First environmental directory launched
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)