SOCIAL PROGRAMS

Indonesia is a country with horrific waste management, which is currently at the Middle Ages level. But the current world has provided the country with the convenience of packaging, tons of plastic in the form of sacks from Chinese noodle soups, or piles of PET bottles. A big part of this rubbish ends in rivers and afterwards in the ocean. Solving this situation in Indonesia is difficult, and that is mainly due to the rampant corruption of state officers, who are trying to turn everything into money for their own benefit, and so the problem of plastic in this country is still not being solved on an international level.

Despite this fact, we tried to launch waste programs in Sumatra in the village of Batu Katak and in the island villages of Haloban and Asantola which help solving the plastic crisis. We have put up trash bins and arranged for garbage transport to landfill, which is currently the only solution that is better than plastics ending in the Berkail River or in the Indian Ocean, where it silently and invisibly kills marine animals, including sea turtles, whales or manta ray and whale sharks. Every year, this way we are able to protect the ocean from up to 10 tons of plastic and other garbage that would otherwise end up in the sea. In addition to that, volunteers come here to help clean the beaches of washed up plastic garbage and to act as an example for local people who in many cases still do not understand why plastics cannot be thrown into the ocean. The only major obstacle is the unwillingness of some officials, who are looking only for personal gain and do not take into account the public interest and environmental protection. Despite the fact that it is sometimes a fight with windmills, it is definitely not useless. Nature and animals are not responsible for human recklessness, and we are doing this for the sake of wildlife and their magical home, the ocean.

Come and join us.