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Darius Alamsjah Pane

Ms. Hannah Meeuwse & Ibu Stela Tampubolon
Fieldtrip Reflection
30 March 2015
Reflection of Fieldtrip

Developmental stages of fieldtrip

a. Planning (Pre-Fieldtrip)
1. Research on Laws/Policies
In this part of the process we started to research about the
laws and regulations of the area. We also received
documents from our civics class relating to the laws and
regulations, which we could turn into questions for future
interviews in Bangka and Belitung.
2. Task distribution amongst groups
In this part my fellow group members, which were Febe,
and Olivia, and I myself decided to distribute the jobs we
had to do equally amongst our selves, so that we wouldnt
over exhaust ourselves, or find ourselves unemployed.
Febe became the filmmaker for the documentary, Olivia as
her assistant, and camera man, with me being the lead
camera man. We all also interviewed the people of Bangka
and Belitung.
3. Questions to ask
This part is when we started to make the interview
questions for based on the rules and regulations of tin
mining. With the pre-research done, and knowing who the
people are we would interview, made it less difficult for us

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to create questions, only that sometimes the quality of the
questions needed improvement.
b. Preparation:
1. Briefings
We simply got introduced to the places we would stay,
where we would go, rules and regulations, roommates, and
the itinerary.
i. We were briefed of what hotel we were going to stay
in, the roommates we would share a room with, and
the itinerary.
ii. We also got briefed on what the rules and regulations
were of this fieldtrip. We were explained about the
rules and regulations, so that we could remain safe,
and to prevent anyone doing something illegal, or
inappropriate.
iii. The last thing we got briefed in were the
consequences that followed when breaking the rules
and regulations. They were simply explained to warn
anyone that was smart enough to defy the rules.
2. Deeper task giving
During the briefing we also got more information on the
tasks we were about to do in Bangka and Belitung. This
gave us a clearer view on what to do, and allowed us to
make modifications on our pre-work, which were the
interview questions. It also allowed us to get a clearer view
on what the documentary movie should look like, and how
to make it.
c. Visit: (Collection of Data from Different Places)
The places I visited to obtain different types of data from
different perspectives:

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1. Museum of Literacy
2. School of Laskar Pelangi
3. Island Hopping
4. Pak Ahoks residence
5. Museum of Tin
6. PT. ATD Makmur Mandiri Tin Company
7. Catholic Hospital (Puskesmas)
8. Government Office (PEMDA)
9. Local Tin Mines.
10. Local Warung
From all the different types of places we visited, I was able to obtain
different types of data. Some being more valuable then other, they
were all a bit connected to one another. Though it was difficult to
understand how Laskar Pelangi was related with Tin Mining, it
helped me to understand certain aspects of life there, and helped
me to enjoy my time there. The less valuable places for data, simply
helped me to fill in the gaps and missing links from the more
valuable information. Overall I think that all places were important
in a kind of way, and helped us to understand the island more.
d. Reflection (Post-Fieldtrip)
1. Reflect on past experience
In the post-fieldtrip stage I reflected on the events and
activities we did during the trip. Reflecting on the pros and
cons of my experiences during the trip.
3. Collect and Sort the Data
During the trip I was able to record, and collect data from my
fieldtrip. By using my camera, I was able to shoot videos, and
take pictures of the entire trip. This would help my group, and
I to make the script for our documentary movie.

Evaluation of the limitation stages of IDU at each situation

(decide situations we would be dealing with).

Throughout the stages of IDU several limitations were found that

made it at some occasions difficult for us to obtain the right data.
For the planning stage the main limitation found was the lack of
time. The lack of time made it difficult for us to research

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thoroughly about the overall rules and regulations, and resulted
in us sometimes facing difficult times in making questions. This
also made the questions quality decrease, due to lack of
information. For the preparing stage, the main limitation was the
time for us to understand. Though we were able to understand
the briefing. If there was more time given for it. We would have
been able to create even better documentaries. Since now we
were still able to produce a documentary, but with less better
quality, due to the lack of understanding the sample
documentary during the briefing. For the visiting stage, the
sometimes limit of time at a certain place, made it difficult for us
to ask the questions for the interviews and obtain the data. Also
the limit to the questions we may ask, made it difficult for us to
ask all the questions we made, and left some completely
obsolete. For the reflection stage, due to the fact of the lack of
information obtained from the interviews. We sometimes faced
difficulty in organizing the statistics, or information presented in
our documentary. Resulting in some post-fieldtrip research.

Evaluate the benefits of the stages of IDU at each situation

(decide situations we would be dealing with).

Though the IDU stage has several disadvantages, it also has

several benefits. First of all the planning went very well, with a
proper itinerary, everything was very organized, and ran
smoothly. The briefing helped us to understand what to do, and
helped us to make our interview questions easily, and give us
ideas on the movie. For the preparation part, it helped us to
easily understand the rules and regulations of the fieldtrip,
knowing what actions were legal, or illegal. The briefing also
helped us to understand the place more, and helped us to modify
the questions to get more accurate results. Since we knew more
about who we would interview, and what exactly it should be
about. For the visit stage, the organized itinerary helped us to

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visit nearly all places according to what was expected, and
helped us to easily and effectively obtains the data at each
stage. Finally our reflection stage was very important since it
helped us to understand the valuable information and lessons we
have learned during the fieldtrip, and how we could relate that to
our daily life. So that in the future we may apply it to, in order to
solve future problems.
Experience:
From my own personal experience, I think that this fieldtrip was
one of the best fieldtrips I have experienced so far in my life. I
enjoyed it most of the time, and was able to not only achieve
school objectives, but also personal objectives like building up
confidence, and eventually ask a lot of questions about the
islands problems, and solutions. I think that the activities were all
fun, though sitting in a room with the hot sun outside isnt so
pleasant. I think that this fieldtrip was a great one, since it was
able to balance the time of work and freedom equally. Giving us 2
days for work, and 2 other days for freedom. This made this
fieldtrip more enjoyable, rather then 4 whole days of work, and
made it feels more like a semi-holiday. I especially like the island
hopping, since that was fun, and I hope that school is able to
balance freedom and work more equally in the future with other
events.