Usman Firdaus, Spreading Love for the Ciliwung

Usman Firdaus hopes that the activities he has been running for the last 17 years at the Ciliwung River can serve as a model of how to care for the environment in other regions.

AGUSTINUS YOGA PRIMANTORO

Usman Firdaus

Face radiant as he relates his experience as an environmental activist, starting with cleaning the banks and tributaries of the Ciliwung River in Cikoko subdistrict, Pancoran district, South Jakarta, Usman is now empowering people as well as communities in several areas.

“The focus now is on community empowerment, because educating people is the most difficult task,” Usman Firdaus, 53, chairman of Komunitas Masyarakat Peduli Ciliwung (community of people who care for the Ciliwung), or Mat Peci for short, said on Tuesday (2’2’2023).