Many of BEDO’s members joined the training as well as a group of diffabled from YAKKUM (Foundation).

The meeting was held at Little Tree seminar room and was very interactive and informative.

Focus Group Discussion on Flores Branding, destination website development and the Flores positioning vision.

Presentation to Bali, Lombok and Sulawesi tour operators selling and developing Flores tourism products.

Ceremonial planting at Tabanan site

The greening programmes worth of USD$ 20,000 which is conducted through a cooperation with an international environmental organization, PATT (Plant a Tree Today) Organization, include 4,000 trees planting in Tabanan and 1,000 trees in Sidemen, Bali. The 5,000 tree planting in Bali is the first phase held at the end of this year, and will continue with additional 3,000 trees in 2010 in other regions.

Also attending the tree planting ceremony in Bali are representatives of the PATT Organization, Friends of the National Parks Foundation / FNP, research and consulting firm Bali International Consulting Group, as well as community leaders and the surrounding community.

Head of Compliance and Assurance Standard Chartered Indonesia Chisca Mirawati said: “At Standard Chartered, we are committed to lead by example at various markets where we operate. Besides contributing to economic growth through main business activities, we also want to help preserve the environment and provide a broader impact to the communities where we operate. Planting trees in Bali is one of the real examples of our commitment, and also as a sign of our support for government programme one-man-one-tree. ”

“Environmental awareness campaign has been conducted continuously at various offices of Standard Chartered worldwide. Since 2007, Standard Chartered Group has a significant contribution to a greener environment by funding various projects of renewable energy and environmentally friendly technology with investments worth $ 3.2 million. In addition, between 2006 and 2008 we managed to reduce CO2 emissions by 14% per employee by reducing the number of paper usage, including energy-saving campaigns some time ago, “added Chisca.

In mid-2009 Standard Chartered Indonesia planted 2,000 trees in Mount Rinjani in collaboration with WWF Indonesia. In this programme, Standard Chartered involves its employees and customers by redeeming their credit card reward points for tree planting; and also from customers who are willing to convert their monthly credit card statement to paperless e-statement. Last year, Standard Chartered has also made peat land forest conservation in Kalimantan region including Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam.

Presentations and speakers are listed below.

The meeting was very well prepared and the quality of speakers and importance of the content was very positively regarded to by all participants.

This was the first meeting at Art Cafe in Seminyak and the venue was very nice and the Art Cafe team very helpful.

Special thanks to Dayu our secretary at BEDO.

See you all in our next meeting in January, for details please contact Dayu dayu(at)be-do.org

Our pro poor approach will be focused on a multi stakeholder facilitation establishing DMOs (Destination Management Organizations) and the strengthening of tourism sector SMEs and district/regional governments.

For questions related to this project you can contact me on christian(dot)fritz72(at)gmail.com