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Country:: Indonesia

What do you do?: Editor

Organisation: The Society of Indonesian Environmental Journalists

Fields of interest: science, agriculture, health, water, energy, climate change, biodiversity, sustainable development, poverty reduction, biotechnology, engineering, policy

Email address: hsurjadi@yahoo.com

Languages: English

Please introduce yourself....: I am a Knight Fellow 2007 from Indonesia. I work as a freelance environmental journalist. I also serve as the Executive Director of the Society of Indonesian Environmental Journalists.

How you can help Indonesia sustaining its nature and environment

Indonesia has a third largest tropical rain forest in the world. Economic crisis, political unstability, corrupted government, unsustainable development, all threaten Indonesia environment.

Deforestration (two million hectares a year) threaten tropical flora and fauna which are already endangered. Some animal species were already extinct from Indonesian forest. To name several, they were Bali Tiger and Javan Tiger.

As an environmental journalist, I have been writing many articles on environmental issues faced by Indonesia. Here are some of them.

Please feel free to raise issues or to make comments on the recent issues on Indonesian environment.

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Sustainable benefits: New road to conservation

There has been a tug-of-war in understanding how people can make use of forest resources without harming the environment. Many believe this is fine as long as people are able to make use of the forest wisely and rejuvenate them in return, while others strongly oppose the forests being "touched" when it is supposed to be preserved. Some people in Papua, however, have proved that forest is more than a source of wood, and that other products from forests can benefit those who live nearby. The fo… Continue

Posted on 2nd March 2008 at 5:14pm — No Comments (Add)

Orchid traders keep ecosystem balanced

Ita Nurita Wanggai proudly displays an ugly but beautiful, rare orchid. "My late husband was the first who introduced this rare orchid. He named it anggrek kribo, meaning frizzy or curly orchid. The petals are just like our wavy hair," she said. It's 77cm stalk has more than five flowers. The sepals and petals are greenish-cream, with abstract red-brown markings all over, except for the edges. The shape of the sepals and petals are wide, twisted, distorted, and curled at the end. People who… Continue

Posted on 2nd March 2008 at 5:12pm — No Comments (Add)

Tigers and Human, will they live happily ever after in Sumatra?

In his book “The Malay Archipelago,” Alfred Russel Wallace, who spent three month from 18 July to 31 October 1861 in Java Island, wrote about human-tiger conflict. “Three day after my arrival at Wonosalem, my friend Mr Ball came to pay me a visit. He told me that two evenings before, a boy had been killed and eaten by a tiger close to Modjo-agung. He was riding on a cart drawn by bullocks, and was coming about dusk on the main road; and when not half a mile from the village a tiger sprang upon… Continue

Posted on 2nd March 2008 at 5:05pm — No Comments (Add)

We can learn from indigenous people

Indonesian tropical rainforests are bursting with life. Not only do millions of species of plants and animals live in rainforests, but also many indigenous people or natives still live as their ancestors did many years before them in the rainforests for thousands of years harmoniously. They call the rainforest their home.…

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Posted on 21st June 2007 at 2:21am — No Comments (Add)

Indonesia is a paradise of wildlife traders

In 1854, the island of Singapore consists of a multitude of small hills, three or four hundred feet high, the summit of many of which, are still covered with virgin forest, told Alfred Russel Wallace, an English naturalist in his book “The Malay Archipelago.”

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Posted on 11th June 2007 at 5:35pm — No Comments (Add)