"John Wood" From Gunung Hejo Purwakarta West Java Indonesia

The vision of her life instantly changed after climbing the Himalaya mountains are located in Nepal. He left an established upscale life in America. Position flashy in famous company Microsoft with a big salary abandoned her. In fact, he willingly abandoned his beautiful wife candidate, because a candidate's wife would not have a husband who is not clear about his future. All-establishment and whorted life he left only to build school libraries in poor countries like Nepal. But, that's John Wood as told in his Room to Read. No less than 7000 libraries created to help schools in poor countries.

Indeed, sometimes the odd read human stories called a hero or a great man like John Wood. It all happened because every human being has a different value that makes him unique from the others. As a story in the book Pralambang works of Kahlil Gibran (Jakarta: Pustaka Jaya, 1989) the following:

One day someone digging in the fields find very beautiful marble statue. He brought the statue at a collector and lover of art stuff. The statue was sold, and he received a lot of money. While walking home with money that he thought and said to myself, It would be the benefits of this money for life! Why would anyone want to give this much money just for a carved stone that has been buried a thousand years?.

At that time the art collector observing image. He thought and thought, 'How beautiful! Amazing. The dream of the soul, and keep it fresh alongside the sweat sleeping a thousand years. Why would anyone want to give it just for the money, which is tasteless and lesions?'.
Far from America, the country John Wood, precisely in the Village of Gunung Hejo, West Java there is someone who has the same passion with John Wood in building the library. The same zeal. The same devotion. But the fruit of his work is different. The work of a person according to his capacity. Large frame work of a person according to his mind. He was just a simple old economy and education, but also has a myriad of achievements in order to participate in the intellectual life of the nation as stated in the Preamble to the 1945 Constitution, the name Djudju Djunaedii usually called by Abah Udju.
To know more about this literary hero profile, follows the story created by Siti Euis Maemunah, activists Literacy Society of Indonesia (MLI), which for over a month living with the family for the sake of studying personality Abah 

The eyes of the person who stacked it peered at the bundle that carried on the shoulders Abah Udju With their rude remarks Abah Udju forced to stop and surrender arms. Without resistance, Abah already middle-aged it, handed it to them. Without stale-stale again the two men were prying bundle that brought Abah. They dug search for valuable items, but did not find him. They only found piles that are not meant for them, namely books. Annoyed not get desired results, then the second person Abah tear so that the books scattered on the ground.Abah can only be silent and glassy. Then the two men turned toward Abah. By threatening them sent direction to hand over all the contents of his pockets. The money is only three thousand rupiah Even then, the results of the rent book given voluntarily, submitted Abah. They then went to grumble. With tears Abah picking up books that were scattered on the ground and wrap it back. With a heavy heart he went home.

That piece of real events experienced diving Abah in his life as an owner and manager of Saba village library located in Kampung Ngenol RT 10/03 Darangdan District of Purwakarta A village which became the place where the residence of Abah.

Cool air with thick foliage make the house he had a sensation. Being around the plantation PTPN which is now in a period of sterilization before re-planting, Abah around this by planting all sorts of good crops of vegetables, and fruits.

Social conditions in the environment is still very conducive Abah,  mutual assistance is still felt. Especially when there are moments of study, the mothers flocked from the hill towards the valley upstream to run the glorious worship.

Given the dominance of the area is owned by PTPN VIII, it also makes the majority of the population professionally as workers at PTPN. However, it is not the case for female residents, most of them seek their fortune by becoming migrant workers, a lot of good girls, and women who are elderly speculate in foreign countries. So it is not strange that many children have not been look her mother since she was born because of the postpartum mother should immediately go to work as maids. 

Djuju Djunaedi was born in Bandung on March 17, 1949. The second child of ten children have only managed to get education Folk School (now School) Cidadap. And went on to junior high schools, but unfortunately discontinuance for something. From birth Abah 've stayed in Sukabumi, which he himself does not remember since when he started living in Sukabumi there Abah.

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