Members of the SRIREP Project led by Professor Masayuki Sakakibara attended and presented at the 4th International Conference of Transdisciplinary Research on Environmental Problems in Southeast Asia (TREPSEA 2021) from September 16 to 18, 2021. This year TRPESEA Conference was held as an online conference due to the Covid - 19 pandemic situation among participating nations.
The 6th Japan-ASEAN Medical Seminar on Human Health Impact of Heavy Metals “Minamata Disease” was held as the online Zoom Webinar for the lecture “Minamata Disease – an Epidemiological Perspective” by Professor Takashi Yorifuji, Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University on Tuesday, June 29th, 2021, from 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Japan Standard Time (JST).
The 5th Japan-ASEAN Medical Seminar entitled “Mercury Exposure and Health Problems: Using Illegal Skin-Lightening Cosmetic Products” was held as an online Zoom Webinar for the lecture entitled “Mercury Exposure from Illegal Skin-Lightening Cosmetic Products in ASEAN Countries and Related Health Problems” by Dr. Hasriwiani Habo Abbas, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Muslim Indonesia (UMI) on 29th May 2021.
This is the summary of the process of making sugar palm fiber nets. We are currently collaborating with local people of Bone Bolango Regency who have indigenous knowledge (such as the knowledge of creating a traditional net with the fibers of the sugar palm stalks around them), officers of the local government (Bone Bolango Regency), the researchers of SRIREP and State University of Gorontalo, and the private sector such as ESPECMIC Co., Lt. in order to develop a sustainable new industry which will also help to reduce the poverty problem. Currently, in West Tulabolo Village, the villagers, including those who work in the mine, have started the Moopiya Group, and work together with us to manufacture goods using the Sugar Palm.
Gorontalo Post – Research is part of the threefold missions of higher education as the main task of lecturers.
Bone Bolango – Post. The opening ceremony of Health Resilience Village was held in the Maleo building, Tulabolo Village, East Suwawa sub-district on 29, March 2021.
Due to the alarming condition of natural disasters and environmental pollution of Limboto Lake, the researchers of SRIREP Project led by the project leader, Professor Masayuki Sakakibara together with the researchers of the State University of Gorontalo are collaborating with Gorontalo Provincial Government to do more cooperate research in order to make the future potentials of surrounding inhabitants.
Gorontalo, Infopublik - The Gorontalo Provincial Government has submitted a proposal for 26 geological heritages (geoheritage) to the Geological Agency to the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.
