‘Jalin Sahabat’ is a socially engaged art project in which the artist, Anang Saptoto, and children from local villages in Indonesia build dialogues and communicate with children from South Korea and the UK on the topic of the environment.
Coping with the environmental problems we face today and enabling the next generation to live in a better world starts with the essential sense of responsibility that the older generation should have. Otherwise, the next generation will not be able to enjoy what we thought we could enjoy in nature, and the resulting ecological problems could lead to even more severe and insurmountable issues for human survival than what we face now.
That is why, through this project, we aim to face such challenges and find ways to overcome environmental problems together through dialogue. This art project is used as a tool to facilitate communication between children through postcards; it is a way of discovering what actions we must take together.
Anang Saptoto is an artist, designer, and activist living in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. His collaborative practice focuses on ecology and social change, using art as a tool to question and open new possibilities. He often supports environmental and human rights movements and collaborates with children, schools, disabled communities, and social organisations. Interaction, building solidarity, and collaboration are methods he considers to be very important for his work.