Keberhasilan Surabaya dalam pengelolaan sampah tak hanya dipaparkan dalam International Workshop on Community Based Solid Waste Management and Supporting National Policies. Sebagian besar delegasi yang hadir dari lima negara dan sepuluh kota di Indonesia juga diajak melihat langsung pengolahan sampah dan menanam pohon bersama.
Kunjungan pertama adalah melihat cara kerja komposting sampah di Taman Flora, Bratang. Sekitar pukul 07.00, para delegasi itu tiba di sana. Hadir pula Kepala Bappeko Tri Rismahrini, Ketua Tim Penggerak PKK Dyah Katarina, serta Kepala Dinas Kebersihan dan Pertamanan (DKP) Hidayat Syah.
Di Taman Flora, DKP sudah menyediakan lubang dan berbagai jenis pohon untuk ditanam. Lubang yang tersedia sudah ditandai dengan tulisan nama para delegasi dari negara asing maupun perwakilan pemerintah kota di Indonesia.
Iwai Nobuo, perwakilan JICA untuk Indonesia, hanya manggut-manggut ketika diajari petugas DKP cara mencangkul. Setelah menanam pohon bersama, mereka diperlihatkan pembuatan kompos oleh petugas DKP.
Hidayat menjelaskan, hasil pembuatan kompos tersebut dibagikan kepada kampung-kampung peserta program Surabaya Green and Clean. “Selain itu, kami menyosialisasikan pembuatan komposter kepada warga,” jelasnya.
Dari Taman Flora, peserta diajak keliling ke Kelurahan Sonokawijenan, Sukomanunggal. Di situ, warga menunjukkan pembuatan kompos dan memamerkan aneka produk daur ulang. Para delegasi hanya berdecak kagum ketika dijelaskan bahwa di Surabaya ada sekitar 500 kampung yang kondisinya mirip dengan Sonokawijenan. “Wow, it’s beautiful,” ucap mereka.
Terakhir, mereka diajak berkunjung ke SD St Theresia. Dipilihnya SD tersebut lantaran mereka berhasil meraih adiwiyata (penghargaan sekolah berbasis lingkungan) dari pemerintah pusat. Dari SD St Theresia, peserta workshop kembali ke Novotel, tempat acara itu dihelat. Di sana, tim Unilever Peduli dan PT Telkom membeber upaya-upaya yang dilakukan oleh pemkot bersama mereka untuk mengatasi persoalan sampah di kota ini. “Artinya, komitmen bersama sangat penting untuk mengatasi persoalan sampah,” jelas Nunuk Maghfiroh, salah seorang panitia Kampungku Bersih Surabaya Green and Clean 2008 dari Unilever Peduli.
Mohammed Anwar Hussain, delegasi dari Dhaka, Bangladesh, juga membeber persoalan sampah di kotanya. Dia menyebutkan tiga prioritas penanganan sampah di Dhaka. Yaitu, sampah rumah tangga, industri, dan medis. “Selama ini, kami membangun kerja sama dengan stakeholder,” paparnya. Hanya, berbagai program yang dicanangkan tersebut belum berjalan optimal. (kit/fat)
Source: Jawa Pos Online
August 29th, 2008
Agnes Winarti, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
Amassed in a large tent and shielded from the sun’s scorching heat, some 500 convicted substance abusers sat tapping their chests, then their heads and faces, while listening to a therapist’s instructions.
“Feel your pain and your addiction. Focus your mind on them. Believe that you can be cured from within,” therapist Ahmad Faiz Zainuddin told his audience Tuesday at the Cipinang Penitentiary in East Jakarta.
“Say it clearly: Although I am sick, I am willing to accept my illness and I surrender to You, God, so that you will heal me,” Faiz continued, while the prisoners around him could be heard murmuring and mimicking.
Since 2005, Faiz has been promoting an instant healing therapy known as the Spiritual Emotional Freedom Technique (SEFT), said to treat mental and physical illnesses and addictions through a combination of prayer and needleless acupuncture using finger-tapping on the body’s pressure points.
According to Faiz, SEFT has been known as a universal and instant healing aid, with an 80 percent recovery rate for patients in the U.S., Australia and the United Kingdom over the past 20 years.
“It can be used to treat various illnesses, as all illness — we believe — is rooted in the same cause: the disruption of the body’s energy system,” he added.
“With this method, anyone can independently heal themselves,” said Faiz, a former student of psychology at Airlangga University in Surabaya, East Java.
SEFT combines 14 different therapy methods, including behavioral and spiritual therapy, hypnosis, affirmative suggestion and psychoanalysis, he added.
It is compatible with other types of treatment usually offered to prisoners with substance abuse problems, including methadone and community therapy, he said.
“About 80 percent of the 2,860 prisoners here are drug users and addicts. This is a simple and easy-to-use therapy, which we hope prisoners can use to cure themselves,” said Tribowo, head of prisoner management at Cipinang Penitentiary.
In less than two hours, Faiz, founder of the PT LOGOS Institute, introduced prisoners to the therapy, which he said was self-applicable and capable of being completed within 5 to 10 minutes.
Johan, one of several prisoners who came forward to receive the therapy, remarked, “The session is too short. I wish it was more than just once. It would be better if it were done once a week, so I could learn to do it myself.”
Saying he hoped to quit smoking, he received nine taps over various parts of his body, including the left portion of his chest, his head, forehead and face, from one of the 40 SEFT therapists present.
Minutes later, with a cigarette between his lips and seemingly awestruck, the convicted drug-user who has served two years in prison, remarked, “It doesn’t taste as pleasant as before. In fact, it’s tasteless. I hope I really can quit smoking this way.”
Therapist Faiz said he planned to hold demonstrations at other penitentiaries, as well as in low-income areas around the city, such as informal housing settlements, to help introduce the technique.
“We will use 25 convicts in this penitentiary as a sample, to begin providing SEFT treatment once a week,” he added.
Cipinang Penitentiary is the second correctional facility to host an introduction to SEFT therapy, following Medaeng Penitentiary in Surabaya, East Java, he said.
SEFT has been performed on some 12,000 individuals, a fourth of whom went on to become certified therapists by paying Rp 3.75 million (US$412) for a two-day training session.
Source: The Jakarta Post
August 29th, 2008