JAKARTA--The Science Film Festival Indonesia sees its 2nd edition in 2011. The event, which actively combines education and fun for children and youngsters, will be held in Indonesia from November 16th – 30th 2011. This year, for the first time, the Science Film Festival will arrive in 12 cities all over Indonesia: Ambon, Bandung, Gowa, Jakarta, Jayapura, Mataram, Pontianak, Salatiga, Samarinda, Sorong, Surabaya and Yogyakarta.

In line with United Nation's Year of Forest, this year's festival theme is forest. “WWF Indonesia is proud to support this film festival as a way to reach out to children and youngsters in Indonesia. With Year of Forest as theme of this year’s festival, we believe this is a perfect opportunity not only to promote awareness on forest and biodiversity conservation among youth but also encourage them to start taking action for their environment at the early age,” said  Devy Suradji, WWF-Indonesia Marketing Director at the press conference at Goethe Haus, Jakarta (10/11). Film is a great tool for students to learn about science in a fun and dynamic way, she added.

Beside serving as one of the film selection jury, WWF is also a venue partner for film screening in Pontianak (Nov 17th-19th) and in Jayapura (Nov28th-30th) along with local partners. In these two cities WWF will also organize photo exhibitions displaying photos of forest landscapes and biodiversity of Borneo and Papua.

Founded and set up by the Goethe-Institute, this year’s festival is implemented in cooperation with the German Embassy in Indonesia and the German Federal Foreign Office, Garuda Indonesia, Paramadina University, WWF-Indonesia and other partners; Kuark Magazine, the German-Indonesian Chamber of Industry and Commerce (EKONID) Institut Français Indonesia, HiLo School, Siemens Indonesia, Papa Ron’s Amigos, WWF Indonesia, IOA dan UNESCO.

The Science Film Festival is a regional event and has grown considerably since its beginning in Thailand 2005, meanwhile becoming the largest event of its kind worldwide. Last year it took place in Cambodia, Indonesia, The Philippines and Thailand at the same time and reached a total of 128,000 visitors. In Jakarta alone the first year attracted more than 12,000 visitors.

Starting from Nov 12th until Nov 30th WWF will reach out and promote the festival to youth and general public across Jakarta using education truck ""Panda Mobile"". In Yogyakarta, WWF Youth Tiger Ambassador will present at the venue area and share information about forest and sumatran tiger conservation.

To learn more about The Science Film Festival, registration and venue please visit WWF-Indonesia website www.wwf.or.id/sciencefilmfestival