In an evacuation tent made of tarpaulin, Anirah looked uneasy when we asked about her last condition. “I want to go home but there is no home anymore,” answered the 45-year-old woman. Her voice was rather heavy. “We are kind of renting this camp,” she continued half-jokingly. Her eyes then swept the 6×8 meter tent. […]
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395 Family Buckets packages finally arrived in Lombok on early Sunday (26/8). As the sun rose, 11 trucks contained of the packages prepared for 395 families (approximately 1580 people) began to travel to 3 locations in Gangga sub-district, North Lombok. Volunteers from SAR Mapala Muhammadiyah team have given so much help this time. There were smiles when evacuees in
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Together with IDEP Foundation you can help emergency response of Lombok Earthquake evacuees to meet their survival needs during the evacuation. On July 29, 2018, earthquakes occurred in Lombok, Bali, and Sumbawa with a magnitude of 6.4 at around 6:47 pm. The quake was centered 28 km northwest of East Lombok or 47 km northeast
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For five days, starting from 16 to 20 July, IDEP Foundation ran a Permaculture Introduction Training. This is the first training in 2018. As run by Sayu Komang, one of the trainers is also IDEP’s Foundation Program Coordinator, this training is very different. Participants and trainers posed after the training closing ceremony (Photo: Avi Rembulan)
Since June 2018, we have back to started an environmental education and disaster program in elementary school. This time, we partner with SDN 1 and SDN 5 located around our office in Kemenuh. In addition to students in grades 4, 5 and 6, some teachers are also involved as participants. Planting trees and flowers around
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“Now it’s different after the training and getting knowledge from IDEP,” said Carolina Yaku Danga when she talked about the benefits after participating in permaculture training in her neighborhood at RT 15, Watumbaka village, East Sumba. Other than Mama Rian, as she is familiarly called, 15 other residents also participated in the training held in
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East Sumba, in East Nusa Tenggara, is stealing a lot of attentions lately. Evidently, in the last four years, two big film productions put East Sumba as their background, both natural and cultural ones. And as it is often presented in the films, savanna view becomes one of the reasons that make East Sumba popular.
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Prior to 2016, communities of six villages in Talaud Islands, North Sulawesi, had to struggle amid severe ecosystem damage. This is due to since the 1970s, chemical pesticides are constantly being spread (even by planes) to all areas of their coconut plantations targeting pests eating their copra, which is the island’s top list commodity. Since
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The absence of healthy and proper sanitation for the residents of Kawangu and Watumbaka villages in East Sumba is finally going to be resolved. As many as 12 units of toilets built by Yayasan IDEP with support from PT HM Sampoerna through Collaborative Habitat Advancement Management Program (CHAMP) in both villages were finally inaugurated and
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