10 Mar 2013

Urban Farming as an Act of Community Empowerment [FutureArc]

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URBAN FARMING AS AN ACT OF COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT by Sigit Kusumawijaya INTRODUCTION The world’s population hit more than 7 billion people in 2011, and is expected to grow to about 9 billion by 2050. This will inevitably require an increase in demand for residential land and food. In the large cities, the focus is clearly on the development of residential and business areas, with the incessant demand for real estate, apartments and commercial areas. On the

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26 May 2011

Ketika Warga Jakarta Memilih Berkebun [Kompas.com]

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KOMPAS.com - Kenapa Anda datang kemari? Tanya arsitek Sigit Kusumawijaya, humas komunitas Jakarta Berkebun kepada seorang remaja putri dalam sebuah acara berkebun beberapa waktu lalu. Remaja tersebut menjawab dengan kalimat sederhana, "Kemarin lihat foto teman sedang berkebun, kelihatannya seru kegiatan berkebun ada tanah-tanah yang menempel," ujarnya. Sigit juga bercerita pernah ada seorang ibu dari pinggiran Jakarta, jauh-jauh datang ke Spring Hill Kemayoran Jakarta Pusat, tempat kebun pertama komunitas Jakarta Berkebun berada. Alasannya sangat sederhana, ibu

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27 Sep 2012

Indonesia Berkebunlah! [Republika Online]

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Indonesia Berkebunlah! Kamis, 27 September 2012, 04:37 WIB REPUBLIKA.CO.ID,JAKARTA--Berawal dari obrolan di situs jejaring sosial Twitter, Indonesia Berkebun kini membentang sayap di 25 kota dengan puluhan ribu anggota. Benar, Ridwan Kamil, seorang arsitek memulai lewat percakapan santai dengan teman-teman dan para follower-nya di situs jejaring sosial Twitter, tentang bagaimana menciptakan Indonesia yang lebih hijau. Ia lalu melontarkan gagasan: menanam di lahan 1 ha di Kemayoran, Jakarta Pusat, tak jauh dari lokasi proyek yang tengah digarapnya.

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30 Aug 2015

Interactive Link: Seminar on Nutrition-Sensitive Urban Agriculture in Indonesia, held by The Netherlands Embassy

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Interactive Link: Seminar on Nutrition-Sensitive Urban Agriculture in Indonesia, held by The Netherlands Embassy Link: http://pluk-creativeplatform.com/Jakarta/ Sigit Kusumawijaya, principal architect of sigit.kusumawijaya | architect & urbandesigner, was invited as a Speaker in the Seminar on “Nutrition-sensitive urban agriculture in Indonesia" held by the Embassy of The Netherlands, on April 30th, 2015 at Grand Zuri Hotel, BSD City, Tangerang Selatan. This seminar was attended and opened by the Ambassador of the Netherlands, Rob Swartbol. More than 100

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24 Aug 2015

Fokus pada Konsep Green Architecture (Focus on Concept of Green Architecture) [Koran Sindo]

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Sigit Kusumawijaya was featured on Koran Sindo Daily Paper, Aug 23, 2015, page 13: "Fokus pada Konsep Green Architecture" (Focus on Concept of Green Architecture) Selain aktif di komunitas Indonesia Berkebun, Sigit yang juga berprofesi sebagai arsitek memang memiliki ketertarikan pada konsep urban farming dan green architecture. Ketertarikan itu dimulai saat pria lulusan S-1 jurusan Arsitektur Universitas Indonesia ini menjalani praktik kerja selama enam bulan di kantor arsitek internasional Ken Yeang, Malaysia. Pengalaman dan pelajaran

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24 Aug 2015

Bergerak Ciptakan Lahan Hijau (Act for Creating Green Space) [Koran Sindo]

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Sigit Kusumawijaya was featured on Koran Sindo Daily Paper, Aug 23, 2015, page 13: "Bergerak Ciptakan Lahan Hijau" (Act for Creating Green Space) Sigit Kusumawijaya, Architect & Co-Inisiator of Indonesia Berkebun Sejak booming beberapa tahun terakhir, media sosial terbukti mampu menciptakan gerakan-gerakan positif dan mengumpulkan banyak orang untuk terlibat contohnya Blood for Life, Akademi Berbagi, dan Koin untuk Prita. Tidak terkecuali gerakan yang peduli terhadap lingkungan yaitu Indonesia Berkebun yang awalnya digagas melalui jejaring Twitter.

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8 Jul 2012

A sense of connectivity [The Jakarta Post]

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Social media brings to the country a sense of connectivity — to be a part of something bigger than oneself and a feeling that together, people can actually make a difference. The pages of Twitter and Facebook are filled with numerous organizations with different goals — the goals that they aim to achieve from the ground up. “With digital technology, it is like social relationships are now on steroids” said Enda Nasution, a popular blogger

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12 May 2012

Insight: Getting the Job Done in Indonesia [The Jakarta Globe]

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Roosie Setiawan, Nila Tanzil, Dan Roberts and Sigit Kusumawijaya. Chances are you have never heard of these people. They are not headline-grabbing politicians, government officials, celebrities or wealthy tycoons. They are just people who are making a small difference in this country, but the way they go about it is instructive. In the course of hosting the talk show “Insight Indonesia” on BeritaSatu TV, I have had the pleasure of meeting all sorts of people

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12 May 2012

Urban Farming: Greening Jakarta [CityFarmer.info]

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Using vacant land in Jakarta Sigit Kusumawijaya and the group Indonesia Berkebun (Indonesia Gardening) have started a social movement to use vacant land in Jakarta and other cities to plant food crops. Find out how they did it. Insight Indonesia is the Jakarta Globe’s talk show – in English – on Beritasatu TV. Host Lin Neumann, the founding editor of the Jakarta Globe, interviews business leaders, celebrities, diplomats, newsmakers and analysts on a range of

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