Guess What? Debra yatim

Belt-tightening and environmental awareness should start young and begin in the home.

Radio presenter and public relations figure Debra Yatim is educating her daughter Zulaika to conserve paper. The young artist is no longer allowed to draw one sun after another and throw the paper away, Debra said.

"Now she has to draw all over one piece of paper and continue on the back," Debra told fellow presenters of Radio Female Thursday morning.

To save on paper, can Zulaika just scribble on the wall? No way, Debra said, adding that paint was too expensive now for her daughter's artistic endeavors.

As one of the organizers of the month-long earth cleansing initiative Ruwatan Bumi, held in several cities to encourage public awareness and creativity in the indefinite crisis, Debra is taking the message to her neighbors in Cinangka, South Jakarta.

"I've asked teenagers in my kampong's youth organization to gather waste paper and we're recycling it."

And there is no shortage of used paper.

"It turned out that the most waste paper came from my house," she said. (anr)