The Artha Graha Peduli Foundation (AGP Foundation) is an Indonesian social, humanitarian, environmental and

philanthropic Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives for the public good, focusing on quality of life". Philanthropy contrasts with business initiatives, which are private initiatives for private good, focusing on material ...

foundation whose activities began during the 1990s. It was founded in 2010 by Tomy Winata, an Indonesian businessman and philanthropist with a vision "to be able to feed at least three million people throughout Indonesia". The foundation focuses on environmental activities to mitigate the effects of global climate change.

Foundation Activities

The social, humanitarian and environmental activities of Artha Graha Peduli began in Jakarta and other parts of Indonesia and was organized by employees of the Artha Graha group of companies and the Artha Graha Network, owned by Winata.Artha Graha helps natural disaster refugees
''The Jakarta Post'', 18 November 2013. Activities include the weekly (since the 1990s) ''Beras Jumat-an'' program (Friday Rice Donation), providing food for poor residents of Jakarta and other parts of Indonesia, disaster relief and environmental activities. In 2010 the Artha Graha Network formed a non-profit organization, the Artha Graha Peduli Foundation, with five main activities: disaster relief, education and health, environmental activities, support for

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(SMEs) and legal aid for the poor. The foundation's philosophy is that it is privately owned to help the public.Artha Graha dan Java Musikindo Galang Dana untuk Aceh
, ''Tempo Online'', 1 February 2005. The AGP Foundation has participated in relief efforts following the Aceh tsunami, the

2010 eruptions of Mount Merapi In late October 2010, Mount Merapi in border of Central Java and Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, began an increasingly violent series of eruptions that continued into November. Seismic activity around the volcano increased from mid-Sep ...

, the

2009 Sumatra earthquakes The first of the 2009 Sumatra earthquakes () occurred on 30 September off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia with a moment magnitude of 7.6 at . The epicenter was west-northwest of Padang, West Sumatra, and southwest of Pekanbaru, Riau. Governmen ...

, the Rokatenda and

Lokon-Empung Lokon-Empung is a volcano on the island of Sulawesi. It is one of the most active in Indonesia. It consists of two volcanic cones, the older Lokon and the younger Empung. The active crater of Tompaluan is situated in the saddle between the two ...

eruptions, landslides in Wasior and the

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and Tasikmalaya Regencies, floods in Jakarta and fires. Aid has been provided to

Atambua Atambua is the regency seat of Belu Regency, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. The town stretches 8.5 km from north to south and 5 km from east to west, and is in the north of the western half of Timor Island. The town is located at an alt ...

(bordering

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Merauke Merauke is a large town (''kelurahan'') and an administrative district (''distrik'') in Merauke Regency of South Papua Province, Indonesia. It is also the administrative centre of Merauke Regency, and is considered to be the easternmost city in I ...

(near the border with

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(bordering

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Rote Island Rote Island (, also spelled ''Roti'') is an island of Indonesia, part of the East Nusa Tenggara Provinces of Indonesia, province of the Lesser Sunda Islands. According to legend, this island got its name accidentally when a lost Portuguese people ...

and

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. Since 2004, the foundation has encouraged the cultivation of hybrid

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to increase productivity. The November 2008 harvest in

Sukabumi Regency Sukabumi Regency (; Sundanese: ) is a regency ''(kabupaten)'' in southwestern Java, as part of West Java province of Indonesia. The regency seat is located in Palabuhan Ratu, a coastal district facing the Indian Ocean. The regency fully encirc ...

set a record of about 16 tons per hectare. Indonesian President

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, First Lady Ani Bambang Yudhoyono and several government ministers attended the harvest festival. The foundation supplied aid in the wake of the March

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami On 11 March 2011, at 14:46:24 Japan Standard Time, JST (05:46:24 UTC), a 9.0–9.1 Submarine earthquake, undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region. It lasted approx ...

. In 2015 the AGP Foundation held a low-cost Ramadan market in Indramayu, Indonesia in order to give the local poor population access to cheap meat and basic foods towards the Eid-ul-Fitr holidays. In 2016, the foundation started performing eye-checks and free cataract surgeries in Bali as part of the AGP team outreach.

Environmental activities

Since 1997 the foundation has run Tambling Wildlife Nature Conservation (TWNC), a tiger-rescue center which attempts to reintroduce "conflict tigers" (tigers who have attacked, or killed, humans) into the wild. The TWNC has released five

Sumatran tiger The Sumatran tiger is a population of ''Panthera tigris sondaica'' on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It is the only surviving tiger population in the Sunda Islands, where the Bali tiger, Bali and Javan tigers are extinct. DNA sequencing, Sequ ...

s (a

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species) into its forest. The TWNC has of forest and of sea-conservation area. Representatives the

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(UNODC) have visited the sanctuary, which conducts a drug-rehabilitation program in cooperation with '' Badan Narkotika Nasional'' (BNN, the Indonesian Narcotics Institution).For an ecology of the mind: blending drug rehab with nature conservation in Sumatra
''UNODC'', 8 December 2012. The program, which encourages former addicts to work in conservation and eco-tourism, was presented by Winata to the 2013 UNODC annual meeting in

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. UNODC executive director

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expressed his appreciation for the program, saying that his office would encourage other countries to learn from it. In March 2013 in

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, Winata appointed

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"Ambassador of

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s". He and Ronaldo agreed to plant and conserve existing mangroves, particularly in

Bali Bali (English:; Balinese language, Balinese: ) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller o ...

. The Bali Mangrove Care Forum's motto is "Save Mangroves, Save Earth".Ronaldo Jadi Duta Mangrove di Indonesia
''Kompas'', 12 March 2013.

References

External links

Artha Graha FoundationTambling Wildlife Nature Conservation
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