The Artha Graha Peduli Foundation (AGP Foundation) is an Indonesian social, humanitarian, environmental and

philanthropic Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives, for the public good, focusing on quality of life". Philanthropy contrasts with business initiatives, which are private initiatives for private good, focusing on material ...

foundation whose activities began during the 1990s. It was founded in 2010 by

Tomy Winata Tomy Winata (pronounced and sometimes misspelled as Tommy Winata; born Guo Shuo Feng, zh, 郭說鋒 on 23 July 1958) is an Indonesian businessman with interests in banking, property, gambling and infrastructure, whose wealth comes from his busine ...

, an Indonesian businessman and philanthropist with a vision "to be able to feed at least three million people throughout Indonesia". The foundation focuses on environmental activities to mitigate the effects of global climate change.

Foundation Activities

The social, humanitarian and environmental activities of Artha Graha Peduli began in Jakarta and other parts of Indonesia and was organized by employees of the Artha Graha group of companies and the Artha Graha Network, owned by Winata.Artha Graha helps natural disaster refugees
''The Jakarta Post'', 18 November 2013. Activities include the weekly (since the 1990s) ''Beras Jumat-an'' program (Friday Rice Donation), providing food for poor residents of Jakarta and other parts of Indonesia, disaster relief and environmental activities. In 2010 the Artha Graha Network formed a non-profit organization, the Artha Graha Peduli Foundation, with five main activities: disaster relief, education and health, environmental activities, support for

small and medium enterprises Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are businesses whose personnel and revenue numbers fall below certain limits. The abbreviation "SME" is used by international organizations such as the World Bank ...

(SMEs) and legal aid for the poor. The foundation's philosophy is that it is privately owned to help the public.Artha Graha dan Java Musikindo Galang Dana untuk Aceh
, ''Tempo Online'', 1 February 2005. The AGP Foundation has participated in relief efforts following the Aceh tsunami, the

2010 eruptions of Mount Merapi In late October 2010, Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, began an increasingly violent series of eruptions that continued into November. Seismic activity around the volcano increased from mid-September onwards, culminating in repeated outb ...

, the 2009 Sumatra earthquakes, the Rokatenda and

Lokon-Empung Lokon-Empung is a volcano on the island of Sulawesi. It is one of the most active in Indonesia. It consists of two volcanic cones, the older Lokon and the younger Empung. The active crater of Tompaluan is situated in the saddle between the two c ...

eruptions, landslides in Wasior and the

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and Tasikmalaya Regencies, floods in Jakarta and fires. Aid has been provided to

Atambua Atambua is the regency seat of Belu Regency, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. The town stretches as far as 8.5 km from north to south and 5 km from east to west, and is located in the north of the western half of Timor Island. The town is ...

(bordering

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Merauke Merauke is a large town and the capital of the South Papua province, Indonesia. It is also the administrative centre of Merauke Regency in South Papua. It is considered the easternmost city in Indonesia. The town was originally called Ermasoe. It ...

(near the border with

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(bordering

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and

Miangas Miangas or Palmas is North Sulawesi's northernmost island, and one of 92 officially listed outlying islands of Indonesia. Etymology ''Miangas'' means "exposed to piracy", because pirates from Mindanao used to visit the island. In the 16th centur ...

. Since 2004, the foundation has encouraged the cultivation of hybrid paddy to increase productivity. The November 2008 harvest in

Sukabumi Regency Sukabumi Regency ( id, Kabupaten Sukabumi; Sundanese: ) is a regency ''(kabupaten)'' in southwestern Java, as part of West Java province of Indonesia. The regency seat is located in Palabuhan Ratu, a coastal district facing the Indian Ocean. The ...

set a record of about 16 tons per hectare. Indonesian President

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, First Lady Ani Bambang Yudhoyono and several government ministers attended the harvest festival. The foundation supplied aid in the wake of the March

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami The occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on 11 March. The magnitude 9.0–9.1 (M) undersea megathrust earthquake had an epicenter in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region, and lasted approximately six minutes ...

. In 2015 the AGP Foundation held a low-cost Ramadan market in Indramayu, Indonesia in order to give the local poor population access to cheap meat and basic foods towards the Eid-ul-Fitr holidays. In 2016, the foundation started performing eye-checks and free cataract surgeries in Bali as part of the AGP team outreach.

Environmental activities

Since 1997 the foundation has run Tambling Wildlife Nature Conservation (TWNC), a tiger-rescue center which attempts to reintroduce "conflict tigers" (tigers who have attacked, or killed, humans) into the wild. The TWNC has released five Sumatran tigers (a critically endangered species) into its forest. The TWNC has of forest and of sea-conservation area. Representatives the

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC; French: ''Office des Nations unies contre la drogue et le crime'') is a United Nations office that was established in 1997 as the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention by combining the ...

(UNODC) have visited the sanctuary, which conducts a drug-rehabilitation program in cooperation with '' Badan Narkotika Nasional'' (BNN, the Indonesian Narcotics Institution).For an ecology of the mind: blending drug rehab with nature conservation in Sumatra
''UNODC'', 8 December 2012. The program, which encourages former addicts to work in conservation and eco-tourism, was presented by Winata to the 2013 UNODC annual meeting in

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. UNODC executive director

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expressed his appreciation for the program, saying that his office would encourage other countries to learn from it. In March 2013 in

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, Winata appointed

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"Ambassador of

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s". He and Ronaldo agreed to plant and conserve existing mangroves, particularly in

Bali Bali () is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller neighbouring islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nu ...

. The Bali Mangrove Care Forum's motto is "Save Mangroves, Save Earth".Ronaldo Jadi Duta Mangrove di Indonesia
''Kompas'', 12 March 2013.

References

External links

Artha Graha FoundationTambling Wildlife Nature Conservation
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