A public awareness campaign unveiled Jakarta a few useful but forgotten parks, local appetite for green areas whetted they can use
If Samsuri moved into the Park Depot hut in Taman Langsat in South Jakarta Kebayoran Baru, he asked a family member to bless his new stable home and could lurk the ghosts peace, he thought, in the trees.
to a sense of melancholy adding, the 54-year-old says: "We are legions of homeless." Over the years, occupiers, suppliers and drivers to go on shift waiting for this handsome was staying away Park just a stone's throw from Blok M busy, driving, what few visitors get the dilapidated green space.
that was 12 years ago. Today Samsuri says the park is a happy place. Renovations again in 2010, one month public awareness campaign in November courted visitor, figures on weekends fourfold swelling, he reckons. "The spirits coexist with the people here, maybe."
"Before, it was difficult for people to come here. They did not feel well," says Samsuri and said that for most of the 36 years he has worked in the park, less than 50 people would attend a weekend, and nearly half of that during the week. "I would love more people to come here."
. For Nadine Zamira, the founder of a public relations agency, Leaf Plus, that proof is that Jakarta residents crave an alternative to shopping centers and excursions outside the city The city government is fighting room to set aside a government-imposed deadline of 30 percent green space to meet by 2020, if the residents do not realize what they in a park they want unsuitable with the same dreary spaces for everyone may end but ghosts.
But first residents will have to know the park itself. "Nobody has really thought before about this issue." Exist
says Zamira, of something like a veteran environmental activist already is at 28 after a time as Miss Earth Indonesia in 09 and television appearances. ". Communities need space for their activities"
set in 2010 Zamira Journal Plus-up - an advertising agency that focuses on sustainable development and environmental awareness. The Kemang agency is driven profit, but it does what the first contract with the government is intended to raise public awareness of the officially listed 1000 or so parks.
The Hidden Park campaign attracted more than 2,500 followers on Twitter as visitors snapped photos of the given for the occasion in order artworks of the park and they loaded on the networking site. Movie nights, if not rainy, had another hit. Most visitors said they would never visited the park. Zamira and her gang invited 75 students to plant three neighboring schools and harvest vegetables in Taman Langsat. Only four of the class had visited eight students on the green space on their own.
"It is not going to spend at the top of the park part of your weekend," said Zamira. "As we raise the issue of urban planning, to mean something that is accessible to the public?"
During Leaf Plus client for Hidden Park is the Ministry of Public Works, Zamira and her company had their contact work lists to obtain the necessary permits to host the events and highlights, are as many parks unusable.
"We had to go from different points in it. This creates pressure," Zamira recalls. "Imagine communities wanted an activity to have. It would be really hard. To"
Author and Professor Nirwono Joga, chairman of the Indonesian Landscape Architecture Study Group, says that the 960 parks, the Jakarta Park Agency claims that city dot, the most scale lacks sufficient cleanliness or even the basic facilities. Along with Green Map Jakarta, the city Parks usable catalogs, it lists only 15, which are worth visiting, including Taman Langsat.
he says he is confident that the new government of Joko Widodo, the governor was elected in September will allow more green areas and improve the parks in the city are already showing in the cities such as Oslo , Melbourne, Vancouver and Singapore as potential sources of inspiration.
"the park should have ecological value in Jakarta, and the economic and social culture benefit," says Joga.
"A good park the local climate improves, reducing air pollution and floods, promotes good social interaction in public space, and ensures that children have a safe place."
Zamira says Journal plus hopes a new contract for the next year to ensure, if the Agency is to expand the campaign to five parks and open spaces, which may include on the banks of heavily polluted Ciliwung river.
"people (in Jakarta) to try to drunk are to be modern," says Dila Hadju, a former school teacher and now an employee at Leaf plus. "They forget that also requires a good quality of life to be modern."
at Taman Langsat, 12-year-old Adira Mahmud takes a break from frying some of the spinach until it is harvested from the school grounds. She dreams of becoming a doctor and expects that, if they are not studying she would come back to the park.
"It's a nice place to sit down and relax," she says. "I usually just at home on my laptop."
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