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Anak Desa Boleh Bermimpi dan Sukses -2-

Terimakasih tuhan telah memperkenalkan ku dengan Sandro. Sandro mengajakku untuk menjadi TKI di Jepang tanpa berpikir panjang aku langsung bilang akan menerima pekerjaan itu apa pun akan ku lakukan, aku ingin pergi dari jurang kemiskinan ini. Kakak perempuanku pulang ke kampung untuk menjaga ibu, sekarang aku yang pergi merantau untuk mengubah nasib ku. Sandro seorang TKI di Jepang yang bekerja di perusahaan perikanan di Jepang. Dia memiliki istri di kampung, istrinya di tinggal di sini dan dia pergi mencari rezeki di Jepang. 

“Jer kamu harus kuat dan semangat ya kerja di Jepang, orang jepang sangat pekerja keras, mereka tidak akan menyianyiakan waktu mereka, kamu harus bekerja keras” Sandro memberi peringatan kepada jeremi bahwa di Jepang sangat keras. 

“Tenang saja bang aku bukan orang yang mudah malas, dan patah semangat, aku akan bekerja keras seperti orang Jepang” jawab jeremi dengan nada yang sangat senang. 

Besok adalah hari dimana aku akan pergi ke Jepang, aku sangat gembira karena ini akan menjadi momen yang tidak bisa dilupakan karena ini pertama kalinya aku akan naik pesawat pertama kalinya seumur hidupku, meski aku terlihat gugup. 

Aku berangkat dari bandara Labuan Bajo ke bandara Jakarta lalu nanti langsung pergi ke Tokyo, di dalam pesawat aku sangat gugup, seperti jantungku mau copot. Aku tak berhenti berdoa karena aku sangat takut. Total perjalanan memakan waktu kurang lebih 5 jam, 1 jam kami transit di bali. Aku merasa takjub melihat bali yang begitu indah dan modern beda sekali dengan kampungku. Disini terlihat modern, lebih banyak turis asing yang datang untuk berlibur, mereka membawa selancar. 

Setelah selesai perjalan ke Bali kami melanjutkan perjalanan ke Jakarta, 2 jam perjalanan tibalah aku di Jakarta ini pertama kalinya aku menginjakkan kaki di Jakarta. Saat pesawat akan mendarat aku melihat di kaca pesawat, banyak bangunan pencakar langit terlihat dari udara. Aku masih tidak percaya aku masih di Indonesia. Apa hanya kampung yang begitu tertinggal, aku merasa ada kesenjangan di satu negara. Kami beristirahat sebentar sebelum melanjutkan perjalanan ke Tokyo.

“Bang apa ini kita sedang berada di Indonesia? Aku tak percaya kita ini” tanya jeremi yang masih tidak percaya dengan apa yang dia lihat, selama ini jeremi hanya melihat gunung, laut, hutan dan rumah tua. 

“Hahaha kita masih di Indonesia, kenapa bisa kau tak percaya? Hanya kampungmu saja yang tertinggal, kau akan lebih kaget lagi ketika melihat Tokyo” jawab Sandro dengan tertawa. 

Setelah mabuk di udara akhirnya mereka sampai di bandara Haneda Tokyo, jeremi yang mabuk udara tiba-tiba matanya terbelalak melihat keindahan lampu-lampu malam di Tokyo. Mereka melanjutkan perjalan menuju hotel tempat mereka menginap sebelum jeremi mulai bekerja. 

Di perjalan menuju hotel, jeremi tak berhenti melihat keluar jendela ia merasa sangat takjub dengan keindahan Tokyo, banyak gedung-gedung tinggi, lampu kota yang menakjubkan. Setibanya di hotel jeremi merasa terharu lagi dengan kasur hotel yang begitu empuk, aku akan tidurnya. Di Rumahku kami punya kasur yang keras terbuat dari kapuk yang kami bikin sendiri. 

Tak terasa waktu telah berlalu begitu singkat, sekarang waktunya untuk jeremi pergi bekerja di perusahaan industri perikanan terbesar di Jepang sebagai area pantai untuk melakukan pembudidayaan akuakultur. Jepang saat ini sangat membutuhkan banyak nelayan karena mereka kekurangan sumber daya manusia. Saat ini aku memilih untuk bekerja di area pantai saja, tetapi kadang aku juga pergi melaut untuk mencari ikan. Beberapa hari kerja di sini aku mendapat pelatihan terlebih dahulu.  Tidak hanya naik kapal, pergi ke laut dan menangkap ikan saja, tapi pekerja bidang ini juga harus peduli terhadap usaha-usaha ilmiah yang dilakukan untuk menanggulangi pengurangan populasi ikan. Jadi kita benar-benar harus ikut pelatihan terlebih dahulu. 

Selama ikutan dalam pelatihan ini aku bertemu banyak teman-teman dari berbagai negara, tapi memang kebanyakan dari Vietnam, Indonesia dan Malaysia. Industri perikanan di Jepang memang sudah sangat canggih. Untuk bisa bekerja di bidang perikanan di Jepang kita bukan hanya tahu cara untuk melaut tetapi kemampuan mengenai laut, pelayaran dan hewan laut adalah kemampuan yang dibutuhkan oleh industri ini. Keselamatan juga merupakan hal yang diprioritaskan karena bekerja di laut lepas sangatlah berbahaya.

 

 

Episode 1 <—-> Episode 3

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Sea Cucumbers, Marine Animal Full of Benefits

This article is part of the #PelangiDiLautan : Welfare program for smiles at sea

This program is a collaboration between several blockchain-based companies to introduce and explore sea cucumbers more broadly, improve the standard of living and welfare of fishermen, and commit to realize a better economic ecosystem.

The writings in the #PelangiDiLautan program are inspired by the experience carried out in the Saumlaki area, West Southeast Maluku. However, some characters, characters, events, locations and dialogues are fiction and are arranged dramatically to make it more interesting. If there are similarities in the names of characters, places of events or stories, it is merely a coincidence and there is no element of intent

There are still some people who are not familiar with one of these marine animals, Sea Cucumbers. Sea cucumbers are one of marine invertebrate animals that live in the bottom of the sea, usually it is often found in the Pacific Ocean region. It’s called sea cucumbers because of their large round shape like cucumbers. 

Sea cucumbers are one of the marine animals that have many benefits compared to other types of marine fish. Just its shape is not as beautiful as other marine animals, sea cucumbers contain many benefits that are very good for the body. Sea cucumber itself is often used as Chinese medicine because of its abundant properties. 

However, due to the small number of sea cucumber farmers, sea cucumbers are also rather rare to obtain, only a few locations have sea cucumbers farmers, this makes the price of sea cucumbers more expensive. But who would have thought the price of this expensive Sea Cucumber remains a favorite food for some people. Even some people are willing to spend large amounts of money to successfully get these sea cucumbers. This is because those who already understand and feel the benefits of nutrition in consuming sea cucumbers for health. Sea cucumbers with all the nutritional content such as vitamins A, B2, B3, Omega 3 and 6, Collagen, and several other nutritional content that can nourish the body and fight cancer (Click: Sea Cucumber Against Cancer). 

With abundant nutritional content, of course, some people are willing to reach into their pockets to get these marine animals. Sea cucumbers are also a delicious seafood to eat everyday, with its chewy texture, Sea Cucumber will be suitable to be used as sashimi or other vegetable dishes. Consuming sea cucumbers everyday will provide benefits for abundant health. Eating sea cucumbers it’s healthier than consuming junk-food that are bad for health.

For men, consuming sea cucumbers can also help correct urinary tract abnormalities in men. As for women, sea cucumbers which is rich in collagen content, it is best consumed as a neutralizing beauty, and to maintain the quality of the skin so that it remains young. With a variety of sources of the efficacy of this Sea Cucumber will certainly be worth the prices, Sea Cucumbers are like a delicious natural medicine that will be very good for human health to be consumed. 

In improving the quality of sea cucumbers in order to preserve the nutrition and efficacy of sea cucumbers, sea cucumbers must be processed properly. Many of the fishermen still using traditional methods in processing sea cucumbers, where the traditional ways have the potential of sea cucumbers not process hygienically. Ledgernow in helping to improve the quality level of sea cucumbers helps fishermen using modern technology to clean sea cucumbers hygienically and easily. With the use of modern technology that will facilitate the sale of sea cucumbers to consumers. Ledgernow blockchain-based technology can help fishermen to facilitate sea cucumber delivery to suppliers by using blockchain technology. Blockchain that provides secures the data more safely. Together with Ledgernow, consumers can more easily connect with sea cucumber fishermen who have guaranteed quality, and shipments that can be tracked in real-time.

LedgerNow helps sea cucumbers fishermen, to work more optimally for the achievement of welfare for sea cucumbers fishermen in Indonesia. LedgerNow uses a blockchain system to help suppliers and fishermen are connected with a system that is more real time and a high level of security. Click the following link for more information www.ssc.co.id 

Temindo (Teknologi Mandiri Indonesia, PT)

TEMINDO is a company that provides business automation solutions for the integration and collaboration of companies with blockchain technology.
Website: https://www.temindo.com/

PureHeart

PureHeart is an initiative based on social activities committed to sustainable development goals with end-to-end blockchain technology so that the standard of living of Indonesians is increasing.
Website: https://pureheart.ledgernow.com

SSC (Sustainable Supply Chain)

SSC (Sustainable Supply Chain) is a blockchain solution for fast and safe collaboration for companies in the supply chain that aims to reduce operational costs, improve customer service and accelerate the delivery of goods and services to consumers.
Website: https://www.ssc.co.id/

YONK

YONK is a financial management application for SME owners (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) so that they get real time financial reports with prediction analysis features to help improve the credibility of MSMEs to finance companies (Financing Companies) using blockchain technology.
Website: https://www.yonk.io/

AELL

AELL is a solution to help manage digital medical record data integrated and integrated between hospitals and clinics so as to speed up the process of patient care, facilitate referral and protect patient data with blockchain technology.
Website: https://www.aell.co/

Global Usaha Semesta

Global Usaha Semesta is a solution in the fishing industry related to trade, transportation, agriculture and fishing production services. Serving as the core that supports the operational needs of fishermen partners / plasma in the form of support for fisheries equipment platforms, industry and financing with blockchain technology. Website https://globalusaha.com/

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The Story Behind the Sea Cucumber Fishermen

This article is part of the #PelangiDiLautan : Welfare program for smiles at sea

This program is a collaboration between several blockchain-based companies to introduce and explore sea cucumbers more broadly, improve the standard of living and welfare of fishermen, and commit to realize a better economic ecosystem.

The writings in the #PelangiDiLautan program are inspired by the experience carried out in the Saumlaki area, West Southeast Maluku. However, some characters, characters, events, locations and dialogues are fiction and are arranged dramatically to make it more interesting. If there are similarities in the names of characters, places of events or stories, it is merely a coincidence and there is no element of intent

Sea cucumbers as one of the invertebrate animals which are often referred to as sea cucumbers, may be familiar to hear his name. How not, this animal makes Indonesia receive the title of the world’s biggest sea cucumber producer. There are as many as 650 species of sea cucumbers, and as many as 10% are in the Indonesian sea. The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries also noted that from 2012 to 2015 the sea cucumber export trend increased from 900 to 1,200 tons. The capture of sea cucumbers in various reGilangns of the Indonesian archipelago has been carried out since the mid 1600s and early 1700s until now.

Sea cucumbers are one of the major export commodities from marine products in Indonesia with high economic value. The development of sea cucumber exports increases every year. Usually, sea cucumbers are exported in the form of dried preparations with the aim of shipping exports to Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan. Processing is done in a traditional way with simple methods and equipment. After being caught, sea cucumbers will be processed to be dried by heating methods using sunlight. This makes sea cucumber processing highly dependent on the weather. Thus, the results make the sea cucumbers have poor quality. As a result, the price of sea cucumbers becomes very low.

Approaching the midterm, as a student majoring in statistics Nadin and her friends get assignments to be able to interview various professions in Indonesia. This is done to collect data about the welfare of the community seen from his profession. Incidentally, Nadin was in a group with Dara, Gilang and Adit. Incidentally, Adit came from Ambon in a coastal area called Saumlaki which is in the West Southeast Maluku reGilangn. Fertile land, and abundant marine wealth makes Saumlaki visited by many foreign tourists. Pak Usman is Adit’s uncle who works as a fisherman there. Its location in the coastal areas makes the majority of residents work as fishermen. Nadin and friends chose Mr. Usman as their guest speaker. 

“What is the most captured sea catch here sir?” Asked Dara to Mr. Usman

“There are a lot of fish but there are also many fishermen who hunt sea cucumbers” replied Mr. Usman while tidying his nets.

The abundant marine wealth here attracted the attention of many sailors from outside Saumlaki to take sea wealth and sell it outside Southeast Maluku. This has resulted in the fishermen here not prospering, said Mr. Usman. 

Though capturing sea cucumbers in the sea is not as easy as imagined. The fishermen must leave at night using his boat to find sea cucumbers. Catching sea cucumbers is done at night because of low tide which makes it easier to catch sea cucumbers. Not to mention when the weather is not supportive or dangerous currents in the sea can make the fishermen go home with little yield even with their bare hands. Not only that, some fishermen also take sea cucumbers by diving. These fishermen hang their lives only at the end of the hose which is connected to the compressor of the air pump. Diving at night up to tens of meters with makeshift equipment to get sea cucumbers. 

“Not to mention the risk that must be borne by fishermen if things happen that are not desirable,” said Adit, adding the story of Mr. Usman.

Nadin, Dara, and Gilang were very concerned to hear the story. It turns out that the sea cucumber delights when they celebrated Nadin’s birthday with Sarah a few days ago had a very big struggle to get it. The inadequate technology for the fishermen, making sea cucumber extraction and processing not optimal. Ledgernow in supporting the welfare of sea cucumber fishermen helps in the provision of technology to assist fishermen in processing sea cucumbers more easily and hygienically, with the right process sea cucumbers will provide a high selling value due to the quality that is maintained, Ledgernow which helps maintain the quality of sea cucumbers to be maintained so that they can be consumed freshly. More info can be seen at https://ledgernow.com/

High-quality sea cucumbers will get a lot of community interest. These marine animals which are known for their benefits will be very good if managed well too. In addition to managing sea cucumbers, fishermen must also be smart in managing their finances, without the need for financial consultants to simply use a blockchain-based application that can manage finances and maintain safe transaction data security. YONK as a blockchain application that helps Indonesian fishermen to maintain the security of sea cucumber sales financial transactions which will be automated records and can be trace and track easily. More information https://yonk.io/

Temindo (Teknologi Mandiri Indonesia, PT)

TEMINDO is a company that provides business automation solutions for the integration and collaboration of companies with blockchain technology.
Website: https://www.temindo.com/

PureHeart

PureHeart is an initiative based on social activities committed to sustainable development goals with end-to-end blockchain technology so that the standard of living of Indonesians is increasing.
Website: https://pureheart.ledgernow.com

SSC (Sustainable Supply Chain)

SSC (Sustainable Supply Chain) is a blockchain solution for fast and safe collaboration for companies in the supply chain that aims to reduce operational costs, improve customer service and accelerate the delivery of goods and services to consumers.
Website: https://www.ssc.co.id/

YONK

YONK is a financial management application for SME owners (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) so that they get real time financial reports with prediction analysis features to help improve the credibility of MSMEs to finance companies (Financing Companies) using blockchain technology.
Website: https://www.yonk.io/

AELL

AELL is a solution to help manage digital medical record data integrated and integrated between hospitals and clinics so as to speed up the process of patient care, facilitate referral and protect patient data with blockchain technology.
Website: https://www.aell.co/

Global Usaha Semesta

Global Usaha Semesta is a solution in the fishing industry related to trade, transportation, agriculture and fishing production services. Serving as the core that supports the operational needs of fishermen partners / plasma in the form of support for fisheries equipment platforms, industry and financing with blockchain technology. Website https://globalusaha.com/

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Sea Cucumber Fishermen

This article is part of the #PelangiDiLautan : Welfare program for smiles at sea

This program is a collaboration between several blockchain-based companies to introduce and explore sea cucumbers more broadly, improve the standard of living and welfare of fishermen, and commit to realize a better economic ecosystem.

The writings in the #PelangiDiLautan program are inspired by the experience carried out in the Saumlaki area, West Southeast Maluku. However, some characters, characters, events, locations and dialogues are fiction and are arranged dramatically to make it more interesting. If there are similarities in the names of characters, places of events or stories, it is merely a coincidence and there is no element of intent

Adit, Gilang and Sarah who were on vacation in Maluku, they were amazed by the beauty of the beaches and natural attractions in Maluku which are still very beautiful and natural.

Their vacation this time was accompanied by auntie Sri,  she is Sarah’s aunt who had lived in Maluku for a long time following her husband on duty. Their holidays do not feel uncomfortable even though accompanied by Sarah’s aunt, because auntie Sri who is still young at heart and is very cool to talk to and travel with. 

Auntie Sri even bring the to the locations that are rarely visited by tourists. They were also invited to visit historic locations and culinary tours of Maluku. They learned a lot from their trip this time in Maluku. One of them is a marine animal that has many benefits called sea cucumbers. They rarely hear or see this kind of marine animal. It does look disgusting but it tastes quite delicious and more importantly is the nutritional content of sea cucumbers that are very good for health. 

Auntie Sri is one of the loyal customers of sea cucumbers, she always orders Sea Cucumber directly to fishermen. What a coincidence that Adit, Gilang and Sarah were also invited to visit the Sea cucumbers fishermen. They met with some Sea cucumbers fishermen, while waiting for Auntie Sri to buy fish and sea cucumbers. Adit, Gilang and Sarah talked a lot with the fishermen there. Adit who was curious about the reason that the price of sea cucumbers was expensive asked one of the fishermen there. The price of sea cucumbers was expensive because the number of sea cucumber fishermen was very small, the number of buyers who were a lot of fishermen who gave up looking for sea cucumbers and the obstacles in capturing sea cucumbers were quite difficult, they must dive to the bottom of the sea to look for these sea cucumbers. 

Most of sea cucumbers buyer are from rich people who really understand the efficacy of these sea cucumbers for their health, and also some orders from abroad. But there’s still difficult to connect with buyers, where the fishermen still do not understand very well to use the technology in promoting their catches, one of which is sea cucumbers. Pak Zaki one of the sea cucumber fishermen, he really hopes that many people can get to know this sea cucumber species or the government assistance in giving attention to these sea cucumber fishermen to be able to develop. It is unfortunate that Indonesia is one of the regions that produce sea cucumbers mostly but not many people are interested in this marine animals, because of lack of knowledge. 

Gilang suggested to the fishermen there to collaborate using LedgerNow technology that can help fishermen be more easily reunited with consumers or suppliers which will make it easier for them to send their catch. LedgerNow uses a blockchain-based system that makes it easy for fishermen to supply their catches using an application system that automatically records all data stored safely and tracking shipments that transparently and can be tracked in real-time. Click the following link for more information on www.ssc.co.id

Gilang who also saw the lives of fishermen who were still far from prosperity because of the difficulty in developing their catch to be sold to other cities. Mr. Zaki as a sea cucumbers fisherman really hopes that this LedgerNow technology can help sea cucumber sales easier, and many fishermen are interested in sea cucumbers. With the increase of sea cucumber ordering, this will certainly be able to lead to greater interest in sea cucumber farming. These sea cucumbers are marine animals that are actually very nutritious compared to other marine animals, it is unfortunate that the Indonesian people still do not understand the efficacy of sea cucumbers. LedgerNow also helps consumers to choose the quality of Sea Cucumbers at the right price, FLAX is one of the blockchain platforms that can help make it easier to choose the type of Sea Cucumber and determine the price fairly. Click the following link for more information on using FLAX www.ledgernow.com 

Temindo (Teknologi Mandiri Indonesia, PT)

TEMINDO is a company that provides business automation solutions for the integration and collaboration of companies with blockchain technology.
Website: https://www.temindo.com/

PureHeart

PureHeart is an initiative based on social activities committed to sustainable development goals with end-to-end blockchain technology so that the standard of living of Indonesians is increasing.
Website: https://pureheart.ledgernow.com

SSC (Sustainable Supply Chain)

SSC (Sustainable Supply Chain) is a blockchain solution for fast and safe collaboration for companies in the supply chain that aims to reduce operational costs, improve customer service and accelerate the delivery of goods and services to consumers.
Website: https://www.ssc.co.id/

YONK

YONK is a financial management application for SME owners (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) so that they get real time financial reports with prediction analysis features to help improve the credibility of MSMEs to finance companies (Financing Companies) using blockchain technology.
Website: https://www.yonk.io/

AELL

AELL is a solution to help manage digital medical record data integrated and integrated between hospitals and clinics so as to speed up the process of patient care, facilitate referral and protect patient data with blockchain technology.
Website: https://www.aell.co/

Global Usaha Semesta

Global Usaha Semesta is a solution in the fishing industry related to trade, transportation, agriculture and fishing production services. Serving as the core that supports the operational needs of fishermen partners / plasma in the form of support for fisheries equipment platforms, industry and financing with blockchain technology. Website https://globalusaha.com/