Indahnya Pemandangan Baru Di Perbukitan Jatinangor
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The mayor of a city will, of course, include in the planning the development of all sectors representing the prime services to citizen. Development programs planned in an urban area are easily fulfilled because they are supported with the budget.
This budget is calculated in accordance with financial potential in the city or town. And the achievement of budget will theoretically, easier achieved in urban area than in rural area. Some causes on the achievements are apparent, urban citizen are mostly having the regular earning. They will agree without much a do to pay tax. When tax officer came to collect or more advanced system the tax-payer are coming to tax office in the end of year to pay tax.
Revenue from tax, and others revenues, the government executes the planning.
Public facilities are built or maintained as to properly function to serve and to facilitate the citizens. All public facilities are available for public in urban. Health facility as hospitals, health centers, Sport centers, education facility consisting of from kinder garden, elementary, high school till higher education are provided and maintained. Economic and business facilities as Banks, markets of all kinds are available, Transportation and communication facilities are functioning and their regulation are managed intensively in urban.
Services for social purposes are organized with updated system and links to others relations as to employment provision for those who face the employment problem, and to hospital and health care center or rehabilitation center for those who requires further handling after the social services officer indicates them for further treatments. Recreation and tourist resorts are managed with advanced management to give prime satisfactory services to communities, and in return they are wealthy and fertile source of generating income for the government. In the recreation center are built all kinds of amusements and attractions. In short, all living facilities from traditional of simple facility to luxury are available in urban.
With this facilities of life of urban, people in rural area are migrating to urban. In the histories of growing cities, the happening of this translocation of people have been taking place for centuries.
May be in the United States cities this urbanization have taken place since the 19th or even in the 18th centuries. However in the newly independent countries as in Indonesia, as for the people of the age up to 60 years old witness the urbanization. This elderly people will say, when we were children (in 1960-1970) the town of Bandung was very quite even in the rush hours and in mid-day. We rode bicycles in a group, we rode side by side, and there were no a single motor-cycle over-run us, and there were very-very rare old var of Chevrolet trademark horned me to ask its way. That time the street was just 4 meters wide, and in the afternoon we could change the street to be a football field. Children were playing football in street.
Now Bandung has turned to be a big city with population of 5-8 folds as in the decades when we were children.
Traffic jams is the daily scenery and very familiar to the people in this city.
We have 5 to 9 children, and my village is now very crowded with people coming from rural. They are employees of governmental office services, workers in factories, retailers and street vendors, and many others uncertain employment (underemployment or totally unemployment). I feel my village is overcrowded, and we decided to move to rural area in 1990s. However my rural area is now growing to be a suburb area of Great Bandung city. Slow but sure this village in rural area will be a new suburb of Great Bandung city. There are benefit of facilities provided by urban government, but we will lost the traditional customs and value we used to be in life.
The photo is near my village, it is built to provide rental apartment for students of universities and colleges opening branches in the suburb, their main campuses are in Bandung city. The universities and college are: Padjadjaran University (UNPAD), Bandung Institute Of Technology (ITB), Indonesian Cooperative Institute (IKOPIN), and the College of Public Administration (IPDN).
Formerly in this suburb area was Winaya Mukti University (UNWIM) this university is administered by Provincial Government of West Java Province. UNWIM was moved to new campus located in Sumedang district.
In the short explanation above, it is recognized that city government build and provide infrastructure and public facilities for the citizen or people living in the urban area. It can be made a list of benefit for citizen and people living in urban, among other are:
1. Some but not many, people who feel unsafe live in rural area due to security ration. This people who have a belief or religion which are not the same with the belief of the majority in the rural. Primordial belief in rural is sensitive case, some cases is proof that the security officer (police) and rural figure person are difficult to control this case. While in city life or urban area, people is rather indifferent in the primordial cases.
2. After technology came to rural, in this case the agricultural technology, only a small number of men are requires to till land and do agricultural activities. Rural unemployment has insisted many people to go outside rural for seeking jobs. Being an urban people this unskilled people can choose any jobs and earning activity. In urban there are many possibility to earn money for livelihood, Be a seller of groceries, be a street vendors, work to serve as house maid, be a worker of all kind in repairing house, be a gardener in an elite housing, many other jobs attracting people to live in urban.
3. Live in urban for continuing their study to higher education levels. In rural are schools but up to Senior High School. Better universities are in city or town, even the best senior high school is in urban area. Parents who want their children to be educated in best or favorite high school have to send their children live in urban.
4. Other facilities as complete/advanced facility for health/hospital, business agents, and many other are available in urban. They are part of benefit of living in urban.
As people of moderate in thinking the advancement of tradition towards better life is accomodated by all people.
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New Building of Apartement
Now in my village is beginning to make new housing to facilitate students studying in extention campuses of universities and college mentioned above. the house is not houses as traditional in my village instead a high stories building commonly called an appartment.
It is more than 10 stories high. It a new scenery in my hilly village. Indeed it makes our village more beautiful with this high building. More than just a beautiful apartment, it also make economy of people activated, Hundreds of workers and tens of trucks and traffic of people intensify in this quite sub-district. I guess, in the years to come this sub-district will really become the suburb of the current big city of Bandung. I am feeling my children will also think to remove his and her houses to more quite sub-district as had done in 1990s when I moved from my crowded village in Bandung. It is really the dynamic and development of people in the crust of the earth we cannot deny or restrict.
Fortunately the development of this region is in line with the planning of Provincial government stating that the Eastern suburb of the Great City of Bandung is allocated as educational center. it is better condition if compared with the Western suburb which is allocated as industrial and commercial centers.
Figure 2. New Apartment Under Construction in Hilly Area of Jatinangor
Growing In Harmony Life
Students of the universities and college in Jatinagor area are coming from throughout Indonesia and international students. They sometimes go sight seeing to my village, and in village they are also many people of having other belief and religion.
The people of majority belief/religion in my village are showing their tolerance. We live in harmony, cooperative and hand to hand in developing and maintaining peace and prosperity life. We as educator in this village that have had opportunity to travel to other country (neighbor countries) as Australia, the Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and others continue to build tolerant characteristics to pupil and influence other to be tolerance.
Banner says #We are Different in Belief/Religion But We are Warm Friend#
View out of a Hill 3 km from the Site of Apartment
Establishing Apartments near Our Village
I have an opportunity to make a short video on the way back to my home. Out of a distance about 3 km from the site of apartment which is being built.
The place is a hill, so I saw the apartment in the apposite direction of Figure 2 above. Figure 2 showed a beautiful background of Geulis mount. And my village in a hilly area. In the video above, it is seen the building is the highest in the village. It is only some hundreds meters from the campus of Padjadjaran University (a leading university in West Java Province), with astudent body of more than 50 thousands.
. I may predict no more than 2 decades ahead this region will be the real suburb of the great city of Bandung. Bandung is famous as the place of the Asia and Africa conference in 1955. That conference has made many changes in the situation and status of politic of many countries in this two continents. And the video below is a view from the edge of my village about 6 kilo meters from the site of the apartment building. Every day I can see the building in a distance (from the edge of my village). I can imagine some time in the near future my village will be overcrowded, too. I think, the new high building will be the first and there will be more and more buildings of the same type, big and high built in this area, and make this area full of sky scrapers. It is too late if it is compared with the cities in North America or in Europe which have been developed since 19th and 18th centuries.
This physical development is something natural and rational in the development of human culture curving the history of this nation as a new developing country. We hopefully, this nation will be as happy and prosperous as the European and North American countries.
View of the New Apartment Building out of the Edge of My Village (about 6 km from the site of apartment building)
Peaceful and Cooperative Villagers
Making a journey to a village in my district of Sumedang is indeed refreshing. I and my family drove to pay an invitation to attend a wedding ceremony of my friend in a slightly remote village..
The happening is really not purposed, it came across when my daughter's smart phone camera caught the whatever scenery along the way. The photos which are presented in this hub are shot-screen of the video. In the Video are more evidents that describe the village condition. Some times we met with the passers by coming in the opposite direction. We never met other car, but motor cycles and the villagers working in the side of road to repair the road and the sewerage, they worked in respect to their head of village and they do not work for wages.
They voluntary but they have the spirit of cooperative working. They usually take with them all the foods they have in home, or other may the women received foods contribution from the villagers (usually as raw food) to be cooked in a public kitchen.
The beautiful natural sceneries are back grounded with hills and between two hills are valleys of rice fields or vegetable gardens. The hilly areas in upper land are functioning as catchment areas or rainfall. This areas reserve water infiltrated when rain in the area. Most of rainfall infiltrated to lower layers of soil, and less rainfall are run off because as seen in the Figures the hilly areas are covered with vegetation as bomboo, wood (Albazia falcata), and some other species of shrubs and ivy plants).
This natural condition is in line with the soil and water conservation principle as campaigned by the government, and the people in this area obeying their leader. The catchment area in this village is not so vast that the stream water forming irrigation system in this agricultural area is just enough for irrigating the rice field and vegetable garden. We may predict why the rice plant in this area are not simultaneously grown. I predict the agricultural office service leader has regulates the acreage the rice fields and the vegetable fields in such away that the acreage are having enough supply of water. Rice fields are not planted at the times simultanneouly, but rice fields are planted at different planting times. This policy is applied to meet with the volume of water supply available.
Rice plant requires much water in the beginning or at the vegetative stage/period, and gradually diminishes when generative phase comes. The villagers/farmers leader also regulates which fields are to be planted with vegetables (spinach, string beans, egg plant,etc). Vegetable plants need less water than rice plant. The regulation is adopted by villagers/farmers so that in this village are realized the conducive and peaceful life, even though they are not so prosperous.
A Short Journey in A Peaceful and Prosperous Village
There is No Isolated Village in Java
Island of Java is land on which cities and towns of densely populated are. More than 60 % of the population of this country live in Java Island. Indeed the island is populated and not a single village is classified as remote village.
This indication that people the semi remote village is influenced by the trendy life of a town. Indeed the village is not isolated, and its access to outside is open broadly. And we see in the video there is a house with a parabolic receiver antenna. People in the village have open access to outside world. They may know the happening occurs in this country even they may watch channel of international television. We saw in the video people were repairing road led by local leader. They utilized local material (stones, gravel) to amend the road. And there was very rare government service officer in charge of public road, that made repair or maintenance of this kind road in remote/semi-remote area.
Figure1 shows rice plants are flowering and estimated within 4 weeks the rice is mature and ready to be harvested, while Figure 5 here showing the newly planted rice filed (about 2 week after being planted). There are 6 weeks different in planting time. This is the indication that cultivation of paddy is not all at the same planting-time. This regulation is adapted and scheduled by Agriculture Office Service of this District. Simultaneous planting makes the supply of limited irrigation water insufficient, but this policy make farmers to intensively control the weed and pest and deceases outbreaks.
Figure 6 shows wood as product of the hilly village. The wood is harvested for preparing material of low risk building. It is belong to the third class wood, even the wood is utilized to supply the pulp factories to produce particle board or paper. The harvest age of the wood (Albazia falcata) is 5-8 years. The wood is planted in hilly area, and it is cultivated in poly culture system. It is a system where more that 2 kinds of plants are growing at the same field with arrangement of planting spaces. There is a main plant, and other are temporary plants.
The main plant is harvested the latest, while the temporary plants are growing later and harvested sooner. Main plants are mostly wider spaced, and the temporary plants are growing in between. This system of poly-culture will save soil from erosion, because there is no space uncovered and opened to splash erosion by ticking of rainfall. Rainfall comes to the surface of land through the leaves, twigs, branches, stems/trunk of trees, an eventually stream gently to the soil. This mechanism of water reaches the soil will enhance percentage of infiltration water to soil, and water accumulate inside the soil, and the soil becomes water reservoir.
This reservoir will be very valuable in dry season, no small river or ditches in this area are dry or without water. this makes irrigation water supply for the whole seasons (rainy season and dry season). In dry season farmers grow vegetables and tubers which require less water supply. Taro is tuber that fame in this area. The taro (tuber) which is produced in the village is special for being fried. It tastes more delicious when it is fried. This makes it different from taro which is produced in other district which is special for being boiled or steamed as taro that is produced in Bogor district.
Not Simultaneous Cultivation and Wood Production
Figure 5. Newly Planted Rice Field ( about 2 weeks after being planted)
Figure 6. Wood as Village Production.
Third Class Quality Wood Growing in Hilly Area of the Village
Peaceful and Cooperative Local Leader (Regent) with the Ruling Dutch Government (19th Century)
Cooperative Regent and Its People with the Ruling Dutch Government
The above statue is symbolizing cooperative between the local leader (regent of Sumedang District) and the ruling Dutch government) in 19th century when the ruling Dutch government was opening way through out Java island. The opening project was coming to the region of Sumedang regency of West Java.
The area was very difficult to open because it is hilly stony. At that time there was no heavy equipment (bulldozer) to destruct stone hill. The workers consisting of forced workers of local inhabitants, they utilized hoes and forks to dig the stony hills. Many workers died of hard work and bad working condition and lack of rest and lack of food. The Regent as local leader named Pangeran Kornel (Prince Cornell) was very angry because of many of his people died in constructing the way. He came and protested the General Governor of West Indies who come to inspect the project. It is seen, the statue of two leaders shook hands.
The Regent was brave enough to protest and to ask for better working condition if the project was to go on. In the video, The statue was a proof that there was a compromise and cooperative characteristics of leader and people in this region. There are 2 statues of the same type in this district, one statue is standing in side ways of high way between Bandung and Cirebon cities. and another statuet is standing in campus of Winaya Mukti University.
Indahnya pemandangan....The picture is prepared in the campus of Winaya Mukti University.
Below are photos of the statue standing in the side way of high way between Bandung and Cirebon cities. And the illustration of bad working condition experienced by local workers of high way construction project in the 19 century when Indonesia was governed by Dutch occupation government.
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