For Jan. 6\/FOCUS ISSUE - bsr<\/p>\n
Caltex provides free
\nharelip surgery for
\nlocal children<\/p>\n
Rahmat was 12 and Juniati was 11. Like the other kids in their
\nvillage of Aur Sati in the Tambang district of Bangkinang, Riau,
\nthe two could often be found playing cheerfully in their
\nneighborhood.<\/p>\n
As could Kurniati, 7, who lives in the small town of Kuala
\nEnok, Indragiri Hilir, Riau.<\/p>\n
But their parents could not hide their grief, looking at their
\nhappy-looking children, who were \"different\" from other kids
\nbecause of their harelips.<\/p>\n
These destitute parents expressed their anguished feelings
\nneither through words, nor attitude. They did not even seek
\nsolace from God.<\/p>\n
They freely admitted, however, that their hearts often grew
\nheavy when they pondered the situation.<\/p>\n
\"The saddest part was when I wanted to breast-feed her,\"
\nrecalled Kurniati's mother, Darlis.<\/p>\n
But again Darlis, like many other parents whose children have
\ncleft lips, simply kept their sadness deep inside, while holding
\nout for one desperate hope: that someday, someone would be able
\nto help her beloved little girl's appearance.<\/p>\n
Hope, pray<\/p>\n
Rahmat's mother, Siti Saodah, said both she and her husband
\nwanted to take her son to the hospital for an operation.<\/p>\n
But there was a problem. \"I couldn't financially afford it,\"
\nshe said.<\/p>\n
After 12 years of hoping and praying, Saodah's dream has come
\ntrue, thanks to a surgical procedure performed by a medical team
\nsponsored by PT Caltex Pacific Indonesia (CPI).<\/p>\n
\"I'm extremely delighted,\" she said, after the successful
\noperation to remove her son's harelip took place late last month.<\/p>\n
Rahmat, Juniati and many other villagers with the condition
\nunderwent similar free procedures, which are carried out
\nregularly under CPI's community partnership program.<\/p>\n
In the Tambang area, there are still a number of locals
\nawaiting the same free medical operation.<\/p>\n
Kurniati and several others, including a nine-month-old boy
\nnamed Cipta Nugraha, also underwent a CPI-sponsored operation.<\/p>\n
Operation<\/p>\n
Between 1995 and 2000 alone, CPI has treated 227 harelip
\npatients through its regular free mass medical services, which
\nare conducted in the regions near its bases of operation in
\nCentral Sumatra.<\/p>\n
In any of its medical services, the team is led by a senior
\ndoctor from the University of Indonesia, or leading hospitals in
\nJakarta.<\/p>\n
CPI is an international oil company which operates in
\nIndonesia under a production-sharing agreement with state oil and
\ngas company Pertamina, with operation areas in Riau, Sumatra.<\/p>\n
The company employs 5,800 people, 200 of whom are based at its
\nJakarta headquarters. The rest, meanwhile, can be found in CPI's
\nCentral Sumatra operating area, where it explores for and
\nproduces oil and natural gas from more than 100 oil fields,
\nincluding the world-famous Minas and Duri fields. More than 98
\npercent of CPI's employees are Indonesian national.<\/p>\n
CPI today produces over 700,000 barrels of oil per day, which
\nrepresents half of the country's total oil output.<\/p>\n
Proud to offer<\/p>\n
In addition to offering operations to people with harelips,
\nCPI -- together with the Riau Coordinating Body for Social
\nWelfare through the Pekanbaru Tryni Foundation -- also provides
\nexpenses for local children suffering from different types of
\ndiseases. Some have had to be flown to Jakarta for treatment.<\/p>\n
Nelda Srinopita, 9, who was diagnosed with a malignant tumor,
\nand Miftahul Hasanah, 6, who was born without an anus, underwent
\na successful medical operation at Harapan Kita Hospital in
\nJakarta in November of last year.<\/p>\n
CPI president Humayunbosha said the free medical services were
\njust a part of the company's community partnership programs that
\nCPI was proud to offer with the aim of assisting both the public
\n-- living in and outside Riau -- and the government.<\/p>\n
\"Community partnership has become a CPI tradition with core
\nvalue which we expect to continue with programs that focus on
\ntargets that are urgently needed by the people,\" Humayunbosha
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
The three pillars of CPI's community partnership program, he
\nnoted, are education, health and public welfare -- the latter
\nbeing a priority which the company will zero in on for the coming
\nyears.<\/p>\n
\"But the other two categories also have to be carried out in
\neffective ways,\" he said.<\/p>\n
\"With a significant increase in local government revenue, in
\nline with autonomy, we have to project our community partnership
\ngoals further, to help reduce any possibility of overlapping\"
\nwith local government programs, Humayunbosha said.<\/p>",
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