Other Assistance Programs

While not directly falls into the focus areas, the Foundation from time to time diverges its resources to support activities that are viewed as essential to the well being of communities or societies at large. Such assistances include:

• Support to documentation and dissemination of indigenous cultures of Maluku (in collaboration with the Sejati Foundation, 1994)
• Support to documentation and archival of traditional dances of Maluku (in collaboration of the Andarinyo Center for Cultural Development, 1996)
• Support to the Nusantara Orchestra development program (through the Nusantara Orchestra Foundation, 1996) and support to development of the CSIS library and information center (CSIS, 2001)
• Construction of a community mosque in the Jampit village of Bondowoso, East Java (2000)
• Support to documentation and publication of an archeological find and excavation of 16th century merchant boat in the estuary of the Brantas river in Bojonegoro, East Java (August 2005).
• Partial assistance to two displaced families who lost their entiry house in the February 2006 landslide and flood in Kairagi, Manado.

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Reclamation of Former Mining Exploration Site

In 2001 the Foundation took part in a reclamation and replanting program of an area of around 72 Ha in Ella Hulu village, Upper Barito, West Kalimantan.

The site was formerly converted for exploration activities of a mineral mining company in the Austindo Group. The site was replanted with trees of economic values (acacia and rubber) that the local community can eventually utilize.

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Support to Reef Fish Hatchery in Loh Mbongi

With a view to minimizing if not eliminating destructive reef fishing, and with a perspective to develop farm based local fishery, the Foundation takes part in a project to establish a reef fish hatchery in Loh Mbongi, West Flores just outside the Komodo National Park.

The hatchery is developed in tandem with village based grow-out farms such that communities surrounding the Park can switch from non-sustainable captured based fishing practices to culture based sustainable farming. This program was implemented by The Nature Conservancy in cooperation with the Komodo National Park Management Unit.

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