The Advantages of Used Cooking Oil for the Home Economy
Since the end of 2018, Chevie Mawarti, founder of Arnetta Craft, has been creating handicraft items from used cooking oil (UCO), including soap, candles, and scented wax, which she then sells in packages and hampers. “Cooking oil has a selling value as long as it is polished beautifully. Recycling UCO to make other things can […]
Journalism Academy Encourages Economic Reporting from an Environmental Perspective
Traction Energy Asia along with the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) opened the Academy of Economic and Environmental Journalism program on October 26, 2021. This academy is the first academy in Indonesia that focuses on improving the ability of national or local journalists to integrate economic topics into environmental issues and vice versa. Tommy Pratama […]
Independent Oil Palm Smallholders are the Key to Sustainable Biodiesel
Indonesia’s National Farmers Day on September 24, commemorates the enactment in 1960 of Law no. 5 on Basic Agrarian Regulations (Peraturan Dasar Pokok-Pokok Agraria), to replace the Dutch colonial regulations with a national agrarian law that aligned with the interests of the Indonesian people. The Basic Agrarian Regulations were further strengthened in 1963 by Presidential […]
Traction Energy Asia Launches Online Consultation Platform for Sustainable Regional Development Planning
On Thursday, September 2, 2021, Traction Energy Asia launched the Online Consultation platform for Sustainable Regional Development Planning at https://elearning.tractionenergy.asia/. This pioneering new platform supports online consultations about the preparation of sustainable development documents for regional development planning, both for local government officials and professionals. Jakarta-based policy think tank, Traction Energy Asia, developed the online […]
Five Districts Honored in Indonesia’s First Sustainable Regional Development Planning Awards
Bone Bolango, a regency in Gorontalo Province, is an organic district according to district head Hamim Pou, S.Kom, MH, as it prioritizes sustainability and environmental conservation in its regional development planning and policies. Hamim emphasized his point by saying that, “We want to continue to protect Bone Bolango Regency as the lungs of Gorontalo Province,” […]
Traction Energy Asia Supports Regional Governments across Indonesia to Embed Low Carbon Growth and Climate Mitigation into Planning
Traction Energy Asia (Traction) has been providing assistance to regional governments to incorporate low carbon growth and climate and natural disaster mitigation into their Regional Medium-Term Development Plans (RPJMD). Traction collaborated with the Directorate of Planning, Evaluation and Information on Regional Development, Directorate General of Regional Development (Bina Bangda), Ministry of Home Affairs, to deliver […]
The Learning Space Energizing Petamburan
Narrow alleyways lead to a small badminton court nestled between the humble housing and the neighbourhood mosque of Petamburan, part of the central Jakarta district of Tanah Abang. A dead tree with a teddy bear hanging from it stands on one side of the badminton court, and a pole for the badminton net stands on […]
Benefits of Used Cooking Oil for Health, Environment, Economy, Regional Development, and Food Security
The government launched B30 in January 2020 to encourage the use of Biofuel (BBN) through the biodiesel program. Currently, the government relies on CPO as feedstock for the production of biodiesel used in B30 as an alternative to diesel. “The B30 program is not without risks. According to our research, B30 can potentially cause a […]
Pemanfaatan Minyak Jelantah Bagi Kesehatan, Lingkungan, Ekonomi, Pembangunan Daerah, dan Ketahanan Pangan
Pemerintah meluncurkan B30 pada Januari 2020 untuk mendorong penggunaan Bahan Bakar Nabati (BBN) melalui program biodiesel. Saat ini, pemerintah mengandalkan CPO sebagai bahan baku pembuatan biodiesel untuk menghasilkan B30 sebagai bahan bakar pengganti solar. “Berlanjutnya program B30 ini bukan tanpa resiko. Menurut riset kami, program B30 berpotensi menyebabkan defisit pasokan CPO pada 2023 karena meningkatnya […]
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