Voluntary Days Pertamina
Indonesian Ocean Pride Founder Hamish Daud was invited to the voluntary days event hosted by Pertamina, where he was invited to talk about Indonesian Ocean Pride. In front of an audience of Pertamina employees as well as secondary school students, Hamish explained that volunteering isn’t only done only just be helping others directly but there…
FuturePark X IOP Digital Art Gallery
Sorak Gemilang Entertainment (SGE) and Indonesian Ocean Pride’s (IOP) collaboration has created a new gallery in the digital gallery titled the ‘teamlab FuturePark And Animals of flowers Symbiotic lives”. This collaboration was done with the goals of increasing customer awareness of the biodiversity Indonesia’s oceans, and the threats it faces due to destructive human…
The Ocean Cleanup Reveals Their First Interceptor In Cengkareng Drain
The Ocean Cleanup has Revealed that the first interceptor to be placed in a dirty river Interceptor 001 has been placed in the Cengkareng drain filtering plastics floating in the rivers. Letting the flow of the river guide plastics and other debris floating in the river guided to the mouth of the interceptor where it…
Ocean plastic waste probably comes from ships, report says
By by Ivan Couronne Most of the plastic bottles washing up on the rocky shores of Inaccessible Island, aptly named for its sheer cliffs rising from the middle of the South Atlantic, probably come from Chinese merchant ships, a study published Monday said. The study offers fresh evidence that the vast garbage patches floating…
Five Thousand Faces Glowed in The Light of The Two Storey Tall Outdoor Cinema Screen
The people of Waisai, the capital of the Raja Ampat Regency in West Papua, had made their way to the oceanside site just as the sun had set. They now sat beneath a clear night’s sky. As the film played, the crowd’s mood changed regularly – waves of collective emotion that rose and fell like…
Two Teen Sisters Committed to Banning Plastic Bags in Bali
Bye Bye Plastic Bags, a Social Initiative driven by youth to say NO to plastic bags. Founders and sisters, Melati (15) and Isabel (13) Wijsen started Bye Bye Plastic Bags back in April 2013 and have since then been having a huge impact on plastic bag usage in Bali and outside. During their adventure, they’ve…
West Papua Becomes Worlds First Conservation Province
The Indonesian province of West Papua has just been declared a Conservation Province, a first for both Indonesia and the rest of the world. The new designation is important both symbolically and in ensuring the future health of the province’s astonishing ecosystems. Besides its rainforests, West Papua is the world’s epicentre of marine biodiversity, boasting…
Bali wins plastic-ban battle in Court, steps closer to being plastic-free island
Bali is on track to reduce plastic waste on the resort island after the Supreme Court rejected a judicial review that challenged the local administration’s limit on single-use plastic. “[The verdict] means that the gubernatorial regulation that limits the use of single-use plastic has a strong legal position and can be applied across Bali,” Bali…
Indonesian province leaps ahead in conservation
By Olivia DeSmit One of Indonesia’s easternmost regions is taking an unprecedented step toward sustainability. Last week, the government of the province of West Papua, on the island of New Guinea, announced legislationestablishing it as Indonesia’s first “conservation province.” What this means is that the government will ensure that all future economic activity and development will…