60 North Sumatra Youth Initiate Innovation to Prevent Forest and Land Fires and Save Animals

Preventing forest and land fires through education and monitoring

On the issue of forest and land fires, participants developed three ideas with different approaches, namely SIGAP API, Fire Memory, and Fire Wind Tracker.

SIGAP API is designed as a social media-based youth movement for digital education and advocacy for preventing forest and land fires. This idea also aims to connect the public with official complaint channels.

Meanwhile, Fire Memory offers documentation of the journey of a burned area to recovery. It is hoped that this documentation will help monitor rehabilitation as well as serve as learning material.

The Fire Wind Tracker is the idea of a portable micro wind monitoring system. This system is intended to support patrol safety and decision making when facing a fire.

Recognizing Flora and Following Animal Recovery

In the field of conservation, participants who are members of the Forest Conservation Generation or Genries initiated Rimba Explorer. The concept is to digitize flora information through digital marking or smart tagging, so that visitors can recognize plants when exploring the area.

Another idea, the Sibolangit Wildlife Rescue Track, offers an information system to follow the journey of animals from the time they are rescued, undergo rehabilitation, until they are returned to their habitat.

Participants also developed Elephas Goes to School, an educational approach to animal and forest conservation for the younger generation through learning materials, simulations and educational games.