[Unpad.ac.id, 8/02/2013] A researcher, who is also a lecturer, in the Faculty of Geological Engineering, Yoga A. Sendjaja, argued that Indonesia’s natural wealth is very abundant due to its tectonic setting unique to Indonesian terrain.
“Indonesia has a very excellent soil,” said he when speaking at the Vivat Academia Seminar, presenting his paper on “Geochemical variation in Tertiary-Quaternary lavas of West Java arc, Indonesia: Steady state subduction over the past 10 million years” on Thursday (07/02) in Bale Sawala, Unpad Rectorate Building. The soil contains great mineral potentials, in addition to world’s greatest gold and copper reserve in Papua.
“The abundant natural wealth is closely related to geological occurrence during the formation of tectonic plate,” he added. The formation gets energy and other natural resources stored in many Indonesian major islands, namely Sumatera, Kalimantan, and Papua. Such wealth however is not renewable. It will finally disappear.
Therefore, in exploring new energy sources, social sciences are badly required. They can bridge the society at large with the natural resources which lies underneath the soil where they are settled. “Exploration and Corporate Social Responsibility are inseparable.” CSR has become the policy that all of us must perform.
In the seminar, besides Yoga, Efi Fitriana from the Faculty of Psychology, presented her paper on “Do family relation factors protect adolescents for substance abuse? A cross-sectional study against the background of the substance-driven HIV epidemic in Indonesia”. *
