Its a Tough Place to be a BINMAN: Indonesia

Here's a little review of a wonderful documentary i viewed today. This documentary accurately stresses the growing problems of poverty happening in our community.

Its a Tough Place to be a BINMAN, is a documentary about a London binman Wilbur Ramirez  who switches to the streets of London to Jakarta to do the same job. Wilbur Ramirez is a father of four and he went to Jakarta to work side by side with Imam Syaffi, a Jakarta binman who lives just metres away from a rubbish dump.

This documentary shows the terrible working and living conditions a Jakarta binmen lives with. Not only collecting rubbish, they also sweep the front of houses and clear the storm drains, all in bare feet and hands. The worse part is the wage of a binman does not provide enough for his family, so he works many late hours in the night sorting out recyclables  like plastic bottles and tin cans from his garbage tip. 

When I watched this documentary i felt very sad, the awful living conditions and the fact that the wages are only around 15 British pounds every week. This documentary hit me very hard and showed me the hardship of these people.

                        Left-Right: Wilbur Ramirez, Imam Syaffi and Windi Syaffi

Here's the link to the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH1F_tz4oT0

Here's a reference for the website

http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Directory/News/Binman_sets_up_charity.asp

Please comment your thoughts about the documentary.