The Indonesian Children's Fairy Tale Camp (KEDAI) is a collaborative activity between the Omah Rimba Community Reading Park (TBM), Imaji Sociopreneur, the Indonesian Dream Foundation, the PAHAD community, sutera.id and Jember reptile lovers. This year, KEDAI was held in the backyard of TBM Rimba in Watukebo hamlet, Andongsari village, kec. Ambulu, Jember, East Java on Saturday-Sunday 26-27 March 2022.

Followed by dozens of children from various public and private schools around Andongsari village, KEDAI is a collective effort to provide a play and learning space with the concept of 'back to nature'. The manager of TBM Rimba Gunawan Trip said that apart from being a medium for learning outside the classroom and a vehicle for children's friendship, KEDAI also became a medium of development as well as a space of appreciation for children's interests and talents in various fields.

"KEDAI is a public space for children to play, work and gather without gadgets, as well as a stage for them to complement each other and appreciate their own interests and talents," he explained.

KEDAI started with a group tent-building session on Saturday afternoon. That night, even though it was raining, it did not dampen the children's enthusiasm to watch and discuss films, watch and be involved in pantonymy performances, and get to know each other and share their experiences at the bonfire session.

The next day, accompanied by a number of committee members, the children were invited on a tour to explore nature and the surrounding environment, learn to preserve plants through the herbarium, be creative in processing used clothes through tie dye, to get to know and interact with various reptiles.

Jeihan, one of the participants from SDN Ambulu 01 admitted that he was happy to be able to take part in a series of KEDAI activities.

"It's nice to get to know other children and go camping together," he said.

Gunawan hopes that KEDAI can open up knowledge horizons and provide new experiences for children. Also, build collective memory through various creative activities.

“Simplicity, the joy of playing and learning in nature, are the little things that we want to entrust to the children. Without having any grandiose goals, we just want to entrust the memory to them, that we were here together. That's all," he concluded.

In the future, he also hopes that KEDAI can be carried out regularly and more parties will be involved in it. (*)