Excitement of Eco-Monopoly in the Evening Dialogue at RRI
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Posted by admin on 10 June 2011
Her full name is Anissa Hasanah, a student of the Department of Landscapes Architecture,
Faculty of Agriculture, IPB. She is the “Top 4 Indonesia Bayer Young Environmental Envoy”
and the Indonesian Representative of Environment on “Bayer Young Environmental Envoy
2010 in Leverkusen, Germany” with the work of “Eco-Monopoly”. In celebrating the National
Education Day (May 2), Anissa, an IPB student with an international achievement, was
asked to be the speaker / resource person in the Evening Dialogue at RRI, and share
knowledge and experience with the listeners of RRI Bogor.
“Of some 190 participants in the screening process, 30 people were elected, and 15 were in
the semi-final with 7 judges of various elements such as environmental NGOs and PT. Bayer
and in the final the judges were from the Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Forestry, and
Environmental NGO’s as well. Of the eight finalists, there were only four selected to take the
opportunity to go to Germany, one of whom was me as an Environment Ambassador. This
was her answer at the beginning of the dialogue, when she was asked about her departure to
Leverkusen, Germany.
“Monopoly” is a game that has long been popular in Indonesia, but the “Eco-Monopoly” is the
type of game invented by this student of IPB. There are some interesting things about this
game, for example, it is focused more on the elements of education and environmental
knowledge so that school pupils (from the third to fifth grades 3 -5 of elementary schools) in
the game are driven to know and love the environment – the more knowledge of environment
they have, the more wealth they gain. In comparison, while in the monopoly game, pupils can
be rich in material properties, in the eco-monopoly they are encouraged not only to be rich in
material wealth, but more importantly they are rich in knowledge of environment and always
maintain it by avoiding deviant behaviors that will cause damage to the environment itself.
There are three types of games in the Eco-Monopoly: carbon footprint, national parks and
landscape architecture, which encourage the spirit of the children to manage the environment
or nature to make it beautiful to see. (Mtd)