Introduction to Education for Sustainable Consumption in Indonesia - National Recommendations and Guidelines for Policymakers and Educators

This publication is part of the UNEP pilot project on the “Institutional Strengthening of Education for Sustainable Consumption, Advancing Education for Sustainable Consumption Policy and Implementation Strategies,” implemented in Indonesia. This publication, which is a contribution to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UNDESD,2005-2014), is an adaptation of the UNEP publication entitled Here and Now! Education for Sustainable Consumption - Recommendations and Guidelines. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of Yayasan Pembangunan Berkelanjutan. The publication is available in English and Indonesian. This publication aims to: 1) Provide a general understanding to policymakers and educators on the importance of ESC which is expected to lead into responsible behaviour in time of environmental degradation, the rising middle class which tend to have over consumption behaviour, and the efforts to bring quality of life for the poor. 2) Bring the recommendations to policymakers to support ESC through formal education and encourage further development of current initiatives in non formal education; conduct more ESC public campaign; regulate sustainable production within business community, ethical marketing, and eco label; and to mainstreaming and integrate ESC into the existing curricula in formal education, and encourage further the efforts of ESC within non formal education. 3) Increase the understanding and knowledge of ESC as conceptual framework to educators and guide the educators in the following elements: integrate ESC into the existing formal education curricula with mixed approaches, develop further various ESC initiatives in non formal education, and reach more audience and strategic agent of change, while adjusted ESC material to specific local condition (to indicate challenges and opportunities) and the profile of the target group; and take the benefits of using social media as dissemination tools of ESC.