Sunday night, on February 12, 2017 around 8 p.m. became a spot of introduction for the multiplicator in Bengkulu to a small group of youth of Margasakti village. Nine people gathered and talked about the village and young people. This small talk produced a planning to establish a sport community such as table tennis club. A young man from village VII, named Yohanes Suherman provided his house as the place to gather.
In the conversation, it was admitted that black road racing or motor racing were commonly found there. Motorcycleswithout wings and side shields releasing roaring sound from the exhaust are often found on the streets of Margasakti.
Many traffic accidents were happened there, the news was also often heard in the neighboring regency of North Bengkulu. The worse, speed driving was often done by teens of Margasakti village. Ironically, most of the motorcyclists were still under 17 years old, and of course they did not have driving lisence.
The youth organization Tunas Harapan (youth group of village VII Margasakti) took initiative to ‘redirect’ the energy of young people to positive activities. They built a racing circuit at dirt road with some challenges in area of 5.000 square meters. The last motor-cross race was held in early January 2017.
Beside motor, youth from different village has attempted to design a table tennis court. In fact, this sport arena isalways crowded. In the coordination area of ‘Tunas Harapan’ youth organization, it is found that at village VII of Margasakti, only RT II, III and IV don’t have youth mediayet.
Yohanes, as a Stube multiplicator is trying to accommodateyouth to use their energy through their sports hobby whilesharpening their intellectual abilities. Through this activity, leadership skills and organizing youth will be carried out and transferred. How will the capabilities be sharpened? Nine youths of Margasakti village agreed to hold discussion once a month.
This meeting is a training media for youth to improve theirpersonal skills in leadership. The group goal is each youth will be trained to organize themselves and do activitywithin a team and a group. For example, young people agreed to choose their coordinator and what the rights and duties of each youth are.
The first meeting with the local youth was the starting point of multiplication program in Bengkulu with the youth of Margasakti village. There are many more youth that must be touched and they should get skills of leadership.
Hopefully this small group may be an embryo and example so that youth of Margasakti village is able to formulate ideas for their village development. (YDA).