JAKARTA: The Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry will promote the country’s efforts to advance environmental education through the Adiwiyata School or Green School programme at the 10th World Water Forum in Bali.

Adiwiyata is one of the Ministry of Environment’s key programmes aimed at promoting knowledge and awareness about environmental conservation efforts among Indonesia’s student community.

Schools with the Adiwiyata title are those that have succeeded in carrying out an environmental awareness movement at school, the Indonesian news agency (ANTARA) reported.

The Head of Centre for Environmental and Forestry Generation Development Sinta Saptarina Soemiarno said that there are 28,270 Adiwiyata Schools across Indonesia. She further explained that to become an Adiwiyata School, schools must meet six aspects of environmentally friendly behaviours.

Those aspects are maintaining cleanliness, sanitation, and drainage functions; managing waste using the reduce, reuse, recycle principle; planting
and nurturing plants; water conservation; energy conservation; and other environmentally friendly behavioural innovations.

Apart from that, schools are also required to have a curriculum revolving around those six aspects.

Indonesia was chosen to host the 10th World Water Forum, to be held on 18th to 25th May 2024, during the General Assembly of the World Water Council in Senegal in 2022.

The forum is an international meeting of stakeholders in the water resources sector, such as governments, parliaments, political leaders, multilateral institutions, politicians, academicians, civil society, and business players.

Source: Emirates News Agency