Successful with the Conservation Journalism Training previously held in Pekanbaru - Riau Province, the central regional facilitator (faswil) TFCA Sumatra (Tropical Forest Conservation Act) again held this training for students in Jambi City on 08 - 10 September 2023.

Conservation Journalism Training for the Young Generation Campus is a forum for increasing capacity for participants from various campuses to train their journalistic skills.

"We want to attract young groups who have the power to disseminate information about environmental conservation in the form of journalistic products such as writing or through pictures," explained Sutono as Coordinator of the Central Faswil TFCA Sumatra. Students must now be aware of environmental issues that occur in Indonesia, especially in their respective provinces. The initial knowledge they have can determine their steps in campaigning for problems that occur in the surrounding environment.

The digital campaign that they indirectly carry out is the exchange of information through personal social media. Based on this, Pundi Sumatra as the TFCA-S regional facilitator invited the Conservation Journalism Training participants to the work location of the TFCA-S partner, namely the Indonesian Bird Consortium in Harapan Forest, Jambi.

The Indonesian Bird Consortium consists of Burung Indonesia, PT REKI, and the Gita Buana Association with the activity title "Saving elephants in the Harapan Forest Landscape: From translocation to conservation". Harapan Forest represents 28% of lowland forests in Jambi Province and South Sumatra Province. In Jambi Province itself, 46,385 hectares according to the Decree of the Minister of Forestry No. SK.327/Menhut-II/2010.

The many learning resources in Harapan Forest make it one of Pundi Sumatra's goals to hold this training at that location. Together with eight participants consisting of campus representatives from Muhammadiyah University Jambi, UIN Jambi University, and Jambi University - the participants were taken to stay at the PT REKI camp for one night.

In his remarks, Adam Aziz as Main Director of PT Reki expressed his gratitude for the visit of students from Jambi City who were interested in voicing conservation action. Adam introduced the state of the Jambi Hope Forest up to now, and told what programs PT REKI had carried out together with various parties in an effort to re-green the Hope Forest.

“Until now, we have always collaborated with many parties, both from the government and from universities. "There are many opportunities for students who want to study here," he said.

In the evening, participants received a journalism class on Narrative Journalism by Suwandi from Media Kompas.com and Photo Video Journalism material by Bima Pratama from Media CNN. It is hoped that the selection of narrative journalism material in this training will be able to hone participants to find an interesting and creative writing style. Apart from that, narrative journalism also presents writing with a deeper pyramid pattern compared to in-depth reporting.

"Narrative or feature writing is not tied to time, events from decades can still be written into news, the important thing is that your writing makes readers want to read until the end. "This is the advantage of narrative news," said Suwandi.

The mobile journalistic photo and video material presented by Bima is also no less interesting to listen to. He shared the experiences he had while being a journalist.

“I want to make the audience think that when interviewing a source, someone is holding the camera and there is a presenter. Even though I was the one recording, I was also the one asking questions," said Bima when explaining camera angles to the participants.

The next day (09/09), participants were divided into three groups. They will visit different locations around the Forest of Hope. This division of locations aims to produce a diversity of journalistic products that will be produced by participants. The targeted locations are the Bathin IX community, PT REKI's Besamo School and Clinic, and the Sei area. Weeds are rich in biodiversity. Guided by colleagues from AJI Jambi City, participants were given half a day to explore the specified location to collect the required information.

“It's really exciting to be able to visit this location. I can see that education has no limits. "The community here has the right to go to school," said Amel, a student from Jambi Muhammadiyah University who visited the Besamo School location.