Bulletin No. 11 | September – October 2002

BOOK TO ROAD

A masterpiece of public relations in 12 countries : Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, South Korea, India, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Philippines, and Japan. The authors are established scholars mostly from US University and in some cases are established public relations professionals who can give an insider’s view of the public relations scene in Asia.

The book is edited by Dr. Krisnamurthy Sriramesh, of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and is produced by Pearson International, Singapore. The anthropology is expected for sale in mid 2003.

CLEAN UP THE WORLD TRISAKTI 2002

More than 20.000 volunteers from 42 organizations participated in clean up activities organized by Trisakti University last September. Celebrating 10 years the world campaign for clean up activities, the 2002 theme YOUR COMMUNITY. OUR EARTH – this world campaign has succeeded in motivating more than 150 million people in note less than 125 countries.

As for Trisakti participants, some notably institutions which mobilized more than 300 volunteers are : SMU 80 Sunter, SMU Kristen Kanaan, SLTP Islam Al-Azhar Kelapa Gading, SMUN 81 Kali Malang, SLPN 2 Sumbul-Medan, Tramp Indonesia reported 1825 members cleaning up the area around Gunung Gede and Gunung Pangrango. The Trisakti committee will end up this activity for 2002 by joining forces with the local people in the area around Borobudur Temple and Parang Tritis, seahorse in Yogyakarta. 

Exact number of participants and total weight of rubbish collected are not yet known as the committee is still pursuing the report from the report from participants.

Some 146 school kids joined a drawing competition held in TMII, Ancol on Sunday, Sept 22nd. The 9 top winners of each category were rewarded trophy and cash for school facilities by the Rector of Trisakti University, Prof. Dr. Thoby Mutis who showed great interest until late afternoon together with Bapak Hardi Utomo, Campus Director. 

The campaign was launched by the giant banner of 16×24 meters in A Campus Trisakti, Jl Kyai Tapa I, organized by Aranyala Trisakti, together with stickers, balloons, banners, postcards, posters, and T-shirts distributed to all local organizing committees ins respective clean up areas.

The committee wish to extend hearty gratitude to: 

• Rector or Trisakti University and all Ttisakti academia concerned
• SCTV, Metro TV, Antara, Suara Pembaruan, Bisnis Indonesia, Suara Karya, Sinar Harapan, Terbit, Pos Kota, Bobo, Indosite, Kompas Cyber Media, Detik.com
• Jakarta News FM, MsTri, RRI, Elshinta, Trijaya FM
• Local organizing committees – volunteers, students, school teachers, environment observers, NGOs and the sponsors:
  Indofood, Exxonmobil, Freeport, Rio Tinto, Pertamina