home. For the future, I will
try to involve the government to
take part in this event,” he said.
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Empowering The Youth
by Herawaty Sormin/Swasti TC
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mong other branches,
perhaps participants
28UILD.ID in Medan
has the fewest number of 12 volunteers. However, just as the Bandung
branch, this time the participants came from the
local youth organization
“Karang Taruna Desa Namoriam”, where the construction has been done.
Desa Namoriam
is a village located in
Pancur Batu district, Deli
Serdang, North Sumatra.
The village is located at
the junction between the
tourist area of Medan and
Breasting. Although the village is
quite a strategic location and can
be easily accessed by vehicles,
including public transport, there
are in fact hundred of families living in inhabitable home. Housing
conditions in the village in average
conditions in the village in average is non-permanent and semipermanent, with a wooden wall or
cubicle bamboo and thatch roofs.
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On that day, Saturday, October 18, 2014, they built two decent
houses for foundation work stages,
from excavation to casting. The volunteer program has started a bit behind schedule due to their own daily routine at home such as cooking,
others, before they can participate.
During the activity, the
young volunteers seemed
very enthusiastic, they
were
not
bothered
by the small
number
of
participants.
Help building
houses was
actually a new
experience
for them, especially those
who volunteer
themselves
for
the people in their
village. The jokes
and laughter have always been
there in between their activities.
The volunteering activities, which include
foundation work for two decent houses.
Habitat for Humanity Indonesia. I
feel very happy because it could
help serve the community in my
own area. Usually the students
from outside who help in here,”
said Astri (21), one of the volunteers who is a college graduate.
“It’s very exciting because
pants who build the houses comes
from the local youth. It is time for
us to empower local potential for
helping promote their own village,” said Hera, Program Volunteer & RD Support Habitat for Humanity Indonesia Medan branch.
Bina Rianta br Sembiring, one of the home partners
whose home was rebuilt in 28uild.ID program, and the
old home she had occupied for10 years with her husband and two children.
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Working with Passion
by Teguh Prayogo/Swasti TC
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here’s always been a different excitement in every building activities. One was the
thing that happened in 28UILD.ID
at Desa Tegalsari, Surabaya. About
32 participants—came from Singapore International Academy (SNA),
Sentuhan Kasih Bangsa Foundation,
and Applied Science and Technology Institute of Surabaya—were divided into 3 house groups. They
were doing different activities, like
assembling the columns, painting wooden frames of the roof,
and making the house foundaence, some a little bit understood.
For newbies, doing a few
minor mistakes were common. One
participant was having this kind of
thing. Her shoes got painted by herself while she was enthusiastically
painting the wood beams for roof
frame which made the other volunteers laughing out loud. The beams
for roof were needed to paint in
order to avoid termites. Another
funny thing happened was some
students yelled, even ran, when
they were digging the soil and
then a lot of cockroaches came out.
Imelda Arief, a student
companion from SNA shared about
28UILD.ID activity. “The weather is
very hot and the site has a narrow
alley. However, we are excited, although the cockroaches attacked
us, one was painting her own shoes,
and another broke the gavel used
to split the stones. But we’re so
pleased to be here to join this event.”
Overall, this activity was
done excitedly by the volunteers,
despite the very hot weather in
the city. One of the home partners
Sulaiman even pleased the volunteers by providing snacks for them.
At the closing ceremony,
home partners and village stakeholders gave their impressions.
“We’re pleased to get the help from
Habitat, which make our home become more comfortable to live and
kids can also study well. Our hope
is the children can be more diligent
and smarter so they can help their
parents,” said Kemisah (55), one of
the home partners. The neighbourhood secretary, Seno, expressed his
proud and how he has been touched
by the support of the volunteers for
the community. He extended many
thanks to Habitat and all participants.
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BRAN CH U P DATE
JAKA RTA
Building Houses to
Celebrate Volunteer Month
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by Swasti TC
his kind of job is ‘deceiving’, I mean it seems easy
to do, but when we try, we
found it’s hard enough.
Bending this iron bar, for example,” answered by Adi, Import Division of Samsung Electronics Indonesia (SEIN), when being asked
On that Saturday, October
18th, 2014, about 100 SEIN employees built 6 decent houses which
they have donated with Habitat
for Humanity (HFH) Indonesia. This
event held at Kampung Cimangurang, Desa Cijayanti, Babakan
Madang, Sentul, Bogor as part of
Samsung Global Volunteer Month
that always falls every October.
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“October is the volunteer
month of Samsung Global. We believe in building the volunteer spirit
of our employees. This is also a
good corporate team building for
us. And through the communitybased housing program of Habitat,
we achieved what we wanted. On
top of everything, we have helped
six underprivileged families have
their new homes, new lives, and
new hope,” said Lee Kang Hyun,
Vice President Corporate Business and Corporate Affairs PT
Samsung Electronics Indonesia.
By wearing a Samsung’s
blue-white tee shirt, they dug
the ground, set up the bricks, assembled columns, and did other
house construction works. The
event coincided with another
HFH Indonesia’s event 28UILD.
ID. The build location was also the
same, even some SEIN houses adjacent to the 28UILD.ID houses.
lies has observed the build activities
from their semi-permanent hut. It
used for temporary until their new
Amih (32) was helping the volunteers to build their house, while
his wife Amah (25) and mother Uju
(65) were waiting under the tarp.
Water was there, ready to drink
for his husband and workers to
quench their thirst and for a break.
“Our house had been perforated. When it rains, it leaked,
muddy, and the beds were wet.
I lived here for a long time since
I was a kid with my mom. Now,
I feel so happy, grateful for our
ished. We’ve never thought of saving money to build a house, even
more of having this kind of house.
So, we’re really surprised when our
house was selected to be rebuilt by
Habitat,” said Amah, very openly.
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Flashmob in Supporting
of World Habitat Day
by Herawaty Sormin/Swasti TC
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Monday in October is celebrated as World Habitat Day?
They started to celebrate the
World Habitat Day in 1986, as an initiative from United Nation. The purpose is to remind the basic rights
of every human being for a decent
house and to motivate the community to be involved in eliminating poverty housing. “We all have the power
and the responsibility to shape the
future of our cities and towns,” as
written on the UN Habitat website.
To expand the message,
which is inline with the Habitat for
Humanity (HFH) vision, HFH Indonesia Medan Branch together
with North Sumatera Department
of Housing and Landscape, held
with the signing of a banner by the
people who were coming to the
event. This banner signing is a form
of support and care to eliminate
the slum area and housing comWhile the World Habitat Day
was commemorated on Monday 6th
October 2014, the event was conducted on Sunday, 12th October
2014 at Lapangan Merdeka Medan.
This mass dancing activity consisted
of 30 dancer from SMAN 9 Medan,
SMPN Kambes, Singapore School
Medan. Amongst the students,
there were teachers from Singapore
School Medan who joined the mob.
A mom who watched this
mob was done by a modern dance
club. But when
she found out
that it was
danced by
a
group
of
students and
teachers,
she was
p r o u d
and participated
in
the
bannersigning
gladly.
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though I was not able to help
in fund, at least I can support
this positive activity by giving my signature,” she stated.
The current decent housing backlog in North Sumatera
is estimated 700,000 units. “The
more people giving attention to
decent houses, the faster poverty
will be eliminated. We need government’s support to push the
legalization of the land tenure,”
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said Thusi Bonandito, Manager
of HFH Indonesia Medan Branch.
Upgrading
the
status
of non-decent house to decent
house will help decreasing the
poverty level. This year, HFH Indonesia Medan Branch targets
at least the status of 350 houses
will upgrade into decent houses.
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From Building Homes to Giving
Instant Noodles
by Bagus Dharmawan/Teguh Prayogo/Swasti TC
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n a press conference that was
held on Wednesday, 20th August, 2014, Miracle Clinic has
declared their commitment to
build 10 decent houses in Jakarta,
Surabaya, and Bali. With that, the
beauty clinic sent their teams to
go down to the villages in Bogor
and Surabaya. They helped build
some houses they have donated..
JAKARTA
“Oh nooo… I’ve destroyed
this!” Tuti shouted. Her face looked
so upset and regret. The brick wall
she was doing from the early day
was collapsed, after inadvertently nudged by her arm. Sorround
her feet were the bricks scattered
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into pieces. However, she didn’t
linger into dejection. By the help
of HFH Indonesia’s construction
team, Tuti rebuilt the wall and was
abled to complete the task which
has became
her responsibility.
Tuti is one of around 70 volunteer women from Miracle Clinic
es at Kampung Cigarungsang, Desa
Bojongkoneng, Babakan Madang
Sub-district, Bogor on Saturday, 11th
so awkward, swinging the hoe to stir
the cement, building the walls, and
casting the column. Nevertheless, in
the late afternoon, the walls of the
J A K A R T A
SURABAYA
One special volunteer who
presented at that day was Whulandary Herman, HFH Indonesia
Ambassador. The Putri Indonesia
2013 seemed enjoying her job by
bringing the cement bucket and
building the wall though her sweat
dripped profusely. “The weather is
very hot. But I am glad to help families in this Kampung Cigarungsang,”
as she expressed her feelings.
Aside on building new houses, the community also received
a health education on breast cancer prevention from Miracle Clinic.
SURABAYA
Meanwhile, at Dukuh Kupang Utara, Surabaya, Wings Food
team gave a free package of instant
noodles and tea beverages for 200
people. On that Saturday, 25th October, 2014, a seminar on early detection of breast cancer from Oncology Hospital and Reach to Recovery
Surabaya (RRS) community was also
held, which attended by around
60 local women. That activity interspersed the building of three decent houses by 45 volunteers from
Miracle Clinic. Miracle purposely invited the three stakeholders in order
to make the event more interesting.
“I’m so glad to be here,
building homes with Habitat for
Humanity Indonesia. I hope in the
future there will be more people
helping,” said dr. Lanny Juniarti,
Miracle Clinic President Director
while she assembled a column.
On the side of the site, drinking
water and snacks were served by
the community for the volunteers.
The event ran orderly,
smooth, and delightful. “Volunteer
of The Day” and “Group of The Day”
were selected at the end of the event
that added the excitement of that
day. As it wasn’t enough, HFH Indomy Pacatang invited participants to
sing “Happy Here, Happy There”
in Tagalog (Philippine language).
“Thanks for the help from
Habitat and Miracle in building decent homes for RT 05 residents. I
wish this program will keep continue for the other families,” said
Agus Suharyono, Head of RT 05.
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