Smart finding opportunity

Ready taking risk

group presentation of social analysis

An understanding toward social condition in society is very important for everyone, especially youth and student because there are still imbalance and social problems. Based on this, Stube-HEMAT Sumba organized a training program on Social Analysis about youth of Sumbanese and employment opportunity at GKS Okanggapi on February 24-25, 2017.

After the training, participant were divided into several groups to do small research on employment problems in form of observation of employment problems in Sumba. The observation result were written for discussion material in follow-up meeting on Saturday March 25, 2017 at Stube-HEMAT Sumba secretariat. The discussion is facilitated by Apriyanto Hangga, one of Stube-HEMAT Sumba team members.

Student Group in Waingapu,

This group consisted of students of Wirawacana Christian University who observed pigs farm business in Waingapu. Pigs farming has a potential business chance. Why? Because the Sumbanese customs need animals, one of them is pig. Pig is used as a means of traditional ‘belis’ and funeral ceremony, so the demand for pigs will continue. Sometimes in order to fulfill the increasing demand of pigs in Sumba, a group of people supply pigs from Bima, West Nusa Tenggara.

The students focused on observing local pig farms in Waingapu. An interview with a local pig farmer indicated that local pigs take a long period of time (between 8-12 months) with slow growth and they need more nutritional feed than duroc pigs. However, local pigs are preferred by the people because they are not only valued by their body size but also by the length of their fangs. The local pig fangs grow faster than duroc pigs.

Students group in Lewa

This group consists of STT GKS Lewa students who observed Lewa's economy condition, especially Lewa market. The market infrastructure has been complemented by local government but some residents of Lewa and its surroundings thought that the utilization of the market was not optimum yet and the location was less strategic, that’s why  some merchants sell their stuffs on roadside which interferes trafic lines.

The students were interested to find out the causes of merchants to sell on the roadside. They tried to analyze problem by interviewing some of them. One of them said that selling on roadside was common and happen every day to get money for his daily needs. In addition, selling on the roadside brought more advantages, the stuffs were sold more quickly because customers preferred buying on the roadside to buying inside of the market.

Apriyanto appreciated the groups for their efforts to find and analyze problems that exist around them. He emphasized that if social problems occur, every youth and student cannot stay silent, but participate to solve poblems. Next, youth should be smart to find opportunity to open business and also be ready to take risks, so no one will be slumped, neither him/herself nor the community. (Jufri Adipapa).