The meeting of local stakeholders to discuss BIRU’s Gold Standard certification was attended by representatives from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources at both national and provincial levels, BIRU’s construction partners, economic cooperatives working in the dairy sector, and other related agencies. The meeting was held on Thursday, February 16, 2012, in Jakarta, and Hivos, a Netherland-based, non-government organization that has been managing the program, conducted a public consultation regarding the mechanism of carbon trading.

Hivos invites representatives from the Indonesian Government, NGOs, users of BIRU digesters and BIRU partners to attend the Local Stakeholder Consultation in preparation for qualification and certification of the Gold Standard.

In mid December last year, groups of dairy cooperatives gathered in Batu, Malang, East Java, for an annual program. The event elaborated the progress achieved by the East Javanese suppliers represented by units of koperasi or small private ventures.

Hivos, through its BIRU program, aims to use the income generated from carbon credit for future development in the biogas sector.Therefore, a series of consultations will be done, namely the Program of Activity-Program Design Consultation (PoA-PDC) and Local Stakeholders Consultation (LSC), with relevant stakeholders in Indonesia Domestic Biogas Program such as the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Indonesia both at national and provincial levels, partners, BIRU users, as well as local and international NGOs working on climate issues.Aim to gather all stakeholders’ opinions and approval about the way IDBP designs the carbon mechanism, the LSC meeting/workshop will be conducted in Jakarta on Thursday, 16 February 2012.

There was something different in Kampung Areng at the end of last year. Not only did the villagers celebrate the arrival of New Year, they also welcomed the Governor of West Java, Ahmad Heryawan, and his entourage from the Energy and Mine Resources Agency, the Regional Environment Management Agency, the Animal Husbandry Agency, the assemblu of sub-district heads, and the media.

The BIRU (Biogas Rumah) Programme, implemented by Hivos and SNV Netherlands Development Organisation in cooperation with the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR) of the Republic of Indonesia, has celebrated the construction of its 4,000th biogas digester.