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  Alongside our regular beach cleans and environmental activities, we also run regular arts and crafts workshops to allow whoever is interested to enjoy the freedom of experimenting and exploring their creativity. The act of creation can be empowering as well as a great way to relax and as such…

We had a lovely time picking up plastic on the beach the other day. There were eight of us altogether, including two of our English students and three of our helpers, all with exciting backgrounds and travel plans. Our aim was to make Coco Beach, or the Reef, look squeaky…

On Sunday, September 2, Yadi, Jenal, Didi and Charlotte went to Sindangsari, Kabupaten Pangandaran to meet Bu Siti and her students. We spent the morning teaching the school children how to be better Guardians of the Sea. It was a beautiful opportunity to witness an interaction between teacher and students,…

A variety of different activities were happening with CLEAR Community to celebrate Earth Day this year, helping share the message to work together to put an end to plastic pollution worldwide. Here are messages from some of the activities… After a CLEAR EarthDay workshop in Ciamis, West Java on waste…

Trevor volunteers his time on a regular basis as a Trustee for CLEAR, but now he’s going a step further by cycling 300km across Cyprus and fundraising to help CLEAR continue its activities helping communities out in Indonesia. The ride will be completed just in time for Earth Day 2018,…

Positive responses to CLEAR’s Plastic Free February initiatives have paved the way for a bigger, better challenge for Feb 2019…    CLEAR Trustee Nemone Caldwell appears to have started a trend! Nemone decided to undertake the challenge of living a ‘Plastic-Free February’ in order to raise money for CLEAR’s #tackletheplastic…

Following the success of our 2017/18 International Academic Partnership Program  (IAPP), the Royal Academy of Engineers has again selected our team to receive the award for a new program of activities to support waste management solutions and infrastructure development for Indonesia for 2018/19. The program is learning from CLEAR’s work in Batukaras village as…

30th November 2017 by Caroline Kovacs Each week on Wednesday evening we have an English class at Bale Tau. Anyone from the community is invited to join, but our main group comes from the Reefbreak Batukaras group of local surfer boys. Our group includes some younger grommies (young surfers) aged…

14th October 2017 by Batukaras CLEAR Popesisir was a one-day event initiated by @kolektifwarlok in collaboration with @reefbreakbatukaras and @batukarasclear.  It was hosted at #baletau in #batukaras. This event mixed social and environmental action through workshops and music. The name Popesisir was chosen with Pop culture being an approach and Pesisir (coastline in English) was where the…

Stunning blue skies for our latest beach clean day! 45-50 of around 70 people present were local villagers and families, so for a large part of the effort we can congratulate the green-minded locals of Batukaras, including young surfers from Reefbreak club. Starting in the early afternoon, we carefully swept…