Pelajar Terpaksa Lintasi Trek Indiana Jones Menuju Sekolah
Students Forced to Make Indiana Jones-style Trek to School
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
LUANGKAN pikiran bagi para pelajar Indonesia, apabila Anda yang terjebak kesulitan menuju ke sekolah.
Anak-anak pemberani dipaksa untuk mengawali perjalanan sejauh tujuh mil (sekitar 8 km) a la Indiana Jones setiap pagi, agar mereka dapat tiba di sekolah tepat waktu, seperti dikutip The Sun.
Anak-anak, dari desa Batu Busuk di Sumatera dipaksa bolak-balik harus melakukan gaya sirkus setelah jembatan ambruk dihantam hujan lebat lebih dari dua tahun yang lalu.
Untuk menyeberangi sungai berarus deras, 20 anak-anak harus menyeberang melalui sungai dan meniti kawat baja di atas ketinggian lebih 10 meter di atas sungai.
Ketika mereka sampai di seberang, mereka masih harus berjalan hampir delapan kilometer melalui hutan lebat untuk mencapai sekolah mereka di kota Padang.
Foto2: The Sun
SPARE a thought for these Indonesian pupils the next time you´re stuck in traffic on the school run.
The daredevil kids are forced to embark on a seven-mile Indiana Jones-style trek every single morning - just so they can make it to class on time, as quoted The Sun.
The children, from the village of Batu Busuk on the island of Sumatra, were forced into the circus-style commute after a crucial bridge collapsed in heavy rain more than two years ago.
To cross the fast-flowing river, the 20 kids have to wade through water and make a terrifying 30-foot high tightrope walk.
And when they get to the other side, they still have a seven mile walk through dense forest to reach their school in the town of Padang.
