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01 August 2015

“BEST OF THE BEST” ECO YOUTH WINNERJOIN ENVIRONMENTAL TRAINING IN JAPAN

20 Finalists at the 9th Toyota Eco Youth Succeed in Completing the Environmental Project:

“Best of The Best” Winner Have the Opportunity to Join Environmental Training in Japan

Jakarta – 20 schools that consist of both senior high schools and vocational school which became thefinalists at the 9th Toyota Eco Youth (TEY) succeed in completing the environmental project realizationand obtain assessment from the jury.

According to the judges, there were 3 winners for each categories that consist of Science and Socialcategory. There was also 1 other winner in the “Best of The Best” category.

For the Science category, SMAN 6 Denpasar with their “Lembah Upacara Yadnya” project came in firstplace, SMAN 1 Blora with their “Vertical Axis Windmill and Solar Cell as a Power Plant in Insect Traps”came in second place, and SMAN 6 Banjarmasin with their “Development of a Simple Tool to Neutralizethe Acidic Peat Swamp Water into Consumable Water” came in third place.

For the Social category, SMAN 19 Bandung with their “Decrease Pollution with Interaction” Babarengan

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project, came in first place, SMAN 5 Surabaya with their “Cyber Nature” project came in second place,and SMAN 1 Ubud with their “Bike & Walk, Prevention of Functional Shift” project came in third place.

All the winners in each categories are entitled to a Rp70 mill ion worth of price for the winner, Rp50million for the runner-up, and Rp30 mill ion for the third place.

Meanwhile, “Best of The Best” winner that was achieved by SMAN 19 Bandung would receive anadditional prize of environmental training in Japan. Therefore, total prize given in the 9th TEY programreached Rp660 mill ion.

Today, the awarding ceremony for the 9th TEY was held in Jakarta. TEY is an environmental-basedcompetition targeted towards high school students that was organized by Toyota Indonesia thatconsists of Toyota Astra Motor (TAM) and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia (TMMIN).

President Director of PT Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia (TMMIN), Masahiro Nonami, mentionedthe success of the well conducted 9th TEY is due to the good teamwork between Toyota Indonesia,Toyota dealer network in Indonesia, media friends, and the active support and participation of all theschools, jury, and surely the Government of Indonesia.

“We hope the Toyota Eco Youth program can also support education in Indonesia, especially innovativeculture research, and education with knowledge of the environment, to reach a better Indonesia in thefuture,” said Nonami.

Since its presence in Indonesia more than 40 years ago, Toyota Indonesia stil l sought to increasecontribution towards development, from industry development to various social activities, including anactive involvement in environmental conservation.

One way is through TEY that is a part of Toyota Indonesia’s commitment to participate and develop theyounger generation in environmental conservation through competitions that would increase theirawareness and active role.

The very first TEY was organized in 2005 and now enters the 9th year. The 9th TEY took the GreenGeoneration theme and has officially started on September 2014.

TEY program is divided into 2 main categories and 1 additional category, which are Science categorywhere the participants are required to incent a product/object that would benefit the environment, andthe Social category where the participants are require to develop a motion or campaign that wouldpersuade society to contribute towards the environment. Lastly, the additional category involvesimprovement done in the execution of the 9th TEY.

In a separate occasion, the Vice President Director of PT Toyota-Astra Motor, Suparno Djasmin,mentioned that this year the students’ interest towards TEY competition increases compared to theyear before. “TEY competition this time is much stricter with a 3 times increase of total participantscompared to last year”, he said.

Furthermore, Suparno Djasmin mentioned that TEY aims to increase awareness towards environmentamong the younger generation, because in reality, the environmental development related to anextensive aspects that demand a higher creativity.

According to Suparno Djasmin, the 9th TEY succeeded in encompassing high quality projects fromIndonesia’s younger generation. Therefore, we should be proud of them, especially the participants ofthe 9th TEY that have excellent potential in providing innovative ideas to save the environment for ahealthier and cleaner life.

The total proposal entry reached 1,709 proposals, which would be then selected by the jury. 20 ofthem would be picked as the finalists that consist of 12 science projects and 8 social projects. Thefinalists are given opportunities to join workshops to objectify their proposals with the funding andguidance from Toyota Indonesia.

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According to the efforts to improve the participants’ quality, the assessment criteria which are theinvolvement of society, idea originality, presentation skills, and the projects sustainability are eachgiven a 25% weight.

In the assessment process, Toyota Indonesia management team gets help from education experts, suchas Prof. DR. Arief Rachman Hakim, M.Pd (Professor in Universitas Negeri Jakarta), DR. JatnaSupriatna,Phd (Head of Climate Change in Universitas Indonesia), Rene Suhardono (social mediaspecialist & social movements), and Didi Kaspi Kasim (media practitioners).

Toyota Indonesia thrives to increase the quality and prestige of TEY. The improvement is done becauseTEY is considered as one of the important vessel and community for the students to create, discuss,and share ideas regarding environmental conservation.

The crucial point of this program lies on the environment problem solving, either inside or around theschool. Therefore, the goal is to create younger generation with more awareness towards theirenvironmental surroundings.

With the making of those communities, the efforts to persuade activities such as environmentalimprovement and conservation are believed to grow among the younger generation.

Improvement done at the 9th TEY is in the competition variation. This time, the competition is notmerely in a form of an environmental project, but there is also an additional 6 categories of activitiessuch as My Eco competition, yaitu My Eco Shirt, My Eco Doodle, My Eco Anthem, My Eco Story, My EcoMeter, My Eco Pic. With the additional programs, the participation element of the schools in the 9thTEY program would hope to be widen.

Another improvement is done by widening the socialization scope from 5 cities which are Jakarta,Makassar, Surabaya, Jogjakarta, and Medan, to 10 cities in Indonesia, with Bandung, Semarang,Denpasar, Balikpapan, and Manado as the addition.

On the other hand, the 9th TEY program differs from the previous programs because the lastassessment process is done publicly, therefore could act as a role model for other students and publicsociety.

The 9th TEY has more quality because the winners of the competition not only receive funding aid forthe project development but also receive an opportunity to participate in a short environmentaltraining in Japan.

Since first held in 2005, TEY had involved more than 750 schools and 2,343 projects originated fromvarious schools in all regions of Indonesia.

“We would like to say congratulations to all the winners. Hopefully their acts would bring positiveimpact and inspire their friends and society,” said Nonami.