Maratua Site Visit 21 - 25 June 2014
By: M. Badrus Zaman & Team
Payung - Payung Village
Payung - Payung is one of the name village in the Maratua. The village was first visited. Way there using boat. But the boats anchored in the village of Bohe Silian then followed the road half an hour. This is because the location of the village Payung - Payung behind Maratua when viewed from the side Nabucco resort.
In the village there is an ongoing development of the airport. This means the village will be busy later as a center for access to other areas. So the local people should be ready when the village will hemp by tourists. Good to deal with a wave effect both positive and negative impacts of the wave will occur.
Teluk Harapan Village
Teluk Harapan is one of four villages in Maratua Island. This village is a central of governance in Maratua Island;of course Teluk Harapan seems livelier than Payung-Payung village. Teluk Harapan people are working in the fisheries sector as the major profession. There is not really much activity and variation. Some of the infrastructure is poorly maintained.
After the survey and interview, we can conclude that the technologies brought to the village are poorly maintained. Local people thought thing that should be done first is electricity generator. They have solar cell for each house but it can’t be the main supply of electrical needs. Another thing that matter in this village is about the waste. We saw a lot of garbage and it needs to be managed before it began to contaminate the soil. The infrastructure provided need to be maintained and there should be a person who maintain and repair the infrastructure, because the infrastructure provision is really good and the maintenance is so poor.
Teluk Harapan has a potency to be a central of fish embankment because there are mangroves plantations which would ease the fisherman in supplying food for the fish. There are some open spaces that naturaly transformed in the village which can be used as a place of electricity generator. The clean water provision is fair but we need to think another alternative just in case of the acid rain from main land would occuring Maratua Island. We need to desalinate water and manage it to be clean water.
Bohe Silian Village
Bohesillian Village is the official tourism village appointed by the municipal government of Berau. This Village shows great development (house, hygiene, citizen activity), compared to the others. It’s strong point located in the accessibility, communication (strong signal), and accommodation (homestay) for the tourist. In this village, they’ve been running homestay program since 2011.
This is the most suitable pilot village for the development of Maratua Tourism Industry. Their resident are prepared for the changes that may come to their live. They also willing to take part in this new industry, hoping it could improve their way of living.
Teluk Alulu Village
Teluk Alulu is one of the village in Maratua island. From Pabahan Island we can visit this village using small boat. After 30 minutes of boating, the boat arrived in a calm and windy village. Once we arrived in Teluk Alulu, we can see the desalination water machine from the government. This device is to desalinated the salty water from the ocean into a fresh water. Unfortunately, this device does not work since a month ago. After checking the desalination device, Maratua tim come over the local to interviews how’s their life going.
Because of the same geographical with the other village, Teluk Alulu has the same culture, weather and problem issue with the other village. One of the biggest problem in this village is they can’t dig the well because the well only provide salty water, moreover the desalination device does not work since the batteries broke down. They obviously need not only an eco friendly energy to get fresh water but also a simple technology that the local understand.
Hits: 646
