MERRY CHRISTMAST FROM KAMPOENG

Merry Christmast 2008 and Happy New Year 2009!!!
KAMPOENG will be exist as long as Indonesia exist, because KAMPOENG makes world closer with Indonesia. Share your dream, and do a million act to realize that dream!!!

Gadjah Mada University........Indonesia

Gadjah Mada University

The Gadjah Mada University (Indonesian: Universitas Gadjah Mada or UGM) is the largest university in Indonesia in terms of student population.^[1] It is also one of the oldest universities in the country, founded on December 19, 1949; although the first lecture was given on 13 March 1946. The name was taken from the name of Majapahit's Prime Minister, Gajah Mada.

UGM is also the oldest and largest university in Indonesia. It was founded in 1949 and currently has 18 faculties, 71 undergraduate study programs, 28 diploma study programmes and Graduate Schools including 62 study programmes. The total student population is around 55000, and the number of lecturers is 2266.

When founded, UGM had 6 faculties: the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy, the Faculty of Law, Social and Political Sciences, the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Letters, Pedagogy, and Philosophy, the Faculty of Agriculture, and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.From 1952 until 1972 the Faculty of Medicine was split into two separate faculties, the Surabaya branch of the Faculty of Law, Social, and Political Sciences was established, and the Faculty of Education and Teacher Training was integrated into IKIP Yogyakarta.During its initial years, the University used the buildings and other facilities belonging to the Kraton of Yogyakarta (sultan Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX's palace). The university gradually established a campus of its own in Bulaksumur. The university is now has an area of 3 square kilometres.

In 2007, UGM ranked number 360 on Times Higher Education Supplement World University Rankings 2007, the highest rank for university in Indonesia.Webometrics Ranking of World Universities July 2007 placed UGM on rank 939 in the world, and rank 95 in Asia.

Long Time No See.....

I guess I missed any information to share for KAMPOENG. I really sorry because until this day, I always busy with my duty as college student. For your knowledge, I still study at Gadjah Mada University at Jogjakarta. Gadjah Mada University (GMU) is maybe the top of university at Indonesia but at Asia, GMU's rank always on the lowest rank. The quality of education at Indonesia still questionable. Are we ready to set at global challenge. For now, just can say no. With my humble opinion, Indonesia need study more from progressive country, especcially at Asia, like Singapore, Vietnam, China, India, even Iran.

It's my dream to make our country, Indonesia step froward but never left behind traditional and nature value. Such as, the self-reliable people, more conservation of forest, and spread out the diversity of culture of Indonesia's people. And that's will be KAMPOENG's vision and mission. In additional news, I personally shocked with many of visitor of KAMPOENG blog. That's mean world always care with small act with big dream. Thank you for all your support and concern.

Regards,



Maverick89

The Harmony Of Jogjakarta

See......The Poster of Human Rights

If You Care About Human Rights, Please.......

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (10 December 1948 at Palais de Chaillot, Paris). The Guinness Book of Records describes the UDHR as the "Most Translated Document" in the world. The Declaration arose directly from the experience of the Second World War and represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled. It consists of 30 articles which have been elaborated in subsequent international treaties, regional human rights instruments, national constitutions and laws.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly Resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948
Preamble

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,

Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,

Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedoms,

Whereas member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,

Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,

Now therefore: The General Assembly Proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

Article 1

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 2

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3

Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 4

No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6

Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 7

All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 8

Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Article 9

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 10

Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Article 11
Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

Article 12

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 13

Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.
Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 14

Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 15

Everyone has the right to a nationality.
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

Article 16

Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
Marriage shall be entered into only with free and full consent of the intending spouses.
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Article 17

Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Article 18

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 20

Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

Article 21

Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
Everyone has the right to equal access to public service in his country.
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

Article 22

Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organisation and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

Article 23

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Article 24

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Article 25

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Article 26

Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Article 27

Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

Article 28

Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

Article 29

Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 30

Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

Advertising Video of Visit Indonesia Year 2008

Visit Indonesia Year 2008 is near to end at December 2008. Indonesian people hope that every person, family, community, who came to Indonesia from January-October 2008, is pleased and can come back again to Indonesia. Indonesia have such a great resources of tourism, like nature, culture, social life, traditional village, and more. So we want to share that resources for every person at world. COME TO INDONESIA, The Place Where Every Person Welcomed!!

I found many advertising video of Visit Indonesia Year 2008, which created with unique idea, and performed the beautiful of Indonesia. Don't forget, Malaysia can be Truly Asia, but Indonesia is the Truly Indonesia!!



















THIS IS THE BEST!!! My eyes tears after I saw this video, because Indonesia is so beautiful and blessed by God!!

Asian Beach Games 2008, Bali, INDONESIA

2008 Summer Olympic was end with the glorious of China's spirit to perform their magnificent wealth and power. Asian nation now makes surprise again, after China, now Indonesia turn. One, will be major element of this event, One Asia, One Spirit, One Unity. It's time for 1stASIAN BEACH GAMES 2008! The purpose of 2008 Summer Olympic is impressed the world with spectacular of China's power. And it's work. But, for Indonesia, the purpose of 2008 Asian Beach Games is to share our nature, our hospitality, and our Bali to entire world people.

Bali, an island with exotic panorama and mistic culture, ready to make history for the first time major event of beach games at Asia. From October 18th to 26th, this event held by Balinese Government, Balinese People, Minister of Culture and Tourism of Indonesia, National Olympic Committee of Indonesia, and Olympic Council of Asia. The opening ceremony has been held in monumental park Garuda Wisnu Kencana in Nusa Dua, Badung. There was no bidding process for Bali to host the inaugural edition of the Asian Beach Games. Although there were six other country that show their interest to host the games, Bali was chosen by acclamation to host the games. It will be the second time for Indonesia to host an Asia level multi-sports event, after Jakarta held the 1962 Asian Games.

The Bali Asian Beach Games Torch Relay started on October 8, 2008 at Mrapen, Grobogan, Central Java which is famous for it's eternal flame. The flame was lit with the aid of natural gas. From Mrapen, the torch was carried to Semarang. In the capital city of Central Java, the torch was carried to the Governor Office by Indonesia's famous sprinter, Suryo Agung Wibowo.

On October 9, 2008, the torch arrived in Jakarta. On the next day, the torch has been paraded from the City Hall to Indonesia's Minister of Youth and Sport Office, and finally arrived at the Istana Merdeka to be given to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. On October 10, 2008, the torch headed to Bali for a 9 day inland tour accross 10 regions (1 city and 9 regencies). More than 500 people(45 per district) were involved in the Torch Relay as torchbearer. They came from the sports world: athletes (local, national, and international), coaches, and officials. Besides that, more than 2,000 people participated in the parade. The journey was a showcase of Indonesian culture, especially Balinese traditional art, dance, and music to international audiences.

The Greenpeace Victories to Save Our Earth!!

September 2008: Six Greenpeace UK volunteers are acquitted of criminal damage by a Crown Court jury in a case that centred on the contribution made to climate change by burning coal. The charges arose after the six attempted to shut down the Kingsnorth coal-fired power station in Kent in 2007 by scaling the chimney and painting the Prime Minister's name down the side. The defendants pleaded 'not guilty' and relied in court on the defence of 'lawful excuse' - claiming they shut the power station in order to defend property of a greater value from the global impact of climate change. The landmark case marks the first victory of the 'lawful excuse' defense in a climate-change case in Britain.  

August 2008: After our campaign in the 1990's against toxic PVC the US Congress somewhat belatedly follows Europe's lead of outlawing toxic PVC in children's toys.  

July 2008: Ferrero (famous for its Nutella brand) becomes the latest large palm oil user to changes its position to support a moratorium on cutting down trees in Indonesia for palm oil plantations.  

May 2008: After just three weeks of actions, a hugely popular spoof advert and 115,000 online signatures Unilever changes its position to support a moratorium on cutting down trees in Indonesia for palm oil plantations.  

March 2008: After a campaign in Argentina, the Government announces a ban on energy wasting incandescent lightbulbs.  

December 2007: The World Bank's private lending arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) decides to sell its equity stake in Olam International Limited. Olam's involvement in illegal timber trade was first detailed in our Carving up the Congo report published earlier this year. The report illustrated how Olam was holding forest land in the Congo granted in breach of a moratorium on the granting of new logging titles, which the World Bank itself had helped to establish. It also described how Olam was sourcing timber from destructive and illegal operations through de-facto subcontracting agreements with third-party suppliers involved in illegal logging.  

December 2007: The Irish Government announces what will be the EU's first ban on energy-wasting incandescent lightbulbs, by as early as January 2009. This simple but historic step came as governments met in Bali to discuss next steps on tackling the global climate emergency. Over the past year, a number of EU countries have talked about similar bans, but Ireland is the first to act.  

November 2007: Together with other environmental groups, Greenpeace gets 1.5 million signatures of support and pushes through Argentina's first federal forest protection law. The new law includes a nationwide one-year moratorium on clearing of native forests while forest management regulations are put in place. After a year, any jurisdiction still lacking regulations will continue to be prohibited from issuing new logging and land clearing permits. The Forest Law also establishes environmental impact studies and public hearings - measures that will help protect forests where indigenous people live and small scale farmers.  

May 2007: After four years of Greenpeace campaigning to bring an end to deep-sea bottom trawling, representatives from countries around the world gathered in Chile to carve out a fisheries agreement for the South Pacific region, protecting it from this incredibly destructive fishing method. From September 2007, bottom trawling vessels in the region will not be able to fish in areas that have, or are even likely to have, vulnerable marine ecosystems unless they complete an assessment showing that no damage will be caused.

May 2, 2007: Apple announces a phase-out of the most dangerous chemicals in its product line in response to a Webby-award winning online campaign by Greenpeace and Apple fans worldwide. The campaign challenged Apple to become a green leader in addressing the electronic waste problem.  

March 7, 2007: The New Zealand government announces cancellation of proposed coal-burning power plant Marsden B. Greenpeace and local activists had mounted a four-year struggle which involved a nine-day occupation, high court challenges, protest marches, a record numbers of public submissions, Surfers Against Sulphur, public meetings, and a pirate radio station.  

February 15, 2007: In a major blow to the UK government's plans to reinvigorate nuclear power, the High Court rules their decision to back a programme of new nuclear power stations was unlawful on the basis that they had failed to adequately consult citizens and groups who oppose nuclear power as a dangerous distraction from real solutions to climate change.  

September 27, 2006: Estonia launches an investigation into the Probo Koala following three days of blockade by the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise. It is the first official action against the ship, which poisoned thousands and killed eight in the Ivory Coast when it dumped a cargo of toxic waste that had been refused by the Netherlands. After dumping its deadly cargo, the ship simply sailed to Estonia unhindered until Greenpeace took action.  

July 25, 2006: McDonald's agrees to stop selling chicken fed on soya grown in newly deforested areas of the Amazon rainforest, then becomes instrumental in getting other food companies and supermarkets, such as Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's, ASDA and Waitrose, to sign up to a zero deforestation policy as well. But it goes even further than that, and pressure from all these companies forces their suppliers, the big multinational soya companies such as Cargill, to agree a two-year moratorium on buying soya from newly deforested areas.  

June 26, 2006: Dell becomes the latest company to promise to remove the worst toxic chemicals from it products, closely following the move of its rival HP. Both companies have been pressured by us to make their products greener and help tackle the growing mountain of toxic e-waste.  

May 31, 2006: Despite heavy lobbying by the nuclear power industry, Spain has confirmed that the country's 8 operating plants will be phased out in favour of clean, renewable energy. Spain joins Sweden, Germany, Italy and Belgium as the fifth European country to abandon nuclear power.  

April 3, 2006: After months of pressure, consumer actions, online activism and more than 100,000 emails from Ocean Defenders everywhere, seafood suppliers Gorton's, Sealord and parent company Nissui withdraw their active support for Japanese whaling. Whalers announce that the 32 percent share in whaling operations owned by these commercial corporations will be transferred to a "public interest entity." The retreat isolates whaling economically and probably scuppers plans to find new markets for whale products.  

March 9, 2006: Electronics giant Hewlett Packard commits to a phase out plan for a range of hazardous chemicals in its products.

February 16, 2006: French President Chirac announced the dramatic recall of the asbestos-laden warship Clemenceau -- it will be turning around and going back to France. Our actions, emails to Chirac and an embarrassing international scandal left France with little choice but to abandon the misguided attempt to dump its own toxic mess on India.  

February 14, 2006: An area twice the size of Belgium has been given greater protection in the Amazon after a Presidential decree. The decree by President Lula of Brazil to create the 6.4 million hectare (around 16 million acres) conservation area is a great victory for the people of the Amazon battling landgrabbers, cattle ranchers and loggers. The decree calls for around 1.6 million hectares to be permanently protected and totally off limits to logging and deforestation.  

February 7, 2006: Take ten years of difficult, dangerous, and at times, heartbreaking work. Add thousands of activists from around the world -- some who sent emails, some who stood on the blockades, some who voted against destruction with their wallets. Some who were beaten, some who were sued, some who were arrested. But eventually common sense has prevailed and one of the world's treasures, the Great Bear Rainforest, is saved from destruction.  

January 13, 2006: Our Argentine Ocean Defenders hit Nissui in their pockets. Nissui own about one third of Kyodo Senpaku -- the people who run the Japanese whaling fleet. Our cyberactivists convinced a major Nissui client in Argentina not to buy from a corporation involved in the killing of whales.  

Noveber 28, 2005 - Swiss voters vote no in a referendum to determine whether genetically engineered (GE) crops and animals can be grown in the alpine nation during the next five years. Their verdict in each and every one of the three main languages was the same, nein, non, no, to GE.  

November 24, 2005 - The city of Buenos Aires announces plans to implement a zero waste policy after a campaign by Greenpeace in Argentina. The plan aims to reduce dramatically the 4-5000 tonnes of waste the city dumps every day. Buenos Aires is the largest city so far to announce a zero waste plan.  

27 October, 2005 - The intervention of some home-grown celebrities to finally tips the balance in favour of protecting the forests of northern Argentina after a long fight by Greenpeace and the indigenous Wichi people.

October 4, 2005 - Electronics giant Motorola and health and body care companies L'Occitane, Melvitacosm and Alqvimia are the latest companies to drop the most toxic chemicals from their products.  

August 17, 2005 - Electronics giant LG announces that it is committing to eliminating toxic chemicals from their entire consumer electronics range.  

July 5 , 2005 - Bad Barbies, toxic Teletubbies and rotten rubber ducks could have been slowly poisoning small children. The very chemicals that made these toys so soft and tempting to teething toddlers have been shown to damage organs in animals. But the European Parliament has banned manufacturers from using six of these toxic chemicals, freeing Europe from many toxic toys for good.  

April 29, 2005: Sony Ericsson announces that it will be phasing toxic chemicals out of its products. This is the result of the thousands of participants in our online action to pressure electronics companies to come clean. Sony Ericsson joins Samsung, Nokia and Sony as electronics companies who are phasing toxic chemicals out of all their products.  

March 22, 2005: Photocopy giant Xerox agrees to stop buying timber pulp from StoraEnso, the Finnish national logging company which is cutting down one of Europe's last remaining ancient forests. Following pressure by Greenpeace cyberactivists, the company agrees a new procurement policy, ensuring that suppliers do not source timber from 'old-growth forests, conservation areas or other areas designated for protection.'  


The Arctic Sunrise campaigning for the extractive reserves in 2003. The announcement by the Brazilian government to create 2 million hectares of extractive reserve is a major victory for our campaign.
 

The Arctic Sunrise campaigning for the extractive reserves in 2003. The announcement by the Brazilian government to create 2 million hectares of extractive reserve is a major victory for our campaign.

November 11, 2004: Following years of campaiging in the Amazon by Greenpeace and other environmental organisations the Brazilian government stood up to the powerful forces of illegal loggers and greedy soya and beef barons by creating two massive protective reserves. The presidential decree has protected 2 million hectares of the Amazon forest by creating the Verde Para Sempre and Riozinho do Anfrisio extractive reserves.  
 
November 4, 2004: Bayer conceded to Greenpeace India that ALL its projects on genetically engineered (GE) crops have been "discontinued" in a letter sent by Aloke V. Pradhan, head of Bayer's Corporate Communications in India. This announcement followed earlier actions by Greenpeace outside Bayer's headoffice in Mumbai.  

October 29, 2004: MQ Publications (MQP) in the UK becomes the first UK publisher to publicly announce its collaboration with the Greenpeace Book Campaign. MQP has committed to phasing out paper that is not 'ancient forest friendly'. Their next five books, including 'The Armchair Environmentalist' will be printed on 100 percent recycled paper. They have also publicly challenged all UK publishers to follow suit.  

October 29, 2004: Greenpeace efforts to achieve tighter controls on the notorious shipbreaking industry result in an international agreement to treat obsolete ships as waste. Treaty committments by 163 nations can be expected to increase demands for decontamination of ships prior to export to the principle shipbreaking countries of India, Bangladesh, and Turkey. It will also create new demand for the development of "green" ship recycling capacity in developed countries.  


Marking the Kyoto Protocol's becoming law in Bangkok, Thailand.
  
October 22, 2004: A decade of lobbying, scientific research, and direct non-violent action by Greenpeace and environmental groups around the world comes to fruition as Russia ratifies the Kyoto Protocol, bringing to force the world's sole global effort to address the dangers of global warming.  

September 30, 2004: Cyberactivists in Japan halt introduction of recycling-unfriendly and unreturnable plastic bottles when beer manufacture Asahi bows to citizen pressure.  

September 1, 2004: Ford Europe announce a reversal of the decision to scrap its fleet of fuel efficient electric Th!nK City cars, and instead investigate sending them to eager customers in Norway. Pressure applied by Greenpeace and web-based cyberactivists convinced Ford to Th!nk Again. When charged by electricity from renewable sources, these cars help fight the biggest threat to our planet: climate change.  

July 20, 2004: Queensland Energy Resources announce an end to the Stuart Shale Oil Project in Australia. Greenpeace campaigned against the project, which would have produced oil with four times the greenhouse impact as oil from the ground, since 1998. The project cost millions of dollars in government subsidies which should have been spent on renewable energy.  

June 22, 2004: Unilever, Coca Cola and McDonalds promise to phase out climate-killing chemicals in their refrigeration equipment. In 1992 Greenpeace launched Greenfreeze with the help of two scientists who pointed out how to avoid HFC's altogether. We found an old fridge factory, appealed to our supporters to pre-order enough units to finance a refit, helped build the market and Greenfreeze was born. Today there are over 100 million Greenfreeze refrigerators in the world, produced by all the major European, Chinese, Japanese and Indian manufacturers.  


Samsung annouces phase out of hazardous chemicals.
 
Samsung annouces phase out of hazardous chemicals.
June 17, 2004: Consumer power scored a victory following the announcement from electronics giant Samsung that it plans to phase out hazardous chemicals in its products. Seeing its brand-name products graded red - as containing hazardous chemicals - on the Greenpeace database, prompted the company to do the right thing on dangerous chemicals.  

June 10, 2004: Publishers of 34 Canadian magazines pledged to shift away from paper containing tree fibre from Canada's ancient forests thanks to ongoing pressure from the Markets Initiative coalition, of which Greenpeace Canada has a key role. The coalition has similar commitments from 71 Canadian book publishers including the Canadian publisher of Harry Potter, which printed the Order of the Phoenix on AFF paper in June 2003. Greenpeace Canada's work to protect its forests also encouraged Cascades, as the second largest producer of tissue products in Canada to commit to an Ancient Forest-Friendly purchasing policy. 

June 1, 2004: Iceland steps back from plans to kill 500 minke, sei, and fin whales over two years, announcing a quota of only 25 minkes for the year. Greenpeace web activists fueled domestic opposition by gathering 50,000 worldwide signatures to a pledge to visit Iceland if the government would stop whaling. With a potential value of more than US$ 60 million in tourist spend, against a whaling programme which generated 3-4 million in profits, the pledge dramatically illustrated that whales are worth more to Iceland alive than dead.  

May 11, 2004: Thanks to years of pressure from environmental groups, the consumers, our cyberactivists and Greenpeace, we can celebrate a victory for the environment following the announcement by Monsanto that it would suspend further development or open field trials of its genetically engineered, Roundup Ready wheat. Monsanto stated that it was defering all further efforts to introduce the crop and that it was discontinuing breeding and field-level research of the wheat. This follows a similar announcement in 2003 when the company announced its withdrawal from the development of pharmaceutical crops.

April 2, 2004: The UN International Maritime Organisation (IMO) designate the Baltic sea as a "Particularly Sensitive Sea Area," a decision which Greenpeace advocated for years. The IMO regulates shipping worldwide, and the new designation means tougher restrictions on oil tankers and other dangerous cargo vessels. The move was vehemently opposed by the shipping and oil industries.  

March 31, 2004: Following the controversial UK government approval of genetically engineered (GE) maize for commercial planting, the only company authorized to grow GE maize withdraws its application. In a victory for activists and consumers across Europe who lobbyed for tougher legislation and boycotted GE products, Bayer CropScience, a German company authorised to plant an herbicide-resistant variety of maize known as Chardon LL, said regulations on how and where the crop could be planted would make it "economically non-viable." Chardon LL was the crop pulled up by Greenpeace UK activists in 1999. The activists were acquitted of charges of criminal damage when the court agreed they were acting in the interest of protecting the environment.

February 18, 2004: The Stockholm Convention comes into force following years of lobbying by Greenpeace and other environmental organisations. A key feature of the Convention calls for the elimination of all Persistent Organic Pollutants. They include intentionally produced chemicals, such as pesticides and PCBs, as well as by-products such as cancer-causing dioxins that are released from industries that use chlorine and from waste incinerators.


Culture jamming the Esso logo at the entrance to a large station near the Germany-Luxembourg border in Wasserbillig.
 
February 4, 2004: Esso loses its court case against Greenpeace in France. As part of our "Don't buy Esso, Don't buy Exxon/Mobil" campaign, we developed a parody of Esso's logo with a double dollar sign: E$$O, which the oil giant (which trades under the name Exxon/Mobil in other parts of the world) attempted to censor. In a victory for freedom of expression on the web and for our campaign against the world's #1 environmental criminal, the French court defended the logo as an exercise in free speech.  

November 2003: Thanks to intensive lobbying by cyberactivists around the world, Greenpeace prevails against and attempt by Flag of Convenience States to remove the organisation from the International Maritime Organisation, the UN body charged with regulating shipping worldwide. Greenpeace action against unsafe oil tankers, such as the Prestige, had led to the ouster attempt on purported "safety" grounds.  

August 2003: The Deni, indiginous peoples of the Amazon, celebrate the end of an 18-year campaign to mark their land as protected from logging. 13 Greenpeace volunteers, including a member of the cyberactivist community, used GPS technology and a helicopter for a month to create an "eco-corridor" around 3.6 million hectares of land.  

May 2003: Intense lobbying efforts by Greenpeace and Global Witness results in UN Sanctions on Liberia for illegal logging.  

February 26, 2003: A French court agrees to lift an injunction against Greenpeace for creating a parody version of the Esso logo. In July Greenpeace was ordered to remove the logo from its website. On appeal, the court agreed the depiction on a website branding the oil giant Environmental Enemy Number One was protected speech.  

February 15, 2003: 30 million people worldwide create the largest anti-war protest in the history of humankind. More

February 7, 2003: McDonalds in Denmark bows to pressure and takes a leadership position in opening its first restaurants that use no climate-killing checmicals for refrigeration. A campaign by Greenpeace cyberactivists three years ago had led to a similar decision by Coca Cola to phase out HFC/HCFCs and adopt Greenpeace's innovative "Greenfreeze" technology.

2002: Brazil declares a moratorium on export of Mahogany following revelations of the extent of illegal logging and timber trade. Greenpeace actions around the world help enforce the ban.  

2002: The European Union, followed by Japan, ratifies the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Intensive Greenpeace lobbying must continue because, for the protocol to enter into force, 55 parties to the convention must ratify it. 

2002: Greenpeace helps defeat a major drive by pro-whaling nation Japan and its supporters to re-introduce commercial whaling through the International Whaling Commission. The re-introduction would have been disastrous for whales, which are now protected under the 1982 commercial whaling ban. 

2001: Greenpeace turns 30 years old in September. The environmental group has grown from a small band of inspired volunteers to an international environmental organisation with offices in 30 countries. As always, Greenpeace thrives on committed activism and widespread, growing public support. 

2001: After years of negotiations and pressure from Greenpeace, a global agreement for the elimination of a group of highly toxic and persistent man-made chemicals (Persistent Organic Pollutants or POPs), became a reality in May 2001 when a UN Treaty banning them is adopted. 


Mouth of Lockhart/Gordon Creek, Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada.
 
2001: A historic agreement with logging companies is reached on the conservation of Canada's remaining coastal rainforest and approved by the government of British Columbia. This follows years of campaigning by Greenpeace, most recently targeting the trade and investments of companies involved in logging the endangered Great Bear Rainforest. 

2001: Greenpeace lobbying, together with earlier expeditions to the Southern and Atlantic Oceans exposing flag of convenience (FOC or "pirate") vessels, are instrumental in the adoption of an "international plan of action" to combat illegal fishing in international waters. 

2000-2001: An ever increasing and significant number of European retailers, food producers, and subsidiaries of multinational companies guaranteed to keep genetically engineered ingredients out of their products due to consumer pressure. Thanks to its consumer networks in 15 countries, Greenpeace tests products, collects information about food products and policies and exposes contamination cases. 

2000: Further to Greenpeace's April-May expedition exposing pirate fishing in the Atlantic, an import ban is adopted on all bigeye tuna caught by FOC vessels in the Atlantic. 

2000: Turkey's plans to build its first nuclear reactors at Akkuyu as part of a larger project to construct 10 reactors by the year 2020, is finally cancelled in July after eight years of campaigning by Greenpeace and others. The only remaining market for all major western nuclear companies is China. 

2000: The Biosafety Protocol is adopted in Montreal, Canada. It aims to protect the environment and human health from risks of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) by controlling international trade of GMOs. Greenpeace has campaigned to stop the irreversible release of GMOs into the environment and to protect biodiversity from genetic pollution since 1995.

1999: Nine countries ban the use of harmful phthalates in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) toys for children under three and the EU introduces an "emergency" ban on soft PVC teething toys. 

1999: Japan is ordered to stop "experimental" fishing of Southern Bluefin Tuna by the International Law of the Sea Tribunal. 

1998: The Environmental Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty comes into force.  

1998: A historic accord, the OSPAR Convention, bans the dumping of offshore installations at sea in the North-East Atlantic. The Convention also agrees on the phasing-out of radioactive and toxic discharges, as proposed by Greenpeace.  

1998: The oil company Shell finally agrees to bring its infamous offshore installation, the Brent Spar, to land for recycling. Greenpeace campaigned since 1995 to persuade the oil company not to dump disused installations in the ocean.  

1998: After 15 years of campaigning by Greenpeace, the EU finally agrees to phase out driftnet fishing by its fleets in EU and international waters by the end of 2001. France, Italy, the UK and Ireland, continued driftnetting in the North-East Atlantic and Mediterranean after Japan, Taiwan and Korea stopped driftnet fishing on the high seas when the worldwide ban came into force at the end of 1992. 

1998: Logging giant MacMillan Bloedel announces it will phase out clearcut logging activities in British Columbia, Canada. 

1997: After campaigning for urgent action to protect the climate since 1988 by Greenpeace and others, ministers from industrialised nations adopt the Kyoto Protocol agreeing to set legally-binding reduction targets on greenhouse gases. 

1997: Greenpeace collects the UNEP Ozone Award for the development of Greenfreeze, a domestic refrigerator free of ozone depleting and significant global warming chemicals. 

1996: The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) is adopted at the United Nations. More

Greenpeace stopped the dumping of the Brent Spar and other at-sea installations, in a campaign against using the oceans as a dumping ground.
  
1995: Following a high profile action by Greenpeace, and public pressure, Shell UK reverses its decision to dump the Brent Spar oil platform in the Atlantic Ocean. More 

1995: Greenpeace actions to stop French nuclear testing receive wide international attention. Over seven million people sign petitions calling for a stop to testing. France, UK, US, Russia and China commit to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. 

1995 Following a submission made with Greenpeace support, UNESCO designates Russia's Komi Forest as a World Heritage Site. 

1994 After years of Greenpeace actions against whaling, the Antarctic whale sanctuary, proposed by France and supported by Greenpeace, is approved by the International Whaling Commission. 

1994 Greenpeace actions exposing toxic waste trade from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to non-OECD countries culminate in government negotiation of the Basel Convention banning this practice. 

1993 The London Dumping Convention permanently bans the dumping at sea of radioactive and industrial waste world-wide. More 

1992 France cancels this year's nuclear tests at Moruroa Atoll, following the Rainbow Warrior visit to the test zone, and vows to halt altogether if other nuclear nations follow suit. 

1992 Worldwide ban on high seas large-scale driftnets comes into force. 

1991 The 39 Antarctic Treaty signatories agree to a 50-year minimum prohibition of all mineral exploitation, in effect preserving the continent for peaceful, scientific purposes. 

1991 Major German publishers go chlorine-free after Greenpeace produces chlorine-free edition of Der Spiegel as part of campaign against chlorine-bleaching. 

1989 A UN moratorium on high seas large-scale driftnets is passed, responding to public outrage at indiscriminate fishing practices exposed by Greenpeace. 

1988 Following at sea actions, and submissions by Greenpeace, a world-wide ban on incinerating organochlorine waste at sea is agreed by the London Dumping Convention. 

1985 French nuclear testing in the South Pacific again becomes the subject of international controversy, particularly following the sinking of Greenpeace's ship, the Rainbow Warrior, by the French Secret Services. 

1983 The Parties to the London Dumping Convention call for a moratorium on radioactive waste dumping at sea. As a result of Greenpeace's repeated actions against ocean dumping, this is the first year since the end of the second world war where officially no radioactive wastes are dumped at sea. 

1982 After at sea actions against whalers, a whaling moratorium is adopted by the International Whaling Commission. 

1982 EC bans import of seal pup skins in response to public criticism triggered by Greenpeace actions in Canada. 

1978 Greenpeace actions halt the grey seal slaughter in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. 

1975 France ends atmospheric tests in the South Pacific after Greenpeace protests at the test site. 

1972 After the first Greenpeace action in 1971, the US abandons nuclear testing grounds at Amchitka Island, Alaska

You can see further information at http://www.greenpeace.org/international/about/victories

KAMPOENG want to show you about Greenpeace action for years to save and take care our earth.

Culinary Tourism at Indonesia

To support Visit Indonesia Year 2008, Ministry of Torism and Cuture planned some kind tourism which based on food or culinary culture. Indonesia have 17.000 islands and more, so each island has it's culinary culture. From Sumatra, Java, Celebes, Borneo, Bali, until Papua, food became different culture. You can buy anything atIndonesia, but you will never miss to taste food from Indonesia. Taste The Delicious of Indonesia!

So I recommend 5 foods which liked by tourist from foreign country. Each food ha different taste and unique performance. Spicy and sweet became the top taste.

Gudeg 

The evening air at Yogyakarta is gradually filled with the clinks of the dishware served by food stalls’ waiters. The gamelan music starts to escort some Javanese dancers at their stage performance. Some of the classical rhythms are passed through the wind, from a corner of the street where some young backpackers are sipping their coffee at a café.

In many parts of the city, from the five-star hotels until those outdoor eating stalls called ‘lesehan’, it is easy to enjoy the night over a delightful dinner. Usually gudeg comes as the main menu. The food remains united to the name of Yogyakarta. The local says, if you never eat gudeg in Yogyakarta, forget that you have been there.
 
Gudeg is a concoction of young jackfruit, coconut milk and other local condiments such as garlic and coriander. The color is reddish brown, as the result of the jackfruit, coconut water, and palm sugar, boiled for several hours. Some people are said to add some young teakwood foliages into the jackfruit pot in its early cooking stage, to attain the precise coloration.

Gudeg is usually served on a clay plate, on top of a sheet of banana leaves. Sometimes the vendor just folds the banana leaf, makes it tight it with a sharp piece of palm leaf rib, to form a half-cone-pot called ‘pincuk’.

Many people prefer to eat their gudeg in a ‘pincuk’ because banana leaf produces an appetizing aroma when the hot temperature from the cooking affects it. The ‘pincuk’ is big enough to hold a portion of rice, gudeg and its tasty accessories. A number of options are prepared on the table, for instance: fried chicken, chicken curry with rich coconut milk sauce called ‘santan areh’, hot ‘krecek’ (beef skin) curry, tofu, tempe, and chili sauce.

The gudeg itself is processed in a big clay pot. The traditional method suggests to have the food stirred with a wooden stick. No metal material - especially aluminums - should be used, to keep the taste specific as the food remains healthy.

Fried Rice

Fried rice is a popular component of Chinese cuisine and other forms of Asian cuisine. It is made from cold leftover rice fried with other leftover ingredients. It is sometimes served as the penultimate dish in Chinese banquets (just before dessert).

There are dozens of varieties of fried rice, each with their own specific list of ingredients. In Asia, the more famous varieties include Yangzhou and Fujian fried rice. In the West, Chinese restaurants catering to non-Chinese clientele have invented their own varieties of fried rice including egg fried rice, Singaporean (spicy) fried rice and the ubiquitous 'special fried rice'.

Fried rice is a common staple in American Chinese cuisine, especially in the westernized form sold at fast-food stands. The most common form is a basic fried rice, often with some mixture of eggs, scallions, and vegetables, with chopped meat (usually pork or chicken, sometimes beef or shrimp) added at the customer's discretion.

Chicken Satay (Sate Ayam)

Soto

Sop Buntut (Ox Tail Soup)

Is Visit Indonesia Year Failed??

What an unfortunate year for Indonesia’s tourism industry. Less than one month after the government declared 2008 Visit Indonesia Year, flooding crippled Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, the main gateway to the country, early last month.

Last week, the second annual Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2008, by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum, downgraded Indonesia as a tourist destination to 80th among 130 countries surveyed. That was much worse than its position last year, which was 60th out of 124 countries.

The report showed that Indonesia scored very poorly in health and hygiene due to an inadequate supply of hospital beds, poor access to sanitation and drinking water and an acutely low number of qualified physicians.

The country also performed badly in that other pillar of the tourism industry — infrastructure. In fact, Indonesian airplanes have been banned from European airspace since last year and no progress has been made on getting this blanket ban lifted.

Indonesia scored high only in terms of natural resources, with several World Heritage natural sites and the richness of it flora and fauna, and price competitiveness. But these strengths were undermined by such major weaknesses as underdeveloped infrastructure, including air and ground transportation.

There are even great concerns related to safety, particularly the prevalence of road accidents.

No wonder Indonesia, though richly endowed with a wide variety of cultures and interesting sites, has remained among the least popular tourist destinations even in the Southeast Asian region, outranked by Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Last year, Indonesia received just around 5.5 million tourists, compared to more than 9 million arrivals in Malaysia and almost 20 million in Singapore.

The survey showed the top-ranked countries in the travel and tourism industry — Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Australia, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, Sweden, Canada and France — understand the importance of support businesses and regulatory frameworks, coupled with world-class transportation and tourism infrastructure and a focus on nurturing human and natural resources.

Countries have vastly different underlying operational conditions, depending on where they fall in the tourism development spectrum. All have unique tourism products to offer, but the central goal is to encourage improvement in the underlying competitive conditions and infrastructure.

This is again where Indonesia is fundamentally weak, even in nature-based tourism, where the country should have a strong comparative advantage.

This latest travel and tourism report from the World Economic Forum should serve as a strong wake-up call for us, especially the government, to reinvigorate the tourism industry, especially now in the midst of a weakening global economy and uncertainty in the international financial market.

International tourism is known as a resilient industry, never suffering a deep and lasting recession and able to recover quickly because the need to travel, whether for business or leisure, is so deeply ingrained in our societies.

As a resource-based industry, tourism is also an ideal business for Indonesia to develop because of its multiplier effect and the labor-intensive nature of its operations. It directly benefits local communities economically. Travel businesses do their best when they use the local workforce, services, products and supplies.

The tourism industry also supports the integrity of a place. Destination-savvy travelers seek out businesses that emphasize the character of a locale. Tourism revenue in turn raises the perceived value of those assets.

Travel-related businesses such as hotels, restaurants, transportation, handicrafts and cultural shows are all labor intensive, the very kind of enterprises needed to absorb the huge pool of job seekers here.

But it is precisely because of its multi-sectoral activities that the promotion of the tourism industry should involve not only the tourism ministry but all other state and private organizations that provide the basic infrastructure and public services, including immigration, customs, transportation, accommodation and security.

Visit Indonesia Year 2008

Come to Indonesia, feel the adventure of nature and sociality. Welcome to Indonesia....

INDONESIA, Wonderful Country

I am proud to be an Indonesian citizen. I'll show my nationalism with share my country, Indonesia. 2008 is Visit Indonesia Year. Every day, we have events which you can be part of our nation and nature.
Don't be fear to come in Indonesia. We are toleranted and warm nation. We welcome you. So Come to Indonesia, right now!! Be a witness of our ultimate unity in diversity.....BHINNEKA TUNGGAL IKA!!!

National Monument, Jakarta

 The Colour of Balinesse Dancer

 

Lake Sentani Festival, Jayapura

White sand at Tanjung A'an Beach, Lombok

Kuta Beach, Lombok 

Mayura Park, Lombok

  Lingsar Temple, Lombok

       Miru Temple, Lombok    

Picture From Ocean

Recently, I often to post information or article about sea turtle, particullarly at Indonesia. If you don't know, sea turtle is the endangered animal at world. If you can count it's population, you can meet the number of San Marino population. Imagine this, we, human always complain about travel with far distance. Even the distance of 200 m, we always complain too far and we ride with car or motorcycle. But sea turtle is the animal which can make us, human, shame. Sea turtle can travels 20.600 km. Yes, you can shame now! 
There is an example of that fact. A leatherback sea turtle, tagged at her nesting beach in Indonesia, has been tracked by satellite across the Pacific Ocean to the coast of Oregon and back. The satellite tag, deployed by researchers from the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, recorded at least 20.600 km over the course of 647 days before its signal faded.
Endangered leatherback sea turtles are the largest of all living turtles. In the Pacific Ocean, adult leatherbacks nest in the tropical beaches of Indonesia and Malaysia and migrate to feeding grounds off North America in the summer. In British Columbia, leatherbacks appear to be attracted by the large blooms of sea jellies that occur off our coast in the summer. 

The turtle’s journey represents the longest recorded migration of any vertebrate animal. Even humpback whales, which make the longest migration for a mammal, swim at most about 8.000 km from the Antarctic to Central America.

All over the world, leatherback turtle populations are plummeting. The western Pacific leatherback turtle population has decreased from a thriving 91,000 in the 1980s to less than 5,000 today. The biggest threats to leatherbacks and other sea turtles include loss or degradation of their nesting beaches, direct harvesting of eggs and hunting of adults, and entanglement in fishing gear and marine debris.

Then, another fact about sea turtle, that sea turtle can attract us, human, to care with their. So participate at Nature Conservation with us. I joined with Greenpeace, you? DO IT!

SEA TURTLE AT INDONESIA

I get this video after browse YouTube. Take a look please a minute.

SEA TURTLE SLAUGHTERED.....WHERE??

I took this information based a letter from one man for Indonesian Minister of Environment. After I read that, I shock because my beloved country is the SEA TURTLE SLAUGHTER. That's  sad because our people grew up with tradition to keep balance between human and nature. The sea turtle is just not ordinary animal. This species are rare at world.  This species can keep balance of nature. So I hope Indonesia will change it's policy to save rare species.

And this is the letter...........

My name is Robin Marinos, a US citizen and frequent visitor to the beautiful islands of Indonesia. Earlier this year I videotaped the slaughtering of a whaleshark off Tangkoko Reserve. I campaigned against and witnessed the removal of the draw/trap nets belonging to EKASAPTA USAHAMINA. The closure resulted from the cooperation and aid of many concerned private individuals and public officials. This, plus the intense focus drawn upon the case from all angles to the top of the Indonesian government, resulted in the expedient closure after five weeks of continuous struggling. The success put an end to the devastation of the marine environment and its creatures around N.E. Suluwesi, plus added educational input for the marine conservation community and their cause to prevent such forms of devastational fishing.

I am sad to report that an even greater horror awaited me at Tajung, Benoa, Bali, where I recorded the most disgusting and cruel treatment toward any form of living being as I visited the socially accepted, uncontrolled, unmonitored green sea turtle trading and slaughtering pens. Some turtles were decaying with infections as they slowly rotted to their inevitable death, sometimes the torture lasting weeks before chosen to die normally as turtle steak or sate in a Chinese or Japanese restaurant. Others were damaged so badly that they were as good as dead. One even had one front fin torn off with only the shoulder bone showing.

The turtles demonstrated emotions as I moved around them. I couldn't help noticing the turtles, dehydrated and unfed for up to three weeks, spilling their last teardrops sometimes bobbing their heads off the floor as to plead for a little water. Ttheir captors stood on top of them to describe with bravado how they enjoyed listening to the turtles "scream like babies as they cut their throats". This is their ultimate fate after weeks of suffering. Much of this is clearly noticeable on the video taken.

The fact that it is traditionally accepted in Bali to slaughter and feed on the green sea turtle for only certain ceremonies one thing, but the uncontrolled and unmonitored methods of catching, handling, storing, and slaughtering is quite another. The fact that about one thousand (1,000) are sacrificed for ceremonial purposes per calendar year primarily on southern Bali seems bad enough, and that the officially accepted quota set four times that at four thousand (4,000) far exceeding the tradition needs seems too much. However the true numbers of well over fifteen plus thousand (+15,000) does not correspond to tradition needs nor adhere to legal conformity.

Furthermore, the legal shell length size of between 60-90 centimeters are the only acceptable sizes for this trade. During my uninvited visit to the turtle slaughter grounds, I stood there and measured the turtles tied appropriately in a praying position, front fins tied with cord, holes through the fins to prevent movement and to be lifted by. The largest measured approximately 110 cm., the smallest 55 cm from top to bottom of its shell. I estimate that at-least 40% of the 300-plus turtles were outside the legal size.

As admitted by the main trader and exploiter of this unmonitored trade, so called, 'Rasta' PAK Hasan, the turtles are caught and trapped all around Indonesian reefs, from Irian Jaya to Sumatra, using many fishing methods; a slight hint toward 'maybe yes' when questioned about cyanide and water-bomb (dynamite) fishing. The trader admited that he has no control of the fishing methods used by others who pillage reefs to catch turtles (sometimes as by-catch), later held in pens until arrival of the Bali turtle traders, normally costing 10-20,000 Rupiah per specimen (US$ 4.5 to 9).

Today, one can travel even the remote Island areas of the Indonesian Archipelago and find mostly ethnic Chinese and Taiwanese operating holding pens offshore and along the coast filled with many species of turtles and other large reeflife. This, I experienced from the Togian, Banggi, Tukanbesi Islands, to remote areas of the main Suluwesi Island this year. It leaves one to wonder really how many of these illegal holding pens really exist and to what extent this trade contributes to the damage to the marine ecosystems. One is left to wonder how much the turtle collection and trade being exercised irresponsibly daily contributes to the total reef damage. An example, three weeks ago a small ship was spotted by tourists now in Bali, fishing the few turtle left within the diving resort area of Giliair and Gilimeno, N.E. Lombok. Within the last year, there are at-least another three coastal areas in the Archipelago no longer sighting turtles breeding or laying eggs, all of those turtles born there have evidently perished!

As long as there exists a so-called quota, all forms of exploitation and manipulation, legal or illegal will persist and I believe, will get progressively worse. Further, the excuse of tradition has become weakened by the increasing availability and consumption of nontraditional foods. Not to mention that the turtle is supposedly "Sacred" to the Balinese people. Only five kilometers from the Tajung slaughter grounds there are signs displaying the Turtle and the penalties of up to 'one hundred million Rupiah' (US$ 42,000) for killing them. Without enforcement signs like these are meaningless!

Please help us stop these torturous and practices and join other nations who have placed an outright ban on capture, killing and trading of green sea turtles. All of Indonesia and the world will gain at the expense of a few selfish businessmen and their unrefined, uneducated, glutonus patrons.

Respectfully yours,

Robin Marinos
Friends of All Marine Life and Earth’s Ecosystems

THANKS FOR VISIT KAMPOENG!!!!!

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If you realize there is some widget that I added from beginning. That's Clustr Map. With that I know, where you (Kampoeng's visitor) come from. And I suprised when I saw a lot of dot at the map. I saw dots at U.S., South America, Europe, Middle East, India, China, Philippines, and Malaysia. Even from my country itself, there are visitors from Jakarta (Indonesia's capital), Jogjakarta (my hometown), Borneo, Bali, and Celebes.
At the beginning of KAMPOENG's blog, I never expect to attract people to visit this blog. Because my principle is "freedom in your right hand, respondbility in your back". KAMPOENG is my place to express my opinions. And I hope that KAMPOENG can be your place too with same purpose. I provide information, you just see and enjoy that.
Oh yeah, I know if my English is so suck and very bad. So I forgive if you disappointed for my languange. And for you know, I never copy information from others site exactly. I try to grow up and expand my skill.

Thank You.

Your sincerely,

Maverick89

Take A Look A Video From Greenpeace

I get this video from Greenpeace. I don't know with your opinion, but I think this is.........hard to explain it...........yes, I know that video's great, but I think that's little naughty. Maybe from East people (Asian, especially Moslem) sight, that video will had negative critics. Because back from my statement, that video made someone think wrong or NAUGHTY!!! This is something which means CREATIVE. I know if, Greenpeace activists alwys make some good movie or video with precious meaning. I think they had a good work. Back to problem, the rainforest have few location at world. You can say, Brazil, Indonesia, Kongo, Papua New Guinea, or India.
On a global scale, long-term fluxes are approximately in balance, so that an undisturbed rainforest would have a small net impact on atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, though they may have other climatic effects (on cloud formation, for example, by recycling water vapour). No rainforest today can be considered to be undisturbed. Human induced deforestation plays a significant role in causing rainforests to release carbon dioxide, as do natural processes such as drought that result in tree death. Some climate models run with interactive vegetation predict a large loss of Amazonian rainforest around 2050 due to drought, leading to forest dieback and the subsequent feedback of releasing more carbon dioxide.

Yeah, forget my suck opinion. That video is inspired all of us to make many acts because forest at earth in sick condition. Maybe the right phrase is OUR FOREST IS AT DANGER AND RED CODE!!! Ok, fasten your seat belt and take a look the rest of video!!

Woow....The Green Olympic Made Another Polutions Again!!!

You can believe the fact if Beijing Olympic 2008 are the modern, the clean, the green, and the biggest budget ever held at Olympic history!!! That fact is BU**SH*T!!! You can see how much the fireworks which explode to the air. Beijing Olympic Committee claimed that pollution index before and at time of Opening Ceremony will be decreased.

Maybe that's right. But, in my opinion from I saw The Opening Ceremony, that's magnificent event, but I disappointed about that fireworks. Not their beauty and sparkling, but for firework's contribution for pollution index. That's make sense if pollution will be increased again after hard work for decrease the pollution. 

But in other way, I think China people will be proud after this olympic held. Because this achievement is one big dream of China. Not just the government dream, but people of China dream. Thank You, China. That's the great work! Keep consistent with your idea and dream. One World One Dream!!!