First environmental directory launched
JAKARTA (JP): HIDUP Indonesia, the trade association of companies dedicated to promoting environmental products, services and technology, yesterday launched the country's first environmental directory.
The directory, introduced at a breakfast meeting, aims at briefing industrialists on the environmental products currently available in Indonesia and how to obtain them.
"This directory will support our campaign for green production technology," said Aditya Karma of PT Adiprotek Envirodunia, Chairman of HIDUP, which was founded last November.
Vice Chairman Arian Ardie said HIDUP has been promoting sustainable development through the use of environmental products and services and the directory will help companies achieve this.
The directory, which will be updated periodically, lists 28 companies which produce or distribute environmental products, services and technologies.
The directory, Ardie added, is only one of the various means of communication used to disseminate the idea of environmental friendly technology to Indonesia's business community.
"We are also selling the concept of green technology and clean production through periodical dialogs with industrialists, environmentalists, non-governmental organizations and the government," said Ardie who is also the vice president of PT Indokor Indonesia.
For example, HIDUP is organizing an environmental forum between industrialists and representatives of the government to be held at the Shangri-La hotel here on June 1.
Speakers
The forum will feature speeches by internationally-recognized environmental experts while the round-table discussions will be chaired by Nabiel Makarim, Vice Chairman of the Environmental Impact Management Agency (Bapedal).
Soy M. Pardede, Chairman of the Environment Department of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin), said Kadin fully supports HIDUP's mission to increase awareness among the business community of the importance of clean production and the environment.
Ardie pointed out that the competitive edge of products on the international markets is now determined not only by quality and prices but also by the environment friendliness of the products and their manufacturing process.
"We should adopt this green-technology movement, especially because 50 percent of our exports go to countries which are or will soon impose eco-labeling regulations and other rulings on environmental protection," he added.
"We are confident that the clean production concept will soon catch on in this country, especially after Bapedal introduces a business performance rating system next month," HIDUP Secretary Idrus Mulachela of PT Envitech Perkasa noted.
Other members of HIDUP's executive board include Tony Agus Ardie of PT Indokor as the adviser, Patrick Heininger of PT Waste Management Indonesia, Harlow G. Russell of PT Adiprotek Envirodunia, A. Indriarto of PT Indokor, Peter G. Wright of PT Environment Nusa Geotechnica and Brigham Montrose Golden of PT IEA Utama. (vin)