Indonesia Gardening

Indonesia Berkebun is a non-profit volunteer urban farming movement working through social media, including twitter, facebook, youtube and the website www.indonesiaberkebun.org.  Indonesia Berkebun’s activists, composed of socially diverse enthusiasts from 32 cities in Indonesia and 8 campuses, all share the vison of building environmental awareness through urban farming. Gardening can be a tool for learning, community building and recreation, especially for children, while also providing public green spaces in the city. The program turns vacant urban land into productive plots with economic value for gardening, food security, health and greening. Thanks to social media, half of garden activists are under thirty years of age. Indonesia Berkebun is committed to ecological principles: organic gardening, waste recycling and water filtration are part of the program. Educational initiatives include gardening classes and social media outreach with information and public discussions about organic farming. A third economic prong aims to create sustainable organic gardening activities for personal consumption or professionally managed production for distribution to town markets and restaurants. Since its launch in 2010, the Indonesia Berkebun twitter account @Idberkebun has won 73.142 followers who share tweets about gardening, stories or pictures from their own gardens, while making urban farming simple, fun and rewarding.