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IDEP Foundation is happy to announce the growth of biogas in Bali – the new Integrated Agriculture and Renewable Energy program, supported by partner Boeing Corporation, received positive appraisal from government to ensure replication of this successful, environmentally-friendly community development model can proceed in Jembrana, endorsed fully by local and district authorities. Ketut Widyana Yasa: […]

Bali’s future change-makers have announced the future they want for Bali is “sustainable tourism”. The question is “how will Bali achieve sustainability goals with a business-as-usual approach? IDEP Foundation joined a leading panel of noted conservationists, academics, tourism agencies and futurists to discuss the way forward at the “Sustainable Tourism: the future we want” Conference

Northern Sumatra’s Mt Sinabung volcano erupted quite famously in May 2016, and the IDEP Disaster Risk Reduction team were on site, in the midst of the molten action. In Medan to assess beneficiaries of a Earthquake Safe House program to provide secure housing for 30 at-risk families in this earthquake prone region of North Sumatra,

This year IDEP Foundation is 17 years old! Established on May 15th, 1999 IDEP is getting older and more mature. With the tagline “We GROW to Help People Help Themselves” IDEP have been growing and keep growing as an organization to work and serve Indonesia. IDEP’s anniversary celebrated with Tri Hita Karana as the main

IDEP Garden Day Celebrates 17 years of “Helping people, help themselves” IDEP was joined on the 17th Anniversary Garden Day by visitors and knowledge sharers from Ubud to Australia. Thank you to Michelle Dunscombe of JEDER Institute, in Melbourne, for sharing the Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) workshop with our local team and global friends.

We have had the pleasure to introduce the Bali Water Protection (BWP) program to 15 school students from the famous Green School, a stunning school whom wall-less classrooms are made of bamboo, and where sustainability is at the core of the teaching. We welcomed them in our new training centre, also made of bamboo architecture.

Jembrana, (2/5) – In 3rd week of April 2016, IDEP team conducted an Introduction to Permaculture training for beneficiaries in Yeh Embang, Negara. This training is a 6-days workshop covers the ethics, principles and basic practices of Permaculture for sustainable development. The main activities on the training are including making garden design, Soil Rehabilitation, Composting,

Friday (22/4), Sukawati – Garden Day replaced with an interesting discussion with 15 students from Bali Institute. These students group came from a university in United States that focusing on global development. Discussion started with an introduction to IDEP and organic garden, continued with practice of making liquid compost and integrated pest control. The event

Thursday (21/4), Buleleng – Once hit by persistent drought, agriculture in Bali experienced a slap pretty hard on sustainability. Especially clove farmers in North Bali, which is the biggest commodity for the agricultural industry in Bali. Sampoerna for Indonesia supports IDEP Foundation, in cooperation with the villagers in Buleleng to establish a water management system

Thursday (21/4), Nusa Dua – For the first time IDEP Foundation were invited to attend the Global CSR Summit and Award that has lasted for eight consecutive years. The event was organized in order to open up space for large companies in Asia Pacific especially Indonesia to discussed about the importance of CSR (Corporate Social