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Yuyun Ismawati Islands & Island Nations Sustainable Development

As waste management problems mount throughout the Indonesian archipelago, Yuyun Ismawati implements sustainable community-based waste and sanitation management programs that provide employment opportunities to low-income people and empower them to improve the environment.

Waste Management Challenges
The lack of adequate, safe and sustainable waste management is one of the most critical environmental challenges facing the world’s developing countries; island nations in particular must grapple with growing consumption and finite space for waste disposal. Municipal infrastructure that is the norm in developed nations, including proper sanitary landfills and recycling facilities, remains largely absent in countries such as Indonesia. This has led to pervasive environmental problems and health risks, especially for communities living adjacent to open waste dumps and for poor urban settlements without organized waste management systems. Continue Reading »

Business would embrace responsibility for the impact of their activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, stakeholders and all other members of the public sphere. Furthermore, business would proactively promote the public interest by encouraging community growth and development, and voluntarily eliminating practices that harm the public sphere, regardless of legality. Essentially, CSR is the deliberate inclusion of public interest into corporate decision-making, and the honoring of a triple bottom line: People, Planet, Profit.

One day seminar “CSR: A Public Relations Gimmick or Strategy Giving” will be important reference and basic guide on how to implementing Corporate Social Responsibility programs as a part of sustainable business model. Continue Reading »

Ika Butoni
A leading light amongst a blossoming new wave of futuristic and creative designers, Ika has taken her new collections “On the Desert Road to Alexandria” to new heights. With her partner John Keilman and her husband Jay Bouton, Ika’s adventurous yet seductive designs flow out with a powerful “exotic radiance”, using a unique combination of patch techniques with slashing, piping, embroidery and hand work. In this collection Ika has combined her love of working with other innovative individuals with a new vision of Egypt; the metamorphosis that the ancient civilization has endured leading to the present.
Colours applied to the collection varied from brights: Yellow, Orange, Fucshia, Bright Purple, Turquoise Green and Blue, to the dark colours: Dark Brown, Purple, Grey, Royal Blue, Burgundy, Dark Mustard and Olive. Continue Reading »

A leading light amongst a blossoming new wave of futuristic and creative designers, Ika’s adventurous yet seductive designs flow out with a powerful “exotic radiance.” In this collection Ika has combined her love of working with other innovative individuals with a new vision of Egypt; the metamorphosis that the ancient civilization has endured leading to the present.

With her partner John Keilman and her husband Jay Bouton, Ika has taken her new collection “On the Desert Road to Alexandria” to new heights, using a unique combination of patch techniques with slashing, piping, embroidery and hand work. Continue Reading »