Practical activities for making ecoprint cloth, taking part in the Go Green Mini Tour KBA Pekayon Green Zone, sorting waste, processing used cooking oil into useful products such as aromatherapy, making eco enzymes and education on Clean Healthy Living Patterns or PHBS are a series of activities obtained from the Environmental Journalist Workshop 2023 to Kampung Berseri Astra or KBA Pekayon, Bekasi, West Java.
This event was held by PT Astra International Tbk, a national company which has 272 subsidiaries, including the automotive sector, financing services and insurance, and has an appreciation program for Indonesia’s young generation who excel and make positive contributions to society and the surrounding environment. named Astra Integrated Spirit for (ONE) Indonesia.
Waste selection practices carried out at KBA Pekayon [/CNR ukirsari]. “Kampung Berseri Astra is one of the initiatives carried out by the company as a form of support for sustainable community development,” explained Riza Deliansyah, Chief of Corporate Affairs Astra.
“Astra continues to be committed to supporting environmental care actions carried out by Kampung Berseri Astra including KBA Pekayon, Bekasi, West Java,” he continued.
The 2023 Environmental Journalist Workshop event is a form of support for environmental preservation. Including KBA Pekayon, Bekasi which Astra has been building since 2015.
Apart from direct practice, various activities with an environmental focus, including a series of using real leaves as ecoprint motifs on fabric which after use can be processed into compost, and making liquid fertilizer from household waste stairs like fruit skins, participants were invited to observe the KBA Pekayon environment.
By utilizing limited land, residents can plant ornamental plants, consumption plants, and even herbal plants on their roofs and yards. From flowers to leaves, they have consumption and utility value.
These include butterfly pea flower tea, mint tea, and various herbal medicines that can be sold and increase residents’ income.
Kampung Berseri Astra (KBA) is a community-based community development program that integrates the four pillar initiatives of Astra’s sustainable social contribution program in one village community.
Boy Kelana Soebroto, General Manager-Head of Corporate CommunicationsPT Astra International Tbk follows the practice of making ecoprint fabric at KBA Pekayon with journalists and content creators [/CNR ukirsari]. Until this year, Astra has built 194 Astra Berseri Villages (KBA) and 78 of them are ProKlim Villages (Climate Village Program) which is Astra’s commitment to increasing community involvement in climate change mitigation.
Astra also fosters 1,060 Astra Prosperous Villages (DSA), collaborating with the central government, regional government and village communities in developing a rural economy based on local resources.
Through the DSA program, a number of MSMEs in KBA and DSA spread across 34 provinces in Indonesia have succeeded in exporting their products.
Plastic recycling bag work from KBA Pekayon [/CNR ukirsari]. “The presence of Astra in this village adds to our enthusiasm to move, because we have the same vision. Namely empowering the community in the fields of health, education, environment and entrepreneurship,” welcomed Lala Gozali, one of the Pekayon KBA Activists who directly intervened to provide ecoprint training to the participants of the 2023 Astra Environmental Journalist Workshop.
Astra’s enthusiasm in developing KBA Pekayon which educates an integrated and sustainable environment for today and Indonesia’s future is in line with Astra’s ideals to Prosper with the Nation and supports Indonesia’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The KBA community development program is run on a community basis in one village which integrates the four pillars of the Public Contribution Roadmap initiative, namely Astra for a Healthy Indonesia, Astra for a Smart Indonesia, Astra for a Green Indonesia, and Astra for a Creative Indonesia.
Through the implementation of the KBA program, Astra wants to create a clean, healthy, intelligent and productive region in accordance with these four pillars.
In the KBA Pekayon health pillar, residents have a posyandu, poswindu which is routinely carried out door to door. Local residents also actively do routine exercise together.
For the education pillar, KBA Pekayon has a reading garden and provides scholarships from Astra which are strictly selected, as well as receiving guidance from surrounding schools to become adiwiyata schools.
In the environmental pillar, as a village with the title of sustainable climate, activities carried out by local residents include, among other things, mitigation and adaptation to environmental changes, through composting activities, waste banks, reforestation, renewable energy, energy saving activities and city greening.
The waste bank program invites residents to understand how to sort waste, so far the residents have managed to collect 570 kg of single-use plastic waste, as well as a program to use used cooking oil as a base for organic soap.
The results of making liquid organic fertilizer using plant material and the fertilizer process
