Green Islam in Indonesia

Beberapa waktu yang lalu teman saya Professor Anna M Gade, Guru Besar di University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA, membuat rekaman kegiatan terkait aktifitas di beberapa pesantren lingkungan (ekopesantren) baik di Jawa Barat maupun Jawa Tengah.

K.H. Ahmad Yani: "Islam and Ecology" from Green Islam in Indonesia on Vimeo.

Menurutnya, beliau merekam 32 seri "Islam Hijau di Indonesia" yang membawa aroma positif kegiatan Islam dan lingkungan yang berasal dari tokoh-tokoh pesantren di tingkat akar rumput. Perbincangan saat video ini diluncukan juga sangat menarik ditayangkan oleh National Public Radio (NPR) di Wisconsin, USA.

Sungguh menyenangkan melihat rekaman-rekaman ini.

Lihat Juga:

Kiyai Ahmad Yani: Islam and Ecology

Lagu Keindahan Alam Karya KH Fuad Affandy, Al Ittifaqiah, Ciwidey

A Green Pilgrimage to Fight Climate Change | Conservation International Blog

A Green Pilgrimage to Fight Climate Change | Conservation International Blog

IFEES Finalist Conservation Solution

Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Science (IFEES) Selected as Finalist in Rare and National Geographic's Solution Search for Community-Based Marine Conservation Project. Public invited to chose top trhee and help decide the $20.000 winner.

Birmingham , November 22^nd 2011 – IFEES has been, was selected as one of the 10 finalists of Solution Search. Solution Search is an innovative online platform launched in partnership by Rare and National Geographic to find proven community-based solutions for global environmental issues. The first contest, “Turning the Tide for Coastal Fisheries,” sought applications from organizations worldwide that demonstrate proven innovations which benefit coastal communities and marine ecosystems.

The general public can vote online for the IFEES solution entitled, “ Islamic Marine Conservation at www.solutionsearch.org to be the grand prize winner. Voting closes December 24, 2011.

“For too long the conservation community has focused on problems,” says Brett Jenks, president and CEO of Rare. “But there are a lot of working solutions in remote parts of the planet. Local communities are the R&D labs of conservation. We have to find what’s working and make it available where it’s needed. We are excited to invite the public to be engaged in this process”

Over 100 entries were submitted from 48 countries around the world. A panel of seven esteemed judges selected the 10 finalists. The entry that receives the most votes will be declared the grand prize winner and be awarded a US $20,000 project grant and a video on National Geographic’s The Ocean website. Two runners-up will each receive a US $5,000 project grant.

All of the top 10 finalists will be eligible to become a model for replication through Rare’s global Pride campaigns (Rare’s signature program that engages communities to build pride around unique natural assents through social marketing). Public voting will close December 24, 2011 and the winners will be announced on January 6, 2012.

The Misali Island Islamic Environmental Ethics Project is a collaborative venture in which the Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences (IFEES) figured as the senior consultants. Our Contribution effectively stopped the fishermen dynamiting the coral reefs as a result of which a valuable natural resource was protected, livelihoods were insured and fish supplies were secured.

Its objectives were to –

(a) To bring into the open Islamic environmental stewardship principles

(b) To sensitize marine resource users to the Islamic conservation ethic and

(c) To implement these teachings within the parameters of an integrated conservation and development project bearing in mind sustainability issues

The public is encouraged to check www.solutionsearch.org from Nov. 16, 2011, to Dec. 24, 2011, to vote for the solution they think is most likely to turn the tide on coastal fisheries.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Dawud Wyn Price
Project Manager/Administration (IFEES)
Field Operations Office
Princess Street Training, Education & Enterprise Centre
25-28 Princess Street, Burton upon Trent,
Staffordshire DE14 2NW

+44 (0)7791602107
Dawud.price@ifees.org
www.ifees.org.uk

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The Green Hajj and Green Pilgrimage Network

Following is some link that relevant to the Islamic action to greening the pilgrimage. The Green Hajj Guide, has been launch in Assisi Italia 1 November 2011, on the event of Sacred Land and Green Pilgrimage Network.

• The first guide to an environmentally sustainable Hajj by Global One 2015 has launched at the Sacred Land Launch and Celebration of the Green Pilgrimage Network, in Assisi, Italy, organised by the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC), on 02 November 2011.

to download a copy and read more . . .

• The Bahasa story of Green Pilgrimage (Haji Ramah Lingkungan) >>>>
  
• Francesco Assisi yang Ekologis >>>>
  

MUI issues fatwa against rogue mining companies

Adianto P. Simamora, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Thu, 07/28/2011 8:00 AM

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In a rare fatwa aimed at protecting the environment, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) officially declared destructive mining operations as haram, or strictly forbidden, under Islamic law.

Under the edict that was signed on May 26 and announced on Wednesday, the MUI made it clear that mining companies are banned from denting both land and marine ecosystems; polluting water and air; destroying biodiversity; and causing poverty to nearby communities. “Mining operations that threaten public health is also forbidden,” the edict says.

The council said it issued the fatwa after receiving a question from the public on whether mining operations that damage the environment are allowed under Islamic law.

MUI deputy chairman Ma’ruf Amin dismissed suspicions that the council had been ordered by certain parties to issue such a fatwa. “It comes after long research,” he told a press conference at Jakarta’s Sultan Hotel on Wednesday. The event was attended by Environment Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta.

The edict does not ban the operation of mining companies in the country as long they promote a green mining concept in extracting natural and mineral resources. Mining companies are required to comply with all regulations issued by central and local government, including environmental impact analyses (Amdal).

The feasibility studies to assess whether mining firms are eligible to secure permits should involve all stakeholders, including local communities.

It says the mining firms should reclaim, restore and rehabilitate any former mining land to ensure a sustainable environment for the prosperity of local communities.

The MUI recommended the central government to be more selective in awarding mining permits and seriously enforcing the law — whether with compensation (ta’widl) or punishments (ta’zir) against violators.

The central government should also review those permits awarded to companies that do not give direct benefit to the people.

The MUI called on lawmakers at the House of Representatives to amend the law linked to mining firms that benefit certain groups.

Meanwhile, the edict says local administrations should avoid giving monopolies to certain groups of mining companies, and should monitor reclamation of former mining land in their respective areas.

The mining companies should obey its obligations to pay alms.

Hatta hailed the fatwa on mining, calling it a “moral” movement from the ulemas that could speed up the recovery of ailing environmental areas in the country.

“The fatwa will strengthen positive law enforcement in its efforts to control environmental damage in the mining sector

He also said that the fatwa could boost efforts in implementing moral sanctions for all stakeholders, including environmental protection in the mining sector.

Indonesia has long suffered from deforestation due to illegal mining practices.

An joint investigation by the presidential judicial mafia taskforce and the Forestry Ministry found that “non-procedural” forest use by mining and plantation companies in the provinces of Central, East and West Kalimantan cost the state Rp 311.4 trillion (US$36.38 billion) in losses.

In East Kalimantan, for example, state losses were estimated at Rp 31.5 trillion, by 223 mining companies in an area of 774,520 hectares.

Minister Hatta and Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan, who have conducted several field trips to the three provinces, also found most small to medium-scale mining companies in operation are illegal, having not secured an Amdal document.

Activists have long criticized the government for its slow response in enforcing the law against illegal mining companies that destroy the environment.

A group of activists asked the State Administrative Court in Jakarta to overturn a decision by the Environment Ministry to permit PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara (NTT) to continue dumping its tailings into the sea.

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Green Masjid Selamatkan Lingkungan

Oleh Heri Ruslan

Masjid ternyata bisa menjadi pusat gerakan penyelamatan lingkungan hidup. Remaja Masjid Nagari Guguak Malalo, Kecamatan Batipuah Selatan, Kabupaten Tanah Datar, Sumatra Barat, telah memulainya. Bersama anggota karang taruna, aktivis masjid di wilayah itu menggulirkan sebuah gerakan bertajuk "Green Masjid"

Gerakan "Green Masjid" yang dilakukan untuk memperingati hari lingkungan hidup itu diisi dengan aksi pembersihan sampah. Para aktivis masjid juga menanam bibit dalu-dalu [Salix tetrasperma roxb) di sepanjang pantai Danau Singkarak yang berada dalam wilayah Nagari Malalo. Tanaman dalu-dalu merupakan tumbuhan langka yang dapat membantu pemi-jahan ikan bilib [Mystacoleuseus padangensis). Bilih adalah ikan khas Danau Singkarak yang sangat masyhur. Dulu, ikan itu menjadi lauk favorit para penyuka hidangan khas Minang. Sayangnya, ikan kecil ini sudah sangat langka. Amat sulit menemukannya di tepian Danau Singkarak.

Pencemaran di danau dan hilangnya habitat pemijahan mereka berupa akar pohon dalu-dalu, menjadi penyebab utama punahnya ikan bilih. Akar dalu-dalu yang berserabut halus adalah habitat ikan bilih yang endemis Danau

Singkarak. Pada serabut akar pohon dalu-dalu itulah ikan tersebut menyimpan telur-telur mereka.

"Penanaman pohon dalu-dalu dapat menyelamatkan ikan bilih dari kepunahan. Oleh karena itu, kami mendukung program "Green Masjid" yang juga membantu upaya konservasi alam dan menyelamatkan lingkungan," tutur Yoan Dinata, project manager Darwin Initiative, yang membantu penyelenggaraan kegiatan itu.

Sekitar 50 aktivis masjid dan anggota karang taruna terlibat dalam kegiatan penanaman itu. Sekitar 750 batang bibit dalu-dalu ditanam di pinggir Danau Singkarak sepanjang 1.500 meter. Kegiatan tersebut dilakukan sehari penuh yang berlangsung pada Senin (20/6) lalu.

Program "Green Masjid" itu digelar di tiga jorong (dusun) dalam kenagarian tersebut, yaitu Jorong Baiang, Jorong Guguak, dan Jorong Duo Koto. Kegiatan penyelamatan berbasis masjid itu dihadiri Wakil Bupati Tanah Datar, H Hendri Amis.

"Program Green Masjid didukung dalam memberikan kegiatan dan penyadaran bagi generasi muda masjid dan nagari, agar mulai berpikir serta mampu menjadi pelopor yang prol-ingkungan," ungkap Indra Sakti, religion and education coordinatorDarwin Initiative Sumatra Barat. Pihaknya berharap kegiatan itu bisa dilakukan aktivis masjid lainnya di seluruh Indonesia.

Menurut Indra, agama Islam mengajarkan bahwa manusia sebagai khalifah di muka bumi memikul tanggung jawab untuk memakmurkan bumi serta memeliharanya dari kerusakan. Ia menambahkan, pendekatan untuk melibatkan masyarakat secara langsung melalui motivasi ajaran agama sangat jarang dan bahkan terlupakan.

"Padahal, agama memberikan nilai-nilai positif atas pelestarian alam," tuturnya. Ia mengingatkan bahwa manusia mengemban amanah untuk merawat bumi sebagai tugas kekhalifahan. Selain kegiatan penanaman pohon endemis, program aksi konservasi lingkungan yang didorong oleh semangat agama Islam juga memberikan fasilitas pelatihan untuk tokoh masyarakat nagari, dalam pengelolaan sumber daya alam berbasis masyarakat adat.

"Adat merupakan warisan berharga dan dapat menjadi tumpuan terakhir pelestarian alam di nagari-nagah yang ada di Minangkabau," kata Fachruddin Mangunjaya, conservation and religion initiative dari Conservation International (CI) Indonesia.

Sumber KORAN REPUBLIKA 24 Juli 2011

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD TO EDUCATION

Beberapa Catatan Perjalanan tentang Pelatihan Ulama di Kano Afrika dan Konferensi tentang Kontribusi Islam Pada Pendidikan:

Kedatangan saya ke Kano karena diundang untuk berbicara dalam INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD TO EDUCATION yang diadakan oleh Bayero University of Kano (BUK), saya datang atas nama dua organisasi sekaligus Dosen Universitas Nasional dan Staff Conservation International, diundang sebagai aktifis yang juga membagi pengalaman bagaimana mengembangkan Islamic Environmental Education in Indonesia. Selain itu Sidi Fazlun Khalid menyisipkan workshop yang difasilitasi oleh the British Council untuk Melatih Ulama di Kano tentang Etika Lingkungan dalam Islam.

Kano memang unik, orangnya ramah dan sejauh yang saya kenal juga cepat akrab seperti kita di Indonesia. Latar belakang Muslim di Kano yang ketat itulah membawa saya bersentuhan dengan ulama di Kano. Mereka ingin mendapatkan fasilitasi workhshop sebagaimana yang pernah dilakukan di Aceh tentang Islam dan Lingkungan. Bahasa pengantarnya adalah bahasa Hausa dan Inggris. Beberapa mereka bisa berbahasa Arab dengan fasih, sehingga saya bisa menjajal bahasa Arab untuk berkomunikasi dengan ulama dan ustads tersebut , salah satunya adalah Shehu Muhammad Auwalu Barau, Imam masjid Jami Kano.

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