Sunday, March 9, 2014

Lepas-Liar

Proses Pelepasliaran Orangutan

“Terima kasih BOS, mengajarkan dan kini memberikan kami kebebasan itu..”

Mungkin itulah terjemahan dari lenguhan para orangutan itu setelah mereka lepas dari kandang-kandangnya ke Hutan Lindung Bukit Batikap Kalimantan yang liar itu.

Pelepasliaran orangutan keseratus dilakukan oleh BOS NM (Borneo Orangutan Survival - Nyaru Menteng) beberapa waktu yang lalu. BOS NM kembali melepasliarkan 20 orangutan, melanjutkan usaha mereka sejak awal tahun 2012 yang telah melepasliarkan 99 orangutan ke tempat yang sama. Dengan dilepasliarkannya 20 orangutan kali ini, BOS NM merayakan pelepasliaran orangutan ke-100-nya.

Kegiatan pelepasliaran orangutan ini masih merupakan upaya perwujudan target yang tercantum pada Strategi dan Rencana Aksi Konservasi Orangutan Indonesia 2007-2017 yang diluncurkan oleh Presiden Republik Indonesia pada Konferensi Perubahan Iklim di Bali, 2007, di mana dinyatakan bahwa seluruh orangutan yang ada di pusat rehabilitasi harus telah dilepasliarkan paling lambat pada tahun 2015.

Lalu apa sebenarnya tujuan dari Pelepasliaran ini ?. Melepas dan meliarkan mereka?.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Orang(h)utan



“Mengapa harus selamatkan orangutan?. Sementara masih banyak orang beneran yang lebih butuh untuk diselamatkan”

Sejumlah pertanyaan atau pernyataan sekitar lingkup di atas kembali bertebaran akhir-akhir ini, usai berita tentang Pelepasliaran Orangutan oleh BOSF (Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation / Yayasan Penyelamatan Orangutan Borneo) beberapa waktu yang lalu. Hal ini memang hampir selalu terjadi bagi sebagian orang yang belum cukup paham, di setiap program pelepasliaran yang dilakukan.

Jadi, kenapa harus diselamatkan?.

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Maritime

Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, Canada

New year, everyone all over the world, celebrated many things wiht any ways. Firework, music concert, indoor party, religion things, and other shows.
But there is a few things that often forget to be celebrated, to be improved. Most of the common celebration are just symbolic .
Less people who muse about theirself, their group, and their entity in celebration. In term of entity, there is an entity which has very big potential in many sectors. This entity made some other countries attracted from couple hundred years ago. They are Indonesia, which made Portugal, British, Dutch, and Japan came to colonize.
Indonesia has a lot of term for their country ; agriculture, multicultural, archipelago, and maritime. The last term is a classic term which is so weak in its maintenance and empowerment. Not many people who really care or aware with this term : maritime.

Sunday, January 12, 2014

All My Relation

Kids Tour in GHC

Glooscape Heritage Centre (GHC), - which is also called Mikmaq Museum – is one of best native museum in Maritime Canada. They are located in Truro, Nova Scotia. I was volunteering overthere during 3 months in Youth Leaders in Action Programme with Canada World Youth in partnership with Kemenpora RI (Ministry of Youth and Sport – Indonesia).

GHC look like really try to perceive what is real meaning of museum. Muse, in English means 'contemplate'. Then, museum could means a place contemplate the history. Learning, more than just receiving, but also thinking; muses about its value. GHC did this role pretty good.