Assisting Villages
Developing Sumba
Coming back
home after graduating college is one expectation of Stube-HEMAT for the
activists. Working for local village and involving in its development will
contribute to the increase of society welfare. Although he admitted honestly
that working as a village facilitator is done due to lack of available jobs in
Sumba, eventually he loves this job.

This is the
experience of Yonatan Kura, often called Yoga. Now he has worked for Village
Empowerment Agency as a village facilitator in Loko Kalada village, Loura
sub-district, Southwestern Sumba, since May of 2015. His job is facilitating
activities in the village, providing knowledge to the village apparatus, and
become a representative of the sub-district in the village. His time on Stube-HEMAT
and youth organizations when he was a college student, gave much-needed
experience on his job. For a village, Yonatan works with three other village
companions, but not often he was asked to facilitate other villages.

It is human
when he often feels upset when explaining something to the people, but they
don’t want to listen to the instructions, instead they consider him to swank as
a “know-it-all” youth among older. I don’t have a thought to despise them;
however a village facilitator has enough knowledge from what he/she had learned.
Other else, it is funny when they admitted that they have understood, but after
the session ended, they asked about it. Even so, the village chief always opens
minded to any of views or opinions from the village facilitator. Those become a
challenge for village facilitator to provide appropriate instruction.
Once he had
ever experienced difficulty adapting village regulations, for example, UU
6/2014 about Villages. However, the situation has changed; slowly he enjoys
what he does because he wants to learn. Initially, he works on budgeting to
village development report manually, but nowadays it has become easier with the
existence of an application called Village Monetary System. Further, he has
experienced temptations in form of money abuse in infrastructure construction,
but he rejected it due to a belief that development itself is made for the
village, therefore the quality must be excellent, if it is not, those who pays
the price is the society itself, instead he mobilizes the people also to monitor
the construction.


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