AN AMAZING ENCOUNTER WITH SVENJA
Our PRM team in the Hiran watershed of TNBBBR conducts phenology surveys and unexpectedly encountered Svenja.
Young age is not a problem for someone to show his job professionalism. It was demonstrated by Andi Hermanto (21), who just recently appointed as a supervisor in the Forest School by BOSF.
Forest School itself, is a place to teach orangutans about their natural food in the wild, recognize their natural enemies, and teach orangutans how to climb trees, particularly for those who had never climbed tall trees because they spent their life with human in a long time before arrived in rehabilitation center.
Andi, the nickname of this young man, is responsible for managing playgorunds position for 34 orangutans who are living in the Forest School, and 5 other orangutans who are still back and forth from baby's room and Forest School due to their young age. In addition, Andi along with keepers and babysitters at the Forest School also act as teachers who are always watching and teaching new things to their students.
Just like student in human school, sometimes there are some naughty Forest School students. This is, however, is a proof that orangutans who attended forest school can move to next level of the Forest School. A sample of this naughtiness is they play and climb trees far from where they are supposed to play, Andi and his keeper friends have responsibility to follow them until Forest School end at 4 pm.
If those orangutans are too busy playing and do not want to go home, it is Andi's responsibility to persuade orangutans to come down from the tree and rejoin his friends to go home. When persuading orangutans, Andi often give little bribes such as orangutans favorite foods so they want to come down from the trees.
Hopefully, Andi's spirit to conserve orangutans and their habitat can inspire the other youths so in the future there will be many young men and young women who really care about orangutans.