Bumi Langit

The Earth Needs Me

What is the appropriate price to pay for the goodness of nature? Talking the appropriate one to pay for the goodness of nature will not find the right amount. Nature provides everything needed by humans and it is because of human's greediness, nature is damaged. So much damage has happened that can be felt how hot the temperature of the earth in recent years is due to the melted glacier at the North Pole, can be seen how much plastic waste in the ocean damaging the marine ecosystem. Nature needs restoration, nature needs improvement.

Bumi Langit Institute is one institution that dedicates their time and mind to cultivate nature in a good and appropriate way. It is a place where ethical values become the basic foundation in human relation with nature and among humans. The institute was founded in May 2014 with concept of a comprehensive approach to life (permaculture). The field of Bumi Langit is an open garden that enables people to see and learn together the mutual relationships between human and their environment.

Bumi Langit institute provides training, course places, internships and other activities related to the environment. Facilities are provided from Kindergarten to Higher Education levels. On October 10, 2018, the students of Tirta Marta Junior High School, Pondok Indah - BPK Penabur, Jakarta accompanied by Stube-HEMAT visited Bumi Langit institute to learn about the relationship between humans and nature.

Welcomed by Ms. Nung, one of the administrators of the Bumi Langit institute, the dialogue began with the history of the establishment of the Bumi Langit institute. Students were also invited to see the garden. There were various types of organic vegetable and fruit plants. There are also farms, agriculture, bio gas processing, clean water processing, and electricity generated by solar power.

Everything in Bumi Langit is eco-friendly, the water waste from the activity is not polluted at all because it is chemical free, started from bath soaps, washing soaps, until organic foods for consumption. All crops are processed by themselves to produce environmentally friendly food.

Students also enjoyed the farm product of Bumi Langit garden, such as, sorghum cakes, fried bananas and pure well water. Ms. Nung explained the process of making cakes and banana fried, starting from all organic ingredients to the manufacturing process. In this session, Ms. Nung conveyed the importance of protecting nature and the importance of consuming organic food. Students were also given an opportunity to present the analysis result while visiting the garden. The visit ended with a group photo and submission of a placard by one of the students to one representative of Bumi Langit institute. (ITM).