FOSI 1ST REGIONAL SEMINAR: TECTONICS AND SEDIMENTATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIA

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GENERAL SUMMARY
>	15-17 March 1999, in Sasana Budaya Ganesha ITB, Bandung
>	A memorial seminar of the 50th anniversary of van Bemmelen's book: The Geology of Indonesia (1949)
>	35 papers presented, covers Indonesia from west to east, giving an update on regional geology understanding
>	Attended by 300 geoscientists from Indonesia, neighbouring countries, also UK and USA
>	Supported by international geoscience organization such as SEPM, IAS, AAPG, The Geological Society, SPE
>	Publishers involved in this meeting: Springer Verlag & Blackwell
>	Proceeding is available from FOSI for Rp.50.000,- , excluding p&p (Please contact the General Secretary)
>	The proceeding includes all extended abstracts presented during the seminar with 50 figures, van Bemmelen's biography and bibliography.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY
The TECTONICS AND SEDIMENTATION OF INDONESIA seminar has been held in Sasana Budaya Ganesha (ITB Conference Center) Bandung on 15-16 March 1999, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 'Geology of Indonesia' book, authored by R. W. van Bemmelen and published in 1949. This remarkable 50-years-old publication is still widely referred up to now although it utilizes old geological concepts and a few amounts of data. Research activities grow actively after in the region, resulted in new concepts and a better understanding of the area. The purpose of the seminar is to give an opportunity for the geoscientists to share their knowledge and experiences of their recent research activities on the geology of Indonesia.

The seminar was attended by 274 geoscientists mainly from Indonesia and its neighboring countries. Most of the participants are from the industries (128 participants/ 47%), academic institutions (119 / 43%) and civil services (27 / 10%). The numbers of the academic participants were very high, with 55 students and 15 lecturers from Indonesian universities were sponsored.

The seminar was started with an opening session where opening speeches were presented by Prof. Djoko Santoso (ITB rector assistant), Rob Hulsbos (a representative of the Royal Geological and Mining Society of the Netherlands - KNGMG) and Herman Darman (convener). The following key-note speech session was begun by Prof. J.A. Katili who gave an introductory speech on invaluable memory of van Bemmelen. The other keynote speakers were Dr. Henry Posamentier (ARCO) who presented the evolution of the sequence stratigraphic models and Prof. S. Maruyama (Tokyo Institute of Technology) who brought into attention with the plume tectonic model, an explanation on global scale material circulation in the Earth's interior.

This two-days seminar was divided into five technical sessions with 29 oral presentations, covering different aspects of geology from all over Indonesia, from the west to the east. Tom Heidrick (Caltex) moderated a facultative informal discussion on Western Indonesia Tectonostratigraphy in the late afternoon of the first day. On the second day, Simon Lang (Queensland University of Technology) lead a similar discussion on Kalimantan Syn-tectonic Sedimentary Style.

A one-day field course on sequence stratigraphy application on outcrop was organized on March 17, 1999, lead by Dr. Henry Posamentier (ARCO) and Prof. Soejono Martodjojo (ITB). During this field course, about 30 participants got the chance to discuss Bayah Formation, in Pasir Bongkok, Sukabumi (West Java) in detail. Most participants proactively shared their own experience consequently resulted in a lively discussion in the field became very interesting.

FOSI 2ND REGIONAL SEMINAR: DEEPWATER SEDIMENTATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIA

OVERVIEW
The goldrush of petroleum industry in the beginning of 21st century lies on the deepwater provinces throughout the world. Deep-water reservoirs in the world have been actively explored and generating large volumes of hydrocarbon in areas like the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea. These intense and high technology activities created spin-offs towards SE Asia and Indonesia with several recent discoveries in offshore Kalimantan during the last a couple of years.

However, the understanding of its depositional systems in relation to various types of reservoirs and various tectonic setting have not been fully understood within the entire region. Responding to that need, FOSI (Indonesian Sedimentologists Forum) attempts to bring together geoscientists and researchers who are keen to share and exchange their expertise and experience in order to build up better understanding the potential of SE Asia's passive margins and finding ways to economically develop this interesting systems.

FOSI, an Indonesian Sedimentologists Forum proactively participate on the deep-water fanfare by launched its distinct 2nd regional seminar on Deep-water Sedimentation of Southeast Asia.

FOSI successfully attracts world-class deep-water experts to converse the intricacies of deep-water opportunity. To name a few, the seminar will be articulated by Brad Pather (Shell), Art Donovan and Greg Partyka (bp), F.X. Sujanto (Pertamina) and Peter King (New Zealand).

About 35 deep-water papers with outstanding quality submitted to FOSI Deep-water seminar, coming from almost every corner of the world. Time limited to two-days seminar, the committee have to fight to select 24 papers to be presented in this extraordinary occasion.

The FOSI 2nd seminar also embraces a deep-water field-trip to the onshore East Kalimantan, led by Andang Bachtiar. The legend of deep-water - Arnold Bouma - will lead four-day FOSI course on deepwater system.

The seminar was successfully held on the 14th-16th of May 2001 in Hotel Mulia, Senayan Jakarta. Press-coverage of this seminar can be found in News & Archive section.