One time I was with my neighbor friend, too, was driving with our vehicle in the area Bojong, Muntilan, Central Java. That evening a beautiful evening. We passed the beautiful rice paddies at the foot of Mount Merapi. Hmm ... what a rich country with a very exotic landscape. Suddenly I stopped the two-wheeled vehicle that carries us.
"Why, why you quit?" my friend asked keheran-heranan.
Without a word, pointing to something as if I answer the question my friend. What is my point? Apparently a two-storey building plastered in front of us. You know what's weird? Yes, I think two-story building was so amazing to me as an architect. The building is entirely made of 'the future of building materials', bamboo. What do you imagine? Building two floors are all made of bamboo. Incredible! Is imagined in your mind the building of bamboo houses would normally eat Sunda consist only one floor.
"That's what building?" I asked my friend without answering my question and regardless of my friends are still in confusion.
"Ooo .. that .., it khan building poultry keeper," answered my friend was half amazement.
"Sophisticated!," I make my friend more confused.
"What's powerful? Lha wong is only a cattle guard the chicken house ..." asked my friend began to understand why I stopped our vehicle. Apparently the look on his face he began to understand. He seemed to remember that he was with an architect.
"Yes sophisticated is .... all building materials made from bamboo house with two floors of construction structure. In addition, wall and flooring materials are also made from bamboo. Bamboo is the future of building materials, but unfortunately the Indonesian people themselves who underestimate the bamboo," I explained as a lecturer.
Bamboo, for the people of Indonesia are often overlooked. Bamboo is considered material "wong beggar." Building materials for people who can not afford to buy bricks, cement, tiles and other relatively expensive.
While the home is to show one's social status, prestige someone. So only the poor who are considered people who can afford to buy bamboo.
This is all reflected in the presence of bamboo forests are not protected by the Forest Service. The protected forests and teak wood relatively expensive because of the endless tropical forest in this our beloved country. Besides, more and more bamboo forest in West Java which runs out to clear the settlements with the rise of property business. Whereas formerly famous Sundanese synonymous with bamboo. To the extent that there is a saying their "Seagrasses hayang numpurkeun kahirupan urang sunda, Wae-desist heula tumpurkeun awina nu aya in methamphetamine deureunana" which means: "if you want to remove the tribe sunda, it must first destroy the bamboo forest that surrounds it."
Ironically, foreign experts argue that bamboo is a material future potential to replace wood as the depletion of tropical forests is a major producer of wood for now. In the hands of the scientists this is the bamboo becomes a very valuable and indicates that the wearer is a forward-minded people. People who had a towering intellect, because of the environment. Some research has been conducted to find out more in the use of bamboo and overcome its weaknesses.
There are many advantages of bamboo, but I will mention here only globally. To discuss more details about the advantages-advantages have to spend writing her sheets.
Among them is to fast-growing bamboo. Bamboo is reaching the age of five years is ready to cut bamboo. Thus considered to be a substitute for wood building materials. Where wood demand will continue to increase in line with the increasing human population on planet earth.
Then, by developing the bamboo, in fact we also preserve the tropical forest into the lungs of the world, due to reduced logging bamboo.
Then with a period of rapid growth, the bamboo will have a relatively cheap price compared to the price of wood.
Another advantage when made for the construction of buildings, bamboo is known for flexibility and light weight construction making the building resistant to earthquakes.
Bamboo is a plant that is very flexible, easy to adapt to the soil and weather conditions that exist. Of the hundreds of species known in this world, there is growing in areas with very dry to very humid, there is growing at sea level up to 3'800 meters above sea level. Bamboo is not wood, but the type of weeds that reproduce without having plants or flowers that are female and male. Rhizome roots groups or rod-shaped radiating allow breed.
Bamboo as a result of rumput2 plant is a source of natural wealth that followed the natural circulation of materials chain that does not change (transformation) that affect the balance of entropy condition and circulation of carbon dioxide (CO2). As a building material, bamboo can be processed and done easily, using less energy and eventually can be destroyed (burned or decomposed) without damaging the environment.
Now there's a few advantages of bamboo which I write here. There are many other advantages other. And it is very unfortunate, should scientists from Indonesia was developing bamboo because bamboo grow in Indonesia. But it is the strangers who many examine it. It seems this has become a "customs" Indonesian people who do not care and do not know how to be grateful to the natural wealth that God has given Subhaana wa ta'ala.
They'll be sorry and scrambling when other people are starting to break his own without them knowing it.
Consider this: Freeport mine has been generating 7.3 MILLION tons of copper and 724.7 MILLION tons of gold. I tried to Monetize that amount by the price per gram of gold now, I assume USD. 300,000. multiplied by 724.7 MILLION tonnes of gold / 724,700,000,000,000 Gram multiplied by USD 300,000. = Rp.217.410.000.000.000.000.000 Rupiah !!!!! anyone can help me how to read that value?
But know Indonesia only get 1% of that value. That 99% to America. Hmm ... whether we want to repeat it