Nicolaus Sulistyo

Nic­olaus Sulistyo

Nicolaus Sulistyo

Nic­olaus Sulistyo is a media and com­mu­nic­a­tions officer at IDEP Found­a­tion, where he tells stor­ies about envir­on­ment­al issues through words and visuals.

Before join­ing IDEP, Nic­olaus honed his skills in journ­al­ism with the stu­dent press at Atma Jaya Uni­ver­sity Yogyakarta, and took on freel­ance work as an enu­mer­at­or and scriptwriter for MLDSPOT TV.

Out­side of work, he enjoys lit­er­at­ure and the music of Majel­is Lidah Berduri.

As Bali runs dry, can tourism help replenish its water?


In Bali, water is essential to culture as well as life. As Bali runs dry, can tourism help replenish its water?

The travel & tour­ism industry can be expec­ted to hon­our the human right to water, par­tic­u­larly in com­munit­ies and des­tin­a­tions in which it operates. 

Industry stake­hold­ers need not see this as a bur­den, but rather as a com­pel­ling oppor­tun­ity to mean­ing­fully engage with loc­al people on secur­ing tra­di­tion­al water sup­plies, all the while devel­op­ing more sus­tain­able water and waste man­age­ment sys­tems of their own.

Nic­olaus Sulistyo sheds light on IDEP Found­a­tion’s Bali Water Pro­tec­tion (BWP) ini­ti­at­ive; an EXO Found­a­tion Sus­tain­ab­il­ity Award winner.

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