Bandung Tel-U – A group of students and employees PT. CSM, seen engrossed in planting trees, on  Saturday, January 11, 2014 at 08.00 pm in the area of Education Telkom, Bandung Technoplex in a show titled Environmental Conservation conducted by the students of School of Economics and Business, Telkom University and PT. CSM. More than 600 mahogany trees, bungur, ketapan, and Angsana whose height above two meters were planted in the first phase of the plan 1,000 trees donation from Telkom and Puspitek / Bandung Techno Park. These activities are carried out in order to increase student awareness of how important it is to live in a healthy environment, clean, and beautiful, especially in the area of Bandung Technoplex. Greening Program Telkom University campus is a partnership program that involves students, area managers, universities, communities and Telkom.

Event opened with mobility for all participants ahead of Telkom Convention Hall of the Field Building  A-B School of Economics and Business Telkom. The event continued with a speech given by Ir. Syarifuddin, MM. and Mr. Harry from PT CSM, as well as opening Environmental Conservation activities on that day. Then, the PT CSM provides a tutorial to all participants, how to plant trees properly, as well as the symbolism it done anyway by Ir. Syarifuddin, MM. and Chief Executive, Reno Putri Intan. After that, then formally participants can plant trees in the hole that has been created and fertilizers have also been provided by the PT. CSM around the area of the Education Foundation of Telkom.

The day is getting daylight and hot weather did not make the participants and organizers complained in the planting of trees, and to the end at 10:00 pm, all participants return mobility to the point of beginning, Parking Lot Building A-B School of Economics and Business Telkom. Activity has also reached the end of the event. Ir. Syarifuddin, MM. along with the Chief Executive give her a few words to cover the activities of Environmental Protection which has the theme “Future with Better Oxygen”.

With the environmental awareness activities such as this, the organizers hope that the planted trees, can be kept and maintained, not only by the PT CSM, but also by all the students and the academic community of the University of Telkom. In addition, the committee also hopes that events such as this, can be carried out regularly through the green campus program partnership. (Tyas) **