21st of November 2011

World Delta Summit is an annual event and this year is the first time held in

Indonesia. Most population in the world living in delta areas that’s why it’s important to

do conference about delta areas.

First, when we arrived we had to register ourselves and also there are Inauguration of

Delta Expo by Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare. At 9.30 the opening ceremony

is started with the report delivered by the Chairman of the organizing comitte, Prof. Jan

Sopaheluwakan then the governor of Jakarta, Dr Fauzi Bowo do the welcome speech

the last,.E.H.R. Agung Laksono, the coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare of the

Republic of Indonesia doing the official speech inaugurating the World Delta Summit.

After the opening ceremony, the conference continued with the Plenary Sessions.

The first plenary is about Green Innovation and Delta Development by H.E Gusti

Muhammad Hatta. After that, the other speakers also delivered their speeches which

are H.E. H.S Dillon, the special envoy of the President of Republic of Indonesia for

poverty alleviation and Dr. A. Hermanto Dardak, the vice minister of public works of the

Republic of Indonesia.

So today finally the world delta summit started! We left early because the traffic in Jakarta is notoriously bad, but we were well in time for registration and reception of the conference. The opening was very nice, but my friend Nana will eleborate.

The lunch was very nice, there were probably more waiters and waitresses than people eating lunch. After lunch there were some plenairy sessions and presentations about climate change effects and some efforts to mitigate or adapt to climate change. Most of the speakers were dutch, but there were also some indonesian and one swiss speaker. The afternoon passed fairly quick, our heads full of warnings of the changing climate. Also the importance of international cooperation to protect vulnerable delta regions was stressed. Many delta regions have similar problems of urbanization, flooding, social problems etc.

The conference room was not very crowded, but nonetheless the presentations reiterated the importance of meetings like the world delta summit. To make sure that all the sessions are properly recorded we have been given the task to report the sessions of the following day. That way we are sure to learn and pay attention!

At 7 pm in the evening, we invited to come to dinner and welcoming reception at

Taman Ismail Marzuki by the Governor of Jakarta. The event is started at 8 pm with

Several performance which is performed by professional dancer from IKJ (Jakarta Art

Institute). The title of the performance is Archipelagos Delta and the performance was

very amazing with all the good dancer, costume, and the big stage. There are dancing

and singing performance telling about culture diversity in Indonesia. It was very happy

to see all the performance before the real round table, scientific session, and workshop

session.

Parana Ari Santi

Annisa Triyanti

Laurence Koetsier

Sunday 20 November

Today we had the day off. Finally we had the chance to get some sleep, but also to see something in Jakarta. After a late breakfast some of us made some plans. First we went to the Monas, the Monumen Nasional. We decided to go inside and read something about the Indonesian history. Of course was this very interesting for both the Indonesian and the Dutch students because the Dutch are of a big influence on the Indonesian History. After the tour through the museum, we wanted to go all the way up in the monument, but unfortunately there was a queue of three hours.



From the first floor of the National museum we could see the biggest mosque of south-east Asia. That’s why we decided to visit it. For some of us it was the first time we visited a mosque. It was very exciting. The mosque was really big indeed. We got a tour by a guide and he explained about the rituals. After visiting the mosque we went to the church which was at the other side of the road. This was the oldest church in Jakarta, but it wasn’t really special.

In the afternoon we wanted to get some diner at a shopping mall. We also cycled at the third floor above the ground. It was really special and some of us shitted their pants, I guess.



Some of us went to the manicure get re in the mall, it took three hours to get the whole treatment. And it only costs 10 euro for two people. Afterwards, we ate Japanese bento at the food court at top of the mall which is very nice.

In the end of day, we took a taxi back to the hotel which was very difficult for us, because the diver didn’t know the place and it took a lot of effort to ask the right way back.

Traintrip to Jakarta

Friday, 18-11-2011

On this day we were due to depart to the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta. We were picked up at our hotel by three large taxi’s and it was a bit of a squeeze to get everything and everyone inside. But finally we did it. After a short ride we arrived at the train station. Here we had to wait for our train to Jakarta. The train arrived well on time in Yogyakarta and at precisely 10.00 am we left for an eight hour trip, covering well over 500 kilometres.

This trip was an amazing experience. The first hours we drove through the mountains. There were rice fields and terraces on both sides and we enjoyed some spectacular views while leaning back in our excellent seats. After a while we started to explore the rest of the train. We found out that we could open the doors between the coupes to hangout of the train. This gave us the opportunity to take some pictures and videos from an unusual point of view. In the meantime we could grab a bite at the small restaurant in the train.

In the mountains the weather suddenly changed. Heavy rain fell out of the sky, luckily for us it cleaned the windows of the train, so after the rain we could see more clearly outside.

After a few stops in the middle of nowhere the bumpy ride ended at the main train station of Jakarta, where we had to arrange transport to our hotel. The Indonesian students arranged some taxi’s for us and after a trip of 30 minutes we arrived at our hotel. This very nice hotel is placed in central Jakarta.

Hopefully our stay in Jakarta will be a good and interesting one.

Bas Rademacher and Jorge Jansen

Mr. Brinkman and the Polder Project Jakarta

Today, Saturday the 19th november, we met Mr. Brinkman from Deltares. Mr. Brinkman has been working for Deltares for a longer time, including large scale projects in Singapore and Thailand.

At the moment, he is working on a project that is of very Dutch nature: introducing the polder system to Jakarta to fight flooding in the City. The City has been experiencing severe flooding, and many people still have the big flooding of 2007 in mind. Mr. Brinkman gave a tour through the city, showing us the weak links of the channels that are supposed to discharge peak rainfall of the city.

When visiting a dyke, it became clear to us how urgent the improvements for the flood protection of the city currently are: The city has been experiencing major land subsidies in the recent years. The city has been growing a lot in the recent years, leading to increased demand in water. Due to over intensive extraction of groundwater, the soil under the city keeps on sinking, threating the future of the city and the population.

After a nice Chinese lunch and some Chinese entertainment by Tao and Sander, we visited some more sluices to get an idea of the current situation.

The day ended with an Indian dinner and a presentation of the Polder project Jakarta, that aims to stop the problems by constructing a huge catchment basin. This will be created by closing the bay of Jakarta.

Thursday 17 november.

Today we were expected at the second day of the LEAN-CC conference. Different speakers tried to explain thing about climate change. The one was more interesting than the other, but I think we learned some nice things. Spared from a electricity fall-out we were able to sit in a nice cooled auditorium. Unfortunately, the day was very long and however some speeches were very educational, some were quite boring as well.

The conference started with a speech from Dr. Jatna Supriatna, the chairman of Climate Change Research Centre from the University of Indonesia. He told something about the causes of climate change and he gave some solutions, but I think his speech was quite superficial.
The second speech of the day came from Mr. Bernhard Barth, a Human Settlements Officer at UN-HABITAT. He gave a speech about urban climate change. The biggest part of his story was about the way these problems must be educated. For us, as university students, I think this presentation was not that useful, but I think it was interesting. `
The third speech was given by Stelios Grafakos and dr. Sukamdi. They talked about some practical issues of studying in the EU and outside the EU. For students with the wish to study abroad, this was very practical and useful.



After a short coffee break, we continued this day with a presentation with the Philippine view on climate change by Charlotte Kendra Gotangco. Following this presentation, Daniel Irurah presented the South-African view on climate change. Hereafter the Indonesian perspective was presented by Hotmauli Sidabalok. The fourth presentation in this curricula was about Lithuania and the Personalised Library system. The last presentation before our lunch break was given by Margaretha Breil from Italy with a presentation about different climate change courses in Europe.

After a great lunch, we continued our conference. The group was splitted in three different groups, to discuss different problems. The discussion between Indonesian students and Dutch students was really interesting, because both groups thought about different priorities. At the end of the discussion, we had to present them. All the three presentations were meaningful.
After the presentations, the conference came to an end. We all received a certificate of attendance and went back to the hotel.

In the evening we went to the big mall to get some dinner and after that we went to the HappyPuppy for a nice evening of karaoke. Some of the Indonesian students joined us at the Karaoke. After some nice songs and 4 hours of karaoke, we decided to get some sleep.

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Blog 16th of November by Sepvi, Dana and Laurence

On Wednesday, 16^th of November 2011

At 09.00 am Lean CC –Linking European, African and Asia Academic Networks on Climate Change was conducted at Gadjah Mada University. The ceremony was opened by Prof. Dr. Suratman, M.Sc., (Dean of Geography Faculty, UGM). This ceremony was attended by eleven partners. when Mr. Stelios Grafakos, IHS-EUR presented introduction of backgroud Erasmusmundus Project, the electricity suddenly turned off. On other hand the commitee tried to solve the problem and the keynote speaker had continued the presentation. And then we are given time to coffe break. We got information that presentation of all group would be done after coffe break. We were preparing for the presentation and each of group presented their posters one by one. This section was begun by introduction by Rick Heikoop (Senior lecturer of Rotterdam University).

At about 11.00 am, the electricity turned on again. The presentation was be continued by Mark Wiering and continued by Martin vd Velde, Run. They presented about EU-ASIA Educational Cooperation Initiatives. And then the next key note speaker was Stelios Grafakos, IHS-EUR . He presented about the state of the art in climate change education. He explained about climate change impact, information and knowledgment of climate change such as sources of information on climate change, usefulness of knowledge, importance of knowledge of CC to our studies, interest of aspects of CC, demand for climate change spesialist (ecology, wildlife, conservation, foresty job,etc), climate change adaptation.

Edwin van Rest, CEO study Portals and Parter LEANES project presented about Climate change Postgraduate Education in Europe. He explained about the general background of the European Study Choice Platform such as shortcourses, masters, scholarship, PHD, and Bachelors portals. He gaved information about full english programmes listed in environmantal science, especially in climate change.In the other hand, He explained the kinds of european postgraduate programs in Europe that concern about climate change. The last he offered to audience to study in europe who interest about climate change that have big chance. And this conference would be continued tomorow morning. (Sepviana_Dana)

Wednesday, 16^th of November 2011

So, today we had the first day of the Lean CC conference. More details about the morning sessions can be found in Sepviana and Dana’s blog, I agreed with them to divide our blogs between morning and afternoon. However, I would still like to say something about the morning at the Lean CC. The Javanese heat and absence of electricity made it a challenging session. But I guess it is part of the Indonesian experience. We also presented our poster, which represents our findings about the case assignments which we received. The pitch could only last 2 minutes. A short pitch like this means that it’s important that you tell the public the important aspects of your concept and tell it in a ‘to-the-point’ manner. I thought it went quite well and tomorrow we will find out which concept the judges found best. I think it’s a bit unfair to compare, because all the cases are very different.

So that said, I will write something about the afternoon. We didn’t have a program, so we could spend our time as tourist. We went to the most famous street of Yogya; Malioboro street. It’s basically a long colorful street full of shops and stalls and horse carriages, rickshaws and of course motorbikes. I bought some souvenirs and just checked out the scene there. Malioboro is definitely a place you cannot miss when you visit Yogya. In the evening we went to the Balcony, a fancy restaurant where you can have a proper dinner for €10,-. In Indonesia this is expensive, because you can eat dinner here for less than a euro if you really want.

All in all today was very nice, we finally got to see Malioboro street and again I had a positive experience in Indonesia!

Laurence Koetsier