RCE Yogyakarta-2014
1. Name of RCE :
Yogyakarta
2. Continent:
Asia-Pacific
3. Country:
Indonesia
5. Project Title:
Development of Sustainable Power and Water Supply utilizing Renewable Energy Resources for Remote and Rural Areas in Indonesia through Student Community Services Program
7.Project Partner Contact Information Provide information about the main contacts for the project. :
Organization:
Department of Engineering Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada
Role:
Main Coordinator of the project
Main Contact:
Ahmad Agus Setiawan, PhD.
9. Project Description Provide a short description of the project including regional challenges it addresses, its aims as well as project activities/strategies Allow text field (character count 500 words):
This project was initiated by two student groups from Curtin University, Australia, and Universitas Gadjah Mada , Indonesia, and was selected as the winner of Mondialogo Engineering Award 2007. It encourages engineering students in developing and developed countries to form international teams to create project proposals that address the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals – especially poverty reduction and sustainable development – to improve quality of life in the developing world. The purpose of this project is to provide sustainable power and water supplies to remote areas, especially as part of disaster response and reconstruction in Indonesia, by utilizing renewable energy sources, such as solar energy available in these particular areas. This can provide a significant improvement to the reconstruction process and thus improve the lives of the local community. It is also probable that the addition of power and clean water supplies to these deprived rural areas can improve their living standards beyond their original conditions.
The team from Curtin University had strong support from the Renewable Energy and Power Systems research group, formerly known as CRESTA. CRESTA completed study on minigrid hybrid power systems and reverse osmosis desalination plants by utilizing renewable energy technology. The partner team, Universitas Gadjah Mada, has been known for its outstanding track-record in education, research, and community services throughout Indonesia. Moreover, involvement of the local community is also very important to ensuring the success and sustainability of the project. This participation is continued throughout the life of the project through community education as well as in the building and maintenance stages of the project. Accordingly, this project provides an opportunity to mediate a transfer of technology and knowledge to improve the lives of the underprivileged.
Banyumeneng Village, District of Panggang, Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta, Indonesia was chosen for the project. The location faces problems due to lacking a clean water supply, especially during the dry season. The price of water is not cheap. The families spend at least IDR 150,000.00 each month on clean water. This is a huge burden when the average family income is only about IDR 400,000.00 each month.
The project implementation was designed to be incorporated into the student community service program run periodically by Gadjah Mada University, namely Student Community Service – Community Empowering Learning. For this project implementation, three groups of student were deployed as a continuous program:
• First group involving 28 students were deployed in July – August 2008 for the preparation stage, such as survey, social engagement, technology socialization.
• Second group involved 26 students being deployed in July – August 2009 for the solar water pumping system installation. At the end of the August 2009, the project is completed with some additional works on building the water distribution system commenced afterward.
• Third group involved about 29 students for period of July –August 2010 for maintenance program, organization, capacity building, economics and sustainability issues.
The team from Curtin University had strong support from the Renewable Energy and Power Systems research group, formerly known as CRESTA. CRESTA completed study on minigrid hybrid power systems and reverse osmosis desalination plants by utilizing renewable energy technology. The partner team, Universitas Gadjah Mada, has been known for its outstanding track-record in education, research, and community services throughout Indonesia. Moreover, involvement of the local community is also very important to ensuring the success and sustainability of the project. This participation is continued throughout the life of the project through community education as well as in the building and maintenance stages of the project. Accordingly, this project provides an opportunity to mediate a transfer of technology and knowledge to improve the lives of the underprivileged.
Banyumeneng Village, District of Panggang, Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta, Indonesia was chosen for the project. The location faces problems due to lacking a clean water supply, especially during the dry season. The price of water is not cheap. The families spend at least IDR 150,000.00 each month on clean water. This is a huge burden when the average family income is only about IDR 400,000.00 each month.
The project implementation was designed to be incorporated into the student community service program run periodically by Gadjah Mada University, namely Student Community Service – Community Empowering Learning. For this project implementation, three groups of student were deployed as a continuous program:
• First group involving 28 students were deployed in July – August 2008 for the preparation stage, such as survey, social engagement, technology socialization.
• Second group involved 26 students being deployed in July – August 2009 for the solar water pumping system installation. At the end of the August 2009, the project is completed with some additional works on building the water distribution system commenced afterward.
• Third group involved about 29 students for period of July –August 2010 for maintenance program, organization, capacity building, economics and sustainability issues.
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12. Duration of the Project Start Date: End date::
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Describe Coordination and management of the project. Please also reflect how the RCE as a network organization has contributed to the project and the challenges involved, if any. Character count 400 words :
Academic institutions have much to offer in participating in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals program, particularly in implementing the concept of sustainable development as part of the curriculum by combining education, research, and community services in an integrated and holistic approach, along with concrete actions. The project was initiated by ongoing research and educational activities on sustainable technologies within the University, where significant innovations can be harnessed. This technology then was disseminated through the project implementation where technology and knowledge transfer is crucial to success. Replication of the methodological approach then can be constructed and propagated for other types of projects. This project has demonstrated that technological solutions to critical problems for the world’s poor can be effectively achieved if careful consideration is given to the process of building partnerships and empowering local communities to have a strong sense of ownership of the innovations. To ensure sustainable outcomes, involving the local communities from the beginning of the project in the system design, during the project construction by using local labor, and after building the project is finished by maintaining good communication are the vital ingredients to successful project implementation. The triple bottom line activities of sustainable development, which were performed during the community service program, can be summarized using the diagram shown below.
14. What are the current results of the project in terms of outputs (e.g. publications, developed practices, course materials)? Character count 300 words:
Replication of the methodological approach then can be constructed and propagated for other types of projects. This project has demonstrated that technological solutions to critical problems for the world’s poor can be effectively achieved if careful consideration is given to the process of building partnerships and empowering local communities to have a strong sense of ownership of the innovations. Currently, our department is in the process of building similar model in to other rural area for the same purpose: providing water supply utilizing renewable energy resource available in the area.
15. What are the expected/confirmed outcomes (e.g. impact of the project) Character count 400 words:
The innovative aspects are the process of involvement of student community service for disseminating the research results from university taking an application of renewable energy technology into the project.
Local community has more time to perform activities that can generate economical benefits with the water supply problem being solved, improving health & sovereignty as well as dignity.
Local community has more time to perform activities that can generate economical benefits with the water supply problem being solved, improving health & sovereignty as well as dignity.
16. Are there any unexpected/unplanned results achieved by your project? If yes, briefly describe or list them . Character count 200 words.:
none
17. What are the remaining challenges and/or limitations for further development? Character count 300 words.:
Emissions from the system are zero as no fossil fuel involved in the process. In term of environment conservation, the project also consider to empowering local community to improve their awareness on maintaining good conditions of local and surrounding forest as it will maintain their water sources.
18. What is the project’s contribution to innovative and transformative educational processes for sustainable development (especially regarding formal and/ non-formal learning/research)? Character count 500 words:
The innovative aspects are the process of involvement of student community service for disseminating the research results from university taking an application of renewable energy technology into the project.
19.How can you scale up and mainstream ESD and SD practices of the project and enable it to contribute to the implementation of the Global Action Programme (GAP) as proposed by UNESCO? (max 300 words):
Academic institutions have much to offer in participating in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals program, particularly in implementing the concept of sustainable development as part of the curriculum by combining education, research, and community services in an integrated and holistic approach, along with concrete actions. The project was initiated by ongoing research and educational activities on sustainable technologies within the University, where significant innovations can be harnessed. This technology then was disseminated through the project implementation where technology and knowledge transfer is crucial to success. Replication of the methodological approach then can be constructed and propagated for other types of projects. This project has demonstrated that technological solutions to critical problems for the world’s poor can be effectively achieved if careful consideration is given to the process of building partnerships and empowering local communities to have a strong sense of ownership of the innovations. To ensure sustainable outcomes, involving the local communities from the beginning of the project in the system design, during the project construction by using local labor, and after building the project is finished by maintaining good communication are the vital ingredients to successful project implementation.
20. How does you project contribute institutional and policy reforms as part of sustainability change? Character count 500 words:
this project is one of good practices which then be used by institution and local government as role model for solving similar problems in other region.
21. How does your project further improve capacities of various partners and stakeholders on the theme? Character count 500 words.:
Yes, the plan was – Socialization of New Technology and System on Solar Powered Water Pumping, which was done in the first period of student community services program. Installation system was completed in the second period and the last but not least was maintenance system and sustainability measures.
22.What is the significance of this project for developing global linkages in order to strengthen activities in this area? (max 250 words):
Keep bringing our student to be aware of these issues on the problem of lack of water supply to our rural areas community. The Solar Water Pumping System installed at a rural area is now becoming a field laboratory to our student – for doing research project, final year project, etc. The idea of replicating the system to be built in other location is already considered, and potential locations are available. From local community point of view, they still keep good contact with us in university and also that an organization to maintain the system is already established.
23. What is novel about the project within the RCE network and what could other RCEs learn from this experience? (Answer only if relevant) Character count 250 words.:
This project was initiated by two student groups from Curtin University, Australia, and Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia, and was selected as the winner of the Mondialogo Engineering Award 2007, an intercultural partnership initiated by Daimler and UNESCO. The project proposal addresses the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals – especially poverty reduction and sustainable development – to improve quality of life in the developing world. The purpose of this project is to provide sustainable power and water supply to remote area in Indonesia, by utilizing renewable energy sources available in the particular area. The project is completed through continuous Student Community Services Program.
24. What is the significance of this project for the region? How important are its results for its particular project category? Character count 250 words.:
To bring student into the real world of our fellow countrymen – Indonesian living in rural areas with limited support of infrastructure. Also introducing solar water pumping system technology to our student (once there was student honestly said: “I never touch Photovoltaic, Sir”). And then, train our student to become agent of change & development for empowering local community. Also very crucial moment is bringing involvement of local community from beginning of the project: design, planning, execution/implementation, maintenance, organization etc. Stakeholders from local government and institutions also need to be involved in order to ensure full support from all parties.
Region:
Asia-Pacific
