The Second Day of SR&DT Batch 2
After the first day activities of SR & DT Batch 2 had completed, the team continued with another activities of the second day (27.02.2015). SR & DT Batch 2 started their activities with breakfast and the menu was one of the local food of Madura Island called campor, campor is a food with peanut sauce topped with soto. For the member who ate Campor at the first time they have been surprised by the taste of the food because campor has a unique taste but still tasty. After breakfast the next event was the official meeting with lectures, staff and students in Wiraraja University that is located in Sumenep. In this discussion, Mr.. Endry as the speaker and he presented about the activities of SR & DT in Poteran island. One of the points which explained was about the benefits of Moringa as a commodity that will be exported to Europe. The discussion began at 09:00 pm and ended 30
minutes before Friday prayer began.
After the team finished for Friday prayer, the team immediately went to the Poteran island at 13:30 pm. Poteran island is separated by sea from the Madura island, but the distance is not too far because it only takes about 10 minutes to cross the sea to the Poteran island from Madura. The Port that is used to go to the Poteran island is not too big but quite busy of activities because the mobility of people to travel or to send the goods. With timber ships that can carry some of the car, the SR & DT Batch 2 crossed to the Poteran island. After arrived on Poteran island they continued went to the lecture’s home from Wiraraja university to discuss about the real condition. That day the SR & DT Batch 2 saw the infrastructure for Poteran Island and continued to see the best way for finding fresh water in this island.
To get clean water, wells of Poteran people should have the depth between 10-50 meters. 50 meters depth, it is impossible to use ordinary water pump and thus it requires a more powerful water pump, but it is fairly expensive because the price range up to Rp. 100 million. That is a challenge that must be solved to make water access for the people of Poteran Island become easier and can be useful such as for agriculture. A review completed at 18:00 pm, followed by dinner. After dinner the team of SR & DT Batch 2 had a discussions to analyze the program that will be executed, such as the planting of Moringa. In this analysis, they analyzed the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges that will be faced from their project. Official discussion lasted until 22:00 pm, but most participants continued the discussion until 23:30, and then they slept for tomorrow's activities.
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