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