Think the school run is bad? Children face Indiana Jones-style river crossing EVERY day after floods cut off their community

အင္ဒုိနီးရွားမွ သက္စြန္ ့ႀကဳိးပမ္းေက်ာင္းတက္

ႀကရသည္ ့ကေလးငယ္မ်ား...

အမွတ္တမဲ ့ႀကည္ ့လုိက္ယင္ေတာ့အခုၿမင္ရတဲ ့ၿမင္ကြင္းဟာ နာမည္ေက်ာ္ အင္ဒီယာနာဂ်ဴံးႏွင္ ့
က်ိန္စာသင္ ့ေက်ာင္းေတာ္ ဇတ္ကားထဲက ဇတ္၀င္ခန္းနဲ ့ခပ္ဆင္ဆင္တူေနပါလိမ္ ့မယ္...
ဒါေပမယ္ ့တစ္ကယ္ ့လက္ေတြ ့မွာေတာ ့အၿဖစ္မွန္ဟာ အင္ဒုိနီးရွားနုိင္ငံ၊ လီဘက္ေဒသက က
ေလးလူႀကီးမေရြး ေန ့စဥ္အလုပ္သြားအလုပ္ၿပန္၊ ေက်ာင္းသြားေက်ာင္းၿပန္ မၿဖစ္မေနၿဖတ္သန္း
သြားလာေနရတဲ ့ခရီးလမ္းေႀကာင္းတစ္ခုၿဖစ္ေနပါတယ္....
အသက္၅ ႏွစ္အရြယ္ကေလးကစတဲ ့ေက်ာင္းသားေက်ာင္းသူေလးမ်ားဟာေန ့စဥ္မပ်က္မကြက္
ေက်ာင္းသြားဖုိ ့ဆီဘာရန္းၿမစ္ကုိၿဖတ္ကူးဖုိ ့ေဆာက္လုပ္ထားတဲ ့ပ်က္စီးယုိယြင္းေနၿပီၿဖစ္တဲ ့ႀကဳိး
ဆုိင္းသစ္သားတံတားေပၚမွာ အသက္ကုိဖက္နဲ ့ထုပ္ၿပီး ကြာက်ေနတဲ ့ပ်ဥ္ေတြ၊ ႀကဳိးေတြကုိတြယ္
ကပ္ ဆုပ္ကုိင္ကာ သြားလာေနႀကရပါတယ္....

 သက္စြန္ ့ႀကဳိးပမ္းပညာရွာႀကရပါတယ္...

Perilous crossing: Students, some as young as five, 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, Indonesia

 ရုပ္ရွင္ထဲကအတုိင္း သဲထိတ္ရင္ဖုိ စြန္ ့စားၿပီးေန ့စဥ္ေက်ာင္းတက္ေနႀကရတဲ ့ကေလးမ်ား...

Life imitating art: Student Sofiah, above left, says she would rather risk the bridge than walk an hour and a half to the next river crossing. Above right: A scene from Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom

လြန္ခဲ ့သည္ ့ရက္သတၱပါတ္က ေရႀကီးခဲ ့ၿပီး ႀကဳိးတံတားႀကီး ထိခုိက္ပ်က္စီးခဲ ့ခ်ိန္ကစၿပီး ေန ့စဥ္
ၿမစ္ကူးေခ်ာင္းကူးခရီးစဥ္ဟာလည္း အသက္နဲ ့ရင္းၿပီးသြားရတယ္လုိ ့ဆုိရေလာက္ေအာင္ အႏ ၱ
ရယ္ႀကီးလာတာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...
ၿမစ္တစ္ဖက္ကမ္းရွိ တံတားအေထာက္အကူၿပဳတုိင္တစ္လံုးၿပဳိလဲခဲ ့လို ့လမ္းေလွ်ာက္သည့္ပ်ဥ္
ၿပားမ်ားခင္းထားသည္ ့ႀကမ္းၿပင္တစ္ခုလံုး တစ္ဖက္ေစာင္းနင္းၿဖစ္သြားခဲ ့ရပါတယ္...
တစ္တားရဲ  ့တစ္ဖက္ၿခမ္းသာ အေကာင္းပကတိက်န္ေနခဲ ့ၿပီး ပ်က္စီးသြားသည္ ့တစ္ၿခားတစ္
ဖက္ၿခမ္းမွာေတာ ့လွဳပ္ယမ္းယိမ္းႏြဲ ့ေနသည္ ့အေၿခအေနကုိပဲ သက္စြန္ ့ဆန္ဖ်ားႀကဳိးစားကာ
ေန ့စဥ္ၿဖတ္သန္းသြားလာေနခဲ ့ႀကရတာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...

တံတားကေတာ ့အခ်ိန္မေရြးေရထဲၿပဳိက်၊ ၿပဳတ္က်သြားနုိင္ပါတယ္...

Falling apart: Locals have reported that sections of the simple wood-and-wire bridge have been disappearing overnight, suggesting that the bridge is far from stable 

 

 သနားစရာေက်ာင္းသား၊ ေက်ာင္းသူ ကေလးငယ္မ်ားရဲ  ့အႏ ၱရယ္ႀကီးလွတဲ ့ေန ့စဥ္

ေက်ာင္းသြားေက်ာင္းၿပန္ခရီး....

Falling apart: Locals have reported that sections of the simple wood-and-wire bridge have been disappearing overnight, suggesting that the bridge is far from stable 

တံတားႀကီးဟာအလ်င္အၿမန္ပဲယုိယြင္းပ်က္စီးေနၿပီး တံတားရဲ ့အစိတ္အပုိင္းေတြဟာလည္းေန ့
စဥ္၊ ညစဥ္ ပ်က္စီးေပ်ာက္ဆံုးေနပါၿပီလုိ ့ေဒသခံေတြကေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ႀကပါတယ္...
ၿမစ္တစ္ဖက္ကမ္းမွာေနထုိင္ႀကသည္ ့ေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္ေလးမ်ားကေတာ ့ေက်ာင္းတက္ဖုိ ့အ
ဆုိပါ တံတားပ်က္ကုိမၿဖစ္မေနၿဖတ္သန္းေနႀကရပါတယ္....
ထုိတံတားကုိမသံုးပဲ ေက်ာင္းကုိေရာက္ဖုိ ့တစ္ၿခားတံတားကုိသံုးမယ္ဆုိယင္ ေနာက္ထပ္နာရီ
၀က္ေက်ာ္ထပ္ၿပီးလမ္းေလွ်ာက္ႀကရမွာပါလို ့ထုိတံတားအားေန ့စဥ္အသံုးၿပဳကာၿဖတ္ကူးေနရ
သည္ ့ေက်ာင္းသူေလး ဆုိဖီယာ ကဆုိပါတယ္...
အကယ္၍တစ္ၿခားတံတားအားအသံုးၿပဳမည္ဆုိပါက ေန ့စဥ္ပင္ အိပ္ယာမွေစာေစာထရမည္ ့အ
ၿပင္ အိမ္ၿပန္ေရာက္တာလည္းေနာက္က်မွာမုိ ့သူကေတာ ့ယခုကဲ ့သုိ ့ၿပဳိက်ပ်က္စီးေနသည္ ့တံ
တားမွ ႀကဳိးမ်ားကုိတဲြခုိကာစြန္ ့စားသြားရန္အတြက္ ကုိသာေရြးခ်ယ္ခဲ ့တယ္လို ့သူမကဆုိခဲ ့ပါ
တယ္....
အဆုိပါၿမစ္ဟာ အရွိန္အဟုန္ၿပင္းစြာစီးဆင္းေနေသာႀကည္လင္ေအးၿမသည္ ့ေရအလ်င္တြင္ေလွ
ဖာင္စီးနုိင္ၿခင္းေႀကာင္ ့အားလပ္ရက္အပန္းေၿဖလာေရာက္လည္ပါတ္သည္ ့ခရီးသြားဧည္ ့သည္
မ်ားအႀကားနာမည္ထင္ရွားေက်ာ္ႀကားပါတယ္...

At first glance, it looks like an action sequence from Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom.
But, in reality, it is the daily commute to and from work and school for of adults and children in Lebak, Indonesia.
Clinging for dear life on a disintegrating wood-and-wire suspension bridge, children as young as five take their lives into their hands fowarding the Ciberang River every day.

The river crossing become precarious and potentially fatal last week after the suspension bridge was almost washed away by flooding.
A pillar supporting one side of the crossing collapsed, leaving the wooden planks that acted as a path tilted to one side.
Only one side of the suspension bridge remained intact, meaning commuters have had to carefully pick their way over the bouncing structure.

It is far from stable, and locals have already reported sections disappearing overnight.
Children who live on the other side of the bank must use the damaged bridge to get to school.

Sofiah, a student who traverses the bridge each day, explained that the nearest other crossing was half an hour’s walk away.
Seeing as that would mean getting up earlier each morning, and coming home later each night, she said she would rather risk the crossing on the collapsed ropes.
The river is a popular tourist attraction, with its fast waters used by thousands of holidaymakers who wish to go white-water rafting.