“I imagine that from 21 schools that participate in this program, a time in the future when hundreds of thousands of trees or possibly even millions of trees can be planted in District of Jepara ……. this is a very challenging and delightful art and through this program I can more sharpen the capacity of communicating with the community.”

This is the dream of Mr. Ade, former Principal of SMKN 1 (High School) Jepara, who joined the Trees4Trees tree planting program in 2008 as an Area Manager.

2012 Planting Plan

In 2012, Trees4Trees plans to plant trees as much as 185,000 plc in 8 districts. The districts are Cilacap, Kebumen, Purbalingga, Pati, Jepara, Magelang, Tegal and Klaten. Various preparations are implemented such as socialization, data collection of plots and data collection of farmers who participate in the planting program.

Socialization for the purpose of informing community about Trees4Trees program.

Production of Seedling for 2012 Planting Period

To fulfill 2012 planting target, Trees4Trees will produce seedling as much as 196,000 seedlings that consists of Teak, Sengon, Suren, Mahoni and Mahogany. Three nurseries are prepared for the production. They are in Magelang which will produce 106,000 seedlings, nursery developed by Berkah Lestari farmer group in Purbalingga for production of 75,000 seedlings and the rest will be produced by nursery in agricultural vocational school, Trucuk, Klaten.

Blessing of the nursery in Magelang led by Father Teguh of PIKA Semarang.

Filling the polybag with soil for production of seedling.

For the purpose of evaluating the planting session before and identifying the level of growth, a monitoring is performed. It is organized through phases scheduled by Trees4Trees. Field Coordinator conducts monitoring in unit management after accomplishes training provided by Trees4Trees.

Novita, staff of Trees4Trees provided training on plant monitoring to Field Coordinator in Cilacap.

Workshop on Social Dimension Analysis

Trees4Trees attended workshop on Social Dimension Analysis that was organized by CIFOR in Mataram on 11 to 12 June 2012. The workshop was part of activities of ACIAR Project (Australian Center for International Agricultural Research) in collaboration with CIFOR, Trees4Trees, FORDA Bogor and Makasar, Faculty of Forestry of UGM and WWF.

Workshop on Social Dimension Analysis was organized to compare result of research on custom and habit of community, decision making structure within family and community, sources of community livelihood, primary job from forestry sector and value chain of wood selling in the community in some locations.

Each organization presented its research result from their region. The locations were Gunung  kidul by UGM and CIFOR, Pati by FORDA Bogor and Trees4Trees, Konawe by CIFOR and FORDA Makasar while Bulukumba by FORDA Makasar and finally Sumbawa by WWF.

Social Dimension Analysis Workshop, 11 – 12 June 2012 in Mataram.  Mrs. Elske van Der Fliert in black, communication lecturer of Queensland University was the Project Leader of Study Task 1.
Participant Visit to Plantation

Galeria Indonesia, a new Trees4Trees participant visited Trees4Trees planting plot in Magelang, together with one of its French retailers. The plot visited was in Tersangede village, subdistrict of Salam, Magelang. The objective of the visit was to see trees planted by Trees4Trees in the area and discuss with the tree recipient.

Mark Dinghin, Galeria Indonesia’s retailer from France was taking photograph of a tree.
Mr. Sukirejo with traditional Javanese cap was one of tree recipient from Trees4Trees in Magelang.

Trees4Tours

Various objectives become background for participant joining Trees4Trees. This matter is also experienced by ViaVia Jogjakarta which had joined the program on June 2012. Its concern to environment has led the Jogjakarta based tour & travel agent to develop program namely Trees4Tours. Through the program, they invite tour participants to donate tree in every trip. The program that was launched by the end of June 2012 was aimed not only improving environmental awareness among tour participants but also reducing carbon, one of elements that accelerate global warming. 

Sri Mujiati, Manager of ViaVia with Trees4Tours logo.

Trees4Trees™ had conducted annual meeting with Field Coordinators who will assist and supervise 2012 planting program in 9 Management Units which consists of Cilacap, Banyumas, Purbalingga, Kebumen, Jepara, Pati, Magelang, Klaten, Tegal. The objective of the annual meeting performed by Trees4Trees™ was to evaluate planting program carried out in the previous year. Another objective was discussing 2012 planting program that will plant approximately 185,000 plants.

Field Coordinators were paying attention to the explanation on 2012 Trees4Trees™ Planting Plan.

The Trees4Trees™ staffs and all Field Coordinators who will be involved in 2012 Planting Program.

Field Coordinator Training

Trees4Trees™ had trained 16 new Field Coordinators  for 2012 planting program, they were trained on how to disseminate the Trees4Trees™  program to the community, collect data from participants/farmers who are interested in taking a part with the program, and map the farmers’ land planted with trees fro Trees4Trees™ later.

Training been been provided by Trees4Trees™  to  all new Field Coordinators. Tangguh (orange) of  Trees4TreesTM was explaining how to use GPS to the new Field Coordinators.  It was used to locate and mark land position.
Planting Education

Trees4Trees™ collaborated with PIKA delivered planting education to students of PIKA. The students learned how to plant and grow healthy trees. The trees were planted in 7 lands belonged to local farmers at Sumber village, Muntilan, Central Java, and those trees would be owned by the farmers. During the activity, Trees4Trees™ had provided 800 seedlings which consisted of Sengon (600 plc), Suren (100 plc) and Mahogany (100 plc).

  The students were excited to learn planting a tree.

  Trees4Trees™ management of PIKA, the students and the farmers after trees planting activity.

Staff of Trees4Trees™ and PIKA’s Management were discussing with farmers who received the donation.
 

Riparian Planting Activity

Riparian planting activity is one of programs which is developed by Trees4Trees with the main goal is to improve the quality of river stream area to support the function of the river, we can find such activities along Cilalal riverside, Kedung Wadas and Citembong villages, Cilacap Districts. One of species that protects surface from erosion is vetiver, about  5.000 plc of vetiver have been planted along 1,5 km.

Novita, Trees4Trees staff with local villagers was planting vetiver. Vetiver plant maintains soil surface and strengthens riverbank.

Trees4Trees Showing at IFFINA

Trees4Trees participated in IFFINA Exhibition (International Furniture and Craft Fair Indonesia), Jakarta. This activity is aimed to  introduce the program and the benefits of becoming Trees4Trees participants/member to the foreign and local furniture manufacturers also buyers. After visiting the exhibition, some manufacturers have been registered as Trees4Trees participants.

Latif, Trees4Trees Client Services Manager, was explaining Trees4Trees Program to visitor.  Many visitors were interested in Trees4Trees Program and express their willingness to join the program

Planting Education Program

As a form of seriousness to support educational program, specifically raising environmental awareness to students, Trees4Trees is in associate with SMK PIKA (Institution of Woodworking) Semarang, conducting trees planting education to their students. Trees4Trees provides seeds to be planted by PIKA students, and donated to local farmers. This activities is part of framework of PIKA 40th Anniversary

Ejeb of Trees4Trees with PIKA’s Management and farmer,  checking the farmer's land that becomes planting location.