Sunday, December 9, 2007

ADIPURA, Welcome to Bitung...!

To find a clean place or city in Indonesia could be a bit difficult. It can be understood for most Indonesians don’t seem to be aware of environs health or cleanliness. We can see it from the habit of throwing out garbage not to the proper place. Perhaps, this is the reason of why Indonesian government made an annual competition of clean city. Each city in Indonesia will be evaluated concerning its cleanliness by a team of judges. The city considered as the cleanest one will be proclaimed as the winner and bring home ADIPURA trophy.

ADIPURA TROPHY
All cities in Indonesia are competing to get the trophy and Bitung is no exemption. Many efforts have been done and one of them is to invite participation of every society element of the city to create a healthy environment which appropriates to the city’s motto Hidup Sehat Ramah Lingkungan or healthy and environmentally friendly life. Every Friday, they have such a clean up campaign called Clean Friday which is actually a program made not only for the road cleaners but also for the civil servants and the community. On this day, cleaning up their neighborhood is a must. Fortunately, this program is successfully made continually. As the result, the city is now getting more beautiful, green, clean and healthy. If you get up in the morning and do a little jogging around a neighborhood, you will feel so fresh and happy because you will see no garbage on streets you will only see clean, beautiful and green view. Isn’t it good for our health? Even if we go to Winenet or Girian traditional market you will see a similar view whereas in fact a traditional market in Indonesia cannot be separated with its dirty and messy image.

By these efforts, no wonder Bitung is success to get the title of the cleanest city 2007 in category of medium city and grab the ADIPURA trophy. This achievement is certainly becoming the pride of the whole town. I hope they can keep up the good work and most of all is to have a strong commitment and awareness of the importance of having a clean and healthy environment.

2 comments:

  1. I do agree w/ u!
    Bitung deserves the Adipura! Even so, i think the point is not the adipura itself but how to implement the govt's tagline of HSRL into our daily life!
    Sure we can do!
    Sure the adipura will be ours every year!

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  2. ANNEMARY, thanks for leaving your mark here. Yes, we can make it if we hold on together (sounds like a song, hehe!)

    I agree with you too. The ADIPURA trophy is just a symbol. The people’s awareness is above all.

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