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JAKARTA POST, 01 Mei 2013
In Gunung Kidul, a district of Yogyakarta 600 kilometers
southeast of Jakarta, farmers know when to plant rice by listening to the
radio. They tune in to Radekka FM (conservation area rural radio). Similarly,
rice growers in Tasikmalaya, West Java, also turn to a local FM station to be
told when to begin planting.
“Data on the start of the planting period is provided by the local agricultural service. It also advises on what types of seeds to plant given the season, either wet or dry,” Iman Abda told a group of communication practitioners in NGOs and the media. Iman, advocacy coordinator at Bandung-based Jaringan Radio Komunitas Indonesia, (Community Radio Network of Indonesia), was speaking at a forum on climate change communication.
Participants exchanged their experiences in climate communication by first writing brief answers to four basic questions. Each answer was given on a separate note card colored blue, yellow, green and red. What is your program? Who is your target audience? What role do you play? What are your hopes for your program? The cards were later tacked onto a board. The participants then related in turn their experiences orally to the floor.
Reuben Supit, associate country director of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), explained that his group worked with people in poverty and distress. In Cemara Jaya in West Java’s northern coastal town of Karawang, some 70 kilometers east of Jakarta, ADRA runs a Bamboo Climate Change Community Adaptation project.
The intent is to drive into the ground a line of bamboo stands to harvest sand and reclaim the coastline. The project is for local women, youth, small businesses, farmers and fishermen. ADRA facilitates and connects the stakeholders. The hope is that the community can adapt to climate change.
Meanwhile, Rahmadi Rahmad, media officer with Burung Indonesia, a member of the BirdLife International Global Partnership, talked about a project it ran in the Mbeliling Forest in northwest Flores, a rain-starved island in eastern Indonesia. The 30,000- hectare forest serves as a water catchment area, and the project focuses on sustainable forest management. Through local participation, it aims to achieve three goals: poverty alleviation, conservation and community empowerment.
Latipah Hendarti of the environmental action group, the DeTara Foundation in Bogor, related her help in cowriting a climate change handbook for school teachers. Suplemen Pembelajaran Perubhan Iklim untuk Guru (Climate Change Learning Supplement for Teachers) is a 2012 publication from the Environment Ministry. The 70-page volume includes chapters on global and local climate change issues; climate change and education in Indonesia; climate change learning and teaching in the school curriculum; lessons on adaptation and mitigation, and action at the school level. In an annex, the book provides a sample syllabus for grades seven, eight and nine.
Latifah, Rahmadi, Reuben and Iman were in one of three break-out groups in the communications encounter. The two other groups, one with government agencies and the other bringing together business players and academics, had separate meetings. The National Council on Climate Change (DNPI) organized the gathering at the Third Climate Change Education Forum & Expo at the Jakarta Convention Center on April 18-21. The expo ended one day before Earth Day on April 22.
In the plenary session that brought in all three groups totaling 100 participants, members were able to air and share their thoughts. Abdul Madjid Effendi, business development manager at PT Sapta Sarana Sejahtera, a cleaning service of high-rise buildings, commented that communication forums should not merely be ceremonial; they should also produce ideas that had economic value.
Essentially, climate change communication covers two core actions. One is to raise public awareness with the aim of producing behavioral change. The other is to remind decision-makers to fulfill the pledges they have made. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, for example, has declared that Indonesia would cut its carbon emissions by 26 percent against projected emissions in a “business as usual” scenario by 2020.
SBY set up the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Plus (REDD+) Task Force to prepare the groundwork for the reduction initiative and introduced a two-year moratorium on new permits to convert forests and peatland. The task force’s mandate ended on Dec. 31, 2012, and it was supposed to be replaced by a permanent agency, but ultimately it was instead allowed to function for another six months. With that extension, the moratorium is due to end this May. President Yudhoyono should ideally give updates to explain his decisions.
To the government’s credit, Environment Minister Balthasar Kambuaya reportedly said on April 18 when he opened the Climate Expo that 18 percent of the 26 percent emission reduction target had already been reached. Balthasar claimed that more than 80 percent of the carbon cuts came from forests and peatland. However, he did not provide details on how the figures were calculated, particularly the use of the monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) system to substantiate them.
Private sector decision-makers should also demonstrate that they stick to their promises. Firms that have stated adherence to sustainability rules including non-conversion of high conservation value (HCV) areas should be transparent with their operations. Palm oil producers, for instance, should be up front about any inappropriate land clearing, the air pollution from open burning and palm oil mill effluent (POME) odor. POME is a mixture of water, crushed palm shells and fat residue.
Companies could also allow information access to their product sources and production sustainability. Consumers and the general public would derive immeasurable and meaningful satisfaction if decision-makers lived up to their programs and pledges. ●
“Data on the start of the planting period is provided by the local agricultural service. It also advises on what types of seeds to plant given the season, either wet or dry,” Iman Abda told a group of communication practitioners in NGOs and the media. Iman, advocacy coordinator at Bandung-based Jaringan Radio Komunitas Indonesia, (Community Radio Network of Indonesia), was speaking at a forum on climate change communication.
Participants exchanged their experiences in climate communication by first writing brief answers to four basic questions. Each answer was given on a separate note card colored blue, yellow, green and red. What is your program? Who is your target audience? What role do you play? What are your hopes for your program? The cards were later tacked onto a board. The participants then related in turn their experiences orally to the floor.
Reuben Supit, associate country director of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), explained that his group worked with people in poverty and distress. In Cemara Jaya in West Java’s northern coastal town of Karawang, some 70 kilometers east of Jakarta, ADRA runs a Bamboo Climate Change Community Adaptation project.
The intent is to drive into the ground a line of bamboo stands to harvest sand and reclaim the coastline. The project is for local women, youth, small businesses, farmers and fishermen. ADRA facilitates and connects the stakeholders. The hope is that the community can adapt to climate change.
Meanwhile, Rahmadi Rahmad, media officer with Burung Indonesia, a member of the BirdLife International Global Partnership, talked about a project it ran in the Mbeliling Forest in northwest Flores, a rain-starved island in eastern Indonesia. The 30,000- hectare forest serves as a water catchment area, and the project focuses on sustainable forest management. Through local participation, it aims to achieve three goals: poverty alleviation, conservation and community empowerment.
Latipah Hendarti of the environmental action group, the DeTara Foundation in Bogor, related her help in cowriting a climate change handbook for school teachers. Suplemen Pembelajaran Perubhan Iklim untuk Guru (Climate Change Learning Supplement for Teachers) is a 2012 publication from the Environment Ministry. The 70-page volume includes chapters on global and local climate change issues; climate change and education in Indonesia; climate change learning and teaching in the school curriculum; lessons on adaptation and mitigation, and action at the school level. In an annex, the book provides a sample syllabus for grades seven, eight and nine.
Latifah, Rahmadi, Reuben and Iman were in one of three break-out groups in the communications encounter. The two other groups, one with government agencies and the other bringing together business players and academics, had separate meetings. The National Council on Climate Change (DNPI) organized the gathering at the Third Climate Change Education Forum & Expo at the Jakarta Convention Center on April 18-21. The expo ended one day before Earth Day on April 22.
In the plenary session that brought in all three groups totaling 100 participants, members were able to air and share their thoughts. Abdul Madjid Effendi, business development manager at PT Sapta Sarana Sejahtera, a cleaning service of high-rise buildings, commented that communication forums should not merely be ceremonial; they should also produce ideas that had economic value.
Essentially, climate change communication covers two core actions. One is to raise public awareness with the aim of producing behavioral change. The other is to remind decision-makers to fulfill the pledges they have made. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, for example, has declared that Indonesia would cut its carbon emissions by 26 percent against projected emissions in a “business as usual” scenario by 2020.
SBY set up the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Plus (REDD+) Task Force to prepare the groundwork for the reduction initiative and introduced a two-year moratorium on new permits to convert forests and peatland. The task force’s mandate ended on Dec. 31, 2012, and it was supposed to be replaced by a permanent agency, but ultimately it was instead allowed to function for another six months. With that extension, the moratorium is due to end this May. President Yudhoyono should ideally give updates to explain his decisions.
To the government’s credit, Environment Minister Balthasar Kambuaya reportedly said on April 18 when he opened the Climate Expo that 18 percent of the 26 percent emission reduction target had already been reached. Balthasar claimed that more than 80 percent of the carbon cuts came from forests and peatland. However, he did not provide details on how the figures were calculated, particularly the use of the monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) system to substantiate them.
Private sector decision-makers should also demonstrate that they stick to their promises. Firms that have stated adherence to sustainability rules including non-conversion of high conservation value (HCV) areas should be transparent with their operations. Palm oil producers, for instance, should be up front about any inappropriate land clearing, the air pollution from open burning and palm oil mill effluent (POME) odor. POME is a mixture of water, crushed palm shells and fat residue.
Companies could also allow information access to their product sources and production sustainability. Consumers and the general public would derive immeasurable and meaningful satisfaction if decision-makers lived up to their programs and pledges. ●
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