IUCN Ecosystem Alliance, Organized A - Z REDD+ Learning Event

As a need of learning and capacity building of IUCN Ecosystem Alliance partners on recent global forests, climates and people issues 5 days workshop and training be organized by IUCN -Netherland commission in collaboration with NTFP in Manila and Palawan, Philippine started 4 to 11 of November 2012. This was undertaken as a reflection of more advance REDD activity at national, local and negotiation on the international level. REDD is now coming as one global forests development scenario to solve the climate changes problem that effecting the words now days and to reduce the big impact in the future. It is a sets of mechanism that will allow incentive and transfer of resources to safe and sustainable forests management. As add by Jan William Van Baster, the Program Manager of IUCN EA Program that "recently several numbers of standard and instrument for carbon program has been developed by number of parties based on their interest. But there’s remain gaps especially in the development country that has large forest cover. So having a complete understanding about REDD is crucial to make us ready from now to support the next REDD related activities on the ground". 

In the introduction Jan again pointed out that "Some says that REDD is complex and complicated but it’s depend from which site we were looking to it. Basically we realize that REDD is a global strategy to reduce the emission from deforestation and degradation. In this term REDD can be interpreted as an opportunity, challenge or an idea to generate resources of solution. From this differs point of view we can also identify where our role to tackling deforestation. In the scope of REDD as an opportunity and an idea to generate resources of solution REDD is complicated with money, information, instrument/methods and actors that working at the global, national until sub national level." 

The A - Z learning event is focusing on two areas: 1) approaches for smaller NGOs and communities to jointly set up REDD+ projects that can also be designed without the generation of verified carbon credits. 2) influencing national and international REDD+ policymaking, in particular the development of national REDD+ strategies, to promote and defend the interests of Indigenous Communities and local communiites. The workshop will also give an update on the basics of REDD+ and where we currently stand with the concept. Jan's then added that  this is the 1st EA REDD+ Learning event starting in SouthEast Asia Partner: Philippine, Vietnam and Indonesia. But as a network, EA IUCN - NL has also facilitate invited partners from Ghana, Ecuador and India. Making the learning complete, an experts about Carbon from World Land Trust and keys study in Palawan is also invited and preparing to makes this learning are complete. 

The meeting was held fluently in active interaction and discussion among participant and resources person. Beginning with a short presentation, study cases and been deeply leaned with long discussion. This workshop and training was held in Manila and Palawan. Participant was divided into 3 teams to working together in analysis the issues related to REDD – this team will provide a summary of the previous day lessons. Participants are also got the chance to visit REDD demonstration activity that facilitated by NTFP and had a chance to have and active communication directly with the community in Palawan. 

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Scaling-up Ecoforestry to Support Climate Change Mitigation in Papua

A summary of the 2012 - 2014 working concepts

Community based forest management has the potential to contribute to food and livelihoods security, and to contribute to the sustainable management of forest resources. Where it is able to provide an alternative to forest clearance, it is also a tool for climate change mitigation. Forest management which emphasizes sustainability of the forest ecosystem, maintenance of ecosystem services, and maximizing benefits for local community livelihoods is often referred to as eco-forestry. The concept of eco-forestry has yet to become well-established in Indonesia, where efforts to date have focused more narrowly on securing community rights over forest resources, but the elements of the eco-forestry approach are strongly aligned with the aspirations of many communities and civil society organizations working in this area. The experience of the Papua New Guinea Eco-forestry Forum[1], and the lessons and manuals produced by Greenpeace on the basis of their experience in PNG and the Solomon Islands, are highly relevant to Papua as they refer to similar ecological and cultural settings.

Eventhough most of eco-forestry efforts in Indonesia was focused on timber extraction but with a wide forests products it must not been emphasized only on timber. Non timber forest products such as nutmegs, sago, eager woods and others are the products that be proposed to developed by the community as part of increase they security in economic position. Learning from current experiences which we can’t generalize that timber was the most potential one of cash sources. Clarity of land right and legal permition that community must be realized to make sure that that community would derive benefits from their resources.

Experience in PNG, from Greenpeace, and increasingly from elsewhere in Indonesia, demonstrates that there are three critical enabling conditions which must be in place for a community to sustainably and effectively manage a forest area:

1. agreement on rights over forest resources and the sharing of benefits from an ecoforestry initiative both within the community concerned, and with neighboring communities
2. appropriate rights and licenses issued by the relevant authorities
3. a village forest management institution with the technical capacity to plan and implement forest management, and the capacity to manage the business, including marketing and financial aspects.

The current (2012) situation with each of these enabling conditions in Papua is reviewed briefly below:

1. Community agreement

Definition of customary rights over land has been the focus of participatory mapping initiatives which have progressed in several parts of Indonesia, including Papua, in the last decade. An effective mapping process clarifies the external boundaries of land ownership (shared with neighboring groups), and the internal boundaries (between families and clans). Whilst not specifically developed to support ecoforestry, the mapping has been key to defining the limits of rights and thus to making formal applications for licenses. The establishment of the Customary Lands Register (nationally), the issuing of a Papuan Regulation of Indigenous Lands, and the inclusion of mapping in the draft Papua Spatial Plan mean that the path for securing formal recognition of mapped territories is increasingly clear.  Some mapping approaches (notably by WWF in Merauke and CI in Mamberamo) have avoided mapping boundaries of land rights, and have concentrated on mapping locations with economic and cultural importance for communities. Whilst these maps provide an indication of land use, they are not adequate for planning forest management. The area of land mapped to date is a fraction of the total area occupied by indigenous peoples, especially in Papua. Experience of community mapping in Papua is now adequate to plan how such interventions can be scaled-up and accelerated, and the establishment of a mapping learning organization in Jayapura in 2011 is intended to facilitate this process.

2. Rights and licenses

Prior to 2008, initiatives in Papua and cross-visits to PNG failed to kick-start an ecoforestry movement, primarily because civil society groups and government were struggling with the question of how legal control of forests and the right to extract timber and non timber forest products could be secured within the framework of Indonesian forestry and evironmental laws. Finally, in 2008, Papua province used its special autonomy status within Indonesia to issue its own law on sustainable forest management[1]. Implementing regulations for this law were finally issued in 2010, defining a clear, though tortuous, administrative process through which a community could secure rights over forest and timber. Ironically, by the time Papua province issued its regulations, national policies for village forests had also advanced to the stage of implementing regulations[2], and by the end of 2011 over 30 such licenses had been issued to communities in Sumatra and Kalimantan, whilst Papua lagged behind in implementation.

3. Institutional Capacity

Low standards of formal education, and lack of experience in engaging on an equal footing with external stakeholders, remains a challenge to community development initiatives including ecoforestry. In logging concession areas Papuan villagers have usually been employed as front-line workers, and have learned the skills of tree-felling and extraction, but not planning and management of forests. Business skills are typically poorly developed, with little experience of planning and managing finances and business process, and most cash income generated from direct sales of unprocessed forest and farm products, or hand-outs from government and company development schemes.

Four or five initiatives which could be described as ecoforestry are underway in Papua: PPMA has continued to facilitate work in Nimbonton and Imeno, Jayapura Kabupaten, which are two of the three villages originally facilitated by WWF. WWF continues to work in the third village, Guriad, and in Kaliki village in Merauke Kabupaten. In the Baliem valley, local civil society groups and Samdhana Institute are working with the local Government and Lorentz National Park agency on integrating community forest management into the management of the Park. In West Papua Province, local NGOs and stakeholders are working with Samdhana Institute in Esania village, Kaimana Kabupaten. The present situation of another eco-forestry initiative, developed by national NGO Telapak in Knasaimos, Sorong Selatan Kabupaten, is followed up by Green Peace - Papua.

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[1]    Papua Special Autonomy Regulation 21/2008 on Sustainable Forest Management in Papua Province

[2]    Forest Minister's decision on Village Forests 49/2008

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[1]    See:  http://www.ecoforestry.org.pg/home?subSiteId=1

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Joined IUCN WCC in South Korea, Yunus Shared The Lesson Learn From Pro Poor REDD Project In Papua

Jeju September 7th. IUCN Forests and People Program organized the lesson Learn Session about Right For REDD+ of REDD+ before Right? The reflection was presented the cases from what IUCN with DANIDA Supports has done in 5 Countries Include: Indonesia, Cameroon, Ghana, Uganda and Guatemala see: http://www.slideserve.com/candra/rights-for-redd-or-redd-for-rights. I was be on the Panelist to present the reflection we had in Indonesia - Papua. Taking the cases of Mapping For Right and Sustainable Natural Resources Management the 3 topic was elaborated based on Samdhana experienced and knowledge, they include: (1) customary boundary mapping as a tools to clarify the ownership of the land and resources, (2) piloting community based forests management after mapping to derive high benefit to Indigenous People, and (3) the emerging challenges to promote the land right ownership clarification and its legal recognition. The story was packaging from the 4 years intervention of Samdhana in Balliem Valley - Wamena and Kaimana in the Bombaray Peninsula of Papua Indonesia.

Provided the importance of Papua in global forests discussion because it 42 million ha of tropical forests, I was also showed the audience about the challenges in make sure that REDD+ in a perspective of economic benefits will not implicating negatively to the local communities and Indigenous People in Indonesia - Papua. Because there are more than 250 Indigenous Tribes that generation to generation has lived, claim their rights over land and resources and applying sustainable management approaches to the resources they are depending on. Stepping from this facts, Samdhana believe that to makes REDD+ are properly working and benefiting to People, clarification and legal recognition of customary rights in Papua is essential. So customary boundary mappings was introducing and applying to help the communities and local actor to addressing this needs.  As follow I shared the keys ideas of how mapping should works in Papua, starting from social mapping process of which consensus among community are achieved through in depth customary discussion an agreement. The technical process of bringing GPS mapping/navigation to maps the agreed territories are applied after social process. At the end the maps should gets final recognition by the government or local authority in the region.

Reflect to the global question of "Will REDD+ (Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, including conservation, sustainable management and enhancement of forest carbon
stocks) result in the strengthening of the rights of indigenous peoples and forest
dependent communities? or Else its comes and puts community as a victim of concession holder?" the Project in Papua has tried to piloting Community Based Forests Management after Mapping is done. Village Forests Initiative that refer to the Ministry of Forestry Regulation No 49 of 2008 is the example in presented. Cases from Esania - Kaimana, West Papua are describing to helps the audiences getting an updates of this ideas.

In a closing part, I highlighted several major challenges we facing to push any REDD+ and Right related works in Papua. They Includes: (a) How to engage the government institution fully in mapping? (b) How to encourage government to adopt the map into development plan? (c) How to develop customary boundary information system so its transparent and how to integrate it to official land use and forestry maps? and (d)  How to strengthen the current institution and develop the system of dynamic dispute resolution mechanism to customary land right problems? All these sets of challenges are the next home works to be addressing. 

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Wonderful of West Yapen Island, 'Suanggi', Bobo, Sago and Wooden Water House

For many Papuan, when the name of Ansus be mentioned people are then thinking of the famous human ghost "Suanggi" or some saying "Suanter" or flying ghosts. Yaa... Because Ansus was claim as the school of people who want to take the supra natural/magic strength that mostly to kill people. I felt this experienced when I did mapping exercise here in 2012. But for other reason most of the villages in Western Yapen Island includes Ansus, Papuma, Kairawing, Sasawa, Munggui and Toweta are one of the bests tourism sites to visits in Papua. It because the combination of cultures, housing, foods and nature are attracting and will makes your memories are well saved the experiences you have.

It was June 2012 that become my 2nd trip with Bang Martin Hardiono for initial mapping discussion we spent almost 7 days stayed in Papuma and Ansus. It takes about 3 hours with the long motor boat to get this place. And if you are someone comming from West Indonesia, the best ways to reach this place is by plane from Biak and then take small rural airplane to get the City of Yapan.  Join in the big meeting of about 32 clans the visits was aiming to helps community in West-North of Yapen Island to have a customary boundary maps. Combination of social discussion, ground checks and desk maps analysis were conducted with full supports of the customary groups in Ansus and Papua. Clans like Kayoi, Arronggear, Woniana, Atururi, May and Raweyai were part of the groups those rights and history were conveyed and recorded. During the visits beside focused on the keys responsibilities on Mapping, we were also enjoying the wonderful of the West Yapen island beauty of nature, foods and local drinks. Fresh fish delicious sago with alcoholic drink or people in Ansus called it with Bobo are parts of the stories been taken away from this trip.

Wooden Water House 

Wooden Houses In Ansus Village of West Yapen 

The picture above is how the houses in West Yapen is looks likes. People are mostly prefer to build their house in the waters, I don't get the reason maybe because they try to protect them self from 'Suanggi' - some people says 'Suanggi" are afraid of sea water. :-). Some reason also said that because this helps them to parking their canoes. All building material they use is easily to collect from the bush around the village such as woods, bamboo, nipah, sago leaf and rattan. The long wooden pier are made to connects all the houses the big poles are punch in the mud to help the pier construction. The size is average with wide 8 x 9 meters with mostly two bedrooms and one kitchen inside. Some people also constructing big houses with more that 2 bedrooms.

Wooden Villages With Long Pier to Connect The Houses in Papuma Village

As a new person that new in the piers like this, I was walked carefully because was worried with the strength of the woods they use to construct the pier. It is mostly the hard wood such as Merbau (Intsia, sp), Matoa (Pometia Sp) and Langgua (Dipterocapacea). But i saw kids and young people are walking and run with out worrying for felling down to the waters that surrounding the houses. I was also amazed that this one meter wide of piers are the ways babies learned for walk. In the night sometme the people whose has got hardly drunk are walking without afraid I think its because they usually doing this for years so have knowing how to do well steps even though you're hardly drunks.

Despite of the condition that for some people like me are dangerous the house location in the bays are a good location to get the fresh air and smooth winds blowing though out the seas and forests. In the day and night the cold air could influence you eye to closes for a while and laying down in short sleep --- Fantastic--. In the afternoon the piers become the beautiful spot to enjoy people paddling their canoes to reach the house from they garden, sago plots or from fishing.

Small Wooden Canoes 

Since the community are living in the floating houses in the bay, canoe is the transportation vehicles that almost all household has. The canoe I meant is the small woods canoe with length not more than 4 meter and wides 30 - 40 cm. It is moving with small paddle being moved by the drivers. Its always a peace lovely afternoon or early morning if we want to enjoy the beauty of people paddling their canoes arrive and leaving the villages. It can occupied 4 - 5 peoples average. Community are often using this canoe to takes fish, crop vegetable, crop fruits and sago from their plots that become the domestic needs of the community.

Foods and Beverages 

Fish is always become my favorite foods but not all fish I like. One of the best and delicious fish I ever tastes is 'Samandar Papan Ansus". Unfortunately I forgot to capture the fish I meant. But its one of the coral with with sweat tastes. The best ways to serve it by fried or roasting. In Ansus we can easely find this fish in the local market with price between 10,000 - 20,000 rupiah for 5 - 8 piece. Another best cuisine i loved here is Papeda dan charcoal sago that always be served with yellow fish soup and water spinach. The fish prices and vegetables and affordable prices puts me on the part of keeps buying the fish and sago from the local market in Ansus Village.

Sago is the traditional foods that all people in the low land of new guide are harvesting and cultivating for foods. It is "PAPEDA" the name of the sago powders cooked with hot waters and serve in the big plates for the groups of people to enjoy it. Papeda has become and icon of tradition and identity of cultures and has become one of the most consuming foods together with rices and yams/cassava. Sago is growing widely in the swamp of the village in this west Yapen and has dividing based on its owners. Beside Papeda, sago powders can also be processed become "cake/cookies" and charcoal sago mix with coconut that all are serve with frees salt water fish with delicious tastes. Even though most of the community have their sago plots but there are also people selling sago and the one has processed in the Ansus Market where we can easily found in low prices.

As a beverage "Bobo' a local alcohol drink processed from nypah trunks are mostly close the nigh of social event with the people - particularly man. A 'Bobo' can be easily found in the villages when people using traditional method to processed it become alcoholic drink. For some point I realized Bobo was the enter doors to talk with elders about the land rights and communal land conflict issue and I did that in Papuma Village to explore more info about Aronggear and Koromat clans history. Bobo is selling closely because it is banned by the Government and sometime police do sweeping for the villages security reason. Most people believe that 'Bobo' is a words water that can stimulate people to be braves and talks much about any issues even though his/her personality is a silent man. It is recommended to enjoy Bobo at night before you sleep. For me its like beer in modern economic society where people takes while creating a good conversation about something. But for you people in Bali or Jakarta, don't expect to find a Bar or cafe with Bobo because there is no cafe/bar here. If you want to enjoy Bobo you have to come or visit the community houses and sitting with them in the quest room of some place they usually setting for relax and enjoy Bobo.

Beside Sago, Fish and Bobo, West Yapen is also a home of different kinds of fruits. Let says Durian, Cempedak (wild jack fruit) and Langsat. But most of it are seasonal. When the time comes people are mostly not able to finishing big amount of fruits they have and Biak is usually become the choice for people to selling this products. To close this session one thing that you should taste is 'Pinang" or bitter nuts fruits that people always loved to chewing it. Red juice coming out from the mouth like vampire drink your bloods are the pictures of people chewing bitter nut. hehehe. Me personally don't like bitter nut but always love to see how majority Papuan are addicted with this "snack". Ansus and surrounding village are also the home for bitter nuts where people cultivating it or collecting from the wild. Beside foods, coffee and cigarettes, bitter nuts is always served to welcome quests or have a meeting of people - we do experienced this in our meeting. To enjoy bitter nut you needs to have sirih and kapur (powder made from burned shell)  as its complement because you cannot produce the red juice with out Sirih and Kapur.

Bitter nut fruits from Toweta Village in West Yapen

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Locally Control Forests - A Strategic Intervention to Protect Forest Carbon in West Papua

West Papua Province of Indonesia highlighted that developing community based forests management (CBFM) initiative as one of the efforts to implement low emission forests development action plan. Learning from the cases were massive deforestation are happen in the big logging concession, the CBFM initiative were emerge as an option to mainstreaming good forests management that align with local economic development. The scheme has also be considered could bridge the concern on integrating customary rights within locally forests development. 

Esania village in Kaimana District could potentially be the example for West Papua to sharpening their action. The contradiction between de facto claim of customary right and de jure state forests governance has put local indigenous communities in a position where they find it difficult to benefit from government policy to manage their forests resources. There are 9 customary communities claiming over 26,205 ha of forests. Of these, 24,664 ha are production forests (94%) in the permanent, limited and conversion forests categories. About 60% of the area is secondary (logged over) forest. Timber is one of the most influence forest product to the incomes of community. Even-though they logged on their own customary right land but legally they been claiming as the illegal logging because no licenses in hand. From the land uses investment maps, the village are suitable for oil palm and rubber plantation. Government has also puts on their plan to expanding such farming products but some of the community are refused and stand in the position to manage their resources.

Geographically the village are part of the district that  recently established in 2002 with total areas about 18.500 Km2 and 49,000 population – 76% of which are poor people. It lays on the southeast peninsula of Papua Island. In terms of reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation the site are plays an important role. Kaimana District holds about 17% of the province’s forests or about 1.8 million ha – the second largest area with forests in the Province - and is 99% forested. Of this area about 1,055,737 Ha (57.07%) are production forests in which licenses can be granted for forestry- related investment. There are 5 local tribes that living in the region and have strong claim of customary rights over the land, forests and resources - this is acknowledged by the the government as the special issues and factor that influencing the pathway of forests development program in the region. So having a good best practices on how community could manages their resources legally and sustainable within their rights are the home works that the government has. 

Position of the locally control forests activities through village forests in Esania is crucial both for the district and the provinces to showing the how low carbon development would works at the community level with clear tenure rights and secure legal licenses from the Government. The recent study conducted by Samdhana institute and Papua State University shows that the Esania forests contain 7 million tonnes of carbon within there major types of forests: dry land primary forests, dry land secondary forests and swamp forests. The matrix bellow in summary provides us the complete analysis of above biomass calculation of carbon storing in Esania forests. 

No	Official Forest Function Category	Areas (ha)	Average CO2e tonnes/Ha	C-Stock In Esania (million tonnes CO2e)	%
1	Permanent Production	16,657.70	230	3.8	54
2	Limited Production	3,300.10	230	0.8	11
3	Conversion Production	4,706.40	230	1.1	15
4	Protection (mangrove)	1,381.00	1,028	1.4	20
5	Water body	160.10		0	0
	Total	26,205.80		7.1	100

This figures points out the importance of village forests and any locally control forests initiative in protection of carbon stock. Changing the forests covers in Esania from forests into non forests would have a directs implication to the increasing of carbon emission in the region.

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Publication: Indigenous Communities, Forest Resources and Options for REDD+ in the Buruway Sub-district, Kaimana District, West Papua

Tittle  : Indigenous Communities, Forest Resources and Options for REDD+ in the Buruway Sub-district, Kaimana District, West Papua

Author: Peter. N Wood
Year    : 2012






Summary

This report summarises the results of participatory research on livelihoods conducted in four villages in the Buruway sub-district, Kaimana Kabupaten, West Papua, and uses the results to discuss the possible consequences from different models of REDD+ implementation in the area. It highlights the choices facing community, local Government and other stakeholders, and makes a series of recommendations for the implementation of a 'pro-poor' REDD+ approach in the area.
During field work, villagers estimated that forest products contribute 42% of their household needs, with another 37% from farming, and 19% from fisheries. About 55% of these needs are met through direct collection/harvesting or barter (non-cash), and 45% from sales (cash). Forests are the largest provider of non-cash income (41% of all non-cash) and the second largest source of cash (34% of cash income is from forest products). Farming produces the largest proportion of cash needs (45%) and the second largest proportion of non-cash needs (38%). Overall, the results of the forests-poverty linkages toolkit emphasise that:

• forests are a vital source of a wide range of products that enable households to meet their cash and non-cash needs. This applies for men and women, poor and wealthy households
• a high proportion of households needs are met through non-cash sources. Any scheme (such as a REDD+ scheme) which plans to pay incentives or compensation for changes in people's livelihoods needs to recognise and properly value these non-cash sources.

The report describes four possible scenarios for implementation of a REDD+ project: through enforcement, compensation, collaboration, or community-ownership. Drawing on the field data, the likely consequences of each scenario for community livelihoods and for achieving REDD+ objectives are discussed, and each scenario is evaluated against with generic principles of a 'Pro-poor REDD+ approach'. The report concludes that only collaborative or community-based approaches have the potential to avoid harm and contribute to livelihoods.

Building on this analysis, two types of forest license which are widely used by REDD+ projects - village forest (community-owned) and ecosystem restoration (externally owned) - are discussed in terms of their implications for clarification of resource rights, benefit sharing, and resource and capacity requirements.

Finally, recommendations are made for action that can be taken by communities, local Government, the private sector and civil society, in order to ensure that implementation of REDD+ is Pro-poor:

• Clarify and secure customary rights over forest resources
• Provide local communities with adequate information and facilitate a process of deciding whether or not to accept a REDD+ project (implement Free Prior Informed Consent)
• Provide the capacity and technical support for overseeing implementation of Pro-poor REDD+

Full report can be downloaded in this following link: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BygScToA2HKFUkN2c3FqdlFTOTg/view?usp=sharing

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Perlindungan Hutan dan Pembangunan Rendah Emisi di Provinsi Papua

Ringkasan,

Terlepas dari kontraversial karena kasus korupsi yang menjerat-nya, mantan Gubernur Papua, Barnabas Suebu, SH bagi saya adalah salah satu tokoh Papua yang masih berpikir jernih secara politis melihat posisi Papua dari kacamata lingkungan. Komitmen politis yang disampaikan pada saat kongress IUCN di Barcelona tahun 2008 yang terkait pembangunan rendah emisi di Provinsi Papua dan yang juga setahun sebelumnya bersama dengan Gubernur Kalifornioa Arnold Sawsneger mendeklarifikasi pembentukan forum para gubernur untuk pembangunan berkelanjutan adalah beberap bentuk langkah strategis yang dijajaki oleh Pak Suebu dalam rangka mendorong pembangunan Papua ke arah maintrim keberlanjutan dan konservasi. Beberapa pikiran penting beliau tuangkan dalam tulisan-tulisan sepert yang saya upload sekarang.

Tulisan ini secara pada, teoritis dan berbasis data menampilkan argumentasi-argumentasi kenapa Papua penting didalam upaya global mengurangi emisi dari sektor kehutanan dan lahan. Pak Bas juga secara baik mendeskripsikan konstruksi berpikir yang padat dengan ilustrasi-ilustrasi dan analisis keruangan yang harus dilihat sebagai refleksi untuk merevilitasi atau mungkin mereformasi program-program pembangunan kehutanan dan lahan yang masuk di Papua. Tekanan lingkungan akibat tekanan kebutuhan lahan dan ruang untuk pembangunan dan investasi di highlight menjadi ancaman positif yang harus dikelola dengan baik dalam rangka memastikan bahwa target-target pertumbuhan ekonomi daerah dapat berjalan tanpa harus mengorbankan sumber daya hutan Papua secara massive. Dibagian akhir Pak Bas menitipkan pesan bahwa investasi di Papua dalam bentuk dan tujuan apapun harus mampu mensejahterakan orang asli Papua tinggal kemudian bagaimana selanjutnya keseluruhan pikiran penting ini diterjemahkan oleh penerus penggerakn pembangunan di Provinsi Papua.

Tittle     : Perlindungan Hutan dan Ekonomi Rendah Karbon
Author  : Barnabas Suebu
Year      : 2008


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Learning From Customary Territories Mapping in Papua

Expanding Customary Boundary Mapping in Papua has emerging as the actions to bring more clarity of land rights and the maps is considered to be the bests tool for community to gets their customary land rights be recognized by government and public. Since 2006 Samdhana institute has working in this issues and putting mapping as the major concern. With the current ongoing Pro Poor REDD project funded by DANIDA Through IUCN HQ Swiss, Samdhana as the Indonesia implementation parts remain expanding mapping in Baliem Valley and Kaimana landscape.

This paper providing a reflection of mapping works that the projects does in Papua. Most the community organizing/mapping facilitator in Papua agree that the core of mapping is when all the community in collaboration discuss, draw and maps their territories based on social/anthropology  acknowledgement and bring it to the final common agreement. But mapping it self should not ended in the plain paper but should become the living document for the customary community to works on their land and rights problem. Please find the full reflection of customary boundary mapping in Papua in this link : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BygScToA2HKFYURNR0JPUzV4WjQ/view?usp=sharing

We hope this reflection will help those who concern in customary boundary mapping to help the community secure and properly their territories and natural resources inside it.

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