Filed under: Indonesia, Life at work, Volunteers | Tags: Acheh, Greenpeace University, Indonesia
I am very grateful to be selected as one of the Greenpeace University (GPU) students 2010. There are only nine of us representing Indonesia and Malaysia. Of course that makes me proud. I’m proud to be here among those who came from various regions in Indonesia; Didit, Mayang, Novi, Rika, Sheila, Silka, Viktor, and Simpson from Malaysia. You are all my great friends.
From the beginning I promised myself that I would open my mind to accept all the materials that we would be given at the Greenpeace University. Many people didn’t agree with my choice to take part in GPU. They said things like “Greenpeace is eco-fascist”, “Greenpeace is not the organization that fights for the prosperity of communities”, “You should stay at home, you will learn more here…” But may people also supported me, congratulating me on being one of the chosen few to be a GPU student. I also asked to return to Aceh and help with their advocacy work after the graduation. Their motivation made me believe I will be able to become a better campaigner in future.
Filed under: Indonesia, Protect ancient forests | Tags: 'kit kat', caught, deforestation, exposed, forest, Forests, frontpage, Greenpeace, habitat, Indonesia, Kitkat, Logging, Nestle, Oil, orang-utan, orangutan, palm, Palm Oil, rainforest, rainforests, report, Sinar Mas
This morning, protests took place across Europe as around 100 Greenpeace activists, some dressed as orang-utans, went to Nestlé’s headquarters and factories in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. They called on Nestlé staff to urge the company to stop using palm oil that’s the result of forest destruction.
Filed under: Indonesia, Protect ancient forests, Stop climate change | Tags: c2c, Copenhagen, Forest Fires, forests for climate, Indonesia, Riau
An update from Richi about fighting the forest fires that raged through Indonesia recently
From Making Waves
My name is Richi, and I work for Greenpeace in Indonesia doing action logistics and volunteer coordination. Recently, I coordinated the work that we did with community firefighting efforts in Riau Province, Sumatra, Indonesia from 31 July – 6 August 2009.
Now, I’m back in the village of Kuala Cinaku, with my feet firmly planted in it’s yellow soil after over two-years. Not much has changed in this small village, but this time I’m fighting to breathe through the thick pungent smoke from the forest fires that annually blight the province of Riau on Sumatra’s east coast, opposite Singapore. I am here to check firefighting equipment and prepare teams for the peatland forest fires that are once again burning out of control here.
Filed under: Greenpeace, Protect ancient forests | Tags: Around the traps, Forest Fires, Indonesia
From Making Waves
This is the first in a series of short news updates beyond Greenpeace-specific news. World environmental events in a blurb:
Filed under: Protect ancient forests | Tags: Beijing, China, Forests, Indonesia, Sinar Mas
Bustar Maitar, Forest Campaigner for Indonesia
China, the country that just held the most spectacular Olympic Games in History, and country with large new economy power. With almost two billion people, China is the most important market for Indonesia. Couple years ago we heard that China was a large receiver of woods that came from illegal logging activities in Papua Forests.
Filed under: Protect ancient forests | Tags: Finland, Forests, Indonesia, Nestle, Palm Oil
From Making Waves
All 32 activists at a palm oil diesel refinery in Porvoo, Finland have been arrested by police. 6 of the activists have already ben released and we are waiting for the release of the remaining activists.
Filed under: Protect ancient forests, Stop climate change | Tags: Climate Change, Forests, G-20, Indonesia
Amid the pressure of the global financial crisis, some ask how we can afford to tackle climate change. The better question is: Can we afford not to?
— Ban Ki-moon, United Nations secretary general
W e are living through an extraordinary moment in the global economy. It’s a time when the bursting bubble of unlimited economic growth and unregulated financial flows have plunged nations across the globe into recession.
Filed under: Greenpeace, Protect ancient forests | Tags: Forests, Indonesia, online campaigns, orangutan, tigers, Websites, Yahoo!
Upon clicking through, you are led to a takeover page that looks exactly like Yahoo’s search site. However, the photos disappear as fast as Indonesia’s forests.
They say a picture speaks a thousand words. Yet what if there were no more forests to photograph? No more amazing images of animals to be found. No tigers. No orangutans. No trees.
Greenpeace, Yahoo!, Bates 141, PhotoLibrary and Free Range Creative launched an interactive guerrilla campaign to gather global support for the vanishing forests and endangered animals in Indonesia. And it’s unlike anything you have ever seen. In an innovative use of Yahoo’s photo search, banners and keys words promise to show you amazing photos of Indonesia’s natural beauty: its incredible scenery and magnificent wildlife. Upon clicking through, you are led to a takeover page that looks exactly like Yahoo’s search site. However, the photos disappear as fast as Indonesia’s forests. You are then given a choice. Help Greenpeace stop deforestation. Or do nothing and resume the search. Hopefully most people choose the first option. Continue reading
Filed under: Protect ancient forests, Stop climate change | Tags: Forests, Indonesia, Logging, Sinar Mas
Forest destruction is now universally recognised to cause about 20 percent of annual greenhouse gas emissions. This means that cutting down trees is more destructive to the planet than the entire global transport sector. Add that to species extinction, loss of biodiversity and the elimination of entire ways of life for forest communities and you have to wonder why companies like Sinar Mas are allowed to continue to expand their destruction of forests and peatlands in Indonesia.
Filed under: Stop climate change | Tags: Bali, Coal Trans, Coral Bleaching, Indonesia
From Greenpeace Making Waves
Jasper, Greenpeace South East Asia climate and energy campaigner, took time out from a coal industry conference in Bali to go coral diving.
Greenpeace Southeast Asia 