Untuk sampai ke sekolah, pelajar-pelajar ini harus bertaruh nyawa, menyeberang jembatan putus. Realitas mengiris hati di Kabupaten Lebak, Banten. “Negeri kita ini seolah negeri tanpa pemimpin, di tingkat lokal tidak ada yang memimpin seperti tidak ada bupati, kepala desa. Kepada pemimpin di tingkat desa segera lakukan kerja bakti jangan biarkan anak-anak bergelantungan di tengah sungai arus deras,” kata Wakil Ketua DPR Bidang Kesra Taufik Kurniawan.
“Ini seperti kita negara belum merdeka. Kepala desa, camat segera lakukan langkah,” imbuhnya.
Di Kampung Tanjung, Lebak, Banten orang dewasa, anak-anak SD dan SMP harus bertaruh nyawa untuk pergi ke sekolah mereka. Mereka harus meniti jembatan kayu yang rusak berat.
Sembari berpegangan pada tali jembatan, mereka harus ekstra hati-hati melangkah. Salah melangkah, byuur! Deras arus Sungai Ciberang, Lebak, Banten bisa merenggut hidup mereka. (Detik.com. Foto: AP & Reuters).*
Students hold on to the side steel bars of a collapsed bridge as they cross a river to get to school at Sanghiang Tanjung village in Lebak regency, Indonesia's Banten village January 19, 2012. Flooding from the Ciberang river broke a pillar supporting the suspension bridge, which was built in 2001, on Monday according to Epi Sopian the head of Sanghiang Tanjung village. Sofiah, a student crossing the bridge, says she will need to walk for an extra 30 minutes if she were to take a detour through another bridge. (REUTERS/Beawiharta)Students make their way across a damaged suspension bridge to go to their school on the other side of Ciberang river in Lebak, Banten province, Indonesia, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. The bridge was badly damaged after it was hit by a flood last week. (Associated Press Photo)Sofiah, a student, holds on to the steel bars of a collapsed bridge as she crosses a river to get to school at Sanghiang Tanjung village in Lebak regency, Indonesia's Banten village January 19, 2012. Flooding from the Ciberang river broke a pillar supporting the suspension bridge, which was built in 2001, on Monday according to Epi Sopian the head of Sanghiang Tanjung village. Sofiah said that she must walk 30 minutes further by another bridge if she avoided the collapsed bridge. (Reuters/Beawiharta Photo)
