AirNav Indonesia Launches Durensari Education Village Program

Photo: Doc. AirNav Indonesia

The Perum Institute for Indonesian Aviation Navigation Services (AirNav Indonesia) held the Grand Launching Program Creating Shared Value (CSV) AirNav Indonesia, namely the Durensari Education Village Program in Durensari Hamlet, Kembangkuning Village, Cepogo District, Boyolali Regency, Thursday 6 July.

The Durensari Education Village is a community empowerment program in cultural conservation efforts to maintain and introduce customs in Central Java. Apart from preserving culture, the existence of educational campaigns aims to introduce the younger generation to have superior character and personality, and can benefit the surrounding community's economy because of the opening of new jobs.

In addition, through this program, the public can also educate air safety, considering that Kembangkuning Village is AirNav Indonesia's operational area, Yogyakarta Branch. Where, the operational management area of the Yogyakarta branch is the busiest flight route in Indonesia.

The opening of the event was accompanied by the Gambyong Dance which is a typical dance to welcome guests from classic Javanese culture. The Grand Launching Activity of the Durensari Education Village Program was marked by the beating of a gong by the General Manager of AirNav Indonesia Yogyakarta Branch, Zainal Arifin Harahap accompanied by Mario Hendrawan, Junior Manager of TJSL Airnav.

He hopes that the Creating Shared Value Program can run exactly as the goals that have been set, can benefit the community, strengthen the planting of cultural characters to the younger generation, and be able to move the wheels of the economy of Dukuh Durensari.

"We from AirNav hope that this TJSL can certainly stimulate the community in this Kembangkuning Village to be able to grow and develop, so that it can improve the standard of life of the people here and also their economy here," he said in a written statement.

Also present were Boyolali Regency DPRD members namely Mr. Joko Maryanto, P3A BP2KB Dinar, Surakarta Muhammadiyah University, Cempogo Sub-district Head Mr. Dwi Sundarto, S.STP, M.Si, as well as the ranks of the village government and the Durensari community, so that a total of 130 people attended this activity to witness with the Durensari Education Village Grand Launching.

Similar, the Head of Kembangkuning Village, Pujo Yarmanto, expressed his hope that through this program, the Javanese culture would remain sustainable.

"Our hope is that the community can maximize all the cultures in Durensari. First, we convey here that there is an upload campaign, namely that we here must know that we are Javanese, we must have friendlyness to anyone. We remind our children again, so that our children, especially the next generation of the nation, have manners or tepo saharyo is always embedded, "explained Pujo.

We were also invited to visit Plataran Srawung, which is a place for ancient household appliances that are now no longer found. The invited guests were invited to try traditional games, namely archery using side dishes and playing bamboo egrang, visiting the kawruh griya, and the uploaded home.

The event ended with the fairy tale of the "Limbukan" puppet character who was one of the educational campaign programs with the aim of providing lessons about Javanese language, Javanese Script lessons, Luhur and Tepa Slira benchmarks through the story of wayang cooking. The grand launching event did not stop there, to enliven the grand launching there was a reog culture title from the Mekar Flower Association (PAKEM) which was held in the afternoon until evening.

More than 2000 visitors who attended this event were to witness the art of reog culture in Dukuh Durensari. This activity is also supported by the participation of 50 local MSMEs selling in the Durensari educational village area.