History

2003

* Rumah Cemara is founded on January 1, 2003 by five recovering drug addicts who believed that if a change was to occur in society, that change must begin from within the community of drug users.
* Rumah Cemara is legally instituted as a community-based organization in West Java, and as a work unit from the Insan Hamdani Foundation.
* After establishing a Treatment Center for drug users, the five RC founders realize that the problem of HIV/AIDS was a very serious issue, especially for injecting drug users. They decide to refocus on two target groups, namely people who use drugs and people living with HIV/AIDS, as beneficiaries of their services.
* On March 12, 2003 RC forms a special division named Bandung Plus Support, to provide peer-led services to people with HIV/AIDS from diverse backgrounds through both individual and group approaches.

2004

* Rumah Cemara creates a Harm Reduction division for outreach to populations most at risk of contracting HIV, like drug users, male and female sex workers, and prisoners.

2005

* Rumah Cemara opens branch offices in the cities of Sukabumi and Cianjur, because services for drug users and people with HIV/AIDS is in suffcient in both cities, despite the high number of people in need of these services.

2006

* The Rumah Cemara Interminal Football Club is founded, engaging staff and members as players in weekly football matches, including matches at prisons, to reduce discrimination about HIV/AIDS and prove that addiction and HIV can be overcome.

2007

* Bandung Plus Support is officially named the Provincial Initiating Group of West Java by Spiritia, the National Network of HIV/AIDS support groups.

2008

* Rumah Cemara begins a mobile clinic program to provide basic health services to people in rural areas of Bandung who otherwise have no access, while simultaneously decreasing the stigma around HIV/AIDS.

2009

• Rumah Cemara is named an official Linking Organization of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.

2010

• Rumah Cemara launches a fundraising campaign called “For Life” to engage the local general public as RC supporters.
• RC Interminal FC is invited to represent Indonesia at the international tournament The Homeless World Cup.