Getting more about sapeken
island
Why is called the sapeken
island, because they think the island story ancestors were mostly from south
sulawesi with a language which is the daily language of bajo. That their
ancestors used the stranded and unable to get out of the island for one week.
So from the word of the week was the name of the island is taken into sapeken
which means one week. Because the ancestors of south sulawesi, the official
language is the language of everyday use bajo. Actually plural tribes that
occupy the pullau there from napier, javanese, madurese even from aceh was
there. The population density was triggered because sapeken island itself is at
a strategic location surrounded by the larger islands such as island kangean,
paliat island, a small island and large
pagerungan, saur island and the island sakala. If you know that's batam island
as well as the position of the island sapeken. Although the extent of
approximately half the its, sapeken island has a high population of around
12,600 people. Imagine how the density on the island.
It's hard to say the
economic situation of the island. Majority of whom work as fishermen and
merchants. In terms of the shape of the majority of the house-shaped stage to
say the house seems pretty simple. They make the house because the first stage
at the time of high tide to enter the houses. Return to economic problems. When
viewed in terms of the ownership of the contents of kitchen furniture, they
include people who are able. The majority of them hasi 21-inch tv,
refrigerator, hp minimal existing camera. Understandably they are easy to make
money just go to sea fish can be sold already be income. If the money is still
a lot of ... Go into town shopping. Generally they go to town singaraja due to
the journey can only be taken approximately 6 hours.
Geography and demographics
Ports sapeken
Subdistrict sepeken has
total area of 201.88 km2 (9.64% of the total sumenep). Number of villages in
district sepeken were 9 villages among others. In addition there are also
several islands that still enter the subdistrict administration sepeken. The
number of islands consists of 53 consists of 21 inhabited islands, 32 islands
are uninhabited.
Subdistrict sepeken adjacent
to the sea and other districts. On the north side is limited by kalimantan sea,
south restricted the bali sea, east bounded by the celebes sea, west bounded by
the java sea. The population of the district as a whole amounted sepeken 37 765
inhabitants (bappeda kab. Sumenep, 2003). District residents sepeken
composition consists of males as much as 18 677 people (49.46%) and women 19
088 people (50.54%). The sex ratio of 97.85% with a density of population of
187.06 inhabitants / km2.
Facilities and
infrastructure
Facilities and
infrastructure available in the district sepeken include transportation,
electric lighting, communications, water supply, trade, education, health,
religious facilities, government offices and financial institutions.
Transportation facilities
and infrastructure such as roads, darmaga, and means of transport. Length
overall road along the 39.341 km with 9.53% damaged road conditions. Motorized
means of land transport consists of trucks, pick up, motorbikes and motor
consists of tricycles and bicycles. Other means contained in sub sapeken is
darmaga / harbor there are in the village sepeken, small pegerungan and large,
sabunten, paliat, sasili, along and sakala. There are also water port (airport)
located in the village of saor sapeken island.
Electric lighting in the
district largely sepeken using pln. Rt wearing amount pln 1,029 as rt found in
most villages and non pln 309 rt contained in small and large pagerungan
village. Communication facilities are also provided quite complete, among
others, the post office 1 unit, 18 units of telecommunication, telecoms 1
unite, telephone households rt 278 and rt as many as 18 public telephone.
Clean water facilities in
the district sepeken rely heavily on well water. Entire villages were 9 rt
utilizes well water as a source of clean water. For trading activity
subdistrict sepeken equipped with the village market. As for the development of
human resources, district sepeken equipped with means education fairly
complete. This is reflected in the availability of educational facilities are
fairly evenly distributed at all levels of education. Number tk 19 units, 32
units sd, mi by 30 units, smp 3 units, 3 units of mts, and ma 1 unit.
Health facilities in the
district sepeken consisting of health centers, community health clinic and
maternity / polindes. Phc totaling 1 unit found in the village of sepeken.
While puskesmas 5 units spread across several villages. While polindes 6 units
found in most villages.
Entire communities in the
district sapeken embraced islam. Places of worship include as many as 31 units
mosques, surau / mosque as much as 96 units. To order in the district
administration office facilities sepeken village there are only a small part.
Meanwhile, as a driver of economic and finance at the district sepeken also
available financial institutions are credit unions 3 units.
Economy
Sector for economic growth
in the district sepeken food include agriculture, forestry, plantation, animal
husbandry, fisheries, industry, energy and mining and tourism.
Products of food crops
include rice, maize and cassava. Production of food crops is still dominated by
maize, cassava, green beans, peanuts and rice. Forestry and plantation consists
of coconut, cashew, mangoes, nuts, papaya and teak trees. Forestry products and
is dominated by coconut plantations. Farm field consists of cattle, horses,
goats, chickens and ducks / duck. Livestock sector is dominated by cattle.
While other field includes industrial (small industrial food / beverage,
furniture, chemical and petroleum and industrial small bag). Another area that
is no less important is the field of energy and mining consists of mining and
petroleum gas / natural gas. Besides potential fields contributing to the
economy tends to tourism in the form of culture, nature and conservation.
Specifically for fisheries,
the potential of the district sepeken include sea fishing, cultivation, trade
and processing. Catches of fish in the sea among other reef fish, ornamental
fish, kites, crab, and scallops. Fishing effort is supported by a fleet of
motorized fishing boat in the form of 2,399 units in all villages and 1,214
motorized units.
In addition to capture
fisheries, other fisheries sector that is developing namely aquaculture and
fishery product processing. Types of aquaculture are in sub sapeken is mar
iculture include seaweed cultivation (island sapeken), reef fish farming (p.
Sapeken, p. Sibatok, p. And p. Small sadulang saular), cultivation kite (p.
Sapeken) and cultured pearls (p. Sepangkur large and small, and p. P. Sabunten
paliat). Mariculture more numerous in the district sapeken is the cultivation
of sea turtle, crab cultivation (p. Sepangkur and p. Sasil), budiadya mangrove
(p. Bangkau) and cultivation of coral reefs (p. Saor).
Bajo world's most populous.
Although narrow, this island
is inhabited by about 12,600 people. Of that amount, the bajo population census
conducted by the central bureau of statistics in 2000 amounted to about 5,526
people. You can imagine, this is the bajo populous in indonesia and the world.
According to a japanese
anthropologist who studied bajo, prof nagatzu kazufumi, population bajo
recorded worldwide around 1.1 million people. They are scattered in coastal
areas on the island of sulu (philippines), beaches sabah (malasyia), and
indonesia.
In indonesia, the bajo
spread across many small islands and beaches like in riau islands province,
north sulawesi, gorontalo, central sulawesi, southeast sulawesi, south
sulewesi, east java, and others. Then where comes bajo, indonesia or the
philippines? If the question is directed at bajo community, they generally will
not know the answer in unison. Understandably, their lifestyle is always moving
from one island to another to make the current generation as losing their
ancestors.
Sea people kazumi according
to scientific work published in the journal review of anthroplogy hakusan 13th
edition (march 2010), there are two hypotheses concerning the origin of the
bajo. The first, filed renowned geographer d.e. Which has been published under
the title nomads sea or the sea people
move (1977).
According to him,
periodically bajo migrate from lingga island (riau) since the 14th century
until the 17th century towards the west coast of borneo. From here they spread
out to sulu (philippines) and the beaches on the island of sulawesi. If you
look at the sopher hypothesis, it could be the origin of the bajo originated
from lingga island, now administratively located in the province of riau
islands. Another with the proposed hypothesis ak pallesen linguist and
ethnographer ha nimmo.
Judging by the language used
by the group, pallesen and nimmo argued, bajo came from mindanao, philippines.
According to him, in the 10th century that they then spread to southeast asia,
including indonesia. Regardless of its origin, the existence of the bajo in
indonesia is unique. "they only inhabit coastal areas that have the
potential of fish were plentiful.
Research results show, where
there bajo live, that's where the seabed has the quality of the reefs are still
well preserved, "said prof. Dr. Aris poniman, a research professor who
recently studied the spatial distribution of the bajo in indonesia. Likewise,
the presence of the bajo on the sapeken sapeken. Research is proving that the
seas in sapeken, kangean, and surrounding areas still have a nice coral reef.
An abundance of coral reefs
is the main attraction for various kinds of fish for spawning, rearing, a
playground for the kids fish, shelter, looking for food, and others. In short,
a good reefs show great abundance of marine life. Likewise, coral reefs are
destroyed, leaving only a lonely desert of marine life.
That is why, no bajo staying
on the north coast of java. They know, besides coral reefs have been destroyed,
in waters dirty due to the severity of the pollution of the results of human
activities on the mainland java. Such conditions are clearly very difficult to
hunt fish, shrimp, lobster, and others.
Stranded in week
Which then of the bajo now
resident on the island sapeken? Based on several studies, examines the
languages and dialects spoken, they come from south sulawesi. That said,
according to a story by word of mouth, they were stranded on the island and
cannot get out for one week (one week).
From this and the small
island called sapeken island. Now, the island is dominated bajau community.
Almost half of the population was inhabited by the bajo. The rest comes from
the bugis, madurese, javanese, balinese, sundanese, and aceh. The entire
population converted to islam. Although cultural activities dominated by bajo,
they still live in harmony and peace.
This is because they still
uphold the culture and customs of other tribes such as madura, java, bali, and
bugis. For bajo, living on the sapeken island own comfort. Besides waters are
still clean, the environment is also still healthy marine ecosystems. It is
also fairly strategic, surrounded by islands kangean, small pagerungan, large, saur, sakala, and others.
Such geographical conditions
suitable for bajo own livelihood as a fisherman. Moreover, there is the port
that used to serve the surrounding islands. Not far away, there is also a
commercial scale oil exploration. Complete already on the seabed have high
biodiversity.
Meanwhile, beneath the
seabed there are oil reserves are abundant. Although shrouded potential of
marine resources are plentiful, but life on the sapeken island quite simple. Take
a look at the form of his residence, stilts with local ingredients sober.
Houses on stilts made to avoid the tide so that water does not break into the
house. Transportation tool rickshaws, motorbikes, and small carts for
transporting the catches to traditional market.
To meet their daily needs,
they prefer to banyuwangi (east java) and singaraja (bali) than kalianget
(sumenep, madura). Understandably, the travel time to banyuwangi and singaraja
much faster. If the calm surf, trips can be taken within 6 hours. But if you're
a high choppy, the trip takes 9 hours.
Community living
squalor island
Custom home
Pagerungan is a small island
in the archipelago sapeken. The island is located in the northeast of the
island of madura. To travel by boat diesel, the island can be reached about 8
hours of sumenep. Despite the remote location, pagerungan island offers exotic
tropical penorama in the middle of its citizens in the struggle depend on the
sea.
Although this makes
pagerungan island sumenep district, but the local culture such as traditional
houses, tend to be oriented in the bajo contained in sulawesi. The language
used to communicate daily whenever they use a language that is different from
the bajo language of madura.
The island is not too
extensive. Stretching about three kilometers. So if we are going with the outer
line of the beach then the time can be taken to circumnavigate the island is
only about an hour away. Its population was approximately one hundred
households. The common facilities of the island is very limited, only a mosque,
a primary school, some kiosks and a health clinic that wall was cracked and
filled with moss.
Children on this island
after graduating from elementary school, to continue their junior high school
on the island should be across large
pagerungan island. Every morning they go to school are clustered by
riding a small boat diesel. And by noon when they return, the boat carrying
elementary school students arrived back laughter accompanied their voices.
Whereas if you go on to a higher school, high school, then they have to cross
to the island sapeken that can be taken two hours away.
To meet the needs of daily
life of citizens of this island as a marine rely for livelihoods. The majority
of citizens is a fisherman, the remainder merchants and teachers. While farming
only as a sideline, when not to fish. Because they still use traditional ways,
then the fishermen here still depends on the season. If you're strong winds and
big waves, the fishermen not to fish here. Usually to the season that they
prefer to repair damaged nets and painting the boat they mobilize shores of the
beach. While accompanied by the faint sound of a radio they clean the boat
where the wood lot crust plastered sea coral and moss. They clean it happily
filling the void of time when the rest go to the sea.
Unlike fishermen in java
that are already using a fish finder radar equipment and large boats, fishermen
here still use traditional equipment. They rely on fishing and seine nets to
catch fish. So that the catch was chancy. If you are lucky to get a lot of
catches. Conversely if the stump, not any fish were caught. The boat they used
was still relatively small boat is only able to carry ten people. And some are
still relying on the screen to go to the sea, without the necessary machinery.
Once on the beach they use a paddle, and when the wind was blowing pretty good,
a new screen developed that would take him out to sea. While the boat fisherman
in java majority already uses more than one machine. As boat models that can
accommodate a crew of more than twenty people. Even fishing boats central java
is already equipped with three standard 200 ps engine is able to load thirty
fishermen more with 40s ton payload.
When the full moon comes,
nothing fishermen go to sea, then the
citizens will gather in front of the house. They huddled together while telling
each other. While small children playing around the yard of the house. There
were playing tag and playing rubber band. While the waves kept crashing
incessantly, scrape the sand that looked full of sparkly. In the midst of the
sea, the moonlight reflecting off refracts a beam of light. Sea as if bathed in
light. A fishing boat moored neat, alongside a wooden dock, swayed by a tidal
wave of sea water. Coconut trees seem to dance-dancing in the wind is not too
strong. In a house looks the voices of people chatting, the occasional
laughter. That's one of the houses that became a gathering place for island
residents. They spent the nights are only accompanied by waves beach tireless
and sounds of chirping insects. The atmosphere away from the noise and vehicle
exhaust passing man pounding step that speculate in the midst of the rigors of
the metropolis.
Hope for island residents
are the improvement of facilities and infrastructure, such as transport and
public facilities. Good electrical facilities, education and health facilities
and roads. Moreover, the island is still natural panorama, so the potential to
be developed into a tourism area is wide open. White sand with a coral reef
waters are spread untold charm, the hospitality of its inhabitants became one
of the bargaining power of considerable interest to tourists. Not to mention
the potential fishery in this area is still quite large, and have not developed
a modern way. Such assets should be preserved. Given the many coral reefs that
are islands around the condition is very concern. The island was duly got
serious concern for local government as a forgotten paradise, heaven must be
saved and will be empowered so real heaven.
