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Marsihol Siregar (38 Years) and Witriani (28) are married couples living in households who are materially in the category of incapacity. Husband Wife has 3 children who are still very need to eat and nutritional intake a lot for its growth, Muhammad Kevin (6 years), Keisya Aulia (5 years) and gift (1 year).
Butter calls her husband, is a limestone laborer who earns more than Rp. 50.000 / per day. All day Butter had to drudge and exert energy from morning until afternoon. It was done to support his family.
Conscious of the household life that needs money for their daily needs, then Witriani also helped to increase the family's income by making a meal of crackers from cassava that he sells to the shops around his residence. From the sale of sweet potato crackers that he could buy rice or just make snacks for his children.
This young couple does not have a house, because the family situation is also less able, so they live in other people's home in Jorong Bansa, Nagari (Village) Kamang Mudiak, Kamang Magek District, Agam Regency, West Sumatra Province. Less 2 km from Witriani's home in the same village. He can live in a simple wooden house for the kindness of Mari's family. This house is more than two years uninhabited because Granny Mari the owner of the house has died and her children partly wander and some live in the village but have their own homes. So Witriani and her husband were entrusted to keep the house free of charge.
To facilitate transportation from residence to workplace approximately 3 km from his home, Butter and his wife agreed to buy a motorcycle by way of credit to the dealer. By way of installment Rp.400.000 he can take advantage of the motorcycle as an income enhancer by taunting home work until the evening.
For Butter and Witriani have a fervent spirit to wade through life in order to raise their children. He has a great desire to make their children someday a better living person. "We want our children to be able to live happier, better educated and have more promising work", Witriani said enthusiastically.
When the catastrophe came
On January 24, 2018, the mother of Marsihol (Butter) died. On the second day of death (January 25, 2018)
night), Marsihol and Witriani want to condolence and recite the Quran which is held at night in Balingka, which is about 10 km from where he lives. By breaking the cold of the night, Marsihol drove a motorbike around at 19.00 pm. The weather was somewhat cloudy and cold, so the motorcycle was carried at a moderate pace of about 30 km / hour, it did so that the cold did not penetrate the bones. Although Butter and his wife were wearing a jacket, the cold feeling was still felt.
Having traveled about 20 minutes on the journey, he saw an unknown Nenek, carrying a plastic bag suddenly crossing the street with hesitation. Three times Grandma was back and forth and the road was irregular, so it was hard for Butter to avoid the Grandma. Finally Grandmother hit exactly on her feet. The butter dumped into the asphalt, as did Witriani's.
With the help of the community around the incident, all three were taken to the Dr.Achmad Moechtar Bukittinggi Hospital. Butter has a blister on the leg, his hands and head stitched with 12 stitches. The wounded grandmother was injured in the face, arm and broken on his right leg. Witriani actually also experienced a strong enough impact, but he did not get injured.
The Grandmother could not speak clearly, she had no clear identity, the plastic bag she carried with dirty cloth, stale rice and an empty bottle of mineral water. Paramedic officer at IGD (Emergency Installation) Dr.Achmad Mochtar RS is also keen to be able to explore Grandma identity information.
After Butter Stitching, the IGD officer requests a maintenance and surgical operation that will be done for Grandma to Butter and Witriani. Butter and Witriani are not willing to sign the guarantee letter. That is because the assurance will be in fact at the expense.
"Where are we able to provide that much money?", Said Witriani that night when told the money needed for a surgical operation of the bone ie around Rp. 20,000,000 (twenty million). His wife undo her intentions to be examined and touched on her head banged by an assault. (Until the author came to his home February 5, 2012, he felt headache and often felt dazed)
"If the mother is not willing, just because the fracture please bring this grandmother home and get home!", Said one of the nurses. That night was at 23, Butter and Witriani who had just been in the accident had to find a taxi to go home and at the same time bring the Grandma back into the car. For the cost of the hospital around Rp 700,000 and pay the taxi both husband and wife were forced to ask for help and owed to some people whom he knew that night. That night the motorbike used to go off the family family was safe in the Bukittinggi police station.
panic and sense of humanity
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Upon arriving home, their spouses and three small children panicked. Butter and Witriani are confused ... ..what to do for this unfamiliar Grandmother, who the relatives will be contacted. Seeing the condition, this husband and wife are afraid of things that make things more difficult.
If calculated wrong and true, Witriani and Butter are sure not guilty. Butter was very careful and slow, but the Grandmother crossed hesitantly. From the appearance and the way Grandma Grandma Grandma's exterior looks like an abandoned person and depressed heavy and less sane, said Witriani and diamini by Butter.
"But we do not have the heart to let the Grandmother left behind, so that's why we take him to the Hospital. But because we can not guarantee it and take it home, we feel sorry for it too, and we take it home, "Butter said, crying," I also have a parent, I imagine if my parents are drowned and experienced like this, how?
The next day despite being ill, the two went to the police station to explain the incident. The police were also confused about the case of Butter and Witriani. "Just treat the Grandmother, because we do not know who the grandmother's family is," said the officer at the police station. However, the Police can not also hand over motorcycles belonging to Butter.
The new motorcycle will be paid in 10 months, which must be paid Rp.400.000 / bulan if on time. Otherwise there will be a fine. Because the pain in his legs and arms had not healed, Butter had not been able to work at the lime factory as usual. The credit vehicle was needed by Butter to earn a living, but it was also used to take care of the grandmother's treatment. Butter was bewildered by the difficulty of money for day-to-day expenses, plus the need to buy Granny's medicine.
Butter is also required to report twice a week to the police station, butterpun must add a transport fee of approximately Rp.20,000 for the fare to the police station in Bukittinggi (approximately 15 km from his home). His livelihood is lost, his wife can no longer make crackers from cassava as usual. His days were drained to take care of Granny and his little children.
Grandma can not do anything. Witrianilah who must feed, bathe, give medicine, keep it day and night. But Witriani was sad when everybody treated The Granny made the act. When the regular dukun used to treat a broken person was imported, it would cost about Rp 200,000, the wooden buffer mounted on the feet of the Grandmother, when Witriani cooking in the kitchen was reopened by the Grandmother.
Grandma can not be invited to communicate, she just gawked without expression. Witriani asked to be re-installed by the dukun sequence the next day. But again opened by the grandmother. Witriani is crying ... because Grandma is uncooperative for treatment. Witriani and Butter are very disappointed, why Grandma does not understand the difficulty, why the Grandmother did not know that the treatment done for her is for the good of the Granny too.
Already a week this poor family bears the heavy burden of the heart. The grandmother was acting strangely. Sometimes in the middle of the night Grandma struggled and pounded against the wall of the room divider board. Maybe he was in pain maybe just looking for attention. We try to communicate in Minang language, he seems to lack understanding, sometimes we speak Indonesian, sometimes can connect, but sometimes Grandmother like Javanese language that can not be understood by Butter and Witriani.
"Sometimes we think together, let us treat the Grandmother like our biological mother, later if we can walk a little we go to the Orphanage or Social Department Office", said Butter, "We can not keep him constantly. My wife and I have not been so well ... kids also need a fee, but for the sake of humanity for our grandmother willing and willing to help him, but he always make us disappointed for not taking medicine ".
Each is mounted on a leg stand, reopened by the Grandmother. Tied with a cloth is also removed, even the rotting wound is scraped up to bleed. An antibiotic drug and wound dryer that was bought at a drug store by Butter was taken by Grandmother and thrown away. "We are increasingly afraid to take care of the Grandmother, because she does not want to take medicine and eat, her condition is getting weaker, torn wounds on her legs have very rotten stinging nose, the three children are forced to sleep in the kitchen and in chairs away from our grandma's room also fear the Grandmother died in our care ", Witriani story.
In the confusion of a husband and wife is always thinking both. What can we do for the Granny. Sometimes their short thought arises, "if we were a hogs run and then run of course the problem will not be as complicated as this ", said Witriani. But then from the results of their discussion re-emerged a deep sense of humanity "if we leave the grandmother, while his family is not there, who will take care of him?
Who is the displaced and dependent?
The community around Witriani's house is also very concerned about the family situation that was hit by this disaster. They help as best they can. Whether in the form of several tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars and rice as much as possible, but certainly not sufficient for daily needs and and plus the cost of treatment Witriani and her husband and the grandmother. In deeper confusion, Witriani went to report on the situation he had experienced to the local Jali Wali (apparatus of Dusun level). Witriani informed her of the difficulties.
Wali Jorong asked Grandmother's identity to be reported to the village or sub-district government. Because there is no clear identity, Wali Jorong is also confused to find a solution. Nevertheless he was still asked to keep the Grandmother until the realization of the solution of the local district apparatus.
The next day when the report to the Police came, Witriani and Butter said that he still maintains and treats his own poor Grandmother. Police promised to make people's ads disappear in newspapers. But after a week eagerly awaited yet there is also any dikoran.
"Sometimes we think, who actually has responsibility for the displaced like Grandma? Did not the elementary school teaching about PKN (Citizenship Education) mentioned that poor and abandoned people are kept by the state, "Butter said sadly and shed tears," but now it is our responsibility that is not enough?
Starting from the officers of the Hospital, Police, Walijorong and others still submit to us to maintain. "You are the one who crashes, so you are responsible for maintaining the family while in the tired, that's the essence of the conclusions conveyed to us, but until when the grandmother's family found?", Said Witriani.
Witriani and Butter do not know about bureaucracy, but as a sense of responsibility that he keeps the Grandmother even though his own economic condition is classified as an inadequate person. But unfortunately his family has no Askeskin card (poor health insurance), has no Raskin (Rice Poor) allocation and social security program from the government. But when viewed in plain view, he must get the rights for social security.
This difficult situation finally arrived to the District Secretary of Agam Syafirman Azis after reported by neighboring Witriani via cell phone. After Witriani and Butter with all their limitations to keep the grandmother for 15 days finally Head Kamang Magek, Dandi Pribadi ordered to move the Grandmother from the care of poor families to Puskesmasy Week Thursday approximately 7 km from Witriani and Butter residence.
After coordinating between Camat and puskesmasy officer, finally ambulance car ready with medical equipment to evacuate Grandma. But after the officers arrived, Witriani and her husband were told to bathe the Grandmother, puskesmasy officers again hesitate to bring: "Because this grandmother has no family, who will be accompanying him in Puskesmasy? We picket only 2 people, room also no, fear of later disturb other patients. So we should leave it here first! ", Said one paramedic who came to Witriani's house.
Of course Witriani and her husband and some of her neighbors who came to her house were surprised to hear the officer's statement. Hope to save the Grandmother and be handled in a better place again vanished. Witriani and Butter are very sad, and think to themselves: "why can not one understand the Grandmother's troubles? Should not he be entrusted to the Puskesmasy or the Hospital rather than to be left in our house with no equipment? "
Hearing the statement several neighbors told the officers well: "If you want to be deposited here it can not be anymore. This family has kept 15 days, he is a poor family, he is still ill, his wife has not been examined since fall, his children are still small, to buy rice they do not have, they can not try. Please Buk ... help this family ...! "
After coordinating via mobile phone with Head of Health Department, Head of Soisial Service and some people, and added request of surrounding community, finally Grandma was brought to Puskesmasy Week Thursday and Witriani asked to take it. Sunday 5 February
Butter and his family were sad to let the Grandmother separate from her. But for the sake of the safety of the Grandmother's soul he was willing to release the Grandmother. However, the burden of the suffering of his family is slightly reduced. Butter is still thinking how to cure his own illness due to his accident and his wife, waiting to recover and can try again looking for halal sustenance for the child and his wife. And how Witriani trying again run side business to make sweet potato crackers. Everything is certainly for everyday life, buy drugs, and pay debts that have accumulated millions of dollars due to unfortunate events that have happened to him. Of course also to pay off motorcycle loans to be paid per month ....!