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| Yayasan IDEP Foundation’s Partners |
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| Yayasan IDEP is very proud to work in cooperation with the following organizations. |
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| Our Local Partner Organizations on Bali |
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| Bumi Sehat Foundation |
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| Located in the village of Nyuh Kuning (just south of Ubud), this local NGO is running several health and midwifery programs from a small local clinic. Yayasan IDEP Foundation works in cooperation with the Bumi Sehat Foundation to promote project activities, develop pubic awareness tools about health and develop strategies for self-sustainability. |
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| Bali Jani Foundation |
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| Bali Jani Foundation is a grassroots Balinese Women’s Advocacy Organization, located in Gianyar, Bali. The foundation’s programs include legal aid support for victims of domestic violence, micro credit support for small scale enterprises and public awareness development of related issues via mass media and community workshops. Yayasan IDEP Foundation works in cooperation with Bali Jani Foundation to continue to develop community based waste management programs and cooperatives. |
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| Crisis Care Foundation |
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| Located in North Bali, this local NGO has a community health clinic that assists some of Bali’s poorest people. The dedicated volunteers at this clinic manage the needs of AIDS patients, local refugees and victims of local disasters. Yayasan IDEP Foundation works in cooperation with the Crisis Care Foundation to promote project activities, assist with the development of a community food production garden and develop strategies for self-sustainability. |
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| SOS Children’s Orphanage |
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| SOS Children’s Orphanage is a social NGO with a cause to help and house orphaned and neglected children living in Bali. The children which are taken into this NGO are from many different backgrounds, not differentiating because of heritage, religion or race, they work to return the love a child may be lacking by giving them a ‘substitute family’, a place to live and the basic knowledge of life so the child may grow to be strong and independent. Yayasan IDEP works together with the SOS Children’s Orphanage by promoting their activities through the Bali Cares Program based in Ubud, Bali. Yayasan IDEP also supports them in expanding the small scale food production program which is managed by the orphan children. |
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| VIBE Foundation |
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| This innovative project brings international volunteers to Bali to do internships and assist local NGOs as well as work with community projects. They also run an excellent program that offers teaching opportunities with local schools. VIBE Foundation shares space at Yayasan IDEP Foundation head quarters in central Ubud and assists IDEP by finding volunteers for its many programs on Bali. |
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| Yayasan MACK |
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| This grass roots NGO implements community development programs based from a local primary school in Batungsel, Tabanan. Some programs developed and introduced by Yayasan MACK include the Sunrise School in South Bali and the PT Intaran Neem project. Yayasan IDEP Foundation works in cooperation with Yayasan MACK to promote project activities and disseminate public awareness campaigns about health and the environment. |
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| Senang Hati Foundation |
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Working cooperatively with related organizations, Senang Hati hopes to raise the self-confidence of people with disabilities and encourage social, economic and physical independence
and integration. Senang Hati’s vision is to help the disabled of Bali participate more fully in the community, thus bringing about a shift from current negative community attitudes.Senang Hati provides a safe environment where people with disabilities can meet others and gradually gain the confidence to learn new skills and move confidently in the greater world. |
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| Our National Partner Organizations in Indonesia |
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| Catholic Relief Services (CRS) |
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| In Southeast Asia, CRS and its partners focus on promoting good governance, alleviating poverty, and building peace. CRS’s Network for Early-Warning Assistance and Resilience (NEAR) program is working with communities to develop strategies for crisis mitigation. Yayasan IDEP Foundation participates in NEAR capacity building workshops where it shares its Community Based Crisis Response Program with other NGOs countrywide. |
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| Indonesian Sustainable Agriculture Network |
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| This is an informal network of dedicated Indonesian citizens and NGOs focusing on the development of programs that relate to sustainable agriculture and farmers’ advocacy. In support of this network, Yayasan IDEP Foundation has developed and distributed an informative tool kit for raising public awareness about issues relating to Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), and more recently a tool kit for Seed Saving and developing seed banks. |
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| Environmental Education Network of Indonesia (JPL) |
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| This is the primary Environmental Education Network in Indonesia, with a membership of more than 60 NGOs, Universities, GOs and individuals from throughout Indonesia. All of the members of JPL are actively running various types of formal and non-formal environmental education programs. Yayasan IDEP Foundation attends the JPL conferences and supports the network with the development and distribution of environmental curriculum materials, including practical Eco-Friendly Fact Sheets. |
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| Masyarakat Penanggulangan Bencana Indonesia (MPBI) |
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| This is an Indonesian association of professionals in the area of Disaster Management. It holds regular workshops and seminars to address various issues relating to the development of effective disaster preparedness programs for Indonesia. It is supporting communication & networking amongst various organizations working in the field of disaster management, and helping to solve problems relating to Disaster Mitigation. Yayasan IDEP Foundation is a member of MPBI and receives regular support from the society for its Community Based Crisis Response Program. |
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| Give a Hand for Aceh |
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| Organized after the tsunami by four NGOs: Yayasan Leuser Lestari (YLL), PASe (based in Aceh), Telapak (based in Bogor) and Forest Watch Indonesia (based in Bogor), Give a Hand for Aceh networks with various NGOs to exchange information to ensure aids flows appropriately and continuously as required, while also providing communication links between aid centers throughout the region and Medan/Banda Aceh. |
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| Green Camp |
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| On December 28, 2004, two days after the tsunami, Hasbi Azhar, Taufiqqurahman (PADHI) and Jes Putra (PENa) made an assessment of the Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar areas, and administered first aid to survivors with very modest medicines and equipment. In less than one week, this group of volunteers expanded to 25 people, primarily Acehnese youth who had lost family members. Green Camp volunteers comprise students, entrepreneurs and medical doctors. In the months following, Green Camp distributed aid to the most remote IDP (internally displaced persons) populations, often by trail bike or on foot with as much as each volunteer could individually carry. Green Camp is IDEPs Acehense Partner NGO for the GreenHand Field School project in Aceh |
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| JALA - Fisherfolks’ Avocacy Network |
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| The Jaringan Advokasi Nelayan (JALA) was formed by several NGOs and activists of North Sumatera. JALA facilitates the exchange of information and communication between local NGOs and fisherfolk in the Aceh and North Sumatra regions, in an effort to revitalize an important traditional livelihood of the region that has been severely impacted by the tsunami. JALA focuses its activities on avocation of local fishing communities, while also helping to rebuild traditional fishing boats, nets and traps. Working together with Serikat Nelayan Sumatera Utara (SNSU) and Serikat Perempuan Nelayan Sumatera Utara (SPNSU) (local fisherfolk community organization), JALA distributed aid for the fishing industry funded by Aceh Aid at IDEP to the IDP (internally displaced persons) community in Pantai Cermin, Serdang. |
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| Orangutan Information Centre (OIC) |
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| The Orangutan Information Centre (OIC) is a non-profit organization funded by the Sumatran Orangutan Society and the Gibbon Foundation. The OIC is an Indonesian NGO committed to promoting orangutan conservation and environmental education mainly to local people and schools. Operating out of Medan, North Sumatra, OIC delivered immediate aid relief to areas in need with funding provided by AAAI. Led by its Program Coordinator, Meilinda Suriani, the OIC in cooperation with AAAI delivered logistical packages & school packages to the students in tsunami affected areas, traveling north from Medan to Banda Aceh. |
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| Rakata |
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| Rakata Adventures provides ecotourism guide services and also adventure programs for corporate client groups. Rakata generously sponsored its staff for allocation to Aceh relief efforts, in solidarity with the communities in which they often work. With extensive backcountry experience and knowledge of the region, Rakata has not only been able to deliver aid to areas of challenging terrain and limited access, but have also been able to put established networks and communication capabilities to good use in Aceh and North Sumatra. Rakata delivered aid and helped with reconstruction efforts from Meulaboh north to Calang. Rakata Adventures was involved in the distribution of aid from the previous aid by sea program of AAAI, the Sumber Rejeki, to IDP (internally displaced persons) communities in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Province as well as Nias Islands of North Sumatra Province. |
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| Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS) |
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| The Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS) was originally established in 1997 by a group of volunteers working at the Bohorok Centre in Sumatra, united in their concern for the plight of the critically endangered Sumatran orangutan and its habitat. SOS became a registered non-profit charity organization in Indonesia in 1999 with branches in Ubud, Bali and Medan, North Sumatra. Although still a small NGO with limited resources, SOS has mobilized a large volunteer base to work on awareness campaigns and education programs in several countries. SOS Bali partnered with IDEP to form Aceh Aid at IDEP (AAAI) in the initial stages of aid relief in Aceh and North Sumatra, initiating an immediate response of direct aid via SOS’ Medan office, the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC). This action delivered food aid, as well as logistical and school packages for students through local NGOs and youth organizations immediately following the tsunami. |
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| Sumatran Surfzone Relief Organization (SSRO) |
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| The Sumatra Surfzone Relief Operation was formed on January 9, 2005, deploying its first ships on January 13, 2005, delivering 37 tons of food and aid materials - along with three doctors - to the islands of Nias and Simeulue. The SSRO ship Mikumba was the first fully-laden aid vessel to reach hard-hit Alafan Bay in the northwest of Simeulue on January 18, 2005, the physically closest settlements to the epicenter of the December 26 earthquake and tsunami. Operations at Alafan continued unabated until all relief and medical supplies were distributed, and the Mikumba and SSRO team returned to the port of Padang on January 22, 2005, having successfully completed all objectives of the “Phase One” action plan. SSRO Director Bill Sharp returned to Sumatra on January 24, 2005 for the second time after a brief visit to the USA to rally financial support for the cause, and together with Matt George began preparations for Phase Two operations. Phase Two voyage was made possible by funding grants from SurfAid International and Aceh Aid at IDEP. |
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| Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia (WALHI - Friends of the Earth Indonesia) |
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| WALHI constitutes the largest environmental NGO in Indonesia, involving community organizations and nature groups across Indonesia. They have been committed to relief efforts in Aceh since immediately following the tsunami, and has been most effective in networking NGOs in the field, while directly coordinating aid delivery as well as sanitation and reconstruction efforts to critical areas in need throughout Aceh and North Sumatra. WALHI has also been running many aid distribution centres in the region. IDEP has supported WALHI’s relief effort with WALHI Sumatra Utara, WALHI Riau and WALHI Bali projects to date. |
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| Yayasan Andaru Selaras (YAS) |
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| AsiaWorks is the region’s leading experiential training and consulting company. The mission of AsiaWorks programmes is to provide people with an environment for learning important interpersonal skills and to offer support in applying, sustaining and further developing these skills back in their lives. A hallmark of AsiaWorks’ philosophy is that people can “make a difference”. AsiaWorks established its foundation, Yayasan Andaru Selarus (YAS) as a vehicle for its community development initiatives in Indonesia. YAS distributed valuable primary aid in Banda Aceh and Medan in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami, including providing temporary shelter for three hundred survivors of the tsunami disaster. |
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| Yayasan Anisa (YA) |
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| Anisa Foundation is a local women’s organization based in Meulaboh, Aceh. This foundation focuses on gender issues, children and livelihoods. Even though their office in Meulaboh was destroyed by the tsunami, Anisa continues to help survivors due to their concern and care for women, children and others. Led by Ibu Rosni Idham (a poet and a local legislator) and Ibu Dasni Hussein, Anisa has worked together with IDEP to distribute aid to women and children in Meulaboh and surrounding areas. They have also been assisting Yayasan Bumi Sehat’s team of midwifes in their clinic at Samatiga as interpreters from Acehnese local dialect to Indonesian. |
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| Yayasan Leuser Lestari (YLL) |
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| Yayasan Leuser Lestari (YLL) is a local NGO that has a vision to promote community based natural resources management based on the principals of biodiversity and fairness of access to resources between generations. Since 1998, YLL has been active in programs of monitoring and investigating forest concessions and illegal logging. Yayasan Leuser Lestari is a member of Forest Watch Indonesia and partner of Global Forest Watch. Working with the Give a Hand for Aceh coalition of NGOs following the tsunami, YLL set up a radio communication system to facilitate communication among volunteers in Sumatra. Aceh Aid at IDEP funded the establishment of five communication bases, linked by this program, in Medan, Banda Aceh, Meulaboh, Madina and Nias. These systems are used to share information and assess remote communities for damage and aid delivery needs, while also being able to provide information on medical evacuations. |
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| Our International Partners |
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| Permaculture Timor Leste (PTL) |
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| PTL addresses sustainable land use and sustainable development in East Timor. It has trained hundreds of people (including government workers, NGO field staff and farmers) in Permaculture design as well as land and waste management. PTL facilitates an East Timorese network that has helped formulate the new agricultural policies of East Timor. It has also established national demonstration gardens and nurseries. Yayasan IDEP Foundation works with PTL to distribute related media throughout East Timor and offer project development support. |
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| SEED International |
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| This organization contributes to the emergence of an ecological and sustainable future through eco-literacy and eco-design. SEED International is based at Crystal Waters Permaculture Village, a consciously designed ecological village, which has received a United Nations World Habitat Award for its “pioneering work in demonstrating new low-impact and sustainable ways of living”. The founders of SEED International worked closely with Yayasan IDEP Foundation to develop the theoretical basis of IDEP’s Environmental Education Curriculum project. |
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| The Seed Savers’ Network |
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| Seed Savers’ has helped to establish Seed Networks in a number of other countries such as Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, India, Japan, Solomon Islands and The Philippines. This excellent resource for seed saving has had over 5,500 varieties through its seed bank, with 20,000 sample packets of original seeds made up each year. Over 23,000 copies of their initial publication “The Seed Savers’ Handbook” sold in the first ten years. The Seed Savers’ Network supports Yayasan IDEP Foundation as advisors on related projects, such as IDEP’s Seed Saving Fact Sheets. |
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