Elizabeth A. Widjaja Explained

Dr. Elizabeth Anita Widjaja (born 1951) is a Senior Principal Researcher of bamboo taxonomy at the Herbarium Bogoriense, Botany Division, Biological Research Centre at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences in Bogor, Indonesia.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} She is especially interested in Indonesian bamboo and Malesian bamboo generally, and promotes the cultivation of bamboo for the prevention of erosion.

Dr. Widjaja recently said, of bamboo as a source of biofuel, that:

Bambusa lako (Timor black bamboo) was described and separated from the Indonesian black bamboo species Gigantochloa atroviolacea by Professor Widjaja in 1997, as its appearance (morphology) differed.^[5]

Books

• Identikit jenis-jenis bambu di Jawa (Bamboo varieties found on Java) w/Kartikasari, S. N. (Sri Nurani), 2001, ^[6]
• Identikit jenis-jenis bambu di Kepulauan Sunda Kecil (Bamboo varieties of the Lesser Sunda Islands) w/Kartikasari, S. N. (Sri Nurani), 2001, ^[7]

Awards

• World Biodiversity Day Award, 1999, by the Indonesian State Ministry of Environment
• Indonesian President Award, 2000
• Harsberger Medal, for ethnobotanical studies (by the Society of the Ethnobotanist, India), 2001

Notes and References

1. Book: International Expert Consultation on Non-Wood Forest Products. 1995. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2009-04-07. 92-5-103701-9. 2009-08-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20090805210936/http://www.fao.org/docrep/V7540E/V7540e10.htm. dead.
2. Web site: Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 7. Bamboos.. Dransfield. Soejatmi. Elizabeth A. Widjaja. 1995. Backhuys Publishers. 189. 2009-04-07.
3. Web site: State of the art of Indonesian Bamboo . Widjaja . Elizabeth A . . 2009-04-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081205055932/http://www.bioversityinternational.org/publications/Web_version/572/ch26.htm . December 5, 2008 .
4. Web site: Elizabeth Anita Widjaja. Open Library. 2009-04-07.
5. Widjaja. Elizabeth A. New taxa in Indonesian bamboo. Reinwardtia. 11. 57–152.
6. Book: Identikit jenis-jenis bambu di Jawa. 2001. National Library of Australia. 2009-04-07. 9789795790358.
7. Book: Identikit jenis-jenis bambu di Kepulauan Sunda Kecil. National Library of Australia. 2009-04-07. 9789795790341. 2001.