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

Parangtritis Beach

Tuesday, 15th november 2011

Today, we are going to visit Geospatial Laboratory in Parangtritis Beach, about 20 km away in the southern part of Yogyakarta. Our journey started at 8.25 from University Hotel.

9.32 – 10.00 – Geospatial Laboratory

We drove to the south of jokjakarta towards the shore to drive to the Geospatial Laboratory.

Here stand a big blue building with studying the coastal area and monitoring the circumstance in Indonesia twice every day. Downstairs there where all kind of equipment for mapping, and there stands all kind of coral from the sea. After the tour inside we went to have a snack. In the canteen were stands a variation of traditional Indonesian food. Like Pisang goreng, sweet potato and tofu with a green chili and other thing. Perry toke the challenge and eat a whole green chili. It was really spicy for him he got all tears in his eyes.

After this funny happening there were made some group pictures.

When these were taken we went to the beach to have some fun. Some of us ride on a horse and others drove on the ATV or swim in the sea.

When the time was over we went back to the bus and have a lunch.

10.15 -11.15 – Parangtritis Sand Dune

After we had visited Geospasial Laboratory. We went to Parangtritis Beach. It is not far away from Geospasial Laboratory. We had just 5 minutes to arrive there. Parangtritis Beach is famous beach because there are aboundant sand dunes which is barchan tipe. It is the ony one sand dunes that we can see in the Southeast Asia.

Long the street we can see so many sand dunes. It is kind of aeolin and marin landform that likes a hill that all materials is sand.The materials are from Merapi eruption that is taken along by the Progo and Opak River into the sea. Because there is long shore current, the materials come out the sea. It becomes deposition material. It flies over by wind becomes sand dunes. On the other hand, because there is cliff. It makes possible to barrier the material not to go far away. So the materials stand along there.

Sand dune in parangtritis has some forms. Tongue dune has small size with long, tongue shape that can be found in some part of the coast. Typical sand dune has medium size, located in the middle part of the coast. The last, large barchan dune with U shape located in the back, far from the coast line.

It is very unique because it can grow in the tropis climate. We know that in the tropis climate is humid and wet. Sand dunes looks like desert where grows in the dry climate. But it is different, eventhough it is same materials. There are important factors that make different. The factors are sand, long shore current, wind, and cliff.

11.15 - 12.30 – Parangtritis Beach

Parangtritis Beach is sandy beach, in which the material comes from the Merapi Volcano. Due the tectonic process comes from two major faults in east and west side, the land between them decreased and formed a graben, resulted in wide, flat topography around Parangtritis Beach. In the east side, the fault line became a beautiful cliff consists of limestone material, resulted in very wonderful view in east part of the beach. Coconut trees, big waves and strong wind that come from the sea give additional value to the amazing scenery in Parangtritis.

By : Andung, Perry, Reny, Tao

Mount Merapi and Borobudur

Today was a tourist-day for us. Early in the morning we went with our enthusiastic tourguide to mount Merapi. This is a volcano on central Java. After 45 minutes drive we arrived on the foot of this volcano. From the foot there were two ways up: By motorcycle of by foot. The sportive ones choose foot offcourse, but the daredevils went on the motorcycle with the Indonesians. It was a very hot, but a lot of us made it to the top where we had a beautiful view over the hills. Also there we could see something of the impact of the volcano. A lot of vegetation was burned because the volcano gives al cloud of more than 200 degrees when it irrupts.

After the volcano we had a lunch at restaurant Orang Outang. The statue in the front of the restaurant (offcourse an Orang Outang) was a big attraction where we made a group photo.

And than finally we went to the Borobudur temple. This is a Buddhist temple. When we came out of the bus directly a lot of people came to us to sell stuff. Lucky the tourguide told us to bargain and some other tricks how to buy a how not to buy souvenirs from them. So we went to the temple. The temple was enormous. The temple has ten levels and on the side of the temple the story of Buddha to see made in stone. We went all the way up to the highest part what is called ‘heaven’. The guide said that you get energy from being in this place. When we were at this ‘heaven’ we had a beautiful sight of the surroundings and the temple complex. In this touristic attraction we became a touristic attraction ourselves. A lot of people wanted to take a picture with us because we were white and tall compared to the Indonesian people. This was a very weird but funny experience for us. Our laughing mussels where hurting after 30 minutes of being famous. We bought some souvenirs and went back to the hotel. At the evening we went to dinner and worked on the cases.

Jorge Jansen, 13th of November, Yogyakarta

From the Indonesian point of view

On Friday, 11 th November, 2011, we went to go around in the site of Semarang city. The trip begun at Siliwangi Hotel that is located at Jl. MGR Sugiyopranoto No 61 where we had stayed during in Semarang. First, we invited Old city (Kota Lama or Oudstadt) at about 09.00 am. It is located at Jl. Letjend Soeprapto, Semarang, Central java, Indonesia. It has a lot of oId Dutch colonial buildings such as machine factory, cigarrete factory, Immanuel church-Gereja Blenduk, pond, etc. This location offers nice architecture. We around in this part and take picture some of oId Dutch colonial buildings.

At about 10.00 am, we continued our journey to the Nyonya Meneer’s factory. The factory is lacoted at Jl. Raden Patah 191-199, Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. That is herbal medicine factory. We were friendly welcomed by factory’s staff. They offered free some of herbal medicines for us to try the medicines and some of us took that several. Factory’s staff gave many explanations about the herbal medicine such as the type of herbal plants. And then we are offered to buy herbal medicine and several of us buy that medicines. Finally we took picture together in this place.

At about 12.00 am, some of us went to Paragon mall and the others went to back to Siliwangi Hotel. That mall is located in Simongan, West Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. In this place, we had lunch and hang out together. After we were full, we continued our next destination to the Sam Poo Kong by taxi about 15 minutes by pay about 15000 IDR @ taxi. The Sam Poo Kong is China’s heritage. It is located at . We can enter there by ticket’s price 3000 IDR for local tourist and 10000 IDR for foreign tourist. It offers nice and unique architecture. We took picture happly in around this place. Finally, we went to back Siliwangi Hotel at about 04.15 pm and arrived at 04.30 pm.

At the night, some of us had dinner together in the Steak stall near from Siliwangi Hotel at Jl. MGR Sugiyopranoto. After that, at about 08.31 pm we invited lawang Sewu that is located at Jl. Pemuda , Komplek Tugu Muda Semarang Tengah, Central java, Indonesia. From the hotel until lawang sewu, we went to there by foot. This place near from Tugu muda that is one of icons of Semarang. The Lawang sewu is one of oId Dutch colonial buildings. This building has many doors and because of that, it is called lawang sewu in javanese. This place is famous scary building in Semarang. This place offers beautiful architecture. The guide gave us the story of lawang sewu that has many scary and tragic stories. During the guide told story, we was be afraid to listen it. At about 09.30 pm, we decided to go back to the Siliwangi Hotel. We arrived the hotel at about 10.00 pm by foot. And then we still discused until 00.00 pm. Uhf.. today activites was so full and fantastic. Finally, we slept to prepare again for the next morning activites.(Sepviana-Dana)

From the Dutch point of view

The program for today tells us to visit a polder project in Semarang. This event would take place in the morning, but because we went to the slums in Semarang yesterday afternoon, we saw the polder project already. That’s when we concluded that we had the day off. Rick Heikoop came with the proposition to use the bus and go to the old city center and a medicine factory. Semarang is well known for its medicines. It was free to choose whatever you wanted. Some of the students stayed at the hotel to do some homework or get some rest, but most of the students took the opportunity to visit the old city center. We walked around in the center and after seeing it, we went back to the bus and drove to the museum Jamu Jawa Asli. This museum was part of the medicine factory. We got a guided tour through the museum. During this tour, we were told about the history of the factory and after the tour we got some herbal medicines as souvenirs. The hospitality was great and everybody must be very healthy after using our medicines.

After visiting the medicine factory, we didn’t have a program so after a little bit of asking around, we decided to go to a shopping mall with the bus. Everyone who wanted, could get out of the bus at this mall. If you didn’t want to go out, the bus would drive you back to our hotel. Some people left the bus at the shopping mall to get some lunch. Others went back to the hotel to rest or do other things like working on our assignments.

After lunch, the ones who left the bus at the shopping mall decided to go to a Boudistic temple. The Sam Po Kong temple is a temple just outside the centre of the city. Our Indonesian students called some cabs to bring us there. You could walk around at this temple and we stayed for 1,5 to 2 hours. It was a big complex with multiple temples. You could walk around in front of these temples, but after paying some extra entrance fees some of us got the possibility to see the inside of these temples. They were really beautiful. We saw things that we never saw before. After completing our tour, we called the taxis again and went back to our hotel.(Maarten)