Our trip back from the South-East-Asian Youth Red Cross meeting was a four day adventure in itself.
We went from Batam near Singapore with a Ferry to the ferry port for Pekanbaru, then took a bad road in an old bus to Pekanbaru itself, there we staid a night in the Ibis hotel, bought a laptop for a friend in Bengkulu, then continued our journey on to Bukittingi by „travel“ a Toyota Kijang we shared with 7 passengers.
„From Batam via Pekanbaru and Bukittingi to Bengkulu“ weiterlesen
Tomorrow we will start our overland trip back home to Bengkulu and for me its time to write a little about PMI Batam Youth Camp. For the first time its not the national headquarters of PMI but one of the regional Branches that has held this event. And for the first time its not only people from Indonesia but Red Cross from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and even we two Germans.Which felt quite weird, to represent this big Red Cross with only two people who had to be facilitator, staff, volunteer and head of delegation all the same time.
I got my hand to some more Information of the Jumbara asean, which is the South East Asian Youth Red Cross meeting, that we will be attending from today in Batam a island off Singapore in Indonesia.
See also my last blogpost. I’m a little embarrased, but we will come there virtually empty handed, since neither 
we nor the delegation has any material in form of pins, flyers or any other stuff we will be able to share there. I built this two posters from the stuff we got send from Germany as power points. But German Youth Red Cross has a good website with many Ideas: IdeenNetz that helped. „Infos about Jumbara asean“ weiterlesen
Yesterday we got two trucks full of family and hygiene kits. They are intended in case we have a small disaster and we need to resupply a family with the most necessary things or if people have to leave their homes and don’t have anything anymore. The family kits contain stuff to wash yourself (soap and shampoo), kitchen utensils (dishes, plates) a flashlight, candles a big bucket for washing. „Family Kits“ weiterlesen
Sebastian gives some remarks on good books about Indonesia. „Reading about Indonesia and Learning Indonesian“ weiterlesen
Starting at the 5th we have the big national Koran reading and reciting competition here in Bengkulu. MTQN.
Whilst I thord that a Koran reading competition would be a very pious and serious affair, here the people think of something else.
Around the stadium the opening ceremony took place, there is huge fair and you can buy clothes, sweets and lots of other things. It has more a country fair feeling or for the Freiburg people it feels more then the „Schalten und Walten“ with stands from the local farmers cooperative, and tourist office.
„MTQN 23 in Bengkulu: National Koran reading competition“ weiterlesen
Yesterday we finished one of the projects I have been doing here for a while, a friend of mine translated the German Red Cross Actors Cards into Indonesian and I will start using them at school visits now. If you want to use them for First Aid lessons or any other kind of PMI / PMR (Youth Red Cross) activity feel free.
Download: Actors Cards Bahasa Indonesia (PDF)
If you have any comments or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. „Actors Cards in Bahasa Indonesia“ weiterlesen
Yesterday evening I was in the cinema here in Bengkulu. Despite the small selection of films that are shown it is a good cinema and you can’t say anything badly about the price, we paied 15000 IDR (about 1,50 EUR) for our film.
We watched „My Name is Khan“. The experience from watching it in a majority muslim country, togehter with some muslim friends has to be much difficult from doing so in Germany. It reflects the fear of many young muslim, who fear they will be discriminated when they trave to the US or any other western country. And it is reminiscent of the fears many western people, who have never met any educated muslim or rather any muslim at all have. Simply because they don’t know about muslim traditions, regligion and their practice.
The movie will be on in Germany from June 10th.
Website of the Film and the German Website
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