CERES Global Indonesia Living Oceans 30 March – 8 April 2018 0 The information in this booklet is aimed to prepare you as much as possible for the trip. Please read it carefully. However, please try to nurture a sense of openness and flexibility as plans can change at the last minute and life on the road very much flows on from moment to moment. 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Background To CERES Global .......................................................................................................................................... Your In-Country Facilitator Organisation .................................................................................................................... Facilitators .................................................................................................................................................................. Itinerary ................................................................................................................................................................................ Brief Introduction to Indonesia ...................................................................................................................................... In Country Information ..................................................................................................................................................... Getting there and Getting Away ................................................................................................................................ Map of Indonesia Showing Places We Will Visit ......................................................................................................... Locations .............................................................................................................................................................................. Bali .............................................................................................................................................................................. Nusa Penida ................................................................................................................................................................ Gili Islands ................................................................................................................................................................... Lombok, Sembalun and Gili Sulat ............................................................................................................................... Reflections and Learning Whilst in Country ................................................................................................................ Practical Information ......................................................................................................................................................... What to Bring ..................................................................................................................................................................... Responsible Travel Guidelines ....................................................................................................................................... Safety and Medical Information ..................................................................................................................................... Emergency Contact Numbers .......................................................................................................................................... 2 Who you will be travelling with: CERES Community Environment Park is located on 4.5 hectares of land on the banks of the Merri Creek in Brunswick East, Melbourne. CERES is a place where people come together to share ideas about living well together, and directly participate in meeting their social and material needs in a sustainable way. Through social enterprises, education and training, employment and community engagement, CERES provides the means by which people can build awareness of current local and global issues, and join in the movement for economic, social and environmental sustainability. Since CERES was established in 1982, the efforts of our community have transformed the site. Once a desolate wasteland, today CERES is a place of nature and beauty, inhabited by a vibrant and diverse community. We attract around 400,000 visits each year through our onsite education and training programs, our retail plant Nursery, the Organic Market & Grocery and our cafe. CERES continues to provide opportunities for the community to come together in site groups or as volunteers, through community programs and events. We reach out to over 200,000 people through our work in schools across metropolitan Melbourne, and regional and rural Victoria. CERES Fair Food delivers organic food and the sustainable food message across metropolitan Melbourne. CERES also partners with a wide variety of organisations to bring about mutually beneficial outcomes, and reaches across the planet with CERES Global. CERES Global forms the international outreach program of CERES aiming to engage with the issues of global inequity and the well‐being of all people on the planet and the environments in which they live. Our vision is to design socio- environmental cross cultural exchanges that go beyond eco- tourism to use a ‘Learning for Sustainability’ method. Through these lived experiences we aim to encourage a more inclusive and sustainable world through building genuine cross cultural friendship and understanding between our local community and the international partners we work with. Our aim is to provide a platform of exchange and learning that is mutually respectful. All CERES Global visits and engagements are designed to educate and engage participants on global cultural and environmental issues by learning about the challenges that our host countries face and visiting local projects that empower local people to create culturally relevant and sustainable change in their communities. We aim to support genuine friendship building between participants and the host communities including ongoing contact, support and sharing that results in capacity building for the local community and a mutual exchange of world changing ideas that are sensitive to local issues. Our approach is Asset Based. So that means rather than problematize, we seek social and environmental solutions to global issues through looking at what communities already have. In this way we aim to break down stereotypes, celebrate diversity, and build cross cultural understanding and honour the biodiversity of all world views. 3 A Note before Travelling with CERES Global Remember, this is not a tour and our facilitators from CERES are not tour guides, but facilitators or enablers – working alongside you to achieve insight and understanding of the communities we visit, and to engage discussion within the group and with community members on social and environmental issues. It is expected that you will show some initiative and make a contribution to the journey, through sharing of your own knowledge and experience, and working within the group to ensure a cohesive and insightful experience is shared by all. But most of all, enjoy this trip and embrace it. FACILITATORS Abby Barrows Abby is a marine biologist and micro plastics researcher who grew up on a small Maine island with the ocean as her playground. Her passion for travel and the outdoors brought her to the University of Tasmania, where she earned a degree in Zoology with a focus on Marine Biology. After spending time mapping the canopy of old-growth temperate rainforests and trapping Tasmanian devils, she studied seahorse diversity, distribution and trade in Papua New Guinea and sea turtle populations in Central America. Her fascination with wildlife and different cultures spurred travels from the South Pacific to the Himalayas, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, North Africa, Europe and South America. Since 2012 she has directed microplastic research, initiating one of the first baseline data maps of microplastic pollution in global aquatic systems. Her plastic pollution research has taken her on expeditions to the Coral Triangle and Southern Oceans.When she is not in the lab or conducting field investigations you can find her on her oyster farm in Maine. Sophie Edwards -CERES Global Coordinator: Sophie has been working in social equity and sustainable community development in both international and domestic contexts since 2004. Her background in environmental sustainability stems from an undergraduate degree in Geography and Botany and has broadened to community engagement and development in her Masters in Social Sciences. Before starting at CERES, her working life has taken her through government, not- for-profit and higher education sectors across Australia and the world, including research projects in Papua New Guinea, Project Coordination in Sierra Leone and cross cultural community development in Darwin. She is passionate about experiential learning and challenging people to think about themselves and the world differently. She believes that relationships and stories are what really touch and move people, and that is what she aims to nurture as a trip coordinator and facilitator. 4 Indonesia Living Oceans Trip Itinerary Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 30th 31st 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th Mar-18 Fri Sat Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat Sun 7:30am Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast