Ahmad Khairudin, Arts for Tambakrejo’s Environmental Conservation

Ahmad Khairudin is convinced that art can save many things from the ruins of destruction and devastation.

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Ahmad Khairudin

At the end of 2022 Ahmad Khairudin, 37, gathered around 50 artists from several regions to make a moral appeal through various arts for the areas inundated by tidal floods in Kampung Tambakrejo, Tanjungmas subdistrict, North Semarang.

Ahmad, commonly called Adin, is a guest lecturer from the Social Anthropology Study Program in the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Diponegoro University (Undip), Semarang, between 2019 and 2022. On Wednesday afternoon (21/12/2022) he showed the map of Kampung Tambakrejo, where an art event titled Penta K Labs IV: Malih Dadi Segara-Pantura Lemahe Banjir (The Northern Sea Coast is Turning Into Sea from Flooding) was held on 17-21 December 2022.