INFOKU - The iron bridge from the Dutch era in Bleboh Village, Jiken District, looks like its frame is still sturdy.
The rust all over the body of the bridge is a silent witness to the transportation of loco trains carrying teak wood sent to Cepu .
Currently, the bridge is still used by residents as a connecting route to Bleboh Market.
Meanwhile, the road section to the north, heads towards the BKPH Nanas forest area, KPH Cepu with an area of 2,576.22 hectares.
" That (bridge) used to be used to transport teak wood around the forest here, built by the Dutch hundreds of years ago to transport teak wood to Cepu," said Sanusi, a resident of Bleboh, Jiken District.
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The 60-year-old man said that the locomotive line was no longer used after independence.
However, I still remember when I was a child, teak wood was still transported to the TPK in Batokan KPH Cepu.
With a fairly large diameter, but currently teak wood around the village forest is not as abundant as before.
" Now it's all gone, previously there was still 80 centimeter diameter teak wood," said the man who also used to work as a laborer at the forestry department.
The bridge is remembered by the people of Bleboh as a loco bridge, a Dutch-era wooden transport bridge . Because the foundation is still solid and the iron material is not weathered, its shape has not been changed at all.
Only the sleepers that used to be rails were changed into asphalt roads, the connection of the railway tracks to the forest was replaced with piles of paving.
"Previously, the loco rails were connected until they entered the forest," he recalled.
Apart from natural wealth in the form of teak wood, around the Bleboh Village Forest area there is also a wealth of geology and teak wood.
This was recorded in research written by J Van Barren, Wageningen Agricultural University, Netherlands, published in 1924, entitled geological and agrogeological collection.
" If there was no crude oil, there used to be drilling that produced water, but it had a slightly tarnished color," he said.
It is known that the village that borders directly with Beji Village, Kedewan District, Bojonegoro is also rich in past culture, in the Kendeng Mountains fault not far from Bleboh Village, there are dozens of graves found that are suspected to be the burial place of the Kalang community. (Endah/ IST )
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