BARCLAY MOWLEM at SARUNGGA (Remembering)

BARCLAY MOWLEM at SARUNGGA (with me)

The small village named Sarungga where the Barclay Mowlem Indonesia build his site office and camp for support  construction of 25 km the overland belt conveyor project in 1996 to 1999.

Sarungga village located approx. 25 km from Batulicin city or 7 hour by car from Banjarmasin the country town of South Kalimantan province.

 

Its very nice to stay in the camp site with tropical jungle atmosphere around the living camp, if you open the window in the morning you will find the chipmunk run on the top of fence or sometimes the monkey sitting in the fence.
I am will not tell you how the project done but I will share you the photos about the situation around the work area used my photos collection.

The camp population is all the more big than the village population and they call the camp with “ Barclay’s Village or Kampong Barclay”.

This village is remote place, so the communication used satellite phone with very expensive cost, but  who will care is every body need communication with their family in other island or other country included the official communication  between Barclay village with many others place in Australia.

We have good relation ship with the other villages, some of the man from Kampong Barclay get married with the other villager and this moment is very special for the peoples, every ceremony & marriage parties presented by Barclay’s villager will make proudly of the native villager, especially the Kampong Chief, is not the ordinary parties happened made by the native villager, every parties involved the kampong Barclay villager is extraordinary parties, they have to prepared the food more than the usually but anyhow they are happiness have a relation ship with Kampong Barclay.

 

Almost every Saturday night in the every Camp in Kampong Barclay  garden, we make a barbeque party, Camp A who lives the Managers, Camp B lives the supervisor & superintendent and Camp C who lives the skill labor and the supporting, all the barbeque is support by the villager included the meal, sometimes we got the deer from the jungle for the barbeque.

And every three months we have Entertainment Day for the all Barclay workers/villager with invited the band and singer from the other city in South Kalimantan, this even is limited for the Barclay workers only, and the food is support by the canteen Barclays.

We passed the two times of Independency Days , two times of Christmas and two times the Ramadhan and Idul Fitri moment, all that times were passed with happiness and gladness.

I have no much pictures for the moments at Kampung Barclay, but some of the pictures will bring you to try the experiences in Kampong Barclay’s

My best regards to all my friends, Mr. Art shotten, John Blackwell, Tony Clamp, Peter jackson, Mike carthrow, Collin weadon, Jack Littlefair, Frenny, Geoff Spiden, Jance Salu, Najamudin, Limpo, Ari, Baharuddin, Indri, Wayne Ketter, Oscar Jawaraja, Tuti,  Chaerul, Eko, Vere and chef Faisal who serve the meal everyday and many more friends who had stay & keep their warmth family in the camp A.B.C  and kampong Barclays or Barclay’s village .

I try to bring you to see the atmosphere of the Barclay Village/Kampong Barclay surrounding.