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Merdeka Coffee Bogor
We set this company up to focus exclusively on sourcing high quality Arabica coffee directly from farmers at origin (ie: all around Indonesia where coffee is grown). Initially the plan was to help build farmer to buyer export bridges- allowing direct trade between farming communities and roaster/buyers in countries such as New Zealand. However our own roasting program these days takes up most of the coffee grown.
We currently roast coffee for wholesale supply to cafes, hotels, restaurants etc in Indonesia and also supply distributors overseas. We also have our own cafe program to provide quality coffee to mainly the expatriate market in Indonesia
As of mid May 2009, Merdeka Coffee will be roasting in NZ! We are locaed at 21 Parnell Road, Parnel, Auckland. (09)3032412
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The Novotel Bogor
The Novotel Bogor is a beautiful 4 star hotel located just 45 minutes drive from central Jakarta. The perfect choice for business trips and holidays, the hotel is set among breathtaking gardens and features an 18 hole golf course. We offer 178 rooms (including suites), conference and banqueting facilities, WiFi internet access, two restaurants, a bar, spa, swimming pool, tennis courts, Kids Club and parking. This magnificent hotel is designed to satisfy every need and expectation.Hotel Novotel Bogor
Golf Estate Bogor Raya West Java 16710 BOGOR - INDONESIA
Tel (+62)251/8271555
Fax (+62)251/8271333
E-mail reservation@novotel-bogor.com
Minggu, 03 Mei 2009 /
Plants for Agricultural
Palm oil , originated from west Africa was among the great discoveries that was first cultivated in this garden. (that discovery is now a parth of the cause of the extinction of the orang utans since those plantations are in their former habitat).
So it is a place of historical significance. The nice thing is that it is 110 hectares of joy with 12000 species of plants and 3000 orchids. The garden is in very good shape.
I especially remember the tre with the giant bats and...the victoria amazonica's. The giant water lilies from Brazil.
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Istana Bogor
It was in the 18th century that the Dutch became interested in Bogor. (buiten de zorgen) Bogor means - without worries. You need to know that Jakarta-Batavia was a place of polution , sickness - a place to escape from.
It was Governor-general Van Imhoff in 1745 who had his vacation home build at Bogor. The later 'istana Bogor' or the palace.
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Botanical Garden : Rafles
find the memorial for 'Lady Olivia Marianne Raffles' A neo-roman pavillion raised by her famous husband Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. Mister Raflles was the British governor-general from the short British period. (1811-1816). She is died in 1814 and is burried in Jakarta. As a real British lady she got annoyed by the bad habits of the Dutch ladies. They shewed 'Sirih' and weared sarongs...(reading this , it just made me smile...a lot)
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Paragliding in Bogor
For those who have been to Bogor then you know of its beautiful scenery and cool climate, and friendly people. It has the greatest and elaborate Botanical Gardens in Indonesia which have a myriad of species of trees and plants.
But, for some unknown reason the Municipal Tourism Agency has decided it wants to boost tourism and a good way to start is by introducing the availability of Paragliding.
Bogor fancies up-and-away tourism
Theresia Sufa, Bogor
The Bogor administration has announced its plan to offer paragliding instruction and flights to boost its tourist industry.
The municipal tourism agency said Bogor was the only place in the country where adventure-seekers could go on paragliding flights in tandem with instructors.
“However, we can’t do much to develop and promote the tourist industry because our primary focus is municipal revenue,” agency official Arry Sunardi said.
He said the Bogor Legislative Council had resisted the agency’s plan to promote eco-tourism.
Arry said the council had argued that offering activities like paragliding or rafting was a waste of money.
The tourism sector is expected to contribute Rp 300 million yearly to the city’s budget.
Arry said the tax gained from tourism was Rp 17 billion a year, which was only enough to maintain the existing tourist sites.
“If we develop the sector, more money will come,” he said.
Council member Suprianto said the administration did not seem serious about getting the industry in shape.
“Its tourism campaigns are still half-hearted.”
He said the council had proposed that the administration come up with a plan to involve all stakeholders in the development of the tourism sector as one of the city’s leading moneymakers.
Source: Jakarta Post
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Forests: Bogor
Farmers Restore Dwindling Forests: Bogor, West Java
After five years of hard work, a group of farmers in Bogor have brought back to life a 12-hectare area of forest and natural pasture that was suffering a slow and miserable death thanks to ongoing environmental damage incurred over a number of years.
Cipendawa village farmers in Megamendung district have successfully planted various tree seedlings and vegetables on the 12-hectare area once described as suffering “critical environmental damage“.
“We were concerned with the environmental damage in Bogor, Puncak and Cianjur resort areas,” group leader Bambang Istiawan said.
“We could not wait for the Bogor regency administration to regreen the area, which is why we took the reforestation initiative.”
And their success story has attracted Bogor regency legislative council and administration officials.
Officials visited the “mini” forest situated in Blok S of Cipendawa village, which is a part of the Bogor, Puncak, and Cianjur settlement.
Head of the agricultural resources division at the Bogor regency forestry and plantation agency Eliza said the farmers’ secret to success should be adopted as an official administration program.
“It’s unbelievable these farmers could grow a forest in only five years,” Eliza said.
“Other farmers should be involved in such projects because there is a total of 118 hectares of critically damaged land in dire need of reforestation in Megamendung district alone,” she said.
Councilor Edi Wibowo from Commission B on the environment said the administration should make it a pilot project to help restore the hills in Bogor, Puncak and Cianjur.
But the regreening project was not easy, Bambang warned.
“Planting the seedlings is the easiest part of the whole work,” he said.
“Each day we had to check the seedlings, water them and replace the dying ones.
“When we started it was hard to get a good source of water so we had to dig deep to make a well.
But Bambang said after the trees had grown, two natural springs emerged.
“We did all this because we wanted to return our neighborhood to its old self when only few rich people had their villas up here,” he said.
“At that time the air was fresh and the forests were still untouched.
“The villa owners just don’t care about the environment in Puncak.”
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Graduate School of IPB at a Glance
Graduate education in IPB began structurally in 1975 with the Departments of Agricultural Economics, Soil Sciences, Agronomy, Animal Husbandry, Development Extension, Rural Sociology, and Applied Statistics. These educational programs were given an emphasis on the education for Master degrees in sciences and centrally organized by the Graduate School. In the following years, new departments were established along with the human resources available, particularly with the increasing number of teaching staff who had succeeded in completing their Graduate studies in the home countries and overseas. In 1983, the number of departments reached 21 and the term ‘department’ was changed into ‘study program’ until the mid of 2007. At the end of 2007 the term ‘study program’ was replaced by ‘Major Program’. At present, the Graduate School of IPB offers Graduate studies in 65 Major Programs for Master degrees and 43 Major Programs for Doctoral degrees.
Along with such development, a number of study programs were considered to have the capacity to conduct doctoral programs structurally, and thus in 1978 the doctoral degree programs were officially opened. Meanwhile there were some changes and adjustments particularly resulting from the introduction of the Government Regulation No. 5/1980 and No. 27/1981, Ministerial Degree of Education and Culture No. 0211/U/1982 and Directorate General of High Education’s Decree No. 048/Dj/Kep/1982. Based on those regulations, the name SPs (Graduate School) of IPB was changed to Fakultas Pascasarjana abbreviated as FPS (Faculty of Graduate Studies), which managed master programs in science and doctoral programs. However, with the introduction of the Government Regulation No. 30/1990, the name FPS is changed again to Program Pascasarjana (PPs) or Graduate Programs. Now, based on the decree of MWA (Board of Trustee) of IPB No. 17/MWA-IPB/2003 on the Statutes of IPB, PPs is changed again to Sekolah Pascasarjana (SPs) or Graduate School
Since in 1982, SPs (Graduate School) have cooperated with a number of universities to conduct Graduate education in the form of Credit Collection Activity (CCA). The universities which have been in the status of CCA with SPs in introducing master degree programs are now in the independent status in managing Graduate educational programs. Those universities are UNHAS (1982-1986), UNAND (1984-1993), USU (1985-1993), UKSW (1986-1993) and UNSRAT (1985-1995).
Since its foundation, the Graduate School have made changes in its names and director as sequenced below: Year 1974-1980, Graduate School with Prof. Dr. Andi Hakim Nasution as the Director; Year 1980-1991, Faculty of Graduate Studies with Prof. Dr. Edi Guhardja as the Dean; Year 1991-1998, Graduate Programs with Prof. Dr. Edi Guhardja as the Director; Year1998-2003, Graduate Programs with Prof. Dr. Sjafrida Manuwoto as the Director; Year 2003-2006, Graduate School with Prof. Dr. Sjafrida Manuwoto as the Dean; Year 2006 - now, Graduate Programs with Prof. Dr. Ir. Khairil Anwar Notodiputro, MS.as the Dean.
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RCE Bogor
Committee of Peers for RCEs meeting in Paris on 5 December 2006 recommended United Nations University (UNU) to acknowledge 23 new RCEs. RCE Bogor, which was one of the 23 recommended RCEs, was acknowledged as the first RCE in Indonesia. The formal launch of the RCE Bogor was held on the 6th February 2006 at SEAMEO BIOTROP Campus. SEAMEO BIOTROP acts as the host of RCE Bogor secretariate.
A RCE is a network of existing formal, non-formal and informal organisations, mobilised to deliver education for sustainable development (ESD) to local and regional communities. A RCE programme is an instrument for implementing agenda of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. The RCE concept is in line with the program thrusts of SEAMEO BIOTROP and its partners in the region. Activities of the RCE include coordination of stakeholders efforts, governance, research and development and transformative education. SEAMEO BIOTROP has performed a number of consultations and discussions with important stakeholders within and outside the region. Among those discussions are meetings with the RCE facilitator at UNU-IAS two large-scale stakeholders meetings with the potential stakeholders and several bilateral discussions with the organisations interested in collaborating with the particular RCE programmes. As a result, the concept of the ESD and RCE is communicated to some key organisations and the initial alliancies are formed.
The stakeholders consultations in November 2006, held in conjunction with the International Seminar on Education for Sustainable Development : Biofuel for Sustainable Development, lead to the formulation of the initial programme of the RCE. It was agreed that the focus of the education and capacity development of the RCE should be on the poverty alleviation in the Bogor area and beyond. Research centers, public and private universities, private sectors and local governments in Bogor region attended the meeting as the networking partners.
The first step of the process development was the identification of the conducted and on-going programs related to ESD including the commitment of stakeholders (MOUs, participation in the programs etc.) according to the challenges faced by Bogor region.
Bogor region faces the similar major Indonesian problem that is poverty alleviation. Bogor area plays an important role in providing the Jakarta metropolitan with enough food, water and manpower. On one hand, there is a high pressure on the environment by opening forest land for extended agriculture development caused by rapid increase of the area population and limited job opportunities. This results in rapid urbanization and illegal exploitation of natural resources which cause escalating deterioration of the environment. On the other hand, the increase of poverty reduces the quality of life of the residence. It leads to increased criminality, high rate of school drop-out, low buying power as well as reduced quality of living environment. Many poverty alleviation programs have been conducted by the government but the number of poor people continue to increase. Limited financial resource is one of the constraints faced by the Indonesian Government. Integrated planning program by all stakeholders, including government, private sectors, civil society organisations might be a solution for increasing job opportunities and the welfare of the society. By linking with various institutions, RCE Bogor lends an oportunity for contributing to this challenge through education and capacity development.
SEAMEO-BIOTROP acts as a coordinator of many projects to be conducted under the RCE umbrella, including education of street children, capacity development of the poor, etc. In addition, it will specifically contribute to the programmes related to its own mandate.
All the key stakeholders are encouraged, with their own capacity and expertise, to contribute to the development of ESD. The interconnectivity between these programs and activities will create opportunities for more sustainable regional development.
The next steps of RCE Bogor development will comprise the formulation of the working groups around specific project ideas where specific steps and responsibilities will be discussed and planned. As the first RCE in Indonesia, RCE Bogor is commited to share experiences of own mobilization with upcoming RCEs in Indonesia for example RCE candidate Jogyakarta, and in the region.
For more information, please contact
RCE Bogor, SEAMEO BIOTROP
Jalan Raya Tajur km 6, Bogor
Phone/Fax (0251) 383510
Email: edc[at]biotrop.org
Website: rce-bogor.biotrop.org
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Bogor Science Park-Seameo Biotrop
Bogor Science Park (BSP) aims to attract students to be interested in science by introducing scientific indoor and outdoor facilities. When RCE Bogor was launched on February 6, 2007; the renovation of previously SEAMEO BIOTROP auditorium building began to accommodate indoor facility of BSP. The building has now two storey-floors and is being installed with displays and other science equipments. In addition, a bridge connecting the second floor of indoor area to outdoor area that will show various field work and experimentation on tropical biology related areas was built during the Fiscal Year 2007/2008. The construction of more indoor displays and more outdoor facilities will continue in the next Fiscal Years. The area covered by BSP includes (1) Biology, (2) Physics, (3) Environment and (4) Transportation. The displays are in the modes of prototypes, animations and movies.
(www.biotrop.org)
