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API Regional Project
Theme: Community-based Initiatives for Human-ecological Balance
The API Community seeks to foster greater regional consciousness by promoting relationships among cultures, engaging
in collaborative activites, and confronting issues whose relevance goes beyond locality and nation. One such issue is the current
global environmental crisis.
Promoting a holistic approach, the API Community recognizes the socio-cultural contents of environmental dilemmas.
Launched in November 2008, the API Regional Project focuses on the theme of Community-Based Initiatives for Human-Ecological Balance.
The API Regional Project, whose activities are set to run for at least the next three years, promotes extensive collaboration across national boundaries.
By engaging in the project, API Fellows hope to serve as mediators, linking the people of various countries together
as they conduct activities in the specified sites within each of the API Participating Countries: Biwa-ko in Japan; Batanes in the Philippines,
Khiriwong in Thailand; Kalicode in Indonesia; and Tasik Chini in Malaysia.
The API Regional Project seeks to look into the responses of local communities to environmental challenges relating to the four (4) areas of
forest degradation, water quality, urban environment and marine coastal ecology. In doing so, the links between mountains, forests, rivers and seas are
highlighted. It is hoped that lessons can be drawn from community wisdom, initiatives and experiences—both successes and failures—which can
be shared with the wider public towards developing better responses for the future.
Click here to learn more about the Regional Project (brochure)
REGIONAL COMMITTEE (RC)
RC Reports Appeared on API Newsletters
- Report as of January 2009
- Report as of August 2008
- Report as of March 2008
- Report as of September 2007
RC Documents
- API Community Vision
- Charter of the Regional Committee
RC Members (As of May 2009)
From Indonesia:
Herry Yogaswara (Fellow Year 2001-2002); and
Muktasam (Senior Fellow Year 2003-2004).
From Japan:
Akiko Tashiro (Fellow Year 2002-2003); and
Wataru Fujita (Fellow Year 2003-2004).
From Malaysia:
Rajeswari Kanniah (Senior Fellow Year 2003-2004); and
Yeoh Seng Guan (Senior Fellow Year 2005-2006).
From Philippines:
Danilo Francisco M. Reyes (Fellow Year 2003-2004); and
Theresita V. Atienza (Fellow Year 2005-2006).
From Thailand:
Kannikar Kijtiwatchakul (Fellow Year 2007-2008); and
Narumol Aphinives (Fellow Year 2005-2005).
Former RC Members:
Colin G. Nicholas (Malaysia Senior Fellow Year 2001-2002);
Motoko Kawano (Japan Fellow Year 2002-2003);
Nick Deocampo (Philippines Senior Fellow Year 2001-2002);
Khoo Salma Nasution (Malaysia Senior Fellow Year 2004-2005);
Prangtip Daorueng (Thailand Fellow Year 2001-2002); and
Tan Pek Leng (Malaysia Senior Fellow Year 2003-2004)
Sumit K. Mandal (Malaysia Senior Fellow Year 2002-2003).
API REGIONAL PROJECT MANAGER
Dicky Sofjan (Indonesia Senior Fellow Year 2007-2008)
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The Nippon Foundation Fellowships for Asian Public Intellectuals (API Fellowship Program)
3rd Floor, Prajadhipok-Rambhai Barni Bldg., Phyathai Road, Bangkok 10330, Thailand downloadable map
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last updated: 24 December 2008
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