Gaharu Bumi Innovation Challenge (Indonesia)

Ashoka in partnership with Kok Bisa presents the Gaharu Bumi Innovation Challenge, with the support from Ford Foundation and the Ministry of Home Affairs.

The world is facing a climate crisis where the impact of temperature rise can be felt all over the world; melting the ice in the poles, drowning villages, disrupting wheather patterns, causing crops to fail, and inciting disasters in every single corner of the globe. The Gaharu Bumi Innovation Challenge calls on everyone to contribute to slowing down climate change.

Focus Area

• Mitigation of Climate Crisis
  • This challenge seeks initiatives that can support the mitigation of the Climate crisis and encourage sustainable management of Indonesian natural resources, both in terms of education, increased access to information, conservation, innovation, and advocacy.
• Diversity of sub-areas
  • Initiatives can cover various sub-areas such as forest conservation, support for communities to move from destructive industries to sustainable industries, equitable water management, food security, environmental literacy, waste treatment, alternative transportation systems, biodiversity preservation, marine conservation, and many others. The climate crisis is a big problem whose solution can be from any aspect.
• Innovation to existing systems
  • Initiatives to strengthen or bring innovation to existing systems – either by creating new solutions, expanding existing solutions, overcoming deficiencies in systems, fixing dysfunctional/corrupt systems, and other strategic innovations.

Award Information

• First winner: 10 million rupiah
• Runner-up: 7.5 million rupiah
• Third winner: 5 million rupiah
• All eligible participants may obtain opportunities to:
  • Receive a travel support to attend the final panel session in Jakarta and Festival Gaharu Bumi.
  • Be considered to be either a gold, silver, and bronze winner of each category.
  • Connect with Ashoka’s changemaker communities
  • Digital certificate of participation.

Eligibility Criteria

Participants must meet the following eligibility criteria:

• Rules for Family Categories
  • Applicants must consist of at least two family members who work together on a joint initiative. Families can be biologically connected to each member. Each family team can also consist of relatives connected to each other through marriage or adoption (not having biological relationships between members but having attachments like biological families). There is no age or location restrictions for members of this team.
• Rules for the Category of Young People (13-24 years old)
  • Each team member was at least 13 years old at the time of enrollment and not over 24 years old at the end of the registration period.
• Rules for Community / General Category
  • An association is not limited by age, gender, or location. It can be one community or several communities working together towards common goals.
• Rules of Participation for All Categories
  • Participants are domiciled in Indonesia.
  • Registration is group/team. Two group representatives who qualify for the final stage will be invited to the final panel of Gaharu Bumi Challenge.
  • The initiative must have been in place for at least 3 months at the time of registration, with a clear strategy and documented and proven results/impacts.
  • Each team may register only one initiative.
  • The decision of the committee cannot be contested.

Criteria

Entries will be evaluated on the following criteria:

• Connectivity
  • The candidate has a deep understanding of the issue being addressed and has a close relationship with the affected communities.
• Creativity
  • The candidate brings in new perspectives on existing problems and/or develops new ways to solve them.
• Commitment
  • The candidate has a strong commitment to continue the initiative in the future (judging from the impact that has been created and the feasibility of future action plans).
• Collaboration
  • The candidates invite other parties (whether individuals, communities, or organizations) to get involved in their initiatives and work together in an inclusive and collaborative manner.

For more information, visit Ashoka Changemakers.