August 2013 – Indonesian high school student Nanistya Respati recently spent four days volunteering with us in Bali. As part of a school assignment the 16-year-old, from Jakarta’s Binus International School Simprug, spend time at our wildlife rescue center in Tabanan and at our bird sanctuary on Nusa Penida island. Les Nanistya første hånd rapport, nedenfor, og finne ut hva hun tenkte om det hele ...
FNPF frivillig Nanistya Respati tilbringer tid med noen av de lokale barna på Bali Nusa Penida øy .
Forskjellige verdener, different views
Out of all my Creativity, Action and Service (CAS) activities – as part of my International Baccalaureate studies – I can say this has been the most interesting so far. There are so many things I have in my head from this experience and I don’t quite know how to express it in an essay so I will go on with a list of factors that I think should be highlighted and elaborate on them to explain how I feel about this trip.
1. The People: I don’t know what it is about FNPF, but each and every one of the people that were involved had genuine warmth in them. I felt welcomed from the beginning and grew very comfortable in the end. It was too bad that I had limited time. Jeg møtte fantastiske mennesker med ulike verdener og tro. De fortalte meg at reiser vil bringe deg til å møte interessante mennesker, and in the end, you’ll never know if you will meet them again in the future.
Dette er et aspekt som appellerte til meg mest da den åpnet mitt sinn til eksistensen av et bedre samfunn med tilstedeværelse av gode mennesker. De gjorde gode gjerninger uten å be om noe i retur og jeg beundrer dem på grunn av dette.
Beskytte Indonesia dyreliv
2. The Animals: There isn’t any CAS activity in Binus that revolves around animals and this is exactly what I was looking for.
Even though Indonesia is known for having a wide variety of animals, not much attention has been given to preserve them which leads to unfair trades and bad treatments. Most of the time, the people who trade don’t consider the animal’s rights. FNPF has done its part and Binus students should follow.
3. Simplicity: Til tross for den enkelhet, alle var innhold. Jeg hørte ikke en eneste klage om levekår. I think I was also influenced by the good nature in the environment. I was also surprised that I did not feel the need for better living. I felt complete in that state. I learnt that we don’t need much to be satisfied.
Folk i byene blir også fanget opp i alt nytt, fordi de føler behov for å være perfekt. Men i FNPF, there is no such thing as perfect. What exists is sense of self and individuality. I think that this is a lesson worth spreading in Binus. Studentene blitt så vant til å leve et innendørs liv at de mister respekten for naturen og enkelhet.
4. Kjærlighet: I believe that love is what drove everyone to do good here. En av de mest overraskende ting som jeg la merke til var den ønsker å gjøre godt. FNPF ikke gi ut noen tidsplan eller oppgaver, the people simply give the freedom for volunteers to help out or to relax. And surprisingly, most of them help out!
In the end, I didn’t feel like I was forced to do anything because of CAS. Helping felt natural and this is what it should be all about: helping for a change and not for the hours. This is definitely an activity that I will share to future CAS students and I promise that. “The world will be a much better place if people thought positively,” –Mike (FNPF volunteer).
Up close and personal with a macaque
Nanistya also spend her time with FNPF observing Ayu, one of the three Southern pig-tailed macaques we look after at the Tabanan rescue centre. These macaques have a short tail carried half-erect, which somewhat resembles a pig’s, hence its name. FNPF hopes to eventually transfer these three macaques to the Ciapus Primate Center in Java. Nanistya’s report follows …
Jeg gjorde noen forsøk for å observere Ayu. Den første som ikke innebære noen spesiell metode. I didn’t notice anything because I didn’t have specific focus. After seeing an example of the previous observation, I got a better idea of what I was supposed to do. I then had specific situations for Ayu and would observe her for 10 minutes per situation.
The first observation had Ayu in the enclosure with hidden leftover food. She was searching for food the whole time and since there was just leftover food, she nibbled off the skins of the fruits. She did so for the whole ten minutes.
Take two with Ayu the macaque
The second trial had Ayu with no food. In that environment, she tried different leaves and ended up collecting and munching off brown leaves. She spent the whole time in one corner (further right end) and concentrated on the leaves there.
The third and final condition had Ayu in her enclosure with snacks. The keeper gave me some snacks to feed Ayu. Every time I put a snack in the enclosure, Ayu made a sound from her mouth. She would then grab the snack and sit on either one of the branches on the left section of the cage. Dette var den eneste gangen hun bodde fremdeles.
Alt i alt, Ayu tilbrakte de fleste ti minutter å gå rundt og leter etter mat. Ayu spent a couple of minutes attending fur on right hand out of the one-hour observation.
She didn’t scratch body parts as much as I expected it to occur, but rather searched enclosure for things to eat. She was relatively calm despite the fact that I was observing her and didn’t show signs of aggression or intimidation.
