Belajar dari dampak tsunami pada 2018, sekelompok warga membentuk Komunitas Mangrove Teluk Palu dan menginisiasi pembentengan daerah pesisir dengan penanaman mangrove.
Basri Marzuki became interested in photojournalism when he worked for a local newspaper in Palu, Central Sulawesi, in 2001 and that jump-started his career. He worked as a photojournalist for a number of Indonesian news agencies foreign photo agencies including the Jakarta Post, CNN Indonesia, Wall Street Journal, and BBC. In 2007, Basri received a Panna Photo Institute scholarship from World Press Photo (WPP) to study photojournalism. He has also won a number of photo competition in the country. The World Bank listed his name as one of the photo contributors for the implementation of the Indonesian government's post-reform Direct Cash Assistance (BLT) report. Basri is also active in a number of professional photo organisations, both at local and national levels. He was the chair of the Indonesian Photojournalist (PFI) Palu for the 2008-2017 period.