Tiga Hari Keliling Kalimantan, Mentan Puji Semangat Petani Berau
Indonesian Agriculture Minister a Three-day Working Visit in Borneo
Editor : M. Achsan Atjo
Translator : Dhelia Gani
Berau, Kalimantan Timur (B2B) - Warga Desa Buyung-Buyung dan sekitarnya menyambut gembira kunjungan kerja Menteri Pertanian RI, Andi Amran Sulaiman untuk melakukan panen padi di desa mereka di Kecamatan Tabalar, Kabupaten Berau, Provinsi Kalimantan Timur pada Senin (12/8)pukul 13:15 WITA, setelah bertolak dari Bandara Kalimarau di Tanjung Redeb pada pukul 11:28 waktu setempat.
Ribuan warga tampak berkumpul di tepi jalan menuju ke lokasi panen padi di tengah hamparan hijau dari sawah milik warga setempat. Mereka berupaya menyalami Menteri Amran Sulaiman yang menyambutnya dengan gembira, padahal sang menteri baru menempuh perjalanan melelahkan selama hampir dua jam, dari kota Tanjung Redeb, ibu kota Kabupaten Berau menuju Desa Buyung-Buyung di Kecamatan Talabar.
Perjalanan menuju Desa Buyung-Buyung relatif berat, konvoi mobil menteri harus menempuh jalan berkelak-kelok, melalui tikungan tajam, jalanan menanjak dan menurun tajam. "Wiiihhh seru ya kita kayak naik roller coaster," kata seorang jurnalis, yang menumpang mobil Kijang Inova bersama Agus Sumantri, Kepala Subbagian Pemberitaan dan Publikasi Humas Kementerian Pertanian RI.
Bahkan dua mobil ´plat merah´ dari instansi terkait di Kabupaten Berau mengalami tabrakan di persimpangan jalan di tepi kota Tanjung Redeb, padahal konvoi baru beberapa kilometer meninggalkan Bandara Kalimarau.
"Terima kasih pak menteri mau berkunjung ke kampung kami," kata seorang warga saat menyalami Mentan Amran Sulaiman.
Menteri pun langsung menuju lokasi panen raya padi di tengah hamparan sawah didampingi Anggota Komisi IV DPR, Luther Kombong; Bupati Berau, Makmur HAPK; Wakil Bupati Ahmad Rivai; Komandan Kodim 0902/Tanjung Redeb (TRD) Berau, Letkol Inf Ahmad Hadi Al-Jufri; Kepala Balai Besar Penelitian Tanaman Padi (BBP-Padi) Ali Jamil; dan Kepala Dinas Pertanian dan Tanaman Pangan Kabupaten Berau, Ilyas Natsir.
"Saya sudah tiga hari keliling Kalimantan, berawal dari Barito Kuala di Kalimantan Selatan, dan saya akhiri di sini, di Berau sebelum ke Jakarta karena dipanggil Presiden Joko Widodo. Insya Allah dalam waktu dekat saya kembali ke sini," kata Menteri Amran Sulaiman dalam kata sambutannya.
Berau, Indonesia (B2B) - Residents of Buyung-Buyung village and from surrounding area welcomed the working visit of Agriculture Minister, Andi Amran Sulaiman to conduct rice harvest in their village of the Tabalar sub-district in Berau district of East Borneo province on Monday (8/12) at 13:15 pm after departed from Kalimarau Airport in Tanjung Redeb city at 11:28 am local time.
Thousands of villagers gathered to welcome the Minister of Sulaiman. They seek to shook hands with the minister, and Mr. Sulaiman greeted happily, even though he had traveled nearly two hours, from the Tanjung Redeb city of district capital to Buyung-Buyung village.
Travel to the location of the rice harvest is relatively difficult, a convoy of cars minister must go through many bends in the road, the road uphill and downhill. "Wiiihhh horrified like a roller coaster," said a journalist, who was in a Toyota Kijang Inova with Agus Sumantri, Head of News and Publications Subdivision of Public Relations at the ministry office.
Even the two cars belonging the district government crashed not for long after leaving Kalimarau airport.
"Thanks Mr Minister was coming to our village," said one resident when shook hands Minister Sulaiman.
Minister went straight to the location of the rice harvest was accompanied by Indonesian member of parliament, Luther Kombong; the Berau Regent, Makmur HAPK, Deputy Regent Ahmad Rivai, Berau District Military Commander, Lt. Col. Inf Ahmad Hadi Al-Jufri; the Head of Agriculture Berau district, Ilyas Natsir, and Head of Rice Research Center, Ali Jamil.
"I have a three-day working visit in Borneo, started from Barito Kuala in South Borneo province, and ended up here, in the district of Berau before to Jakarta as being called by the President Joko Widodo. God willing, I will soon come again," Minister Sulaiman in his speech.
