My Ideas and Stories About PAPUA

Making the rich and beautiful resources in Papua become the social economic strength for Papuan has become the long home works. Many people believe that the early start to find the answer is by understanding how Papua looks like, their communities and their special strength. And it can be realize by directly in touch with them. This blogs provides you chance to touch and gets insight ideas, trends and stories about Papua.

  • Stories About Beautiful Papua

    Every Single Place In Papua Have Its Stories To Be Shared To Build Other People Understanding About This Island

  • The Last Frotier Primary Forests

    With 42 Million ha of forests, Papua play crucial rules in Indonensia forests development targets.

  • Women and Natural Resources

    Forests or land right are not only about Man. So understanding the roles women and the impact of forests changes to women are also crucial

  • Our Traditional Value

    Papuan Community Have Been Living for Centuries with Their Knowledge and Wisdom in Managing Natural Resources and Practice Best Conservation

  • For Papuan Generation

    Every Works We Do Now Must Be Dedicated To The Future Papuan Generation

  • Dependency to Forests Resources

    Practicing Good Forests Governance in Papus About Understing the Right of Indigenous People and Their Dependency to Natural Resources

  • All Are Wonderful

    You Will Get Good Scene That You May Not Able Somewhere Else - Only In PAPUA

  • Bitter Nut Is Papuan Favorit Gums

    Bitter Nut or In Papua We Call 'Pinang' Is The Local Gum You Can See In Every Corner of the Cities. Papuan People Love To Chewing It. Sometime People Consider It As Contact Material When You Travel to The Village

  • Papuan Traditional Conservation Practices

    For Centuries, Papuan Has Practicing Local Wisdom to Sustainaible Use of Natural Resources. They Have Traditional Education System to Teaching Them How To Interact With Human, Spiritual Power and Understanding The Words Of Nature

Minggu, 29 Desember 2013

Paper/Publication: Mapping, Tenure Right and REDD+ In Indonesia

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Summary

Understanding the linkages between forests, peoples and climate changes are important in tropical country to appropriately reduce the impact of deforestation and degradation and enhancing the benefit to forests owner. The appropriate approaches is also needs to reduce the conflict among parties. 

Papua as a part of the last remaining tropical forests in the world plays important position for future emission reduction of GHG. With large and virgin forests cover the island could store a millions of ton carbon. But ironically the large forests with high natural resources treasure not necessary align with the wealth development of Indigenous Papuan. Natural resources conflict are remain high. This is often appear as implication of the weak of local right recognition, lack of community participation and empty space of regulations to cover it. So it is acknowledge that avoiding the increasing of deforestation and degradation in Papua are about how you could helps community to find their right be recognize and get legal chance the manage their resources. 

REDD+ as a new scheme to mitigate the impact of climate changes must also consider the rights issues. But the question then how to know who own the right over the forests? What tools we can uses to understand the linkage community livelihood with a forests? How should REDD working on the place where customary right claim are strong? This will trying to elaborate above questions. This was developed based on 3 years mapping experiences that Samdhana Institute and partners in Papua had. The paper in brief will provide a description about rights and how customary boundary mapping could become an suitable tools for Papua to address the right of land and resources issues. 

Tittle: Mapping, Tenure Right and REDD+ in Indonesia 
Author: Yunus Yumte, Peter Wood and Ita Natalia
Paper: 2012  
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