The existence of primate animals, bay (Macaca Nemestrina) in the Pariaman area, West Sumatra, the general encountered has changed the role of wild animals to be trained by ulung coconut pickers.
Initially, it has become a pest that destroys farmers in West Pasaman Regency. The act of capturing wild ribs that spoil the plant for sale.
The age of children to adults who are successfully captured, accommodated in the Siak River Livestock Market, Padangpariaman for sale at Rp100 thousand to Rp300 thousand.
Shoppers usually aim to hire wild bays as coconut pickers. For that buyer must train it first to understand human orders.
It is not rare in the time of exercise it has to experience physical violence by the owner who is not patient wants to immediately have a persistent coconut picking.
This is, which inspires the Village of Apar, Pariaman, to establish the School of Interested Sciences (STIB).
The name of this school does not refer to the college, rather the school located in the tree (or height).
The special school built by the Village Owned Enterprise (Bumdes) has a curriculum made as a guide to training in a niche, and it takes almost a year to produce a trained coconut picking.
For the first three months, it will be known for their special foods such as sugar aren, milk, rice, and vegetables. The next three months was introduced in the way of picking coconut fruit gradually.
The already trained price can double fold from before, starting Rp750 thousand to millions of rupiahs per tail.
Apar village also plans to make STIB as a tourist attraction by offering visitors interaction with trained and getting young coconut directly from the tree.
Photo and Text: Iggoy el Fitra
Author : Fanny Octavianus
