Gore's Climate Project to train 250 presenters

JAKARTA: The Climate Project Indonesia (TCPI), a non-profit organization set up by Nobel Peace Prize winner and former US vice president Al Gore, will train 250 Indonesian people on the climate change issues.

The free workshop will be held in Jakarta on April 24.

The selected participants would become "connectors" who would share issues of climate change with the public across Indonesia.

As of Tuesday, just two days after the vacancy was posted at www.surveymonkey.com/s/connecter, about 500 people registered to join the workshop.

TCPI coordinator Amanda Katili, who is also a former expert staff on climate change for the minister of the environment, said the registered participants included civil servants, businesspeople and journalists.

"We were surprised at the huge response," Amanda told The Jakarta Post.

The selected participants should voluntarily target to promote climate change issues and its impacts, to at least five community groups a year.

Al Gore also trained around 50 Indonesians to be presenters on climate change in Australia last year.

These presenters have already spread information on climate change to around 1 million people in Indonesia including dozens of universities across the archipelago. - JP