Cooking and Sharing the Skill. Let’s join!  

Monday, 30 September 2013
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For two days, September 25–26, 2013, the Secretary office of GMNI (Indonesian National Youth Movement) Waingapu in Prailiu, East Sumba was very busy. What were they doing? They were having a cooking activities using local food resource, such as cassava flour (Manihot utilissima), white glutinous rice (Oryza sativa glotinosa), purple sweet potato (Ipomea batatas) and taro potato. Did you want to know the result? Well, it turned out that they were not only learning how to make cakes using local meal resources, but also doing fund raising by selling cakes for their organization activities. That’s great!
 
 
 
On the first day, seven participants practised a recipe how to cook steamed cake with cassava flour and glutinous rice flour. They produced 10 pieces of cakes that were ready for sale. In the following day, one more participant joined, so there were eight participants involved in the activity. They practised how to make cakes from purple sweet potato flour and taro flour. They made 8 pieces of cakes which were also ready for sale.
 
 
The participants felt happy to learn and practise cooking, as well as knew how to make a fund raising activity for their organization. "I’ve never think that the cooking material of these cakes is quite simple. All the material is abundantly available in our local grocery in Sumba. The price will be higher when the simple material is appropriately processed and has an attractive packaging" said one of participants. "We begin to think that cooking-skill may be developed to start culinary entrepreneurship in Sumba," he added.
 
           
You see guys that one’s knowledge and skills will be more valuable and meaningful if we are willing to share them to others. Likewise, Iriyani Elsi and Marselina, two students having ever joined Stube-HEMAT exposure to Yogyakarta and learned cooking with local food material. "We are happy to help our friends of GMNI Waingapu, especially now they're looking for some fund for a New Member Admission Week (PPAB), in October 25, 2013" they said.
 

 

Keep moving and sharing your skills, Iriyani Elsi and Marselina! (TRU)

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Watching Movies with Children in Palalewa, East Sumba

Sunday, 29 September 2013
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Stube-HEMAT Sumba always motivates their activists to engage in activities giving benefit to their community or church where they live. Some of them are doing services for a children ministry, as Yuliana Takadjadji, fondly called Kak Bula, Yumi Takadjadji and Iriyani Elsi have done in Palalewa, East Sumba. This children's services are held every Sunday morning at Sunday-School Palalewa, on Jalan Adam Malik km 7, Waingapu, East Sumba.
 
 
Last September, during the visit of Trustha Rembaka S.Th, the coordinator of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta to Stube-HEMAT Sumba, the children ministry at Palalewa Sunday-School played movies for the kids and Sunday, September 22, 2013 became a special day for them. Placed in a Sumbanese traditional house, commonly used as a meeting place, on km 7 Adam Malik Road, they are watching movie together. Even though the preparation was in a quick time, the expected children to come was more than it was predicted before, 15 to 25 children, even their parents were also enjoy the program.
 
Yumi started the watching movie program by inviting the children to sing  'Let's rejoice’ song and delivered an opening prayer. Trustha Rembaka, as the movie operator, introduced the movie of 'The Story of Jesus for Children'. The children were so excited, and even after that, they asked to see another movie, and 'Jonah' was the next movie for them. Yuliana Takadjadji said, "If this film-show can be held regularly, the children will be more enthusiastic to attend the Sunday-school."  She hoped it and closed the event in a prayer.
 
 

 

Yumi Takadjadji, a student of GKS Theological Seminary in Lewa, East Sumba, who is also an activist of Stube-HEMAT Sumba, said that the activities of the children are not only in Sunday School, but there are some other activities, such as dance training, sport exercise and study groups. She admittted that these activities are usefull not only for the children but also for her as she can practice and develop her communication skills used to serve people and churches after graduating. (TRU)

 


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Further Discussion About Multiculture  

Cultural Enlightenment Movement Hall of GKS Synod, Waingapu, September 21, 2013

Saturday, 28 September 2013
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As the follow up activity of Multicultural and Inter-Dialogue Training with context of Sumba Culture Nowadays, on Friday – Sunday, September 13 – 15, 2013 in GKS Okanggapi, Londalima, East Sumba, Stube-HEMAT Sumba held a further discussion with Marius Mura Woki, S. Sos., a former chairman of Haharu district, as the guest speaker. Yulius Anawaru, S.Pt., a member of Stube-HEMAT Sumba team managed the discussion as the moderator. The discussion in the Hall of GKS Synod  in Waingapu was attended by 24 participants, including Trustha Rembaka, coordinator of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta.
 
 
Marius Mura Woki is so much encouraged to enlight young Sumbanese about Sumba customs. This cultural enlightment movement is done through Forum Peduli Adat (Customs Care Forum). Marius said that culture is a way of life that’s developed and owned by a group of people and it  has been passed down from generation to generation. The culture is made up of various elements and even complicated ones.
 
 
Most of Sumbanese are still in the shackle of poverty. They need to be aware and be reconstructed so they may have a better living standard, covering basic needs, appropriate jobs, well educated kids, and health insuranced. However, the fact is on the contrary,  family finance that’s actually for their children education or family health often goes to custom practices and demands.
 
Custom is the product of culture, created by people in the past being passed on from generations, and being expected to bring people into prosperity. Ironically, certain cultural rituals actually imprison even impoverish, and no longer relevant to the present situation. Some Sumba cultures still existing up to now are traditional clothing, traditional house, betel nut (sirih pinang), traditional dances, traditional funeral ceremony and marriage customs.
 
Marius gave examples that traditional funeral ceremony is so costly  that needs  many custom animals, such as pigs, buffaloes, horses, and traditional fabric. He emphasized that he did not intend to eliminate the customs, but give a suggestion to simplify them. He started the simplification of traditional funeral ceremony in his family clan in Mangili, East Sumba.
 
Participants responded that Sumba cultures have been formed in such practice for a long time, so the process of simplification will take time. In addition, some participants expressed that these simplifications require an understanding among Sumbanese clans themselves, so that the simplification process could be done and accepted by the stake holders.
 
 
This lively discussion was closed with the statement that culture will evolve continuously and one should not be bridled by culture, however s/he must be able to show their cultural identity owned. (TRU)
 

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