Stube HEMAT Anchored in Raja Ampat

Thursday, 30 July 2020
by Pst. Grace Nanuru, S.Th

 

The presence of Multiplication program of Stube HEMAT in Raja Ampat opens a new hope of service for community in Raja Ampat and this is a God’s blessing that has never imagined before. Formerly I took part in Stube HEMAT when I was a student in Yogyakarta and after returning to my hometown, I served a congregation in a rural area, at GKI Soli Deo in Kapatlap, North Salawati district, Raja Ampat regency. In fact, God’s hands is not short enough to save, and His hearing is enough to hear. Finally, God's blessing through Stube HEMAT reached my place, the ministry in Raja Ampat, Papua.

 

Raja Ampat itself consist of islands in the western part of Papua, namely Waigeo, Misool, Salawati and Batanta. Now, Raja Ampat has become a tourist destination with its unique underwater landscape that invite domestic and foreign tourists. The presence of tourism spots and tourists provide large income for the region and the related party, but the following challenge is how to make the existence of tourism bring benefits to the community, not problems of social inequality, unfair development. Actually there are still other problems, such as education in which the number of qualified teachers is limited, worse, rare presence at school to teach.

 

 

In this point Stube HEMAT through Multiplication of Stube HEMAT in Raja Ampat gives attention to the development of human resources, especially young people and students by equipping them with Social Analysis skills. It is important because Social Analysis is a knowledge for observing social problems, existing issues and problem trend in Raja Ampat, as well as recognizing the potency of tourist spots in Raja Ampat and having ideas to change the situation that is being analyzed to be better.

 

In July, as the multiplicator, I conducted several activities with students from Raja Ampat in Sorong and the islands around. However, the coverage to the college students is still limited because of the pandemic, so that it is not possible to carry out activities in several areas, moreover to sail across the sea. I must give attention to the weather condition of the sea and sea currents that are difficult to predict. Recently, Sorong rained heavily and the city was hit by floods and landslides which caused death.

 

The Social Analysis itself took place on 09, 11 and 12 July in form of discussion and sharing with some students from Raja Ampat in Sorong and in Yenanas, South Batanta district which took several hours by boat from Kapatlap, the church I serve. Other activities were held on July 26 and 27 in Kapatlap village, North Salawati district with students majoring in teaching education. The multiplicator started by introducing Stube HEMAT and its activities as well as observing and mapping social issues in their own villages and how these issues affect their family life and education. The next activity was sharing the situation of each village in where they live about education, economy, culture, custom, whether each village has potency as tourism spot or not. The discussion with students in Raja Ampat were held flexibly, at the beach side, harbor, on stage house and even in the vegetables fields, what matters is they enjoy this activity and gain new knowledge about Social Analysis.

 

Some resumes found from the meeting are: (1) There are problems that occur in each village or region; (2) Students only participate activities in campus without any organization experience outside of campus that can help them to learn and to develop themselves; (3) Students are not yet familiar with the term of Social Analysis; (4) Students' interest to participate in Stube HEMAT activity is arise after hearing explanation of Stube HEMAT and its social media; (5) There are students majoring in teaching who have skills besides teaching, able to manage local plantations such as cassava, chillies, bananas to fulfill their daily needs. (6) Some areas are potential as tourism areas but they are not developed or managed yet by the village community due to limited local human resources.

 

Being a mutual hope through activities in Multiplication of Stube HEMAT in Raja Ampat, young people and local students receive God's blessing in the form of attention and knowledge which become extra energy to support learning and improving their self-quality in Raja Ampat, so that they have added value for themselves and will be able to develop the community in Raja Ampat.


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