Nunukan island in brief sketches (part one)

Pulau Nunukan, sebuah pulau di utara kalimantan, dikelilingi perairan lengkap dengan kehidupan nelayan dan petani rumput laut. Objek sketsa kali ini banyak diwarnai tema laut di sela-sela kegiatan bersepeda.

Nunukan island, an island up north of borneo, surrounded by sea completed with the life of fishermen and sea weed farmers. Most of the sketches objects are about them. All sketch made during my cycling activity around the island.

Sebuah perahu di perkampungan nelayan Sungai Bolong

Seringkali tidak mudah mensketsa setelah beberapa jam menggenggam setang. Namun setelah beberapa lama jadi terbiasa.

Often, not quite easy to sketch right after cycling. The tremor caused by hours of cycling just makes it worse. But gets better after a while

Perkampungan nelayan dan petani rumput laut

Alat sketsa yang dibawa seringkas mungkin. Karena tidak mungkin mengerjakan sketsa berjam-jam di lokasi, kertas gambar dan pena tinta menjadi salah satu favorite saya.
As concise as possible, sketch equipments to take. Since almost impossible to do the art work for hours at locations. 15 minutes per sketch is my top. A piece of paper and an ink pen are my favorite

Sebuah sisi pantai di timur pulau

Perkampungan nelayan di barat pulau

 Beberapa dikerjakan dengan cat air, meski hasilnya tidak semaksimal pelukis besar :), but, this is live-sketch anyway...

Karena kemana-mana harus membawa peralatan gambar, sepeda gunung pun didesain khusus dengan rak dan "pannier" untuk perlengkapan penjelajahan.

a special design rear rack and pannier to complete my adventure in  crossing the island

3days in Sebuku, Sembakung, and Tulin onsoi Districts

audiences of HIV/AIDS presentation in Sembakung district

Once again my connection from city Health Center takes me to (I was assume) 3 remote areas of Nunukan which are: Sebuku, Sembakung, and Tulin Onsoi districts to share by presentation about HIV/ AIDS and the danger of narcotics drugs for students and productive ages.

HIV/ AIDS presentation in Lumbis district

We went there about 3 hours by small speed boat of 75 PK it was 6 person on board including the motorist. It was long and dangerous journey since the river is wide and deep, also a lot of wood chops floating on the river that we must avoid for the danger of collision. After arriving on Sebuku harbor, we went to Sembakung district in 1hour land travel to do our first presentation.

Sanur public health center Ambulance

Many questions about HIV/AIDS came from high school students, their enthusiasm makes this duty easier, as we know most our HIV patients came from this productive age from 20-40 years old. This fact is very harmful for this Nation's future….any nations. The presentation mostly about how we treat HIV/AIDS patients socially among us. Nowadays HIV/AIDS must not consider as a frightening disease as long as public now what is HIV/AIDS and how to treat the patient together due to better life quality.

HIV is a virus that cause immunodeficiency in Human. It spreads thru human liquid such as blood, sperm/vaginal discharge, brain liquid, and saliva. It takes 3-6 month to be seen as positive result since the first contact. This called “window period”, a periode that mostly refer to negative results but the patient still can spread the virus by unsave sex (not using condom or free sex), transfusion, etc..

After 5-10 years later, many diseases that manifest as the result of the destroy of immune system starts to weaken the patients (syndrome) and this condition called AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) until death comes.

a few characters of audiences including Chief of Tulin Onsoi District

HIV/AIDS not infected by shaking hands, kissing, cough, work together, using the same pool or toilets, and mosquitos bite. And with proper education about HIV/AIDS thru media and health center, we can help ourselves to avoid the disease and help the patient with HIV/AIDS to live better.

Nowadays there’s a treatment to limit the progress of the virus called ARV (antiretroviral) and a complete educative center VCT (voluntary counseling and testing) to provide consultation, future planning, and Patient-approval-testing-based to make patient as comfortable as possible to carry on his/her life betterly

a small part of road from Sebuku to Sembakung

too far from Samarinda :))

sei sembakung bridge in Lumbis

2 Minggu di Tambang Batubara

Crane Car

Setelah tiba di Nunukan 13 agustus 2012, keesokan harinya saya harus berangkat ke pedalaman sebakis untuk menikmati pekerjaan sebagai dokter jaga. Suasana pedalaman sudah tidak asing lagi bagi saya, mengingat sebelumnya pernah bertugas di pedalaman pulau Gebe Halmahera Tengah, Maluku Utara selama 2 tahun beberapa waktu lalu.

Berangkat melalui pelabuhan Liem Hie Jung (orang lokal menyebutnya "lamijung") kami bertolak bersama karyawan tambang lainnya dengan speedboat kecil ke arah barat sekitar satu jam perjalanan. Meski tampak seperti lautan, beberapa perairan di area kabupaten Nunukan seyogiyanya adalah sungai-sungai besar yang berisi buaya:D di beberapa tempat menurut kesaksian penduduk lokal didiami buaya dengan badan selebar daun pintu.. Ini membuat perjalanan semakin mendebarkan diiringi ombak yang mulai tinggi menjelang petang.

Setiba di pelabuhan tambang, kami dijemput SUV pajero sport yang membawa kami dalam perjalanan tak kalah serunya. Mesin diesel turbo commonrail yang konon merupakan salah satu mesin diesel tercanggih saat ini menghasilkan suara tidak selayaknya mesin diesel biasa:) bunyi kasar khas sangat minim berganti siulan dan hentakan tenaga besar di setiap putaran mesinnya.

tempat paling favorit : kantin (provided by: Boga Mitra Sarana)

kantin eksekutif

"Land Vehicle" mitsubishi triton

suasana di sekitar Kantor (mensketsa dari titik sinyal handphone terkuat:))

bpk Hadi (imam Sholat ied)

bersama pak Tumidjan sekdes setempat

kediaman pak Hadi..

Waktu yang kurang menguntungkan selama di tambang, kebetulan berada dalam suasana Romadhon, bahkan mendekati lebaran segera dimanfaatkan menemui teman baik di daerah transmigrasi Sei Menggaris. Rata-rata berprofesi sebagai petani kelapa sawit dan mengaku cukup tentram hidup di sana. Saat lebaran mengikuti sholat ied berada di tengah-tengah mereka serasa (meski tidak sama) berada di tengah keluarga. Dengan kondisi mereka yang menurut ukuran saya serba kekurangan, sambutan dan jamuan yang disuguhkan agak sedikit terlalu mewah buat ukuran saya.

saat khotbah idul Fitri 1433H/ 19 Agustus 2012

bersama Perawat PT Duta Tambang Rekayasa; bpk Heru Hermawan

perjalanan pulang ke Nunukan

 terima kasih atas kerjasama dan keramahtamahan PT Duta Tambang dan Masyarakat Transmigran Sei Menggaris, semoga kerja sama ke depan terjalin lebih baik dan semoga bertemu kembal di kesempatan yang lain:)

evening sketch

that afternon there's three bikes in front of my house : suzuki shogun FD110, suzuki Skywave 125 and honda Revo 110. was drawed spontaneously while baby sitting my children in my enormous precious spare time_