Diving 2024 resources

Preparatory calls

Schedule

Material set up – January 22 to March 13

• Equipment updated for full cave training → List, need: main spotlight, helmet
• First contacts with Nixie

Preparation – March 14 to June 12

Training

• Initial team alignement
• Course confirmed
• Regular gatherings for team alignment (aims, experience, material, dives aboarded and accidents, etc.)

Logistics

• Funding
• Medical assessment
• Flights booked
• Visa approved
• Hosting booked

Practice

• Physical exercice → daily elliptic, 10 min increasing
• Training to Dive Leader → 2 of 10 theory sessions, 0 of 15 dives)
• Fun dives → 0 of 15 dives

Equipment

• Setup fine tuned
• Travel tests

Drysuit test – June 19

• Fun dive

Travel – June 20 to 22

• Europe to Kuala Lumpur (KUL) or Singapore (SIN)
• one-night stay
• Kuala Lumpur (KUL) to Sultan Hasanuddin Makassar (UPG)                                                     
• Sultan Hasanuddin Makassar (UPG) to Betoambari Airport (BUW)

Set up – June 23 to 24

• Shira arrives the 22, Mike the 23
• Dive at the see on June 24 to review material set up

Training – June 25 to July 14

• Baubau on Buton island
• ? on Muna island
• Including different days off

Interlude – July 15 to October 05

• Cave exploration, back to Europe? scientific exchange ?

Expedition – October 06 to November 10

• To be confirmed

GHF Festival – Early 2025

• Arts and science exchange – water and health
• Festival

IASC Indonesia – 2026

• Arts and science exchange

Resources on diving

Robin Cuesta

• Blog: A day to day diary into a cave diving course (annotated)
• Interview 2020: ADEX – Rewind: Spotlight on Cave Plastic Pollution: Dialogue Exchange
• Podcast 2021: Sidemount Pros #71 – Robin Cuesta "The Caves of Sulawesi"
• Podcast 2022: The Dive Table #39 – A Conversation with Robin Cuesta of Sulawesi Dive Trek
• Podcast 2023: Everand – Interview with Robin Cuesta. From Off Gassing: A Scuba Podcast
• Article 2023: Sulawesi - Robin Cuesta, de la plongée-spéléo aux sciences de l’environnement. Le petit journal 2023.
• Youtube channel
• Website

Books

• Heinerth Jill. Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver. Ecco 2019.
• Kas Stratis, Ratto Matteo. Cave Diving: everything you always wanted to know. 2nd edition. Kas 2023.
• Kas Stratis, Pavia Edoardo, Menduno Michaël. Close calls. Kas 2023.
• Lock Gareth. Under Pressure: Diving Deeper with Human Factors. Human in the System Consulting 2019.
• Heinerth Jill. The Essentials of Cave Diving. 4th edition. Heinerth Productions 2020.
• Cowan Marc, Robson Martin. Between the Devil and the Deep: One Man's Battle to Beat the Bends. Unbound 2021.
• Pridmore Simon. Scuba Confidential: An Insider's Guide to Becoming a Better Diver. 2021.

Other sources

• Neal Pollock. Thoughtful management of decompression stress. BSAC 2016.
• GUE TV
• DAN Southern Africa

Publications on Indonesia

Indonesian culture

• Al Dilwan Muhammad, Astina Komang. Community Based Wakatobi Tourism Management Strategies. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Knowledge Sciences and Education 2019.
• La Djamudi Nadir, Nazar Asrul, Kosilah. Wolio’s Oral Literary Form the Character of Millennial in Buton Islands. Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research 2020; 436.
• La Ode Jumaidin, La Niampe, Dasmin Sidu, Zulfia Larisu. Reconstruction of Urban Community Identity in Social Environment and Discourse of Power in Public Space: Overview of post-sultanate Buton Culture in Baubau City. Journal of Namibian Studies 2023; 34.
• Peacock ACS. The Arabic Manuscripts of the La Ode Zaenu. In: Festschrift A. Malay-Indonesian Islamic Studies. Brill 2022.
• Supriadi Supriadi, Nasution Isman Pratama, Wahyudi Wanny Rahardjo. Wolio fortress, Buton : between its defense and symbolic functions. International Review of Humanities Studies 2021; 6(2).
• Schoorl JW. Belief in reincarnation on Buton, S.E. Sulawesi, Indonesia. Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde 1985; 141(1).

Traditional art

• Brumm Adam et al. Oldest cave art found in Sulawesi. Science Advances 2021; 7.
• Hitchcock Don. Cave paintings from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are at least 40 thousand years old. Don's Maps 2024.
• UNESCO. Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the Subak System as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana Philosophy. 2012.
• UNESCO. Pinisi, art of boatbuilding in South Sulawesi. 2017.
• Viviani Franco. Finding and Losing the World’s Oldest Art in Sulawesi. Sapiens 2021.

Management of natural resources

• Hall Derek, Li Tania, Hirsch Philip. Powers of exclusion : land dilemmas in Southeast Asia. University of Hawaii Press 2011.
• Haller Tobias, Acciaioli Greg, Rist Stephan. Constitutionality: Conditions for Crafting Local Ownership of Institution-Building Processes. Society & Natural Resources 2016; 29(1).
• Li Tania. Contested Commodifications: Struggles over Nature in a National Park. Cornell University Press 2008.

• Li Tania. Commons, co-ops, and corporations: assembling Indonesia’s twenty-first century land reform. The Journal of Peasant Studies 2021; 48(3).
• Maimunah Siti. Reclaiming Tubuh-Tanah Air: A Life Project on Doing Feminist Political Ecology at the Capitalist Frontier [thesis]. Universität Passau 2023.
• Yonariza. Implementation of Irrigation Management Reform Policy under External Support: Sustainability Question. A Preliminary Observation in West Sumatra, Indonesia. RCSD Conference 2003.
• Yuwono Pujoo Semedi Harg. Close to the stone, far from the throne : the story of a Javanese fishing community, 1820s-1990s [thesis]. Universiteit van Amsterdam 2001.

Coral Triangle

• Coral Triangle Initiative. What is the Coral Triangle Atlas. 2024.
• Parenti Lynne R, Hadiaty Renny K, Lumbantobing Daniel N. Collection of freshwater and coastal fishes from Sulawesi Tenggara, Indonesia. Jurnal Iktiologi Indonesia 2013; 14(1).
• Silcock Don. The Indonesian Throughflow. indopacificimages 2024.
• World Economic Forum. The 'Coral Triangle' is the largest of its kind, and it's dying. 2018.

Water pollution

• Benchmark Source. Nickel refiners in Indonesia lag global peers on water pollution monitoring. 2023.
• Bradley Simon. Nations meet in Geneva to regulate plastic waste trade. swissinfo.ch 2019.
• Lotulung Garry. Indonesia is drowning in plastic. But with action comes hope. Fair Planet 2023.
• Maimunah Siti, Agustiorini Sarah. From the commons to extractivism and back: The story of Mahakam River in Indonesia. Global Water Forum 2020.
• Ritchie Hannah. Ocean plastics: How much do rich countries contribute by shipping their waste overseas? Our World in Data 2022.
• UN Environment Prgramme. National Plastic Waste Reduction Strategic Actions for Indonesia. 2020.
• US International Trade Administration. Indonesia - Country Commercial Guide. 2024.
• World Bank. Indonesia - Marine Debris Hotspot : Rapid Assessment Synthesis Report (English). 2018.
• World Economic Forum. Plastic waste from Western countries is poisoning Indonesia. 2019.

Inner transformation

• Halim Emmanuela, Riswarie Ardhana, Harjatanaya Cindy. Homecoming: Transitional Experiences of Art Therapists in Indonesia. In: International Advances in Art Therapy Research and Practice: The Emerging Picture. Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2021.
• Millora Chris, Maimunah Siti, Still Enid. Reflecting on the ethics of PhD research in the Global South: reciprocity, reflexivity and situatedness. Acta Academica 2020; 52(1).

Other resources

Videos

• University of Toronto Land's End: Tania Murray Li's Book Site
• London School of Economics. Tania Li: Transforming rural Southeast Asia.

Communities

• Nixie Buteng Expedition
• Serrum art collective Jakarta
• Creative Commons Indonesia

Maps

• Pacific Ocean Maps
• Map of Indonesian throughflow pathways from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean
• Peta Sulawesi Tenggara

Vocabulary

• nature lovers: pencinta alam
• living with giants: hidup bersama raksasa
• student enthousiasts: mapala mahasiswa shinta lan ?
• three reasons for wellbeing: Tri Hita Karana