Imam and Wilbur
Imam’s cart used everyday to do his job.
I think the key message of the show is that there are people in the world that are trying to survive such as a bin men with a small amount of money earned everyday. People that are not only trying to feed themselves but also to feed their children and wife and to buy all the supplies needed to live. Being bin men in England is very organized job. The government would organize the transportation, which is the air-conditioned bus, have the trashed organized for recycling and have a couple of bin man to help each other. The bin man in England is named ‘ Wilbur’. He can still afford a house for his family and still gets a normal amount of wage earned. Wilbur is also supplied with his working uniforms, gloves and hats to make sure he doesn’t get dirty. He also doesn’t have to come home late at night and still has time to cook dinner for his family. Being bin men in Indonesia is a very different perspective compared to being a bin men in England, it is a really tuff job. Firstly it’s because the job itself is a very unorganized job. The transportation here is a cart that is pulled by the bin men itself. This cart is either made or given by ancestors of the family that has been passed on for generations and is usually just repaired. The bin men in Indonesia is named ‘‘imam’. He does not have a proper clean house for his family. His house is made out of cardboard, spare wood and many other materials found. The house is also right beside the road, which makes it very un – hygienic. The house has a lot of rats and flies as well. The documentary affected the way I look at bin men now in Indonesia because it told me how hard it is to work here and how little money you get for the amount of effort you put. It definitely also makes me appreciate more of what I have and not to take things for granted. Therefore I discovered that the bin men in Indonesia does not only clean the trash but cleans the sewage as well. My thinking has also been different since I watched this video because it taught be more about poverty and how hard people work here in Indonesia.
ignessya 