International "KKN" at Ponggang Village

11/02/2016 00:00:00

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We, Kevin Novawinata, Danny Pratama, Vicky Hardian, Ezra Gunawan Raditya and Hidalgo Andika gunarko, doing service learning activities Int. along with student students from three countries namely Malaysia, Thailand and Slovakia in Ponggang Village, Subang, West Java on 15 to 20 October 2016. While doing these activities, we got a lot of new lessons will not or difficult for us get during the lectures in Atma Jaya, a case on the second day we were there, we learned about the MHP (Power Micro Hydro) and the way of thinking and acting that respects social life around and the neighborhood, we got the science that thinks not only with the left brain, but also with the right brain in order to balance the brain cleverness and ingenuity heart. The left brain and the right brain must be trained to be balanced. This lesson was delivered by Mr. Iskandar BudisarosoKuntoadji and Mom Tri MumpuniWiyatno. Then on the third day, we jointly went to three primary schools in the village Ponggang to motivate school children to continue their education to a higher level again until university, because the average children in the village Ponggang much stop learning in junior high school education, and on the third day we also make traditional crafts of the basic ingredients of bamboo in the image by using coconut shells are burned to produce decorative glass. Then on the fourth day we learned to catch fish with bare hands, without provocation, and on the fifth day we learn to utilize the waste rice straw, which can be processed into recycled paper together RandyYanuari, students of Catholic University of Atma Jaya, who is conducting the final project in the Village Ponggang and we exchanged a bit of the culture of every country in the evening, the children of the village Ponggang featuring the songs of folk songs and student student from Thailand, Malaysia and Slovakia featuring dances from their respective countries.
In our opinion, such activity is necessary for students female students, especially those studying in major cities to build awareness of the surrounding communities and the environment, and is also required to build motivation and enthusiasm for learning for children of primary school to keep the spirit of learning and remains trying and not give up easily in reaching goals.