Divers Clean Action (DCA) is a youth NGO and community focusing on marine debris issues. DCA has been partnering in doing research with some universities. On the other hand, DCA also implements environmental collaborating program with diving institutions, takes role as facilitator for coastal community development, and does various campaigns and trainings. All the activities were done in the last 3 years with more than 1000 volunteers across Indonesia. DCA was established in 2015 by Swietenia Puspa Lestari, Nesha Ichida, and M. Adi Septiono. Now, DCA has 12 team members. Mutual goal of the team is to develop the youth role in combatting marine debris issues especially on Indonesian small islands.
Vision
To create modern and real-time maps of marine debris in Indonesia as data to take action against marine pollution.
Mission
1. Preventive action: supporting ocean environment conservation efforts in Indonesia.
2. Curative action: being one of the accelerator stakeholder in solving environmental problems in Indonesian ocean.
3. Sustainable tourism: promoting and implementing sustainable marine tourism.
4. Data platform: functioning as an accessible data center regarding ocean environment problems in Indonesia.