Silent Dedication
Thousands of kilometers from Jakarta, in Indonesia’s remote areas, there live a number of teachers—educators to be exact—who at their own initiative open up the horizon of knowledge for children in the hinterlands. In addition to teaching, their scope of tasks include efforts at persuading the parents to send their children to school, building a simple structure for a place of learning, and even work as motorcycle taxi drivers to earn some money to be able to teach the students. Tempo English Edition found three teachers in Papua, West Kalimantan, and Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara. But actually there are a lot more teachers with such dedication in various areas of Indonesia.
May 26, 2010
WHEN Indonesia’s children commemorated National Awakening Day on May 20 last week, a number of educators in the remotest parts of the country reminded their pupils of the event by invoking the most fundamental things, that is, telling them to study seriously, however poor and difficult their circumstances are.
At the village of Kuasae some 15 kilometers from Kupang, the provincial capital of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), Jhon Adam, 31, built the S
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