SOBAT BUMI INDONESIA, GREENING INDONESIA TO GIVE A HEALTHY LIFE FOR PEOPLE IN THE WORLDWIDE

Interviewing a coordinator of Sobat Bumi Semarang

Greening is a primary program of Sobat Bumi Indonesia Organization, one of organizations in Indonsia that preserves Indonesian environment and saves the earth. It is officially established in Bali on February 22th, 2014. It spreads over islands in Indonesia.

          Biyri Hakim is a coordinator of students who get scholarship from Pertamina Foundation for Central Java and Jogjakarta region. He is studying in Law Faculty of Semarang State University. He joins in Sobat Bumi Indonesia because he gets scholarship from Pertamina Foundation when he was in the fifth semester. He said, “I registered the scholarship because I think that besides it pays my tuition until eight semester and gives me some money as my living cost, it also gives me opportunity to join in supporting the greening program”.

          “Fortunately, I can know smart and lucky students from other universities in Indonesia, it can inspire me to always learn what I have not known yet”, his addition. He knows them through some activities that is held by Pertamina Foundation. For example, he had joined in “Pertamina Engagement Programme”, an event that was about leadership and company introduction in Jakarta. He said that it is the first experience for him went to another place by plane. “With Pertamina Foundation, I get a lot of new experience and I can reach what I want”, he said.

        He can support the greening program with Sobat Bumi Indonesia. As a coordinator of Sobat Bumi Semarang, he and his friends of Sobat Bumi Semarang plant thousand trees in some abrasion places that is needed. He said “besides we plant many trees, we also conduct a campaign when the earth day. We give some brochures and stickers that contains about how they should save the environment from some rubbishes and illegal logging”.

          In the end, he suggested for the next generation to always keep and save our earth in which we was born and grown. It aims to give a healthy life for our young generation.