NC Indonesia - Welcomes New Members and Shares Best Practices on Urban Farming

On the 24-25 February 2011 the Local Government of Sukabumi Municipality in cooperation with CITYNET-Indonesia conducted the General Discussion and Sharing Practices “Developing Urban Farming”. The Programme provided opportunities to learn and share ideas about policies and methods of developing urban farming in order to enhance the local economic growth. Information sharing through case-studies from a number of cities was examined in light of achieving the MDGs. CITYNET-Indonesia membership was also promoted to the participants and representatives of Local Governments of the Municipalities and Regencies in West Java and Banten Province of Indonesia. As a result there are six municipalities who will join the CITYNET-Indonesia in this year, they are Serang, South Tangerang, Cimahi, Cirebon, Karawang, and Ciamis.

CITYNET Indonesia - Activities for 2011
In 2011, CITYNET-Indonesia plans to organise the following programmes:
1. Workshop on managing solid waste and urban pollution (Bogor City, July 2011)
2. Seminar on sharing best practices on decentralising authority to the sub-districts and the villages. This is to generate people participation in the development process (Balikpapan, October 2011)