PAPUA, a land full of Blessing

The Province of Papua, formerly known as Irian Jaya is a melting pot region in Indonesia. Beautiful prov­ince but also less maintained if we visit Sentani Lake which is the lon­gest lake in the world, all kinds of garbage littering the lake that can actually be the mascot of Papua Province and the main attraction of the tourism industry to attract tour­ists from around East Asia and the Pacific in terms of its geographical proximity.

Students at vocational school have been actually preparing to that aim understand that tourism field is very suitable for the development of Sentani district up to Depapre which is a coastal area facing di­rectly to the Pacific Ocean, about 45 kilometers from Sentani and impressed isolated and untouched comprehensively ,

What is the role of local govern­ment as well as the church as a ba­sis for the social organization of the Papuan population who are 90% Christians. There are several organi­zations with international umbrella such as UNICEF, but so far Zaka and his friends do things independently and no assistance from other par­ties, they must do the fulfillment of their students with Tourism as their concentration on their own in order to become a the good example in the province in the future.

With high spirit, Zaka together his friends even do not receive sal­aries as teachers and need to sell handicrafts of the Papuas mama as is often done by Marcel The, for the sake of the students to get their books, also for the fulfillment of his own life.

Zakat ideals and his three friends are very simple, they just want their vocational students to be the good example for the students of simi­lar schools. Zaka said softly as he bowed his head, “We really need the help of various parties in the entire archipelago, not limited in Papua because education is a noble task of the whole society, especially the State.”

“Cyclops mountain waterfall flowing from its height, clearly vis­ible although seen far away from my hotel room’s window where I was staying. Beautiful but quite dif­ficult to reach. Just as the problems of education in Papua, the real rich and beautiful land, but education for the children of Papua was still far behind.