Elizabeth A. Widjaja

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.^[2]

Bambusa lako, in Sydney

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

It is an overwhelming source. Furthermore, it is easy to work with bamboo so research about bamboo-based biofuel should be cheaper.^[5]

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.^[6]

Books

• Identikit jenis-jenis bambu di Jawa (Bamboo varieties found on Java) w/Kartikasari, S. N. (Sri Nurani), 2001, ISBN 979-579-035-8^[7]
• Identikit jenis-jenis bambu di Kepulauan Sunda Kecil (Bamboo varieties of the Lesser Sunda Islands) w/Kartikasari, S. N. (Sri Nurani), 2001, ISBN 979-579-034-X^[8]

Awards

• World Biodiversity Day Award, 1999, by the Indonesian State Ministry of Environment^[2]
• Indonesian President Award, 2000^[2]
• Harsberger Medal, for ethnobotanical studies (by the Society of the Ethnobotanist, India), 2001^[2]