Celebration of Saung Bandasari

Today, 10th June 2014, KAIL and YPBB staffs visited Bandasari for celebrating the completeness of Saung Bandasari construction. Saung Bandasari is located at Desa Bandasari, where YPBB and KAIL jointly have a piece of land, which is projected to be their ecovillage site in the future. This "saung" is one of many buildings that will be constructed in that site. The building is made from bamboo and consist of an open wide space, a smaller open space and two bed rooms. Beside the saung, two bath rooms were also constructed, a long with biodigester as its septic tank and waste water ponds which will be used as grey water treatment.

The area of Bandasari is around 2.5 hectares, which consist of hill, valley, and rice field. Part of the rice field will be functioning as fish pond. In the long run, the area will be developed using the principle of permaculture.Following that principle, the sites will be divided into several zones, from zone 0 for most actively used area, such as housing, kitchen etc. to zone 5, where local woods from West Java will be planted as part of reforestation efforts of that area.

Beside YPBB and KAIL staffs, head of local community, construction workers and families of Gungun Gunawan, the coordinator of this ecovillage were also joined this celebration.

Celebration will not be perfect without food. In this event, tumpeng nasi kuning plus lauk pauk cooked by Gungun's mother was the main course. The symbol of the opening of the saung was done by David Sutasurya (YPBB) giving a plate of nasi kuning to Thomas (the youngest people from KAIL) and to the head of Bandasari community.

Many children attended this event. They played together all the time. They walked, run up down the hill around the location. Some children did this many times. It seems like they do not tired at all.

The event was closed with group picture.

Hope that what has been done with good intention can give benefit to the nature and many people.