Gista M. Rukminda's Page

Hey Gista,
thanks for adding the event. I would love to revisit Bali and Indonesia in general. Still I have not seen so much of your beautiful country. I guess also the conference will provide a lot of opportunities for me to present my research and to learn from others. But I cannot yet tell you about my participation. I would need funding for it and I cannot tell if I have a summerschool (mandatory!) during July. But I have the conference rather in mind than my summerschool ;o)
I am still working on REDD, hoping to make a contribution to halting deforestation - also in Indonesia. There is interesting work going on in Indonesia at the moment - the government is among the first to present a national REDD strategy. So there is hope...although corruption, missmanagement and economic pressure from palm oil and timber production will nevertheless make it difficult to be sucessful. I will try my best to contribute a little part to making REDD sucessful. By the way, you should get in contact with Heiner von Lüpke (e.g. via facebook) - he is German,working in Indonesia on REDD. You might ask him about ongoing projects and REDD policy in Indonesia.
Best and wish you a nice day.
Mika

Hey Gista,
hope you are doing well. Thanks for the blog post. I have now added an events section on the webpage, so you can also advertise the conference there.
best
Mika

anytime G,
sure you need to be "creative" on this "uncreative" land, your experiences may help you and be friend with colleagues is something important also..keep a good work G! and viva green Indonesia!
sunny Sorong

Hi Gista,
It`s nice to hear you from Borneo. Yeah, for sure it will be monotonous and boring for you,,believe me, dont expect much on your 1st year, just keep active and live your life there ;)
My job here is getting more challenging and i hope i could do more to help protecting the conservation forests here! you know Papua is a developing area..so u can imagine when they think conservation just a barrier of their developing process, (what a shame some ppl still think that way!) so the challenge is there and getting bigger here. Viva green Indonesia!
Taufik

Gey Gista,
congrats to the new job! ....I am most interested in seeing the conservation photography and "real-life" information on forest conservation on Kalimantan.
Best regards from my temporary home in Austria.
Mika

Hi Gista,

thank you very much. It's so nice to hear from you. Actually i didn't had any time to celebrate my birthday, cause i'm having exam time. Today i had exam in chemistry. Well, i'd say it was quite ok. Hopefully...:-)
How are you doing? And how are your studies going on? Will you come again to Germany? It would be great to see you again.

big hug and lovely greetings
Alex

Hi Gista, salam kenal.

Thank you for adding me. wow your activities sound great. hope that all go smoothly. btw, how is bogor? i was several months in ICRAF/CIFOR which is not so far from IPB. Great that you re there, I miss the kampung there :-). were you in Bonn? wow, congratulation, yeach pitty that we did not meet, I was pretty around by that time. Anyway, It's nice to see you here.

Keep doing great!

dian

happy birthday,dear gista.hope, you have a nice day, lots of friends thinking at you, sunshine, a tasty cake.-)
i wish you a nice, exciting next year in your life and you knows if we will see us again in this year:-)
what are doing at the moment? are you in summer-holidays?
hope you are fine!!!
lots of birthday hugs and kisses,
Eva

Greetings back from them!! I like your picture too! For sure we'll share info about events, keep in touch and share experiences! Hugs!