(JP/R.B erto Wedhatama)

State Elementary School No. 12 in Bendungan Hilir, Central Jakarta, found it was easy to be green with a number of environmentally-conscious programs set up on Wednesday.

Non-profit organization Solar Generation Indonesia led a Student Action for Climate workshop at the school, aiming to improve students' awareness about modern environmental issues and to encourage them to save energy, its spokesman Galih Aji said.

The school's lightbulbs were replaced with low energy bulbs while a solar juice booth, powered by solar power, served drinks.

"We also presented the school with an 18-square-meter mural containing messages about saving the earth. The mural shows symbols of renewable energy sources like water, wind, sun and geothermal," Galih said.

School principal Murliati said the school had been trying to include as many environmental issues in its curriculum as possible in the last year.

"In a program called Adi Wiyata, each student is required to take care of a plant, and report the plant's condition to their teachers every day," she said.

"The school also has a program called Friday Clean Day, in which each student is required to bring in anything that is no longer used by their family, like old newspapers," she said.

The school of 223 students also teaches students to make compost using leaves from the school yard and to manage a fishpond and medical plants garden also located in the school. (uwi)

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