On October 20th in Srumbung Village, Magelang City, Indonesia, Trees4Trees and Tree Limited from Hongkong were having a green mission: planting trees. Where hopefully, the trees will give hope both for nature and social since the beautiful village was all damaged by Merapi’s last eruption in October 2010.

Merapi Mountain is well-known as the most active mountain in the world. Merapi’s last eruption in October is believed as the bigger eruption than in 1872. Hot clouds, three explosions with earthquakes and volcano materials was thrown 1,5 km away. The amount of volcanic material spewed from the Merapi eruption estimated at about 150 million cubic meters. More than 270 people died, too late for evacuation.

It needed a while for the land, especially Magelang and Yogyakarta – as the closest cities from Merapi – to recover and get started again. It’s now 2015, most of the land are still broken. No trees. Dry river. Lack of water and arid area. For its people,  it’s not easy to continue their life, do their jobs again, especially for the farmers to survive. Their trees are gone, no woods to sale. They just try to plant crops or other annual plants, like chili, tomato, spinach, and other vegetables for short-term living.

It is our responsibility to save the nature by making it green and giving value to the local people.
It’s Tree Limited Hongkong collaborating with Trees4Trees in Srumbung, one of nearest villages from Merapi Mountain. Tree Limited has been a consitent company in participating to make this earth greener and greener. This year, they have planted 60.000 trees and COUNTING. Incredible!!

All Tree Limited crews are super happy to do regreeneration program, it can be seen by seeing their smiles on their faces during the planting activity.

They are Pinky, Dennis and Ginny, the crews of Tree Limited Hongkong. Even the hot weather and hilly tracks of the land, but it can’t even make them lose their excitement. Because they know that their trees mean something, to earth and the people, especially to the farmers.

The trees donated will be planted in many lands of Srumbung Village in cooperation with local farmers to make recovery after the eruption, including water supply, soil porosity and make the area become fresh and shady. And many farmers will be able to cultivate their land again and get their job as farmers.

This surely brings hope for both the nature and its people. Nothing more beautiful to make positive prints to harmony, earth and its creatures.

Thank you Tree Limited Hongkong for giving and bringing back a new whole future, for us, and the next generation. #regreeneration

“Consciously or not, every business is derived from nature”.

Believe or not, nature gives us almost everything in every sector of business. Even when you’re in technology industry, you still need “natural products” like metal to make the products. More, actually you need nature in every process of your business, you need lands for buildings, furnitures, and electricity for daily use and many more.

PT Pertamina, through its commitment to the environment and local communities has funded the planting of 10.067 trees in Semarang and Kendal Central Java. 61 local farmers will commit their land for this community forestry project and will be the owners of the trees, which will provide them with an income when the trees are mature and ready for harvesting. Trees4Trees provides the free seedlings along with training and mentoring to help the farmers to plant and care for their community forests.

Yuliani, Assistant Manager Government & Public Relations of PT Pertamina, Cepu said that tree planting activities like this is one implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program in contributing to realizing a better environment for future generations. "This tree planting program is also part of the commitment to 'One well, a thousand trees’ contained in the Declaration of Earth signed by the President Director of PT Pertamina. This project also contributes to the planting of 1 billion trees as proclaimed by the Government".

Wisjnu Wienerta, Manager Operations at Trees4Trees says that this project is part of an annual cycle for Trees4Tree which in 2014, will plant over 290.000 trees and involve 61 farming families. Trees4Trees has planted over 1.173.000 trees in Central Java since 2008 and hopes to expand the annual planting program in future collaborations with responsible organizations like Pertamina.

In a symbolic event attended by the Provincial Forestry Department and Department Of Agriculture, Pertamina and Trees4Trees handed over seedlings to the farmers and planted some of the first trees.

“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.

To maintain the sustainability of trees in community forests, after timber harvesting in the district of Gunung Wungkal, replanting will be done with the same species of trees that have been harvested.

Approximately 84,000 seedlings will be distributed to members of the local Farmer Group and others in the district. Some seedlings will replace the trees that have been harvested during the season, others will be planted in new community forests. Trees4Trees, together with the Gunung Wungkal Farmer Group have established a nursery to produce the seedling for the 2013 planting season. Seedlings produced in this way are typically healthier than those purchased in the commercial market and also, having the nursery run locally provides additional employment in the local community.

Researchers of ACIAR on Study “Overcoming Constraints to Community-based Commercial Forestry in Indonesia” visited PT. Albasia Bhumiphala Persada (PT. ABP) in Temanggung, Central Java. The factory has been cooperating with Trees4Trees™ in the production of FSC-Controlled Wood Albizia in Gunung Wungkal Forest Management Unit (FMU).

The researchers also visited community forests in FMU of Gunung Wungkal, the activity was aimed at observing FSC (Controlled Wood) wood supply directly from forest to factory with Trees4Trees™ assistance. Valuable experience is gained for the research program by observing first hand, the working community forestry cycle from planting to harvesting along with the responsible forestry practices encouraged by the FSC and Trees4Trees programs.