Seven Reasons of Conducting SATU Indonesia Awards 2016

Seven Reasons of Conducting SATU Indonesia Awards 2016

JAKARTA: SATU Indonesia Awards 2016, once again, seeks young people across the nation who own empowerment programs and also act as activators to the surroundings.

The commencement of the 7^th SATU Indonesia Awards program in 2016 was marked by inspirational talk show held today (8/3) in Jakarta. The contributors who attended the talk show were IT expert Onno W. Purbo Ph.D., who was also one of the grand judges, as well as the SATU Indonesia Awards 2015 awardees Tutus Setiawan at education category and Grombyang OS at group category.

Seven reasons why Astra once again conducts inspirational program of SATU Indonesia Awards 2016:

1. Inviting Indonesian society who cares towards young people who already contributed to education, environment, SME, health and technology fields.
2. Spreading positive virus to other young generation to do the same thing.
3. Building optimism that Indonesia can move forwards on the hands of its young generation.
4. Conserving the communal work culture as Indonesian ancestors’ heritage.
5. There are many youths in the corner of Indonesia who have beneficial empowerment programs for people in their surroundings but haven’t been touched by this program.
6. The program is a spirit booster for Indonesian young generation in a way to build the nation.
7. Giving appreciation to the pearls of nation who have work in sincerity to improve society in their surroundings.

Astra hopes to discover young people who have the same spirit as Astra to continuously work and bring benefits to society at fields of: Education, Environment, Entrepreneurship, Health and Technology, as the awardee candidates of SATU Indonesia Awards 2016, following the previous 32 young people.

In the talk show, Onno Purbo said: “After I have been involved in the judging process in several years, I am strongly believed that Indonesia is not a weak nation. In fact, there are many Indonesian young people who work in fields and become activators for their surrounding. If they can, you can. We are all can, Indonesia can!”

Head of Environment & Social Responsibility Division PT Astra International Tbk Riza Deliansyah uttered: “I believe that there are many Indonesian male and female young people who have potential but have not been reached yet by previous SATU Indonesia Awards programs. Hopefully, this program can reach more people this year because they are role models that must be appreciated and coached to continuously bring benefits to their surroundings.

Tutus Setiawan: Touch and Voice as the Main Tools of Independency

To face a ‘dark’ world and stigma in society is heart breaking. Tutus Setiawan, a blind man since aged 8, thinks about the improvement of his blind fellows by establishing Lembaga Pemberdayaan Tunanetra (LPT / translated in English as Institution for Empowerment of Blind People) in 2003. Although difficult, the man from Surabaya, does not want blind people to become continuously dependent on someone else.

Receiving SATU Indonesia Awards 2015 does not satisfy Tutus. He keeps working on his institution. Helped by four friends of him, many education programs initiated by Tutus are continuously running.

“We do talking-computer training for blind people, learning tutorial for blind students in special and inclusive schools, audio library service, outbound activity for blind children, and celebration of Braille International Day through study tour,” explained the initiator of the events that already benefited 200 blind people and their families. Blind fellows mentored by LPT acknowledge Tutus’s important role that they are become more independent and motivated to be bravely competing in society.

Grombyang OS: “Stop Copyright Violation”

Similar to Tutus, Jordan Andrean also wants to bring benefit to society in his surroundings. A man from Pemalang, Central Java, together with his friends establishes Komunitas Pengguna Linux Indonesia (KPLI / translated in English as Indonesian Linux Users Community). The basic thinking is, he wants to open Pemalang society’s knowledge towards technology and information, as well as to invite people using legal operation system. The community that changes its name to Grombyang OS, offers a system similar to Windows and is free to download.

With Grombyang OS, people do not need to violate the copyright caused by using illegal products. Moreover, this system offers faster performance and needs no antivirus. “Recently, we are currently developing a new innovation called grosLAB, an operation system for school’s laboratory,” said the initiator of the system that has been used by 4,000 users in Indonesia.

SATU Indonesia Awards 2016

Through annual program SATU Indonesia Awards that is held to celebrate Hari Sumpah Pemuda (translated in English as The Youth Pledge Day), PT Astra International Tbk will give fund to each activity as Rp 55 million and provide coaching activities to the awardees of SATU Indonesia Awards 2016.

The registration of SATU Indonesia Awards 2016 starts to open in March 8 to August 8, 2016, with criteria as follows:

• Maximum age of 35 years old
• Individual or group with at least 3 members
• Activity must be original
• Activator/activity has been running at least 1 year
• Never receives any national/international awards
• Not employees of Astra Group and Tempo Media Group

Activity programs that can be registered in SATU Indonesia Awards are the ones that can help and try to make people become independent, by delivering solutions, ways or tools, not only by giving fund or donation that brings temporary impact, but also skills training for misfortune group, community or society so that they can have skills and live independently.

Activities that may bring changes are judged based on the following parameters:

• Motive: First idea, type of activity, purpose/motivation/target, achievement field, efforts to implement the program and partners who work together and funding organization.
• Result: Any gained activities and results
• Scope: Number and impact to people or system that has been built through any implemented programs.
• Sustainability: Judging the commitment to sustain the activity

The grand judges of SATU Indonesia Awards 2016 are Prof. Emil Salim (Lecturer of Environmental Science Post Graduate Program University of Indonesia), Prof. Nila Moeloek (Minister of Health of Republic of Indonesia), Prof. Fasli Jalal (Professor of Post Graduate Program of Jakarta State University), Ir. Tri Mumpuni (Founder of People Centered Economic and Business Institute) and Onno W. Purbo Ph.D. (Expert in Information Technology).

All Indonesian Society who recognizes young people who are qualified can take a part by giving recommendation and registering candidates. The complete information and registration can be accessed through www.satu-indonesia.com.

Other programs that can be followed are Sebar SATU Indonesia and favorite winners voting. Meanwhile, SATU Indonesia’s progress can be seen through Facebook Fan Page: Semangat Astra Terpadu, Twitter: SATU_Indonesia and Instagram: SATU_Indonesia.

Astra’s management expresses gratitude to all journalist and media for their supports in spreading the information about SATU Indonesia Awards so that this program can be accepted by society.

In principal, wherever Astra is, it has to bring benefit to its surroundings, based on the first philosophy of Catur Dharma, namely To be an Asset to Nation. Astra, since 1957, is continuously dedicating its work for advancing the nation.

SATU Indonesia Awards (SIA) 2015 at Education Category, Tutus Setiawan (second left), demonstrated the way to use Braille board to IT expert Onno W. Purbo Ph.D (left), Head of Public Relations Division PT Astra International Tbk Yulian Warman (right), SIA 2015 awardee at Group Category, Grombyang OS, who was represented by Jordan Andrean (second right) during kick off and SATU Indonesia Awards 2016 talk show in Jakarta (8/3).

IT expert Onno W. Purbo Ph.D (middle) and Head of Public Relations Division PT Astra International Tbk Yulian Warman (right) in a dialogue with the awardee of SATU Indonesia Awards 2015 at Education Category Tutus Setiawan (second right) and Group Category, Grombyang OS, Sumitro Aji Prabowo (left) and Jordan Andrean (second left) during kick off and SATU Indonesia Awards 2016 talk show in Jakarta (8/3).

SATU Indonesia Awards 2015 at Education Category Tutus Setiawan (second right) was demonstrating laptop with a special audio program that is user-friendly for blind people accompanied by IT expert Onno W. Purbo Ph.D (third right), Head of Public Relations Division PT Astra International Tbk Yulian Warman (right) and SATU Indonesia Awards 2015 at Group Category, Sumitro Aji Prabowo (second left) and Jordan Andrean (third left) ) during kick off and SATU Indonesia Awards 2016 talk show in Jakarta (8/3).

Jakarta, 8 Maret 2016
PT Astra International Tbk

Yulian Warman
Head of Public Relations Division