JIS has made an institutional commitment to embed
meaningful Service Learning into the curriculum schoolwide. Together, we create
deliberate service experiences involving instruction, action and reflection that
enable students to learn about themselves, to change, and to develop
responsibility toward others and the world around them.
As people living in an archipelago of such great beauty and in a teeming capital city with such great needs, we couldn't ask for a more relevant or rewarding context in which to learn about service and stewardship.
JIS Peduli (translated as "JIS Cares" from Bahasa Indonesia) is the organizing body that, among other things, coordinates two streams of service within our Community: humanitarian and environmental. Under JIS Peduli's leadership, we adopted our first ever Schoolwide Core Service Project in 2010-2011, the JIS Habitat for Humanity Village. Through the project, JIS families, alumni, faculty and administrators are working together to fund and construct 12 homes for Indonesian families in a stunning village at Sentul, about an hour from the JIS Cilandak campus.
The humanitarian stream of JIS Peduli serves our neighbors through Tolong Anak Anak (Please Help Children) and builds both disaster response and community engagement skills among us. Involvement has ranged from post-flooding community work in Situ Gintung; working with the Rawamangum Street Children; with Emmanuel's Orphanage; in MS and HS service clubs; as part of a Children's Circus Theater with Hidung Merah (The Red Nose Circus) or PEL's Padang Earthquake backpack response; to participation in PIE's Fresh Fruit Fridays where families and children donate fresh fruits for children in poor communities nearby.
The environmental stream of JIS Peduli serves our natural world through Green Dragons. Among many others, current initiatives include addressing the results of our own institutional environmental audit at JIS; a strong schoolwide focus on the concepts of reduce, resuse, recycle and respect; a relationship with the Jakarta Green Project and KDM for whom our waste helps support street urchins; mangrove care in North Jakarta; a joint Korean and Indonesian Forestry Project; endangered species efforts; and disaster responses for Mt. Merapi, the Sumatran Tsunami and a recent devastating mudslide in Papua.