The wind semilir of the mountainous region is blowing between the trees. Many citizens are accompanied by a shaving voice seen in Cipayung Girang Village, Megamendung, Bogor Regency, West Java 30 hectares.
25 years ago, the area was the former tandus land of the lions and vegetables that were no longer productive. According to the Ridwan Megamendung Camat, the treasury plant (cocoa trees) in the region also causes citizens also difficulties in water. In fact, the situation also makes the area as critical land with threats of landslides that continue to haunt citizens.
The presence of women's figure called Rosita Istiawan (63) with her husband, almarhum Bambang istiawan became the back point of Cipayung Girang Village. The area that has recently changed to the lush forest called, Organic Forest. Not only useful for the surrounding community, Organic Forest is now home to diverse flora and fauna.
Megamendung Organic Forest Air Photos, Puncak, Bogor District, West Java.
The visitor crosses in Megamendung Organic Forest.
The presence of Rosita in Cipayung Girang is not a ujug-ujug. Together with her husband, Rosita has a dream in the old time to live quietly by spending the rest of their lives in the forestside house. 25 years ago they began to realize the dream.
Not only calm living in the forest, in 2000 both began by striving to change the critical land of the 2,000 square meters that they purchased from locals. In the 80-degree sloping land and not found worms, Rosita with her husband gradually began to plant it with a number of types of plants in the way of tumpangsari or agroforestri.
Slow but surely, now on a thriving land to 30 hectares has been covered with 44,000 trees of various types of plants. The springs appear from the land that was used to be arranged. In fact, in 2015 then the water remains flowing even though when it happens 100 days without rain.
Water village looks in Megamendung Organic Forest.
Activis the Rosita Istiawan environment breaks the african tree (Vernonia amygdalina).
In addition, ecology is characterized by the emergence of wildlife. The ecology effect is increasingly apparent with the appearance of wildlife. Not less 122 types of wildlife, from the games, insects, reptiles, to a calm living forest cat in the treated forest of the mother of the two children.
Although her husband has turned back to Rahmatullah in 2019, Rosita still continues to consistently treat Organic Forests. Rosita with a number of locals who he empowers to strive to keep this forest safeguard and benefit the community, especially in Cipayung Girang. Not only that, the struggle changed the critical land to the forest is also he expects to inspire people in Indonesia in the center of its deforestation issues and ecological impact.
The message of her husband continues the Rosita patri in his soul and his soul as a spirit fire guard keeps this nature. “We keep the earth, the Earth will keep us,”.
The Rosita Istiawan environment motivates to monitor the conditions of Organic Forests.
Visitor observes information board in Megamendung Organic Forest.
Photo and text : Yulius Satria Wijaya
Blue needle float (Ischnura heterosticta) is in Megamendung Organic Forest.
The visitor observes plants in Organic Forests in Megamendung.
Organic Forestry Megamendung Rosita Istiawan prepare tree seedlings in the Organic Forest, Puncak, Bogor Regency, West Java.
Photos of Megamendung Organic Forest, Peak, Bogor Regency, West Java.
Editor : Revelation
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