資訊志工相較於醫療志工或是災區志工，沒有那樣子地感人熱淚，外界可能會對於資訊志工抱持著懷疑的態度，可能會有人有質疑，或是不懂為什麼要到國外當志工，在台灣當不就好了嗎？或是認為志工所拜訪的地方一定要是當地人們三餐不繼或是相當貧窮的國家，但我想你何以說一個國家貧窮呢？從金錢？從國民所得？在印尼生活的這一個月，或許當地的
建築物沒有台灣來得那樣有著普遍的水準，貧富差距也是有的，或許的確有些人可以在印尼住別墅，可是你卻可以看到普遍都是木造房屋，走在樓梯還會吱吱作響，深怕一不小心房子會塌，穿的衣服大多是比較老舊的款式，但這也不足以說一個國家貧窮，在我看來，印尼是一個相當富裕的國家，何以說印尼是一個相當富裕的國家呢？宗教信仰，在印尼亞齊的時候，我深深覺得當地居民對於宗教信仰的虔誠，就是一種富裕的象徵。在和當地的亞齊大學生合作的同時，因為朝夕相處，常常到某些時間，就會聽到他們說他們必須要先去禱告，晚點再回來之類的。宗教信仰給予他們無比的力量，在與亞齊大學生聊天分享彼此國家文化時，他們也提到，在他們國家，人們或許沒有太高的物質生活，可是卻會將所賺積蓄捐出來蓋清真寺等的宗教用途。其中一個亞齊學生也跟我們提到，在０４年海嘯發生時，有如神蹟般地，各地的清真寺並沒有因為海嘯的襲擊而倒塌，且當時在清真寺內的人們全都活了下來，目擊者說海水遇到清真寺時，是一分為二的，所以清真寺保持完整。亞齊大學學生自己也說：「有時你不得不相信，這就是神蹟！」，我們聽了也覺得非常地神奇，或許是因為自己並沒有太強烈的宗教信仰，才覺得印尼人的宗教信仰非常的狂熱，也因此我也認為，印尼絕非一個貧窮的國家，而是一個富裕的國家！
但又何以我要到一個富裕的國家當資訊志工呢？當初會想要來加入，真的，純粹就是一股衝動，我想我若沒有去體驗海外志工，之後就很難有機會再去了，畢竟拖一天是一天，這股熱情沒有即時的付諸實行，可能就真的放水流了。其實自己也非資工系或是資處等科系，對於資訊科技這塊並沒有太熟悉的背景，對於自由軟體，也只有基礎的了解，但在準備期間，真正去了解使用到ubuntu介面時，深深覺得真的相當好用，不僅整體介面感相當令人喜歡，另一方面，免費的自由碼程式更是他吸引人的地方！這種大家可以互助，共同交流的平台，且許多軟體的功能及實用性不亞於在Windows系統下的軟體，不需要任何的版權費，也不用擔心有到期無法使用的問題，且許多在ubuntu系統下的功能，對我來說，還比在用windows還好用！在印尼的沙邦(Sabang)教學時，學員們皆為初高中的教師，上課皆非常認真，一有問題也會馬上發問，課後也會希望我們能給他們相關軟體程式，當然這部分是沒問題的，這就是自由軟體其優點，大家都能夠用！當然為期三四天的工作坊，想要在三四天內學好相關軟體課程，也並非一蹴可及的，但能夠這樣子的學習態度，是非常令人欽佩的！我也期許這將會是一個小小的自由軟體種子，會讓所有參與的學員，能夠漸漸地開始接受自由軟體，使用自由軟體，不僅僅只因為他為開放自由碼，且他能大大降低印尼使用盜版軟體的數量，因為就我所見，很多電腦中的windows或是其他軟體，往往都不是正版的。這就面臨的版權的問題，倘若今天要解決版權問題，便要負擔軟體版權費用，也是一筆相當不小的支出呀！因此希望要做的，是帶領大家進入ubuntu的世界！在這趟旅程裡，在印尼的最北邊Sabang舉辦了第一個工作坊，之後來到了Takengon在這裡有兩個工作坊，一個針對學生，另一個針對老師，還到了當地的咖啡園進行咖啡的紀錄採訪，吃了一個月的印尼食物，自己吃辣的程度好像又拉高了。在印尼炎熱的天氣裡，因要入境隨俗，只能穿長褲長裙，在台灣那樣天氣早就穿短褲啦！雖熱了一個月，不過卻很享受在印尼切切實實的體驗當地的生活，用手吃飯、洗冷水澡、說著學沒多久不太溜的印尼話，遇到許許多多的人們，搭著印尼特有的交通工具等。我想，這都會是相當難得的回憶，也是相當難得的體驗，人生中能夠有這樣難得的體驗，真的是必須要感謝很多人事物，沒有各個單位的幫忙，我們不會成行，更不會有這樣子地經歷，我也希望我們E-mate團員，大家都會是一顆小種子，繼續將精神傳遞下去，也期勉再印尼的朋友們，能夠被我們所影響，相信這樣子的相互影響，會有著相當大的正面效果，讓資訊更進步，來讓生活更好！
E-mate 2010 Kuo, Yu-ping
The one month of volunteer activities has finished. After backing Taiwan, it's already August. For this one month, I pondered deeply over this month, about what I eared or what I paid, also what they got exactly? I think this is a very important issue, otherwise it will be nothing of this month.
IT volunteer is less touching than medical volunteer or volunteer from the disaster area. Maybe some people would be cruised about why you going the volunteer job in foreign country not in your own country. Or some would think that the place which volunteers visit must be poor or needy. However, why you can say that a country is poor or not? From the money valuation? Or from the GDP? In this month, I found that the structures in Indonesia are not like Taiwan, maybe some can live in the cottage home, but most of the Indonesia people are live in the house which is constructed by using the woods. You can hear the noise which is made by your steps when you step on to the stairs. That would make you feel afraid that the stairs would fall down int the same time. The other example is that the clothes they wear may not so fashionable or expensive. However, I think this is not a sufficient reason to convince people that it’s a poor country. In my opinion, Indonesia is a rich country. Why I could say that? That is, their religion. People who devoted himself or herself to their religion could be a symbol of rich of spirit for me. When I was doing the volunteer program with Unsyiah students, they have to leave because of praying sometimes. Because all of us stayed together all day long, and it’s easy to observe that their religion is meaning significant for them, which also makes them full of substance. When we were talking about our own country’s culture, one of the Unsyiah students said that there’s miracle when the tsunami happened. All the mosques weren’t destroyed by the tsunami. When the floor came to the mosque, the flood just spilt that the mosques are still the same. The Unsyiah student said that believe or not, it’s the miracle of their religion. We felt really surprised about that. Maybe it’s because that I don’t own strong belief of my religion, that’s why I feel that they are crazy for their religion. And it’s also the reason which makes me feel that Indonesia is a rich country not a poor country. Why I choose to go to a rich to do the IT volunteer job? At the first I signed in to this group, it’s just on an impulse. I think if I didn’t go to experience this now, maybe someday in the future I would be regret that I didn’t decide to go. If I didn’t carry out this passion, it’s might just become nothing. Actually I am not belong to the department of IT or something like that, and not so familiar with IT. About free software, I only got fundamental understanding at first. However, I started to realize the merits of the ubuntu operating system. The template is also very awesome. On the other hand, the free software it’s the most attractive point. And its function is not bad if you compare it with the windows operating system. Also you don’t need to pay any copyright fees for using the free software, some functions are better than windows. No worry for any software would be expired. In Sabang, all the members who attended our class is the senior high school teacher. They all concentrated on the class. They asked question as long as they felt confused. They also asked us to give them the related software. It’s not a easy thing that to learn those knowledge of the computer for them. However, their altitude of learning is really impressed me. I hope this program could be a seed of free software. People start to use free software. Then all the members can affect other; more and more people start to use this. The other benefit is that we can lower the amount of using illegal copy software. You can see that there’s a lot of people’s computer is not using genuine software if you go there. To solve this problem, you may buy the genuine software. But it costs a lot for the local people. That’s why we promote the free software.
In this one month journey, from the first workshop in Sabang then the two workshops in Takengon which one was for senior high school teacher, the other one was for senior high school students. We visited the coffee farmer’s place to do a interview. I’ve eaten the Indonesia food for one month, it seems the level of spicy I can put up with has already leveled up. The weather in Indonesia was so hot, but I had to wear long shirts, long jeans to experience the life there. I enjoyed the one month life there, ate rice by hand, took the cold water shower; spoke the bahasa Indonesia which is not influent. I met so many people there, took the local transportation, etc. those are very rare memories for me, also very rare experience for me. I could have this kind of experience, I felt really appreciated. We E-mate can’t execute this program without so many people, NTHU and some company’s help. I also hope that all of our E-mate members could be the one who transit the spirit of free software, makes life better with information technology.
By Miho
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