The International Conference on Environment, Sustainability Issues, and Community Development (INCRID) 2021 is the third annual international conference hosted by the Department of Environmental Engineering, Diponegoro University. With the theme of “Research and Innovation in Environment Towards Sustainability in Disruptive and Post-global Pandemic Situation”, this forum will promote all factors that related to environmental technology, science, education and innovation to achieve the desired sustainable development goals during this disruptive and pandemic situation. The INCRID 2021 was successfully held on 9th September 2021 in an online system where the 3rd floor of GKU, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Diponegoro was used as conference host venue. The INCRID 2021 committees are concerned and take precautions regarding the transmission of COVID-19 (coronavirus). To maintain the health, safety, and security of the participants, the committee hold this conference through oral presentations remotely in live-streaming meetings using Zoom Application and youtube as the virtual platform (Please see this link for seeing how the virtual conference is going: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVBfCbLzVsA). This meeting is important because the dissemination of research findings especially in the environmental science topics should be done annually, even in an virtual setting. The conference was attended by 255 participants came from 49 academic universities and institutions across the world which include as follows.
1) Universitas Diponegoro – Indonesia
2) Universitas Sebelas Maret – Indonesia
3) Universitas Negeri Semarang – Indonesia
4) Universitas Gadjah Mada – Indonesia
5) UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya – Indonesia
6) Universitas Kebangsaan – Indonesia
7) Universitas Syiah Kuala – Indonesia
8) Universitas Andalas – Indonesia
9) Institute Teknologi Bandung – Indonesia
10) Universitas Sumatera Utara – Indonesia
11) Universitas Surabaya – Indonesia
12) Universitas Islam Agung (UNISSULA) – Indonesia
13) Universitas Negeri Padang – Indonesia
14) Universitas Indonesia – Indonesia
15) Institut Teknologi Kalimantan – Indonesia
16) Institut Teknologi Adhi Tama Surabaya – Indonesia
17) Centre of Industrial Pollution Prevention Technology (BBTPPI) – Indonesia
18) Center for Pulp and Paper, Ministry of Industry of the Republic of Indonesia – Indonesia
19) National Research and Innovation Agency Republic of Indonesia – Indonesia
20) Universitas Trisakti – Indonesia
21) Universitas IPB – Indonesia
22) Universitas Pendidikan Sultan Idris – Indonesia
23) Universitas Pasundan – Indonesia
24) Universitas Jenderal Soedirman – Indonesia
25) Institute Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember – Indonesia
26) Universitas Mahasaraswati Denpasar – Indonesia
27) Politeknik Indonesia Venezuela – Indonesia
28) Universitas Abulyatama – Indonesia
29) Insan Cendekia Mandiri Univeristy – Indonesia
30) Balai Besar Teknologi Pencegahan Pencemaran Industri – Indonesia
31) Visvesvaraya Technological University – India
32) University of Hyderabad – India
33) Makere University – Uganda
34) Ndejje University – Uganda
35) Frères Mentouri Constantine 1 University – Algeria
36) Skikda University – Algeria
37) Khenchela University – Algeria
38) HSE Department, Cooperation Petroleum – Egypt
39) University of Antananarivo – Madagaskar
40) Hassan II Institute of Agronomic and Veterinary Medicine – Morocco
41) Department of Public Health Services, Ministry of Health – Gambia
42) Toyohashi University of Technology – Japan
43) Keio University – Japan
44) Kansai University – Japan
45) The University of Kitakyushu - Japan
46) National Central University – Taiwan
47) National Taiwan University – Taiwan
48) Queensland University of Technology – Australia
49) Sultan Idris Education University – Malaysia
The invited speakers for plenary sessions are as follows: Prof. Majeti Naramsiha Vara Prasad (University of Hyderabad, India), Prof. Takanobu Inoue (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan), Prof. Ashanta Goonetileke (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), Prof. Hsin-Hsin Tung (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), Prof. Dr. Ir. Purwanto, DEA (Diponegoro University, Indonesia), and A. Suko Widigdo, S.T., M. Eng. (Director of Operations I PT Adhi Karya (Persero) Tbk). Each of them are given 25 minutes to talk and 10 minutes to discussion. During the presentation, the committee share the link for collecting the questions from the audiences which can be seen from this link: https://app.sli.do/event/lzwhmoea/live/questions.
In the parallel sessions, there are 10 breakout rooms where 10-13 presenters were delivering their speech. The presenters were given 10 minutes of research presentation and 5 minutes of question and answer session. The participants could join the rooms by confirming to the committee which rooms they like. During the online meeting, the forum were still interactive where each of the presenter and audience have a nice discussion and exchange their knowledge. The parallel session also attract many potential research collaboration especially in the environmental science, engineering, education, and health research field. Most of the papers are sent to IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science for publication. The proceeding includes some topics of environmental science and system. The manuscripts are peer-reviewed by some researchers who are coming from many countries and expert in the environmental research field.
The committe wants to acknowledge the participants including the keynote speakers, presenters, reviewers, moderators, and also viewers who coming to this conference. The committee also acknowledge to the IOPP as the main publisher of our conference proceedings. We hope that the readers can gain many new and interesting scientific knowledge from the manuscripts which are published. The committee also wants to apologize for all of the mistakes that make unpleasant situation during the conference and also the published papers.
Scientific Committee of INCRID 2021
List of INCRID 2021 Committees Steering Committee, Steering Committee, Scientific Committee, Organizing Committee are available in the pdf.