Medang Island receives its first computer lab in Bugis village
Information and communications technology (ICT)
When the new Indonesian curriculum required computer technology in 2013, SMPN 5 Laburh Badas (junior high school) on Medang island had no computers to teach ‘computer literacy\’ with. Teachers from that unpretentious school of 3 classrooms and 83 students asked Vega 1892 to help them. Since the village only has power from 6 pm to 10 pm at night we agreed if the community would provide a way to power the computers during school hours. In response parents of the students funded a small portable generator along with a modest subscription for fuel.
Now the new computer lab is used by students during the day, and by the general community after school hours. Now they are dreaming of access to the internet.
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- Medang has no port so we must offload supplies at the beach.
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- Students carried computers and other supplies from the beach to their school.
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- An entire class turned out to help transport the computers.
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- Vega crew member Santi and our friend Anton from Medang admire newly offloaded computers. Due to the shallow water Vega must anchor far off shore.
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- The school not only received computers but other important supplies as well.
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- The Vega team helped set up the computer lab.
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- Mr. Zain the ICT teacher, was excited to begin classes.
During our twice-yearly visits we plan to repair or collect broken equipment and dispose of it in Singapore where there are e-waste recycling programmes.
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