Aceh Besar – Penguatan Kapasitas Organisasi Kemahasiswaan Program Team (PPK Ormawa) from FASTANA-TDMRC Syiah Kuala University carried out mangrove planting in Kajhu Village, Aceh Besar on Sunday (04/09/2022).
Mangrove planting is one of a series of activities of PPK Ormawa FASTANA-TDMRC Syiah Kuala University. The purpose of naming this mangrove is to rehabilitate damaged ecosystems, prevent abrasion, and reduce water pollution.
The head of the ORMAWA FASTANA-TDMRC PPK team group, Hasnan Hanif, said that the mangrove planting carried out by FASTANA aims to reduce disaster riskand control climate change, especially in Aceh. Great. Hasnan also said that this activity is a form of concern for the younger generation for the surrounding environment.
Hasnan also said that there are still several series of Ormawa PPK activities that will be carried out by the team from FASTANA, such as earthquake and tsunami disaster mitigation education and making corners read in elementary school, and provide simulations of earthquake and tsunami disasters to elementary school children as the successors of the resilient generation in the face of future disasters .
As is well known, geographically and geologically, the State of Indonesia is vulnerable to disasters because it is located in the meeting zone of the world’s large plates. With the habit of planting mangrove trees or other trees, we can reduce the risk of disasters, both bencana alam and non-natural disasters in Indonesia.