A separate life of the elderly since the young age, independent learning, and disciplinary learning is the life that should be in line with them. They are children of TKI living in the country, Malaysia. Now they live in the PRR Sisters of Maria Protegente, in Dusun Barjoko, Central Sebatik, North Kalimantan.
The years ago, their parents who were still adolescents left their hometown in Eastern Indonesia, to look for better life. They leave the heavenly earth to become a rugged worker with a better promise of earnings. Most of them work as rugged workers in oil plantations, “plywood” factories, to neighbouring fields.
It does not occur in a year of two years, but it occurs until many years old. Those who leave the ground of water in a relatively young age, then find a couple in their workplace, married, and children there.
Children grow seedlings of the gaharu tree in the fields belonging to the Sisters of PRR Maria Protegente in Dusun Barjoko, Central Sebatik, North Kalimantan.
The PRR Sisters of Maria Protegente seemed from a distance in Dusun Barjoko, Central Sebatik, North Kalimantan.
Children who are born and large in this environment difficulty gaining educational access, so in their young age, they already help their parents, and end up being rugged workers, continuing their parents’ work predecessed. And then it happens that the cycle without the opportunity to improve the quality of life as they impact.
At the opening ceremony of the PRR Maria Protegente is the TKI minute to strengthen their children to get education, get religious calves, to be a better person from their parents. In the event, TKI’s children learn live in discipline.
Living in the insufficient hostel of all limitations. The hostel does not host the amount of money for the cost of living a child in the hostel, while the parents who work as the laborer does not bring donations in the amount worth the hostel. For that, the sisters should actually tighten the belt, set a simple menu to eat and daily life needs.
In addition to self-sufficient and discipline, the children of the hostel also learn about religion in the Sisters of PRR Maria Protegente, Dusun Barjoko, Central Sebatik, North Kalimantan.
The children who live eating together in the living room, Dusun Barjoko, Central Sebatik, North Kalimantan.
Not to mention their location located on the border only rely on rain and electricity water that has not entered the village. Dormitory children should run rather far to do bath routines, washing, stiffness.
Although now their life is limited, it is one of the ways to get out of their life’s poverty chain eyes. In order that they no longer become laborers, the hostel becomes a transit place to achieve better life in the future.
Photo and Text: Rosa Panggabean
The children of the hostel must run to the well of water shelter outside the hostel to perform the routine of the bath, washing, rigids in Dusun Barjoko, Central Sebatik, North Kalimantan.
The children of bath hostels in a water shelter well outside the hostel in Dusun Barjoko, Central Sebatik, North Kalimantan.
The children of the rhythm are preparing to depart the school at the Sisters of the PRR Maria Protegente, Dusun Barjoko, Central Sebatik, North Kalimantan.
It is not used in the Sisters of PRR Maria Protegente, Dusun Barjoko, Central Sebatik, North Kalimantan.
Children hostel waiting for pick up bus on the roadside of Dusun Barjoko, Central Sebatik, North Kalimantan.
The children of hostels take advantage of their free time at school at the Sisters of the PRR Maria Protegente, Dusun Barjoko, Central Sebatik, North Kalimantan.
They fill the time roasting by playing music at the Sisters of PRR Maria Protegente, Dusun Barjoko, Central Sebatik, North Kalimantan.
The children joko, Central Sebatik, North Kalimantan.
The twin Seli Marselina Kewa (left) and Katarina Niga Susianti (right) in their bedroom in the PRR Mary Protegente sterilization ceremony, Dusun Barjoko, Central Sebatik, North Kalimantan.
With limited ability of funds, children in the Sisters of PRR Maria Protegente remained eating three times a day with a very simple menu, in Dusun Barjoko, Central Sebatik, North Kalimantan.
