Young Volunteers Show the Way
A number of youths left their comfortable life in the big cities to work in remote areas in Kalimantan, Papua, Halmahera and other impoverished places in Indonesia. Among them are journalists, law practitioners and medical doctors. In the faraway corners of the country, they worked with communities who seem happy despite the lack of money, which they see as a source of many problems. The volunteers' experiences differ from place to place but the goal was the same: to help out. They came home quite changed, with a new paradigm in their lives. Read their stories as reported exclusively to Tempo English Edition.
February 23, 2011
Remote Medicine
THEIR colorful experiences working in Papua changed the perspectives of two young doctors.
A SPEEDBOAT roars across the ripples of a brownish river, under the protection of dense trees. Every morning, at around 8am, Dr Wishnu Aditya, 28, accompanied by a staff from the community health center (puskesmas) from Sawaerma village, Sawaerma district, Asmat, goes on patrol to one village in the district. The four-hour routine is actually
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