JICA Indonesia short-term volunteer rugby dissemination activities by Ryutsu Keizai University.

From February 19th to March 17th, we visited Jakaruta, Bojonegoro Yogyakarta and Palembang in Indonesia to disseminate rugby for over 3,000 people.

Before leaving to Indonesia and in order for us to operate our missions smoothly, we divided our missions into 4 categories; "coaching", "medical strength & conditioning", "referee · analysis" and "dissemination". Moreover, we used “why”, “what” and “how” method to have clear visions of how to achieve our goals.

For the first few days after arriving in Jakarta, we met with the Vice Chairman of the Indonesian Rugby Union to understand the current state of Indonesian rugby and the goals for the rugby union.

Before leaving to Indonesia, we often had meetings about dissemination activities and thought we were ready. However, once we arrived to Indonesia, we tried to communicate with the local people but we had some difficulties communicating with them. On top that, there were more tasks than we anticipated to do.  We now have a better understanding of the difficulty of disseminating activities.  

There were many things that could not be conveyed in words, but we used body languages, gestures and a little bit of Indonesian language to communicate. Therefore, we were able to deliver the disseminated activities that we wanted to.

We were very pleased about the attitude that children from elementary to university had towards to rugby. Because of that, we enjoyed working and disseminating rugby with them.

The schools that we visited seemed to have some differences in the environments, but no matter what the environments were, everyone seemed to enjoy rugby.

We learned and gained a lot while we were in Indonesia and I would like to thank everyone who was involved in the project.

Activity Place：Indonesia(Jakaruta, Bojonegoro Yogyakarta and Palembang)
Dispatch Period：From February 19th to March 17th