Iwan Bace, Working Without Pay for the Forest
Planting trees in Kamojang Forest is growing in popularity from year to year. Iwan Bace hopes that others will benefit as he works without pay to sustain the environment in many more places.
Iwan Bace
Iwan Bace once enjoyed a monthly salary of tens of millions of rupiah when he worked as a sailor. Since 2014, he has been busy cultivating the seedlings of endemic tree species, and then planting them to restore the forest ecosystems. He does this without any pay.
Early in the morning on Saturday (28/5/2022) at Saung Monteng in Ibun village, Ibun district, Bandung regency, West Java, the cool air can be felt at a saung (hut) located at an elevation of around 1,200 meters above sea level. However, it soon became hot when Iwan invited Kompas to walk to his nursery in Kamojang Forest. The nursery, measuring around 84 tumbak (1,176 square meters), is terraced and has six levels, and climbing to the higher level left us panting.