This year it has been ten years since I first met with Prigi Arisandi and Daru Setyorini, those amazing founders of ECOTON. I was immediately taken in by them, and their work.

Ekspedisi Sungai Nusantara: powerful documentary about the condition of Indonesian rivers

Brantas XOXO - the interactive expo on plastic kicked off in Gresik and Sidoarjo, East Java. It informs about the plastic waste in the river and inspires to take action. Brantas XOXO will travel to upstream villages along the river.

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="Take back your trash from Indonesia" font_container="tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23dd9933"][vc_column_text]“Please stop exporting your plastic waste to Indonesia and take back your trash from Indonesia. Please help me to live in clean and healthy environment and plastic free world.” Last Monday, 14-year old Aeshnina Azzahra Aqilan (Nina), handed over a letter to  Barbara Visser, the Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and Water, asking her to stop plastic waste exports to Indonesia.  Nina lives not far from Bangun, a village in East Java  that became a dumpsite for imported plastic trash. 

Indonesian students are researching what riverine communities living along the river Brantas in East Java think about river pollution and how that affects them: their health, their food and their livelihoods.

The Tambak Wedi river has turned all fluffy and white in this coastal neighbourhood in Surabaya, reminding the university students who research the river water of pure snow.

These students set out to collect water samples from the Brantas River. In the water laboratory of the Indonesian NGO Ecoton, they search for plankton with a microscope.

Last Saturday, the KALI SURABAYA DETECTIVE SCHOOL 2020 program was launched. Again an inspiring example of Ecoton's unique approach in enabling children to protect their river.

We recently launched YUYU. A project that warms our heart because it stems from the shared appreciation of Makara and NorthernLight for the great work of Ecoton in Indonesia

Makara, environmental organisation ECOTON and Dutch creative agency NorthernLight are launching a new initiative: YUYU.