Orangutan tour and Mahakam river safari east kalimantan

Borneo Orangutan and mahakam adventure tours

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DAY 1 : PANGKALAN BUN - KUMAI - PARK (L D)
Upon arrival at Pangkalan Bun Airport you will be picked up by our local staff and take you to Kumai to board on the boat. The boat is a traditional Klotok wooden river boat about 6m by 2m with a roof which forms the upper deck where you can view the rain forest as it glides by. The guide's team includes the boatman, a cook and expert guide. In the peaceful afternoon we will slowly explore the quite river by the klotok while observe
the monkeys along the riverside. Dinner and overnight on the boat. simple mattress, pillow, fine meals, bottled "mineral" water, mosquito net, kitchen, simple toilet available on boat besides the familiar - helpful guides and boatmen (L, D).

DAY 2 : PARK - PONDOK TANGGUY - CAMP LEAKEY - BOAT (B L D)
After breakfast board the klotok to travel up river for about 2 hours boating and then up a side creek to Camp Leakey where the older orangutans are reintroduced into the rain forest. En route stop at Pondok Tanguy, the rehabilitation center for the new ex-captive orangutans, see feeding time at 09.00am . Then proceed to Camp Leakey . After lunch on the boat you will have opportunity to take small trek before see feeding time at 14.00
pm for old rehabilitation orangutan given additional foods. Overnight on the boat (B,L,D).

DAY 3 : BOAT - KUMAI - PANGKALAN BUN AIRPORT - BANJARMASIN.(B L )
Free morning program until time transfer to Kumai then to Pangkalan Bun airport for Banjarmasin. Upon your arrival at Syamsuddinnoor airport, meeting service with your guide/assistance who will escort you to Banjarmasin city where you will stay.

DAY 4 : BANJARMASIN (HOTEL) - FLOTING MARKET - BALIKPAPAN . (B L D)
Early morning depart from the hotel to see peoples activities at the floating market. Back to Hotel,Breakfast then transfer to Airport fly to Balikpapan . Upon arrival at Balikpapan airport, meeting service and transfer to Loa Janan, to board houseboat for exciting adventure on Mahakam river. Meals provided and overnight on houseboat.

Day 5: MUARA MUNTAI - TANJUNG ISUY - MANCONG (B L D)
Jempang Lake to Tanjung Isuy by motor canoe. Arrival at Tanjung Isuy welcomed with a traditional ceremony by the Dayaq Benuaq. Afterwards by motor canoe to Mancong. During the cruise you could see wildlife at Ohong creek like monkey's and birds. Afternoon return to Tanjung Isuy for Overnight at Longhouse.

Day 6: TANJUNG ISUY - TENGGARONG - SAMARINDA (B L)
Early in the morning downstream by houseboat to Tenggarong. Arrive at Tenggarong, visiting the former palace of Sultan Kutai Kertanegara . Where you will see the Sultan's impressive collection of heirlooms, ceramics, Dayak's art and culture items. Afterwards return to houseboat for downstream to Samarinda, then drive to Balikpapan for your hotel

Day 7: SAMARINDA - BALIKPAPAN (B)
Breakfast, free at leisure, and enjoy the hotel atmosphere, soaking up the pool until departure transfer to Balikpapan airport for your next destination.

Note : We are able to Organize Your flight ticket from/to Pangkalan bun, Recommeded hotel in Bali, Jakarta and Indonesia most city, Transfer in and out to and from Airport.

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Building a Greener Company

In 2005, MCI, the global event giant headquartered in Geneva, organized Europe's 500 Entrepreneurs for Growth Summit in Barcelona. The managing director of MCI's Barcelona, Spain, office, Guy Bigwood, was handed the task of finding a speaker dynamic enough for this meeting of Europe's top entrepreneurs.

Bigwood came up with former vice president Al Gore, who, in lieu of politics, was focused on the issue of global warming and was about to star in 2006's most unlikely box office smash, An Inconvenient Truth. Gore's speech at the November 2005 meeting was a huge success. “Al Gore in person is no comparison to the film,” says Bigwood. As convincing and well-researched as Gore was in the film, in person “he was very, very compelling,” says Bigwood.

So compelling, in fact, that Bigwood walked away convinced that MCI needed to follow Gore's lead and develop its own sustainability program. Fortunately, because his entire executive committee also heard Gore speak, it didn't take much convincing — he got the job.
Where Do You Start?

Bigwood's first step was gathering information. He headed to the IMEX Show in Frankfurt, Germany, where he attended a seminar by green meetings expert Amy Spatrisano, CMP, principal of Meeting Strategies Worldwide, Portland, Ore., a consulting and training company that works with organizations to produce sustainable, green conferences and corporate social responsibility programs. When they spoke afterward, she says, “It was clear he was excited about the possibilities, but everyone gets excited at first. Does that excitement translate into action? With Guy it really did.”

After getting the approval of the four-member MCI Executive Committee and the company's international board, Bigwood had to gain the buy-in of MCI's 500 employees. Spatrisano and Bigwood brought in a third player: consultant Mike Wallace, Wallace Partners LLC, San Francisco, who provides organizations with guidance on environmental governance and sustainable services.

Wallace interviewed key MCI executives, including potential critics who showed little understanding of or interest in corporate social responsibility and green issues. “We talked about what is going on with CSR on a global level, and what their peers — whether it's Wal-Mart or Nike — are doing,” says Wallace. “I wanted them to understand that they aren't alone.”

At the same time, Bigwood identified a core group of champions: MCI employees who are passionate about the environment and social issues. Spatrisano led intensive training sessions with this group about green meetings and how to implement them, looking at issues such as negotiating with suppliers, identifying green hotels, examining recycling policies, and conducting site inspections and negotiating contracts. She also customized a training manual for these employees, which of course was printed on recycled paper and bound in environmentally sound binders. The initial training was completed in about two months, and those MCI green champions are providing follow-up training for the entire company.
Get With the Program

At the heart of MCI's new initiative is a green office program, which will have as its model the Barcelona office.

In Barcelona, the process started with selection of office space, which included large open spaces with plenty of natural light, eliminating much of the need for artificial light during daytime hours. MCI redesigned the office using sustainability practices and principles. For example, they installed energy-efficient windows, and construction waste was sent to a recycling center. Low-consumption fluorescent lighting was installed in the hallways, 90 percent of desktop computers were replaced with laptops, and timing switches were installed on printers, all reducing energy consumption. MCI will try to replicate these practices in its other offices.

Another of Bigwood's goals is to reduce his company's environmental footprint, which is proving to be a challenge for the global company, which has 17 offices from Latin America to Shanghai. “Defining how we measure that … is complicated and confusing,” he says. “There are lots of different entities — the United Nations, the GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) — that have their own reporting systems.”

MCI is developing its own environmental footprint calculator to document, benchmark, and analyze the impact in the form of greenhouse gas emissions and other byproducts of the company's business in each of its offices. MCI is collecting and reviewing that information from 2006 and from that analysis will devise reduction goals.

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The company has also developed a Sustainable Event Methodology, which it will use to help clients measure and reduce the environmental impacts of their programs. This will include providing them with carbon offset options to help mitigate the CO2 emissions generated by their travel and events. (See story on carbon offsets, page 32.)

A longer term goal is to create a new “industry practice” area for the renewable energy sector, based on what MCI has done developing event and communications services and strategies for clients in certain business sectors, such as information technology.

Bigwood, who is leading the initiative, said the renewable energy sector is “obviously booming” and will be looking for help with training, incentives, events, and communications service. “It's a tremendous business opportunity,” he says.
Earth Day Kickoff

The company's big kickoff was a press conference this past Earth Day, with festivities at all of the MCI offices. In the Brussels office, 40 employees attended a launch party where they enjoyed Fair Trade snacks and drinks and screened (of course) An Inconvenient Truth. At the Geneva headquarters, they created a bamboo theme for an indoor picnic lunch, while in Paris, the group bicycled or took public transportation to a picnic held near the base of the Eiffel Tower.

And to think it all started with an unexpected box office hit. “Really, truly, it took Al Gore's movie, and Hollywood getting involved, for this subject to get ‘cool,’” says Spatrisano. “Now, the average person is waking up to it, and businesses are moving to it, and CEOs are dealing with it. And I think the meetings industry has finally decided we should be doing something, too.”
Green Goals

Each of MCI's offices set three concrete actions they will take to become greener. Among them:

* Change most light bulbs to energy-efficient ones;
* reduce flushing water in the toilets;
* install recycling bins for paper, plastics, aluminum, and glass;
* offset business travel;
* bike to work;
* encourage carpooling;
* don't leave computers on standby;
* bring re-usable chopsticks or other utensils for meals;
* use both sides of paper;
* choose hybrid or electric “green cabs”; and
* meet regularly to share ideas.

Three Prongs

MCI's new CSR strategy has three parts:

1. a green office program for its 17 worldwide offices,
2. a “CSR task force” designed to support clients with their own CSR efforts, and
3. the development of a new consulting services for the renewable energy industry.

http://meetingsnet.com/green/case_studies/meetings_mci_building_greener

Three baby orangutans find sanctuary at Nyaru Menteng

Nyaru Menteng - Borneo Orangutan Survival’s rescue and rehabilitation centre in Indonesian Borneo - has recently welcomed the arrival of three young orangutans from West Kalimantan. All three (aged between 2 - 3 years) were confiscated from private households - victims of palm oil development and logging. Nyaru Menteng, founded by Lone Droscher-Nielsen, is home to 670 orangutans, ranging in age from a few months to about 8 years, where they are cared for and rehabilitated to prepare them for their ultimate release into the wild.

In February this year, the Natural Resource Conservation Agency (BKSDA) of the Forestry Department in Indonesia, confiscated Frengky - one of the orangutans - from the area of Singkawang, on the north coast of West Kalimantan.

Within two months, another young orangutan, Thomas, was rescued from Sintang, also in the northern part of West Kalimantan province. They were temporarily homed in transit cages in Pontianak, waiting for an opportunity to be transferred to a rehabilitation centre.

It wasn’t long before a third orangutan, Caleb, was confiscated - this time in Ketapang, a small town in the southern part of the province, abut seven hours’ journey by boat from Pontianak city. He was placed in the Yayasan Palung’s transit centre in Ketapang to await transfer to a rehabilitation centre.

No such facilities exist in West Kalimantan, and all the other orangutan rehabilitation centers in Central and East Kalimantan were all full at the time. In May, however, the Centre for Orangutan Protection (COP), which assists the BKSDA in caring for captive orangutans in West Kalimantan, heard that Nyaru Menteng would be able to accommodate these youngsters at the end of the month.

Nyaru Menteng is located in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan province. There is no road link between this area and West Kalimantan - nor is there a direct air link - so the orangutans would have to be flown via Jakarta. In the space of a day, COP had made arrangements with Sriwijaya Air and cargo to transport the orangutans to Palangka Raya, and also to transfer Caleb from Ketapang. He joined Frengky and Thomas in BKSDA’s transit cages in Pontianak that night, to await the journey to Palangka Raya the following morning.

At 7.00 am the three orangutans were at the airport, ready for loading. The plane left at 8.15 am and arrived in Jakarta at about 10.00 am. After a 30 minute wait for the next plane, the orangutans arrived in Palangka Raya at about 12 noon.

All of three orangutans had travelled well and were fine. Thomas looked a little nervous, but when all three were finally put together in a big cage, they were so happy. Within minutes they were playing, hanging, biting each other - and eating!

Thanks to Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation in Nyaru Menteng, BOS-UK and Orangutan Appeal UK for making this transfer possible

Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) is the largest primate rescue project in the world, with nearly 1000 orangutans in its care. It is the only organisation actively rescuing both wild and captive orangutans which have been displaced by the relentless devastation of their rainforest habitat for logging and the production of palm oil. The ultimate goal of BOSF is the release of healthy and rehabilitated orangutans back into protected forest. Borneo Orangutan Survival International is a registered international charity committed to the protection of the orangutan and its rainforest habitat, and relies entirely on donations to achieve this.

Report by Yenny Fildayani - COP/Centre for Orangutan Protection - June 2008
www.savetheorangutan.org.uk