Alam Santi joins PREDIKT at the KONEKSI KIE Jakarta Summit 2026

In April 2026, Alam Santi & it's communications advisor Live Better Creatives joined the KONEKSI Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIE) Jakarta Summit, a two-day event bringing together around 300 researchers, government officials, industry figures and civil society representatives to showcase collaborative research between Australia and Indonesia.

KONEKSI, supported by the Australian Government, works to strengthen research partnerships between the two countries across six priority sectors: food, energy, water, health, education and technology. The Jakarta summit was the culmination of a roadshow that had already stopped in Makassar and Yogyakarta, and featured twelve collaborative Australia-Indonesia research projects presented across those sectors.

Alam Santi was invited to take part by PREDIKT, our key partner in the collaboration. PREDIKT has developed GenerAksi, a game addressing climate change, and brought us in to explore how our own flagship tool, What's Up Earth?, could work alongside it. Together, the two games represent two different routes into the same goal: bringing climate change education, through gamification, to schools, institutions and civil society.

What's Up Earth? is Ecogames' giant board game designed to introduce players to planetary systems and the connections between human activity and climate impact, built for exactly the kind of institutional and school settings represented at the summit. Pairing it with PREDIKT's GenerAksi gave both teams a chance to compare approaches directly, seeing how a game built for civil society outreach and a game built for classroom use could complement each other rather than compete for the same space in a curriculum or programme.

Beyond the collaboration with PREDIKT, the summit was structured to encourage exactly this kind of cross-sector conversation. Sessions brought together academics, industry practitioners, government officials and civil society organisations in the same room, with an explicit goal of turning research findings into policy-relevant recommendations rather than leaving them as academic output alone. For an organisation like Alam Santi, working at the intersection of education design, curriculum development and community-facing tools, that mix of perspectives is invaluable. Conversations at events like this often surface partnerships and ideas that wouldn't emerge from working in isolation.

The summit also gave Alam Santi and PREDIKT a natural moment to think beyond the event itself. With the collaboration already underway, the two days offered space for more strategic conversation about where the partnership goes from here, how What's Up Earth? and GenerAksi might be used together in future programming, and what a longer-term collaboration between the two organisations could look like.

Events like the KIE Summit are also a reminder of how much climate and education work in Indonesia is happening in parallel, often without full visibility between organisations doing related work. Being in the room with researchers and practitioners from across food, water, health and technology sectors, alongside our own focus on education, is a useful check on where climate resilience work in Indonesia is heading and where gamified education still has room to grow.

Our thanks to PREDIKT and to KONEKSI for the invitation and the chance to be part of it.