FIVE

Name: Mohd Nabil Naim

Occupational: High school student

Age: 16 years old

Information given:  according to him, everyday from 6:30am to 8am. The fisherman will collect snails from the fish net that they already set up the day before. The reason why they collect the snails at that particular time because that is the time when the tide is low. They also catch crabs at this time using net that specifically for crab, the local call it ‘bubu’. He also said that the fisherman usually go to catch fish at the middle of sea on 12pm or on 1pm because at this time the tide are high. When they catch fish, they sell it to the local there or tourists who visit the restaurant next to jetty. They catch fishes using gillnet (jaring insang). The gillnet are made by the local. Usually one boat that occupied by 2 fisherman will go to collect fish that trapped in the gillnet. 

Name: Azman

Occupational: Fisherman

Age: 41 years old

Information given: according to him, the island doesn't have many fish like before, the only that still big in amount is snails and crabs. That why they have fish livestock that located at the middle of sea. Type of fish that bred there is Siakap, Dina and Kerapu. As the food for the fish, he said that they just buy it from store. 

Name: Ishak Firman

Age: 47 years old

Occupational: School guard (former fisherman)

Information given: According to him, villagers of Pulau Aman originally consists of three races which is Chinese, Malay and Indian but the Chinese believe that one day Pulau Aman and Pulau Gedung will join that why the move to Pulau Gedung. From him, I know that:

• primary school there are built in 1987 and started took students on 1988
• usually when tourists from outside Malaysia for example the Japanese, they stay at homestay instead of chalets because they want to learn the culture
• if you want to identify which one is chalets just see whether the house have air conditioner tank hanging outside.
• activities that the tourist do when they come to Pulau Aman:

-explore the sea with fisherman

- hiking

Originally this aunty are on her way to throw rubbish then we helped her lifted the rubbish while interview her.

Name: Salmah

Occupational: housewife

Age: 65 years old

Information given: according to Mrs. Salmah, the locals no longer use Telaga Emas as their source of clean water as they now have supplies from the mainland but often children after finish playing in the beach, they will clean their self at there. I ask her comment on abandon chalets located near Telaga Emas and she said she doesn't know anything as the chalets is under koperasi, she also told us about how waste is handle in Pulau Aman. Mrs. Salmah said usually they just put their rubbish in front of the house and someone that hire to pick up the trash will come every once in a week. If you still remember, once I mention about a hard-working aunty that I found right.. well this is her! the pictures below is the living proof 

actually Mrs. Salmah have 2 deer but I managed to snap one of them only as the other run away because she scared of me, Mrs. Salmah said that the deer are afraid with people that they not familiar with. 

We walk back to school in hoping we could get some food, we only eat bread in bus at morning. Turn out there’s no one at school but there are few of my course mate at school library 

(khe sin, jingyee and shadaad). After they finish interview the librarian, we interview him again. He not local. We have to abrupt stop because he have to answer a call from tv3

Name: Muhammad Nur Yusof

Occupational: librarian

Umur: 25 years old

Information given:  We ask Mr. Yusof opinion on abandon chalets located near Telaga Emas, he said maybe because of factor of seawater. When the tide is high, the water will flow until the sidewalk thus the pole of the chalet will completely submerge. From him I know that:

• the school have 13 teachers which consists of 10 male and 3 female, mostly the teacher are in their 30 and they lived at Batu Kawan
• the school teachers consist of malay teacher only because other races are not willing to sacrifice, this is because they have to follow the tides in order to exit and enter the island.
• every year, there’s Pulau Aman fiesta which promote traditional games, this is to ensure the sustainability of the local culture. They just start this fiesta last year which also been promote by Media Urusan, Era fm, Mutiara fm and P Mai fm.
• locals get their vegetables from the mainland
• traditional food of Pulau Aman is Kway Teow Pulau Aman, the special thing is they made the noodles by their self

at the closing ceremony we having a Q&A session with Mrs. Zarina, below are information that I get from her

Perbezaan antara homestay dengan chalet?

Chalet duduk berasingan dengan tuan rumah manakala homestay tinggal bersama dengan pemilik rumah (makanan disediakan). Kebanyakannya pelancong luar negara akan menggunakan homestay. Tapi kebanyakan yang melawat Pulau Aman duduk chalet sahaja kerana kebanyakan pelancong yang datang merupakan orang tempatan juga.  Tujuan pelancong luar negara datang ke Pulau Aman adalah untuk makan sukun dan mee udang sahaja.

•  Pulau Aman dibawah kuasa 2 organisasi iaitu JKKP dan JKKN. JKKP (jawatankuasa kemajuan persekutuan ) JKKN (jawantankuasa kemajuan negeri)
• Jawatankuasa Kemajuan Negeri; pengerusinya: Encik Abdul Halim bin Ayob
• Jawatankuasa Kemajuan Persekutuan; Encik Sanusi bin Ismail
• Tiada wujud ketegangan antara dua jawatankuasa kerana setiap masalah akan dibincang bersama

Terdapat masih ada pembakaran secara terbuka di pinggir-pinggir pantai. Kenapa ini masih terjadi?

Mungkin Majlis Perbandaran Seberang Perai tidak bekerja hari tersebut dan penduduk kampung kebiasaannya membersihkan halaman rumah pada setiap sabtu dan ahad.

Di pulau aman, penduduk akan meletak plastik sampah di depan rumah mereka, ada orang yang akan datang mengambil sampah tersebut. Orang tersebut merupakan penduduk tempatan juga. Setiap 2 minggu atau seminggu mereka akan hantar sampah tersebut ke Bukit Tambun . Setiap hari tidak boleh disebabkan harga petrol dan diesel semakin mahal

Tanah di Pulau Aman tidak sesuai untuk tanaman. Apakah inisiatif yang dilakukan untuk menyuburkan tanah?

Tanah terhad. Tanah Pulau Aman bukan untuk tanaman, Pulau Gedung sesuai untuk tanaman. tanah Pulau Aman hanya sesuai untuk pokok buah sukun. Tapi pulau gedung juga mempunyai masalah daripada segi tanah. Hal ini kerana tanah tersebut kebanyakkannya merupakan tanah milik orang lain. Ini bermakna mereka tidak dapat menanam sesuka hati. Penduduk Pulau Aman membuat inisiatif dengan menanam hanya di sebelah rumah sahaja atau menggunakan polisterin. Jabatan Pertanian sudah ke pulau aman untuk membuat kajian terhadap tanah di Pulau Aman tapi tiada apa yang boleh dilakukan.

1. Bekalan air di Pulau Aman diperolehi daripada mainland. Dalam dasar laut, ada 2 jenis paip. Satu untuk bekalan elektrik dan satu lagi untuk bekalan air bersih.  Risikonya kalau paip tersebut pecah maka penduduk kampung Pulau Aman akan mendapat bekalan air masin. Langkah berjaga-jaga; wujudnya tangki air yang cukup untuk menampung penduduk selama 3 hari dan selama 2 hari jika terdapat banyak pelancong.
2. Dahulunya Telaga Emas tidak mempunyai kemudahan seperti hari ini tetapi disebabkan jika air pasang, air akan masuk ke dalam telaga tetapi keajaibannya adalah walaupun air masin sudah masuk ke dalam air telaga. Air telaga masih mempunyai rasa tawar. 

After Zohor prayer, we assembled for short briefing about beach cleaning. We are divided according our group and we have to explain what is degradable and non-degradable to kids. Lucky us we manage to gather 2 little girls to listen to us.

One uncle treat all of us drinks because he felt thankful for us, we clean the beach. I think he is the owner of restoren terapung. I didn’t manage to interview him because he was nowhere to be found.

We have our evening tea break. We have karipap and fried noodles and hot tea

We have  our closing ceremony with the management team

Before I end my travelogue, I want to give a round of applause to management team despite the constant changing date of visiting Pulau Aman, we still success go there and toast to Dr. Widad for being super cool and supportive lecturer escort. I didn't forget Dr. Hakimi :) , thank you for guiding us in what to see and what to do in Pulau Aman. To make sure I didn't left anyone, I want to thank anyone that help me in completing this travelogue. Till we meet again..