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FOREST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 2017

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Indonesia Environment Children Education Environment Children +1 Permanent

About the project

FOREST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 2017

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

ICYE Indonésie

💼 What the programme involves

Most of the time community forest villages have several problems in education. There are several reasons such as lack of educational service nearby, bad road situation, poverty, parents´ encouragement for female children to marry in the early age, and lack of understanding of the importance of education. This boarding school was established in order to eradicate those obstacles. Furthermore, this project site is aimed to build sense of leadership toward the student. Their wish is that the graduates are able to be agents of change for contributing to the development of their villages. This educational service is aimed for children from disadvantage family who lives in the forest villages. Main Activities: Formal and non formal education activities; Entertainment activities for students; Cultural understanding; Better understanding about forest community; Take a part in the forest prevention and development; The formal lessons are given in the morning until afternoon. Teaching activities in entrepreneurship, leadership and cultural are given after formal classes. Participative learning is one of their educational methods. The role of the volunteers will be: To assist local teachers in classes; Organizing basic English conversation; Helping in computer classes to use Microsoft office program for developing the community's blog; Helping teachers in giving training; To motivate the students in studying; To organize activities that will enrich the life skills of the students; To get involved in other various activities at project site like gardening, forest protection and other environmental activities.

🏠 Accommodation on site

The accommodation and food will be provided by a local host. The volunteer will stay in the dormitory with the students. Facilities are simple and Indonesian style (no hot water, no internet, and no washing machine).

📍 About the location

Banyumas Regency, Central Java. The project site is a boarding school named 'Mbangun Desa' which was initiated by the forest community which is located in Ketenger Village in the rural area of Banyumas regency. Ketenger is nearby Baturaden forest. It includes group of Slamet mountain forest. It has fresh air. There are some natural tourism spot spread around the village such as hot spring, waterfall, dam etc. Most of local people are working as farmers.

ℹ️ Additional information

Volontariat de 4 à 16 semaines; frais supplémentaires de 400€ pour le 1er mois, puis 75€ par semaine. Placement individuel, programme ouvert toute l'année

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📅 Available sessions

IDN-53/2017

04/01/2017 → 18/12/2017

Closed
Volunteers registered 2 / 5
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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–99 years old

Solidarity donation

400.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Banyumas Regency, Central Java, Indonesia

Indonesia

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Indonesia Rupiah (IDR / Rp)

Exchange rate

1 IDR = 0.000049 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Western Indonesia Time

Local time: 21:05 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Indonesian