Speaker Found

(Published in Speak! Magazine Desember 2012)

If you couldn’t make it to the Speak! Magazine launch and the Speaker! Competition grand final, here’s what  you missed.

Saturday, Nov 10,2012 marked the official launch of Speak! magazine with 15 Speaker finalist s battling it out to become the first ever ambassador  of the magazine at Epiwalk, Kuningan, South Jakarta.

Selected from hundreds of applicants, the finalists aged 15 to 22 have a proven record of social commitment. Each was enquired to write an essay on their innovative ideas to bring positive change to society.

SMAN 98 student Anggi Nurqonita was chosen the 2013  Speaker by impressing judges and the audience with her idea for contingency plan for  schools in event of natural disasters.

Jakarta student inaugurated as Speaker of ‘Speak!’

(Published in   The Jakarta Post, Sun, 11 Nop 2012)  

Anggi Nurqonita was selected the first Speaker ambassador on Saturday in a contest held in conjunction with the launch of The Jakarta Post’s Speak! magazine for young people.

The 16-year-old from SMA 98 state high school in East Jakarta presented a proposal for a peer-regulated school safety program, called “Schoolturahmi”.

The event was held at Epicentrum in Kuningan, South Jakarta, with major sponsor Indosat, as well as support from Inti College Indonesia, the British Council and Lenovo.

AMCDRR, High-level Talk about Local-Level Capacity

As Indonesian, I am proud that my country was hosting the 5th Asian Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction on 22-25 October 2012, in Yogyakarta.

The theme for the Conference was "Strengthening Local Capacity for Disaster Risk Reduction". Included in the 'local capacity' was, of course, young environmentalists like me and many of you.
The Conference also concluded that the participation of multi-stakeholder is critical to the local capacity for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Attractive to most participants was, I suppose, the "DRR Market Place", sort of 'exhibition' on relief equipments and other disaster related instruments. It was from here participants could get many goodies, books, booklets, catalogs, and flash disks containing informative materials distributed freely.In terms of topics, it seems that "integrating local level DRR and CCA into national development" was attracting much of the attention. Topics that was too technical, apparently got less attention, for example: risk transfer, and the potential of science to cope with future crises. Maybe because the discussions in these topics were too serious (well, to me at least).

dejavu

Some years ago I went to the very same place invited by Sonny and  Zap.

Now it was the "speak!" who  invited me. Time flies, indeed

Mission with World Bank on Safer Schools

(Sharing ideas with Christoph Pusch from GFDRR World Bank Washington)

After the tsunami hit Aceh in 2004, there are many natural hazards such as floods, landslides, volcanoes and Earthquakes in my country even in Asia Pacific. So, I think people need information as much as water, food, medicine or shelter. Information can save live, livelihoods and resources. Therefore, in addition to caring for the environment, I believe we also need to know about risk

reduction.

Ambassador of Tunza Eco Generation

It's an honor for me to be selected as one of the the 9th Tunza Eco-Generation Regional Ambassadors. Will do my best to be able to contribute more for the better and safer of our environment...