CHARLES DARWIN CENTRE

For Social and Enviromental Studies

 Jl. Jatimurni no.1B Pasar Minggu – Jakarta Selatan

Tel: 021-7805689   Fax: 7806762

E-mail: admin@koleseaustralia.or.id

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 ‘Positive Action for Community Development’

Kolese Australia and The Charles Darwin Centre Background

 In keeping with its mission to assist the Government of Indonesia in raising the awareness of Indonesian people and their social organizations through:

• providing vocational training and education
• preparing Indonesian students for further education overseas
• promoting the prosperity of communities within Indonesia, and
• establishing links with organizations within Indonesia and overseas in support of these objectives,

Kolese Australia has taken a number of initiatives to meet the first and second of these objectives.

 These include the establishment of a wide range of professional development courses offering Indonesian students local and overseas qualifications in disciplines such as:

• Childcare and Early Childhood Education
• Business, Finance and Management
• Advertising and Public Relations
• Information Technology (IT) and
• Tourism and Hospitality.

 We also offer locally approved courses in:

• First aid
• Basic Childcare and
• Conflict Management,

as well as a range of Golden Age courses for retired people, and Graduate Certificate courses in:

• Teaching International Curriculum and
• Environmental Management.

 In addition, Kolese offers

• Special education for children with intellectual disability
• Pre-vocational and life skills courses for young adults with intellectual disability
• Pre-university foundation courses for students wishing to enroll in universities in Australia, USA and countries in the eastern Pacific region
• short courses derived from universities and colleges in Australia and the USA, and
• language courses in English and Bahasa Indonesia.

Now, in order to meet the third and fourth of our objectives, namely:

• promoting the prosperity of communities within Indonesia through the cultivation of environmental ethics and social awareness, and
• establishing links with organizations within Indonesia and overseas in support of our educational objectives,

Kolese has moved to establish the Charles Darwin Centre for  Social and  Enviromental Studies.

Purpose

The Darwin Centre will seek to share current approaches to public education in the areas of environmental management and community development by linking overseas educational institutions with counterpart institutions in Indonesia, and by seeking the assistance and support of bilateral and multilateral organizations.

In so doing, the Centre will provide training in English literacy, research skills and environmental science to government agencies, private individuals and corporations, educational institutions, NGOs and communities throughout Indonesia and the region. In this way the Centre will engage in capacity building at every level and will contribute to the institutional and human resource development necessary as Indonesia undertakes the simultaneous challenges of regionalisation and globalisation.

Activities

In order to achieve its broader aims, the Centre will undertake a range of activities, including:

• Provision of public information through seminars, workshops, documentaries and publications
• Maintaining an online bulletin of current developments and opinions relevant to the Centre’s activities
• Provision of training appropriate to specific community development projects in  land management, development planning, tropical ecology, coastal management and ecotourism
• Provision of training packages in conflict resolution and resource management to government agencies and corporate clients, and
• Establishment of an international information exchange and a database of international and Indonesian NGOs and International Development Agencies.

 The Centre will also attempt to establish an international student exchange program to provide Indonesian students access to educational opportunities overseas, and to permit overseas students to undertake research and field work in Indonesia.

Structure

 Ultimately, it is expected that the Centre will have a number of divisions, possibly including divisions of:

• tropical ecology
• environmental and social policy
• development planning
• island biogeography
• coastal management
• wildlife conservation
• eco/cultural tourism, and
• coral reef management.

Action

 In the short term, many of the above activities will be initiated by an Environmental Education Taskforce which will prioritise and implement the most urgent and important actions.

 In particular, the taskforce will:

• Formulate and advertise training packages in environmental management, conflict resolution and resource management to government agencies and corporate clients
• Provide consultancy services to private and corporate clients in those disciplines
• Establish links with development agencies and NGOs for the purpose of initiating and underwriting community development initiatives in specific regions of Indonesia, and
• Devise training packages appropriate to the main development actors in those regions, including government agencies, developers, NGOs and local communities.

Member of the Enviromental Education Taskforce.

 The taskforce will comprise three highly respected young Indonesian scientists and planners with impeccable credentials in Enviromental management and research, and its activities will be coordinate by an experienced expatriate program manager with 7 years experience in Indonesia.

 In brief, the qualifications and background of the various taskforce members are as follows:

TEAM LEADER

Mr. Derek Robertson.

TEAM MEMBERS

Mr. Ilham.

Mr. Imam Hartadi

Mr. Jalal.

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