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.