DENPASAR, Indonesia Feb 5 (NNN-ANTARA) — The Australian embassy in Jakarta announced the launching of a short film competition themed Climate Change: What it means to you and your surroundings.

The Australian embassy in a press release in Denpasar on Friday said they are inviting junior secondary school students from Jabotabek aged 15-19 years old to send their short films of a duration of 3 to 5 minutes on all aspects of climate change.


The deadline for handing over the films had bee set on February 16, 2010. The accepted films will be announced and screened on February 24 with their winners announced during the “Study In Australia” exhibition in Jakarta on Saturday, February 27, 2010. 
 The winners will be given an change to visit Perth for five days under the sponsorship of the “Perth Education City”, where they will be introduced to the latest developments of climate changes, other techniques of making short films on studies, and technology of research.

The competition was organized under partnership with the Perth Education City, the Indonesian Nobel Foundation, and the Indonesian Climate Project.

On this, Australian ambassador to Indonesia Bill Farmer said it is important to combine important topics like climate change into our initiative.

Farmer said the competition is aimed at making junior secondary school students to become more aware of climate change issues, their causes, effects, and impacts on their daily life and efforts at reducing their impact. 


In response, executive director of the Indonesian Nobel Foundation Lukman Niode said in this case the young students will see the role of science and technology in facing climate change problems.


Mike Ryan of Perth Education City said “We are very happy to be seen in this project.

The message from this competition to the students is that climate change starts with change in thoughts, so that we in a natural way wish to be seen because Perth is the right destination for the education of thoughts and the development of knowledge. ? NNN-ANTARA

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