By: Chik Rini and Azhar

WWF-Indonesia actively works with public figures who care and want to commit to becoming a warrior for nature conservation. They will represent WWF's conservation work programs and officially become WWF Warriors. We hope that the conservation message can be conveyed well and the public can participate in preserving nature.

Chicco Jerikho Jarumillind, an actor, producer, and model is passionate about elephants. The winner of the 2016 Indonesian Movie Actors Awards joined WWF Warrior as a means to give his attention to elephants. Despite his success with 25 movies, Chicco has not forgotten the importance of protecting the animals around us.

Chicco Jerikho has collaborated with WWF-Indonesia since 2016 to campaign for elephant rescue. Chicco has cared about elephants since childhood because his mother often told stories about elephants.

On 15-18 January 2019, Chicco visited villages in conflict with elephants in the Peusangan watershed and Sampoinet Conservation Respon Unit (CRU) in Aceh Jaya as a form of his support for elephant and habitat conservation in Aceh. He brought his attention to elephants in Aceh after his first visit there in 2017, when he made a short film called "Sharing Space". After returning from Aceh, Chicco fundraised for the "Elephantastic Run" campaign by running in the London Marathon in April 2018 to raise funds for elephants. These funds will be used to plant food for wild elephants, plant barriers to restrict elephant movement in their corridors and will help feed tame elephants at the Peusangan Watershed CRU.

In addition to visiting the CRU, Chicco came to Aceh to help plant a plant that serves as a barrier to elephants entering the village, sereh wangi. This activity is a form of Chicco's contribution along with about a thousand runners in the Elephantastic Run campaign. The hope is that with the help of fragrant lemongrass planting in areas that often experience contact with elephants, it can not only be a boundary between elephants and humans, but also can increase the income of the surrounding community from the cultivation of this fragrant lemongrass.

Chicco's main hope is that humans and elephants can coexist harmoniously, through the concept of sharing space. By providing a forest worth living in and enough food, it is hoped that elephants will no longer enter human settlements. Forest sustainability can also be maintained by the architect of the forest, the elephant. "Aceh is the foundation and hope of elephant conservation in Indonesia, we save elephants, we save their habitat in Aceh." he said.