“Through the roadshow, we want to “kulanuwun”, greeting friends from various university in Indonesia and introducing the Ajisaka Festival as a collaborative space for creative folks in expressing their care and concern towards the issue that we have raised,” Adelia Christi mentioned in the interview, as the Leader of Ajisaka Festival .
The Ajisaka Roadshow started on the 20th of February at Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta and UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta. The roadshow program is planned to be organized frequently until the 24th of March. The roadshow agenda is done offline in campuses at Yogyakarta and Solo, while it will be done online at the other campuses. The roadshow consists of information sharing in regards to the competition categories, janamejaya video screening, and icebreaking activities.
Janamejaya is a program held before the Ajisaka Festival. The pre-event agenda for this year’s Ajisaka Festival will be done in a new format, that is through a video format that will be publicated and shown through social media and the roadshow. Janamejaya consists of a series of videos that bring up environmental issues, as well as the negative impacts of the current development scheme that does not accommodate the environment, in order to educate about the importance of sustainable development. Other than that, this program is also aimed to mark the start of Ajisaka Festival 2025 by building awareness regarding the issue raised.
“We elaborated the various forms of activities done during the festival, and explained the categorization in regards to the competition. Other than that, the janamejaya video is played in order to raise awareness to the students about the issue,” Adelia explained.
This roadshow became a way for the organizers to raise awareness regarding the concept of green economy, its challenges, as well as opportunities that we can make use in finding an environment-safe solution. Through this event, the students will be much more aware of the importance of protecting the environment, in line with UN’s SDG 15 Life on land.