The exhaust sound of the brong meraung breaks the flatness. The motors who have been modified. Sludge sludge soil road breaker. Prepare forests and hills. Encourage power to maintain balance. Ensuring their iron horses stay upright. Enforce the hope to get to the destination safely.
Sometimes they should stop on the road. Fix the damage of the motor or simply stretch the muscles in the food stall while removing the cup of coffee. They are always a group way to help each other when there is obstacles during the trip because the load of the goods they carry can reach 200 kilograms.
Every day, tens to the fibers of the carpentry are obliged with extreme roads to spur the economy wheel in Seko District, North Luwu Regency, South Sulawesi. One of the remote areas in the middle of the Sulawesi Island which is about 126 kilometers from Masamba, the capital of North Luwu Regency.
A number of carpenters to pass through the road of climbing land in Seko District, North Luwu Regency, South Sulawesi.
Muhammad Rapil (37) stands near the motor that transports mixed goods when arriving at his house in Seko District, North Luwu District, South Sulawesi.
The clinicers struggle with persistentness to distribute various needs of food and boards for approximately 14.399 people of Seko District scattered in 12 villages. In addition, they also transport people’s agricultural results for sale to the city.
Seko district located at a height of 1.200 – 1.800 meters above the sea level, has a considerable economic potential. As in the tourism and farm sector with a wide array of sabana. Also agricultural sectors dominated by the cultivation of Seko’s distinctive rice fields, cacao and coffee are mostly organically grown without using fertilizers and pesticides.
All of these potentials can not be developed in maximum due to the access of transport out and entering into the area is not adequate.
The vehicle fills the fuel to its motor tank before proceeding to Seko District in one of the food stalls in Rongkong District, North Luwu District, South Sulawesi.
The number of clinicers helps to improve the position of the reverse peer motor when passing the climbing road in Seko District, North Luwu District, South Sulawesi.
The government has tried to increase the infrastructure of the road to the area. Up to 2024, the access of asphalt roads has arrived in the Seko District region. However, the access has not reached the village or settlement of citizens so that the access of intervillage liaison is still the road.
The journey from Dusun Palandoang, which is the first fusion encountered when entering the Seko area to the second fusion in Dusun Lambiri, the Embonatana Village takes four to six hours using the motor.
“If the car can be a week until a new month can be translucent. Despite the distance of Palandoang to Lambiri squan about 13 kilometers. Moreover, if there is a peak of the rainy season, sometimes there is an overnight carpenter on the road because it added severely the street.” said Muhammad Rapil, the Embonatana villagers who are professionalized as a carpenter.
The project transports agricultural results through alternative roads (para-para) in Seko District, North Luwu Regency, South Sulawesi.
The motor fixes before continuing the journey in Seko District, North Luwu District, South Sulawesi.
The difficulty of road access makes the road rate from Masamba to the area reaching Rp500 thousand thousand per person. As well as the goods are subject to an average rate of Rp5,000 per kilogram. It affects the price of the staple needs in the area with an average increase of 50 percent to 200 percent compared to the price of goods in the city.
Although airport facilities have been available for the flight of the pioneer aircraft, but the limited charge and flight schedule is not able to meet the needs of local citizens’ mobility. Back again, the service of land transportation is primarily the clinicer becomes the main spill and become the urge of economy in the heart of Sulawesi.
Photo and Text : Arnas Padda
The number of carpenters rest before proceeding the journey to Seko District in one of the food stalls in Rongkong District, North Luwu District, South Sulawesi.
The people of the ojek with his son sit in front of his house in Seko District, North Luwu District, South Sulawesi.
Warga powdered coffee fruit to release the skin in Seko District, North Luwu District, South Sulawesi.
The air photo is one of the settlements of residents in Seko District, North Luwu Regency, South Sulawesi.
Editor : Puspa Perwitasari
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