Yogya Fieldtrip 2016
Learning Objectives
Description of Assesment
Itinerary
Final Product
This link will bring you to my final product I worked on together with my partner.
Link: https://drive.google.com/a/sphsc-students.net/file/d/0B9MsM9SEJZpdWGxhbG5qeDJLSVE/view?usp=sharing
Reflection
In grade 10 field trip we went to Jogja to learn more about our yearly topic, which is human rights. Prior to this field trip we spent six months gaining knowledge and understanding what human rights are through learning it in English, Individuals and Society, as well as Biblical Studies. Though we had already researched and justified many main points of what human rights are. Such as understanding their purpose and what impacts it has on the world. Our fieldtrip related to this topic was still necessary, as we hadn’t really made observations on how human rights were applied by the Indonesian community we live in, and how it affects the environment around us. Therefore we were to visit four Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs), which were Sukunan Village, YAKKUM (Rehabilitation Center), Interfidei, and the Bethesda Hospital, during the fieldtrip to increase and widen our understanding of the topic to the real world. In order to obtain the valuable information from the NGOs we used a variety of effective observation skills, which included videoing important scenes, voice recording quotes, interviewing, taking pictures, and doing various activities related to our senses. So that we have the information required and necessary to create an appropriate media advertisement about the issues of human rights in Indonesia related to the three subjects which are English, IS, and Biblical Studies.
Prior to the fieldtrip itself human rights have been my topic at school for the last six months in all Inter Disciplinary Units (IDU), which consist out of English, Biblical Studies, and Individuals and Society. For the last six months we have mainly focused on how human rights came to existence and what its overall significance. Human rights have been overall created to declare that we all are free and equal. Hoping that through making the world recognize that we are all equal status, people would start respecting different perspectives, as all of it is of equal value, and there wouldn’t be any quarrel of that one is better then the other, due to the fact that equality has been recognized. Human rights have also been made in order to ensure that the world develops through supporting world peace, as well as creating various aid programs to help those in areas of the world in need, such as providing food, drinkable water, shelter, and clothing. Enabling people to get out of poverty, to ensure a better state of global well being, that is that everyone is able to live in a comfortable living environment. I have indirectly prepared myself for the fieldtrip by understanding what the overall topic of human rights is through learning and then justifying them through presentations in IDU classes. This allowed me to have prior knowledge ready about the topic before the fieldtrip, where I can see how human rights are applied in the real world when observing its impact on the field in the city of Jogja.
Indonesia being a country that is developing and blooming still faces a lot of obstacles from having the same status as many developed countries in Europe. One of these obstacles is that the government doesn’t have the necessary funds to provide the necessary needs for the people, leaving some areas of Indonesia underdeveloped and stricken by poverty. Throughout the fieldtrip I have visited four NGOs that have been established as a responds to this problem, which the government couldn’t handle, by itself. They use their unique and clever ways to find solutions to the problems of poverty Indonesia faces, and helps the community around them to develop. Sukunan village, one of the NGOs, developed their own garbage management system, where they recycle and reuse materials in order to sustain the community they live in, and make something useful out of it. This was a response to made by one of the villagers as a response to the garbage problems they faced in their paddy fields. Now the village has turned into a well-developed one, and self-sufficient one, showing that other villages could do the same in order to help Indonesia to develop. Other NGOs such as YAKKUM and Bethesda Hospitals have helped develop better healthcare in Indonesia, for AIDS/HIV, and the disabled. By educating, and providing the necessary facilities and comfortable environment. That the government and Indonesian population is unable to provide due to insufficient funds providing public facilities for the disabled, and the common rejection victims of the disease and disabled receive from most Indonesian communities. Another NGO by the name of Interfidei promotes religious freedom, and peace, as a response to the constant violence between religious groups around Indonesia. They carry out their cause through educating the communities around them, and teaching them what peace and respect is for different perspectives. I have learned from this fieldtrip that NGOs are a crucial and helpful way for a country to develop where the government couldn’t solve its problems by itself, due to having the lack of funds or not having the professional people required for the job. As NGOs though being small usually, make a huge impact on the community around them, as they could help provide the necessary facilities for those in need, which the government wasn’t able to.
Though Indonesia is a country that is still underdeveloped, and stricken by unfairness through problems of poverty, and the government usually not being able to provide the facilities necessary. Also being a country with many human right violations due to an unaware population about its existence. The only real solution to a problem like this isn’t through constant complaining of what facilities are missing or through seeking help from large organizations. However after many of my observations through the NGOs, it is through the ability to have the will to make a change. It is to make that change from now, and not tomorrow, and to make a change by simply helping the country through the everyday small things you do. Like donating a sum of money, recycling your trash, providing shelter for a homeless person, or helping a disabled person. As big things have small beginnings.
Prior to the fieldtrip itself human rights have been my topic at school for the last six months in all Inter Disciplinary Units (IDU), which consist out of English, Biblical Studies, and Individuals and Society. For the last six months we have mainly focused on how human rights came to existence and what its overall significance. Human rights have been overall created to declare that we all are free and equal. Hoping that through making the world recognize that we are all equal status, people would start respecting different perspectives, as all of it is of equal value, and there wouldn’t be any quarrel of that one is better then the other, due to the fact that equality has been recognized. Human rights have also been made in order to ensure that the world develops through supporting world peace, as well as creating various aid programs to help those in areas of the world in need, such as providing food, drinkable water, shelter, and clothing. Enabling people to get out of poverty, to ensure a better state of global well being, that is that everyone is able to live in a comfortable living environment. I have indirectly prepared myself for the fieldtrip by understanding what the overall topic of human rights is through learning and then justifying them through presentations in IDU classes. This allowed me to have prior knowledge ready about the topic before the fieldtrip, where I can see how human rights are applied in the real world when observing its impact on the field in the city of Jogja.
Indonesia being a country that is developing and blooming still faces a lot of obstacles from having the same status as many developed countries in Europe. One of these obstacles is that the government doesn’t have the necessary funds to provide the necessary needs for the people, leaving some areas of Indonesia underdeveloped and stricken by poverty. Throughout the fieldtrip I have visited four NGOs that have been established as a responds to this problem, which the government couldn’t handle, by itself. They use their unique and clever ways to find solutions to the problems of poverty Indonesia faces, and helps the community around them to develop. Sukunan village, one of the NGOs, developed their own garbage management system, where they recycle and reuse materials in order to sustain the community they live in, and make something useful out of it. This was a response to made by one of the villagers as a response to the garbage problems they faced in their paddy fields. Now the village has turned into a well-developed one, and self-sufficient one, showing that other villages could do the same in order to help Indonesia to develop. Other NGOs such as YAKKUM and Bethesda Hospitals have helped develop better healthcare in Indonesia, for AIDS/HIV, and the disabled. By educating, and providing the necessary facilities and comfortable environment. That the government and Indonesian population is unable to provide due to insufficient funds providing public facilities for the disabled, and the common rejection victims of the disease and disabled receive from most Indonesian communities. Another NGO by the name of Interfidei promotes religious freedom, and peace, as a response to the constant violence between religious groups around Indonesia. They carry out their cause through educating the communities around them, and teaching them what peace and respect is for different perspectives. I have learned from this fieldtrip that NGOs are a crucial and helpful way for a country to develop where the government couldn’t solve its problems by itself, due to having the lack of funds or not having the professional people required for the job. As NGOs though being small usually, make a huge impact on the community around them, as they could help provide the necessary facilities for those in need, which the government wasn’t able to.
Though Indonesia is a country that is still underdeveloped, and stricken by unfairness through problems of poverty, and the government usually not being able to provide the facilities necessary. Also being a country with many human right violations due to an unaware population about its existence. The only real solution to a problem like this isn’t through constant complaining of what facilities are missing or through seeking help from large organizations. However after many of my observations through the NGOs, it is through the ability to have the will to make a change. It is to make that change from now, and not tomorrow, and to make a change by simply helping the country through the everyday small things you do. Like donating a sum of money, recycling your trash, providing shelter for a homeless person, or helping a disabled person. As big things have small beginnings.