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Students taught to manage waste in school, neighborhood
Students of the Jayawijaya Education Foundation (YPJ), owned by the PT Freeport Indonesia gold and copper mining company in Kuala Kencana, Papua, have established ties with students from other schools in Mimika regency to develop skills in waste management at school and in their neighborhood
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tudents of the Jayawijaya Education Foundation (YPJ), owned by the PT Freeport Indonesia gold and copper mining company in Kuala Kencana, Papua, have established ties with students from other schools in Mimika regency to develop skills in waste management at school and in their neighborhood.
Students of the YPJ together with members of the Tunas Hijau Club in Surabaya, East Java, have been trained to manage waste by sorting garbage according to its classification and to recycle, reduce and re-use waste.
They have been taught to conserve energy and water, and are involved in natural conservation.
Every student at the Kuala Kencana YPJ junior high school (SMP) has planted a tree in the school compound.
They also run a nursery, seedlings of which will be donated to schools across Timika city, to help build friendship and cooperation among students through tree-planting.
"The YPJ SMP wishes to become a model of environmental responsibility for other schools in Papua *to follow*," YPJ Kuala Kencana SMP principal Surpriyono told The Jakarta Post recently.
He said his students had responded to the Youth Pledge spirit by declaring themselves "green warriors" by promoting environmental awareness, starting at school.
During a recent event at the YPJ SMP, 10 elementary and junior high schools in Mimika sent out representatives to start planting trees.
Each of the students would have made "green friends" with students from the regency's schools.
"The Kuala Kencana YPJ SMP has envisioned to produce students who are responsible socially and environmentally. By planting trees and maintaining them every time they come to school, the school teaches its children to have a sense of environmental awareness," he said.
Meanwhile, the Tunas Hijau Club will educate YPJ SMP students through the exchange of students' environmental works with the KIJU and Kojima high schools in Japan.
Tunas Hijau Club president Mochamad Zamroni said this was the fourth time members of the club had carried out environmental awareness activities with students from Mimika regency.
Zamroni said the Tunas Hijau Club had carried out activities at schools in nine provinces; Papua, West Java, Central Java, Bali, West Nusa Tenggara, West Sumatra, East Java, Yogyakarta and Central Kalimantan.
