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Integrated Human Practice

As we do some research on our people’s background, we finally arrived to conclusion that the best way to approach Indonesian people is by categorizing them. That is because we are so plural and divided by different level of education. With each category, we define different methods to spread the knowledge about synthetic biology and HIV/AIDS related studies.

ACADEMICS & COLLEGIATE

We are safe to say that academics and collegiate are well-educated people. Therefore, for this group we don’t need much effort to explain about the issue we are highlighting since they have already been exposed to information regarding to HIV/AIDS and synthetic biology. But, since we want to expand our target audience, we tried to formulate a youth-friendly event that could spark interest among students from various major. Therefore, we held Synbio Day 2016 which located in Universitas Indonesia. We also organized a school visit for junior highschoolers grade 8 and 9 at SMPN 184 Pekayon, East Jakarta. The materials we brought were about general synthetic biology and also education about HIV/AIDS as part of our core issue. The reasons why we need to reach this group of people are; (1) the junior highschoolers in Indonesia are first to experience science in more diverse subjects i.e. biology and physics, in other words they experience learning biology for the first time, thus we see this as the advantage to spark their interest in synthetic biology and introduce that there is more to learn in the realm of biology, (2) academics and collegiate are group that come from various majors and fields of study with certain level of knowledge, by knowing their perspective and feedback it would not only diversify our conclusion but also deepen it.

CIVIL SOCIETY

Indonesia known as a country with a vast background ; tribes, beliefs and social values. This is the reason why our civil society has a different level of understanding the actual issue, in this case is health issue regarding to HIV/AIDS; what is it about, concern and how to overcome the disease. We tried to spark the civil society’s interest in HIV/AIDS by attending National Education Fair and making Synbio ID. National Education Fair was organized by our Ministry of Education that took place in FX Mall, Sudirman, Central Jakarta in last May. Our team introduced UI iGEM Team and this year’s project through gallery walk. The visitors came from many layers of society including student, research interest from I3L (International Indonesia Institute for Life Sciences), social activity interest and many more. Another effort we have done to reach civil society is through Synbio ID, a website we made for providing online ‘one-stop’ educational access to learn synthetic biology. There, netizen could find articles, trivia, updates and dictionary regarding to synthetic biology.

HIGH RISK POPULATION

East Jakarta is one of region in Indonesia with high prevalence of AIDS, exactly at Pekayon district in suburban area of Jakarta. We visited several small groups in October 2016 to see the real condition of society and their response towards people with AIDS and also perception to the treatment itself. We educated the society through focus group discussion and met some peer health conselor on that district. Unexpectedly, the society has a good interest in HIV/AIDS and even invited us to come again for conducting more discussion some other day.