Global green campaign launched locally

Global green campaign launched locally

JAKARTA: Trisakti University -- as a founding supporter of
global green movement "Clean Up the World" -- launched on
Wednesday a campaign to raise people's awareness of the
environment and urge people to clean up their neighborhoods.

Called Clean Up the World Trisakti 2003, the campaign will run
between Sept. 10 and Sept. 27. At least 140 countries around the
world are simultaneously launching local programs.
Internationally the campaign will intensify between Sept. 19 and
Sept. 21.

Elizabeth Goenawan Ananto, project officer for the movement
here, said Trisakti University officially became a founding
supporter of the Clean Up the World movement in 1993, which was
internationally initiated in 1987 in Australia.

The campaign commenced with an open discussion on
environmental issues in the city on Wednesday and is scheduled to
end with a rafting event at Ciliwung river on Sept. 27 in
coordination with the City Environmental Management Agency.

The campaign -- which it is hoped will involve some 30,000
volunteers nationally -- is held in conjunction with the United
Nations Environment Programme and supported by Bank Indonesia,
ExxonMobil Oil Indonesia, Pertamina, Caltex, PT Freeport
Indonesia, Garuda Indonesia, Coca-Cola, Indofood, Media
Indonesia, MetroTV, AnTV, Republika, Bisnis Indonesia and
Indonesian Public Relation Associations (Perhumas). --JP