{"id":67542,"date":"2020-09-15T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/students-in-indonesia-collect-trade-plastic-to-get-internet-access-for-online-learning\/"},"modified":"2020-09-15T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T18:51:00","slug":"students-in-indonesia-collect-trade-plastic-to-get-internet-access-for-online-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/students-in-indonesia-collect-trade-plastic-to-get-internet-access-for-online-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"#Students in Indonesia collect, trade plastic to get internet access for online learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Students in Indonesia collect, trade plastic to get internet access for online learning<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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September 15, 2020 |<\/span> 2:51pm <\/p>\n

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\n Dimas Anwar Saputra, a 15-year-old junior high school student, wearing a red protective mask, studies with other\u00a0students\u00a0using free internet wifi access that they got by exchanging\u00a0plastic\u00a0waste at a local district office in Jakarta,\u00a0Indonesia.<\/span>
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\n JAKARTA\/BOGOR, Indonesia \u2013 When the coronavirus pandemic forced Indonesian schools to shut, it exposed how millions of households in the Southeast Asian country still had no access to the internet or even a device like a mobile phone to do remote learning.<\/p>\n

So students and volunteers have come up with creative ways to get around the problem.<\/p>\n

For the last two months, Dimas Anwar Putra, 15, and a friend have been collecting plastic trash in their Jakarta neighborhood in exchange for wifi access.<\/p>\n

With no internet access at home, the two students need to collect one kg (2.2 lb) of mostly plastic waste to trade for access to the internet so they can do online learning for around three hours up to three times a week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we collect trash, it\u2019s like a charity for me and apart from that we also get free internet data,\u201d Dimas said.<\/p>\n

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A student wearing a protective mask carries a bag of\u00a0plastic\u00a0bottles to be exchanged for internet wifi access in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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The \u201cwifi station\u201d is the brainchild of Iing Solihin, who sells trash collected by students to purchase data costing 340,000 rupiah ($22) a month to allow small groups of students to study.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem is when the internet data runs out before the end of the month \u2026 and they can\u2019t study anymore,\u201d Iing said.<\/p>\n

Millions of Indonesian students have been forced to learn remotely since many schools shut in March due to the pandemic, a particular challenge for poorer families and those in remote areas.<\/p>\n

In a hilly district near Bogor, about 50 miles south of Jakarta, volunteers bring a car equipped with a mobile network transmitter weekly to remote villages so students can use the internet. The \u201cSchool Volunteers\u201d provide laptops and mobile phones.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem of learning online is I rarely use a phone, I share my phone with my parents,\u201d said Dafa Mahesa Sudirman, 14, who along with about 30 other students grabbed his chance to study online in a wooden shed in their village.<\/p>\n

Only about one in six of Indonesia\u2019s roughly 60 million households had an internet connection in mid-2019, according to the Association of Internet Service Providers Indonesia (APJII).\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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