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GREAT-LMTV09/ Young Guardian Club Borobudur Mentoring Program/

Borobudur Compound temple, Magelang, Central Java/Heri,Edu/ First

Tuesday/Wednesday every month except June & Dec 2017 /18+/2vols

Project: GREAT is taking part in the effort of protection, promotion and conservation of the heritage

sites in Indonesia. One of them is Borobudur Compound. Borobudur is listed in the World heritage List

UNESCO since 1991 (http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/592). The main and still issue of Borobudur

conservation is the mass tourism. At least three millions of domestic and international visitors step on

the temple every year, this brings at least 150 million kg only from the weighs of tourists. The facts that

the visitors step on the temple wearing different surface of shoes cause erosion to the stones. And the

weather brings the unsheltered stones of the temple in higher risk of erosion. Therefore, it is important

to organize sustainable action to raise the awareness of the visitors. At the same time, the involvement

of local community into conservation activities for the temple has been a strong concern.

In consultation with Borobudur Conservation Office (BCO), GREAT combines both issues by engaging

with one local youth who concerns this issue. They are the Young Guardian Club (YGC) Borobudur. The

members of YGC of Borobudur are students of 15-17 years old from the local high schools..

http://ygcborobudur.blogspot.co.id/

YGC has missions to raise awareness of

Borobudur conservation and its local culture to

local youth and public youth. They carry out

protection activities directly for the temple

including cleaning and out reaching visitors to

promote environment friendly tourist behavior,

and being active for online campaign through

social media. However, the fact that YGC

members are teenage students, they have

Central Java

Magelang

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challenges of dynamic of motivation, organizational skill, media and communication and so on. GREAT is

committed to mentor them answer those challenges and make sure the capacity building for youth

through this project.

In term of expanding the YGC Borobudur membership and access for more local youth, LMTV for

Borobudur in 2017 will also focus on socializing the world-cultural heritage education, promoting about

international voluntary service, presenting culture exchange and supporting English learning-excercise

activities in some assigned schools, such as SMK 1 Muhammadiyah, SMA Muhammadiyah, SMP

Muhammdiyah, Young Guardian Club members’ schools and others.

In addition, volunteers will have some learning sessions in BCO with their staffs. It is usually

implemented in the beginning of the stay such as the second week or after on arrival training. The

activities include learning about the conservation works and divisions in BCO, its challenges, history of

Borobudur especially its restoration and Borobudur mass tourism information. By having learning

sessions in BCO, volunteers will have some upgraded knowledge that could be shared and presented at

assigned schools. Volunteers are expected to be an active learner during the process. Other possible

learning sessions are with Borobudur Park Enterprise and UNESCO Jakarta Office – Borobudur

Community Development Project.

Volunteering Activities:

The LMTV program on January 5th

2017 – September 30th

2017 will have a series of objectives, by the

period of volunteering, as follow:

1) Jan 5th

– April 30th

2017

a. To facilitate the program of YGC Borobudur batch 8, at its second 4 months

b. To be in charge of organizing international work camp in Spring 2017 together with GREAT

and BCO

c. To support GREAT team in the new initiative of YGC Creation in other cultural heritage sites:

Sangiran

2) May 1st – Sept 30th 2017

a. To facilitate the program of YGC Borobudur batch 8, at its third 4 months

b. To facilitate re-election of YGC Committee batch 8 period 2017-2018

c. To support preparation of WHV international work camp 2017

d. To support GREAT team in the new initiative of YGC Creation in other cultural heritage sites:

Sangiran

Working Days: Basically volunteers have 2 days off in a week. Volunteers can organize any free time

activity by themselves. The volunteers, somehow, are needed to be available during weekends for

supporting the local partners and/or GREAT to do other voluntary action (especially for doing activities

with YGC as they mostly are available on weekends (Saturday and Sunday)).

Accommodation: Host family with simple bedding, shared kitchen and bathroom. Please note that

Indonesian life style is very modest compared to European or American way. Food is provided by and in

host family. If volunteers would like to eat outside, they must cover it by themselves.

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Location: Borobudur Village (next to Borobudur temple), Borobudur municipality, Magelang regency,

Central Java Indonesia.

Language: English& Indonesian. Volunteers must learn Indonesian Language prior their departure.

There will be sessions of Learning Indonesian Language in the On Arrival Training but the very basic one.

Starting date: First Tuesday/Wednesday every month except June & Dec 2017

Terminal: Ahmad Yani International Airport Semarang (SRG), Tawang Train Station

Duration: At least 2 months

Special Remarks: Having knowledge of world heritage sites, history and/or mass tourism will be very

supportful; having good motivation to learn about miscellaneous aspects included in BCO such as

chemistry, physics, biology and geology which are related to Borobudur temple compounds.

Fee: 3,300,000 IDR / month. Equal to 234 Euro