Prof. Daniel Murdiyarso the Recipient of the 2010 Achmad Bakrie Award
Prof.Dr.Daniel Murdiyarso, the Professor of Atmospheric Science at the Department of Geophysics and Meteorological Science, Faculty Mathematics and Natural Science Bogor Agricultural University has been selected to be one of the recipients of the Bakrie Awards for the 2010. Prof. Murdiyarso was selected to receive such award as he has opened opportunity to drive the economic for the saving the forest. Prof. Daniel Murdiyarso won Achmad Bakrie Award for Science. For the last few years, Prof. Murdiyarso is the active member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), bywhich together with Al Gore it received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. The scientific work of Prof. Murdiyarso are on land use, forestry, and climate change. In addition, his participation in IPCC has enabled the IPCC to receive the Nobel Prize, research that illuminates at the same time changing the perception of decision makers about the links between land use, forest management, and global climate change caused by human activities
He was the winner as he was considered an important figure in the development of systems that enable the world’s industrial sector running that fostering economic growth, while saving and managing forests and lands of the world to protect them from the dangers of global warming, are increasingly clear signs in the whole of Planet Earth.
Prof. Murdiyarso was born on 10 September 1955 in Cepu, and devoted much of his attention in education and research in the field of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), and climate change in relation to the conversion of land use, especially due to deforestation, followed by the development of agricultural land. Currently, he is also the Senior Researcher at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
He earned his BA and Master’s degree in Forestry and Natural Resources Management and Environment from Bogor Agricultural University respectively, in 1977 and 1979, while his earned his PhD in the field of meteorology from the University of Reading, England, in 1985. Experiences he got when he managed the international institutions engaged in capacity development of global changel, Global Change Impact Center for Southeast Asia (IC-SEA), gave him opportunity to widen his vison and to intensify dialogue between experts and policy makers of such issues.
In addition, he had experiences to serve as the Deputy Minister of State Minister of Environment (2000-2002). As the member of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences he had ever been the Consultant of the Wetlands International on peatlands and climate change; advisor for the World Bank on development of the BioCarbon Fund and the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility.
Prof. Murdiyarso, has been author of various monographs, technical reports, opinions, and various works for a peer-reviewed journals, he has also produced books such as The Ten Year Journey Negotiations on Climate Change Convention (2003), the CDM: Clean Development Mechanism (2003), Tokyo Protocol: Implications for State Evolve (2003). Prof. Daniel is one of six people who get the Achmad Bakrie Award this year. Program Director Freedom Institute Ulil Abshar Abdalla said, the selection of candidates begins with a list of candidates. After that, conducted a survey on institutions and figures related to the feasibility of competent candidates in the list.
The last voting process was done by jury to select one of two top nominators " says Ulil. According to him, the process takes about five months. Ulil stated, that the jury were diliberately kept in secret, patternzed as those in the nobel winner process. "So there is sanctity," he said.
Category of the award Prof. Murdiyarso won was a realm that includes the natural sciences and mathematics. The scientists in this field is exemplary for their quiet work without any interests, but they may sechange the subject of progress and modernity.
“Their achievements which are usually in a small number, but internationally known, often, buried by spoken and mass culture that commonly practiced by our society. In this field we also give priority to works that give an important contribution to the realm of science is concerned," said Ulil. (Wied)
