Aka Wuon Mapped 3 Clans Boundary in Tambrauw

AKA WUON Field facilitator in a discussion with elders in Fef - Photo: Ruben Yogi 

Fef Sub-District of Tambrauw, the candidate of district capital. Photo: Ruben Yogi

The government of Tambrauw Districk-West Papua Province in collaboration with customary community groups have gradually facilitating clans discussion in each sub-district to talks about an efforts to reduce conflict of land right claim that emerged in line with the development expansion. The 1st discussion was held in Fef sub-district engaged 13 clans from Abun and Miyah tribes - about 70% of the district administration region are in these two tribes. Social information, agreement on mapping and a customary boundary sketch were produced at the end of the meeting.

As followed up AKA WUON (NGO based in Sorong) moved with the community to wrapping up social data and information and facilitated technical mapping to digitized the boundary of the 13 clans. In 5 month started July until November 2015 AKA WUON has helped 3 clans; Baa Sakof, Baru Rufubun and Tafii to technically maps and digitized their boundary into a digital maps. These 3 clans area cover about 3500 ha of Fef district. The mapping was facilitated in neutral approaches in which AKA WUON was tried to avoid the personal/political and other groups interests in process because they understand that rights over land and resources are an sensitive issues in now days as an implication of the new economic mainstream in the community mind.

AKA WUON acknowledged that there are long remaining steps the community should take to makes the maps are living and working on conflict resolution and land uses regulation in current development pressure. As an NGO with most of the crew are originally from tribes in Tambrauw, they listed strengthening the structure of customary institution, facilitate common consensus and agreement until legal protection and government as sets of next step they should work with the community. Its just the beginning, because for maps there are 10 clans in the sub-districts that not yet mapped digitally. While for all Tambrauw there are more than 100 clans from 5 main tribes are also expected to have a maps like what 3 clans in Fef have.