KASHIWAJIMA!

Still about SUIJI SLP.

Di tulisan sebelumnya aku menceritakan bahwa aku ditempatkan di daerah Kashiwajima. Nah, mungkin pada penasaran yaa, seperti apa Kashiwajima itu. Hoho. Kashiwajima adalah suatu pulau kecil nan jelita di ujung pulau Shikoku, salah satu pulau di Jepang. Kashiwajima merupakan daerah Kochi Perfecture (sama dengan provinsi di Indonesia). Dengan jumlah mahasiwa Jepang 8 (Noo Chan, Odamin Chan, Gaga, Hashii, Yasu, Guci, Chisato chan, Ayaka) dan 6 mahasiswa Indonesia (aku, Budi, Hanifah, Resti, Indah, Taufik) dan didampingi oleh sensei kami yang super baik Kazuya Matsuda Sensei yang berasal dari Universitas Kochi. kami siap mencinta dan melakukan yang terbaik untuk Kashiwajima!!

Kazuya Masuda, really good sensei. we love you sensei1

 

we love kashiwajima!!

Kashiwajima is one of the best diving spot in Japan. keindahan pantainya tak perlu dipertanyakan, aku menyebutnya sebagai “belitong” Jepang dikarenakan pasirnya putih dilengkapi batu – batu gede yang cantik. 

cakep! :")

 

Pesona kashiwajima

Kashiwajima beach

Kashiwajima environment

Dengan populasi penduduk tak lebih dari 700 jiwa, ada 14 diver shop yang tumbuh subur di Kahiwajima menjadikan nya sebagai tempat terpadat pertumbuhan diver shop di Jepang. 

 

one of diver shop in Kashiwajima

Kashiwajima mempunyai satu problem yang cukup umum di Jepang, less young population!. Can you imagine that? Local people in kashiwajima is aged 65 or over! If you met young population, they are visitor not local people. So, this is our challenge!.

sunset in Kashiwajima

clarity high water

we stayed in ex Junior high school that was closed because less young population. This school has been used by Masaru Kanda as an office for Non Profit Organization, Kuroshio Jikkan Centre. Masaru Kanda is a doctor who has a dream and passion with Kashiwajima, Having  been charmed by the beauty of Kashiwajima,he is currently endavoring to protect this scenery for future generations he came with idea to established kashiwajima as a natural museum, his concept about Kashiwajima called “Sato-Uni or Home Ocean”. The main concept of natural museum is understand and appreciation of nature ; protection of both nature and people’s livelihood where they can harmoniously coexist together. this man was so awesome!!

Masaru Kanda sensei. awesome man from Kashiwajima1

in kashiwima, we lived 4 days for observation and 2 days for do service learning program. in our first day, we do many activities such as walking around to observe Kashiwajima’s environtment ; interviewing with local people and key person ; snorkling to observe marine environment ; discussion between us to make some program and what can we do for them. And in the last second day, we do our program.

before snorkling

interview with local people

 

with Kamano San (local people)

We found many things in Kashiwajima. Some of them are majority of local people is old people (there is decresing population until 62% from 1950 until 2007 and decresing household until 18%) ; many garbage but management is not good (general management of garbage is the workers from Otski town will take up the garbage at Monday and Friday but if the garbage is not in the trash box, the workers will not take it up)  ; there are 3 major source of garbage in Kashiwajima (from local people, visitors, and another town) ; beautiful sea ; many divers shop (there are 14 divers shop in Kashiwajima) ; there is no school in Kashiwajima (actually there are elementary and junior school in here but because of no enough student, all of them was closed in 2005 and 2008 and al of children in Kashiwajima going to school in Otski town by bus at least 30 minutes from Kashiwajima) ; regional characteristic (it means that they are very kind and welcoming to another people but if people from another town have some idea to do in Kashiwajima, they felt difficult to received it because majority of them also thing that its our land, no one can controle it) ; Good traditional food (tempura) ; tuna seeding (actually it is one of big potential in Kashiwajima but in the last four year, so difficult to find child of tuna so they combine it with yellow tail seeding) ; change of condition in marine environtmen (in the past time, there are big population of seewed and squid but it has changed now, the population of them is  decreasing) ; less young population (based on information from key person in Kashiwajima, young local people always go to another town such as Osaka and Kyoto for working) ; majority livelihood in Kashiwajima has changed (in the past time, their livelihood was a farmer but because there are many project from government and gave much money from it, they left their work so farm land has changed to forest. And now, majority their livelihood is fisherman and diver guide).

beautiful oinori place in kashiwajima

We have a guest from Kochi University. His name is Proffesor Nino . He came in the last our day in Kashiwajima, his purpose to came in Kashiwajima was want to know about our actifity and then make report about us and upload it into Kochi University web. He bring one of Japanese snack (Manju), it tasted is sweet nd delicious. He shared with us hi experience during be one of member in Japanese Volunteer and rescue. He has been in Papua Nugini twenty years ago to did rescue because one of disaster that happened in that. He also tell us that Merapi (one of big volcano in Indonesia) is very famous among them. i dont have picture with him. :(

actually, we have so many programs, but because we don’t have time for doing that, just few  program can be realized. we cooked traditional food (Tempura) together with local people society ; cleaned up kashiwajima’s environtmen ; make cultur sharing with local people! and we were so happy! because one of our program, make cultur sharing, became one of news in local newspaper. wohoaaaaa! 

cooking Tempura together

 

culture sharing with local people

w/ Kanda sensei (the man in black t-shirt) in culture sharing

I really loved kashiwajima, its very sad when this time is over and we should came back to Rainbow Highland. I felt kashiwajima as my second home and found my new family. don’t you know that home is place when your heart left. Now. I really miss Kashiwajima.. someday, I hope I can go to there again.. 

i love you all! (w/ Matsuda sensei and Kanda sensei)

we love kashiwajima's rain