SMALL TOWN

PLANNING FOR SMALL TOWN

AT SMALL ISLAND
(the experience during holiday with my daughter. Travel to Penyengat Island, Kepulauan Riau, 12 - 13 Juni 2008) Penyengat Island )

Do you remember
the poem "GURINDAM DUA BELAS"?

I saw the complete "Gurindam dua belas" on cemetary at Penyengat Island.

2 of 12 poems

Gurindam Fasal yang ke dua

Barangsiapa mengenal yang tersebut
Tahulah ia makna takut
Barangsiapa meninggalkan sembahyang
Seperti rumah tiada bertiang
Barangsiapa meninggalkan puasa
Tidaklah mendapat dua termasya
Barangsiapa meninggalkan zakat
Tiadalah hartanya beroleh berkat
Barangsiapa meninggalkan haji
Tiadalah ia menyempurnakan janji

Gurindam Fasal Yang Kelima

Jika hendak mengenal orang berbangsa
Lihat kepada budi dan bahasa
Jika hendak mengenal orang mulia
Lihat kepada kelakuan dia
Jika hendak mengenal orang yang berilmu
Bertanya dan belajar tiadalah jemu
Jika hendak mengenal orang yang berakal
Di dalam dunia mengambil bekal
Jika hendak mengenal orang yang baik perangai
Lihat pada ketika bercampur dengan orang ramai .....INTERESTING?

Islands
Do you know how many islands Indonesia have?
17000 islands, 6000 of them are inhabited. Five largest islands are Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Papua.
One of the island near Tanjung Pinang, Penyengat island, developed as religious heritage. Mosque, cemetary, and palace are tourist destination on that island. The view nice surrounding with the trees. Silence. A place for us to go andescape from busy and hectic time. Becak motor as a travel moda on that island. If you prefer walk, you can do it through paving block. But, it was too bad, I didn't see the place such as small hotel or wisma, for stay on that island.
How did I know this island? I didn't see promotion or information at the airport. Iknew this island from my friend, an old way of marketing - WOM (word of mouth) 0r viral marketing. Probably the local government forgot about the supply side (see Tourism Planning post) : attraction, services, transportation, information and promotion.

Song Lyrics

URBAN PEOPLE

URBAN PEOPLE : The Survivor
(2 weeks after BBM price increase)

During this difficult time, everybody will hope that miracle will happen. For people like street children, children who live with crowded family and children that abandon by their father or parents, single women parents with children will pray and hope that God will help them.

- crying in the middle of the night and
- silent crying with empty stomach -

The pray,
- Please God and angel help us -

Urban Animal

Tmunyon was sick, before died

Urban Park and Animal Species

(in memorial my Imut (8 years), Munyon (1,5 years), Tweety (1 years), and Creamer (3,5 months) )

Almost more than two months I left this blog. There were manythings happened. I was sick for a long time, my cats died, and a hectic at my office and family. I feel the meaningfull friendship of my cat and suffer from a loss of them. During that time, I also learn the meaning of a hope, an adore, an hOnesty and truly love.

Not like in the others countries, I rarely saw in Indonesia that urban parks have animals, eventhough parks in universities. Parks having animals inside are Surapati Parks and Bogor State Palace. There are a lot of deers in Bogor park and birds at Surapati Park. But in Indonesia, you can see animal on street such as hen, cats, and dogs, specially in housing or community area. There are no regular controlling institution to protect people from the spreading of animal street disease.

Urban Parks in several cities abroad had been planned comprehensively along with other elements of urban functions. While in Indonesia, based on a new regulation of Spatial Planning No.26/2007, total green space required is 30 % of total urban area. Urban parks as green space area have several purposes,an aerobic in the morning and afternoon, family gathering, and relaxing. Urban parks is well-planned and spread in certain areas having many people surround such as schools, universities, and health facilities; not only near stores.
If you had ever been study abroad, you will experience the joyful playing with the animal in the park. Those animals can bring you a happiness, cheerfulness and feel relax as the time you feel lonely, sad, and stress or depress. You can also learn and observe the animal.

I was very grateful having a chance to feed squirrels or birds in the University of Pennsylvania park during my lunch or after I finished my examination. Research from abroad showed that people claimed to visit the park especially to watch animals as a leisure activity, bring their children or grandchildren and other purpose.


A research also show that people give an attention to the animal was elicited mainly by movement and sound, and less by color of animal. If visitor interested with the behaviour of the animal, they will seek further information about the animals from books or the internet. (Prof.Dr.Christoph Randler, University of Leipzig, Institute of Biology I, Didactics of Biology, Johannisallee 21-23, Germany).

What kind of animals that usually appears in urban parks? They are Fallow deer (Dama dama), Mouflon (Ovis ammon), Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), Great Spotted Woodpecker (Picoides major), Blackbird (Turdus merula), Great Tit (Parus major), Blue Tit ( Parus caeruleus), Marsh Tit (Parus palustris), Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) and Nuthatch (Sitta europaea). (derived from Bretzendorfer 1987, Randles, study was partly funded by University of Education, PH Ludwigsburg, Germany and from the Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung Germany (JP C.R.).

Of course some of those animals aren’t usual in tropical countries like Indonesia. Probably, the animals living usually in Indonesian parks are birds, deers, monkeys, ducks, and swans.

Finally, the function of urban park is greater than we usually know. It’s not only enhance the quality of the cities to reduce the automobile or industry pollution, but also as a place for social events, relaxing, and learning. So, urban parks should be developed starting from the city spatial plan and should be supported and enhanced by media information for children visitors and managed for elderly visitors.