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His name is Saekan. He is the man who saves his village from drought that happen when long dry season come. Due to his merits , Indonesian government has awarded him with Kalpataru award as environment saver. His hard work was started at 1970′s. At that time, dry season made wells and river being drought. That condition forced Saekan to did something. After He traced the forest that located not far from a spring that used to be water resource for the villagers, he knew that the springs extinct because there is no tree in that forest. So, he decided to planted pucung trees there. He planted the trees one by one until the number reach 500 at 1982. Ten years and 500 trees were enough to reappear the spring. After the spring reappeared, He flowed the water to his village by bamboos.
Now the village is become very cool, even in dry season. The villager also enjoy very much natural resources such as, cocoa, coconut, clove, durian, etc. They also can build road and enjoy electricity in their village.
When Andy F Noya from Kick Andy ask him about the reason why he save his village, he answered “I won’t let my children and my grandchild suffer pain that I’ve felt”. So, let us save our environment, not only for us, but also for next generation.
“Superheroes don’t save the world, we do”
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After finished 3rd grade, i thought that i was very bored to live in Bandung, so I said to my Mom that I wanted to lived in the village together with my Grandparents, my Mom just asked me “why ?” I said my reason then we (Me and my Mother) moved to a small isolated village in Wonogiri, Central of Java. My grandfather was a farmer, and my Grandmother was a tempe (a fermented soybean patty) maker and seller in a market in the center of the city, i always waited for her after i came back from the school (SDN Pare 1), because she always brought me various of snacks, that’s one reason why I love her very much ^_^.
My favorite activity while I was still lived in this village was tracing the river near my Grandpa’s house with my best friend and collected fish as much as We could. After we finished the tracing we fried the fishes and shrimps that We got and ate it together, the tracing itself could took time from 4 until 6 hours. Sometimes we swam when we were bored, gone fishing, or looked for eel in rice field, those activities make We went home with dirty clothes, but I thought for experience that is worthed.
At 4th grade I entered my first mathematic competition in my region. Due to my appearance that time (not good looking, small, unkempt hair) some teacher believed that I wouldn’t won that competition, but I try to prove if that prediction was wrong. The competition held, my teacher didn’t gave me any target and amazingly I won that competition. That made the teacher that doubt me was very ashamed. The trophy I got became the first trophy for my school, that made my teachers became very proud of me. For the next two years (5th and 6 th grade) I still won that competition. Now I still hold the record with 3 consecutive wins.
After finished elementary grade, I schooled in SMPN 1 Wonogiri, the most favorite junior high school in my city. In this school I was known as “Fery the biker”, that’s because I went to school by a bicycle (a BMX actually) for 12 km, with slopes everywhere. For 1 year, I became the only one student whose went to school by a bicycle. My favorite moment while I was in junior high school was when I “bombed” a police office with a firecracker. I almost got jailed by did that, fortunately the police men couldn’t caught me ^^.
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After several month we lived in Lembang, we moved to Bandung. My parents decided to bought a house, and we lived there until this time. That house was very small (just nine meter square), I thought that space is enough for us that time. I also had new adventure here, met new friend, and did everything together, such as play with marbles, crossing river, climb a tree, and something else, very very unforgettable moment.
when I was five years old, I requested my parents that i want to go to school. My Mother (almost) registered me at a kindergarten near my mother workplace, but instead registered to a kindergarten, I persuaded my mother to registered me in that elementary school. The headmaster said that i wasn’t ready yet. I couldn’t accept that reason, i thought i have ready because i could read. My mother entered the office again and tried to convinced the headmaster that I could read. After waited for several minutes my mother called me in. After did several test the headmaster said “congratulations, you can start go to school next Monday”. I was very very happy that time. My first week in elementary school was not so bad. After two weeks, I realized that I couldn’t write as well as my friend did,. That made me hated school. My father cheered me up, he said that i could do that. That made me learned write be myself, because sometime my father or my mother who have really finished my homework (:P).
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Valentine’s day 20 years ago, in a small wooden house which is very far from the city in Wonogiri, a baby was born and named “Fery Adi Prasetyo”. People around me thought that I will just be an ordinary people, who live among them and work as a farmer, labor, underpaid worker, etc. Just like them. Soon they knew that they were wrong. I had to follow my parents to settle in Bandung ( to be precisely: Lembang) when I was still one year old. We got off there by train. In Lembang I started my own adventure with my new friends. Somehow, it’s hard to remember their name, because I was still two years old. We lived near a mountain. I like hiking very much. It’s been my hobby since I was two years old. I often spent my time with my friends watching a crater which is located on the top of that mountain. One of my favorite moments is to follow my mum to the traditional market to buy our daily need by a delman. For your information, delman is a kind of cart which is drawn by a horse. I was really really excited that time, and i don’t want to forget that part of my childhood memories. I lived there until I was three years old.
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