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

Sabtu, 30 Januari 2016

Yarona Village Boundary Maps is Available For Clarification and Verification

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After 3 months technical and social mapping facilitation, the Yarona Village in Buruway, Kaimana West Papua now have a final draft of social and digital maps. WEER as the local NGO whose working with the community producing this map confirmed that they have finalize the 1st draft of social and technical maps. All the technical maps are taken on 2 weeks field gps tracking with the community while social information were collected in 3 month data collection. Now all the digital map with it social data are ready for final discussion and agreement internally in Yarona and with the neighbor villages Includes Esania, Hia, Tairi and Edor. 

Community in Yarona aware that their land rights will be threaten  by current development plan and the increasing of land uses and forestry demand in Kaimana. Learning from their past experienced with Haruta Co.Ltd (one of the big Indonesia Logging concession holder in Papua) where unclear right recognition and preliminaryy benefit negotiation had creates ecological and social problems in the community. And learning from the the community in Esania whose under supported by Samdhana and PERDU has initiated village forests, Yarona community are feel that having a customary boundary maps should be one vital capital in the early stages on fighting for their right protection. A long vision is also in some elders head. Where they do care of the sustainable benefit for their future generation and a legal document the can generate to their next generation. 

A final process will cover a verification, double check and final approval. Beside make sure that all the key representative of the neighbor villages are participating, WEER and the village elders in Yarona has also lists the importance of government and parliament presents. 

Sabtu, 16 Januari 2016

NORAD Team Visit Forests Management Unit in Biak Numfor

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Biak January 15, “ Through KPH, I have vision to turn the current public paradigm that forests governance in Indonesia are far from good because it full of conflict, not sustainable, lack of community participation and lack of contribution to local economic development.” said Mr. Ariestoteles Ap – the Head of Forests Management Unit (KPHL) Biak Numfor on his welcoming words to the NORAD and Samdhana team. Holding the responsibilities to manage 206,016 ha of forests in Biak and Numfor Island he acknowledged that community are the main actors since customary right claim are strong in the islands.

Biak is one of the priority site of Samdhana intervention in Papua. The overall objective of projects is to creates the forests management integrative approaches that put in balance the needs of forests governance, economic business of forests resources, protection of indigenous people rights and poverty alleviation. Making this happen Samdhana is seeing Forests Management Unit (KPH) as legal platform and spaces to bring government, CSO/NGOs, customary community and privates sector in achieving the equitable forests value development. The works then been initiating since 2012/2013 started with stakeholder assessment and full forests inventory that become the bases for KPH in Biak to moves in technical and strategic partnership developing their long term management plan in participatory and comprehensive ways. KPH is now having a good relationship both with CSO/NGO in Biak and community in their concession areas. They also have a business commitment with the investor from Korea in developing the bamboo plantation for pellet and flooring industry in Biak.

The visit of NORAD and Norway Embassy Officer were to learned on what have been happening in Biak from The works of Samdhana with Partners and understand how the strategic position of forests management units in relation to customary rights issues. This was also part of regular projects visit to understand how their grantees and partners are working.

In addition to his shared about KPHL Biak, the head of KPHL Biak Numfor noted that the way how Samdhana is working with the partners are very much useful and enormously impacting the way of program KPH is doing and the core message KPH is conveying about the development of KPH based on customary rights recognition and protection. He also acknowledged the importance of Samdhana supports staff are contributing much in the KPH works and formulation of internal KPH implementation agenda. And highlighted the limitation that the government has in financing the implementation of field activities and more often delay as scheduled of distributing finance are realize in midyear. 

Joined in this meeting the program manager of Rumsram and the director of MNUKWAR who presented their works in this collaboration. MNUKWAR shared the works they been doing in build the model of eco-tourism in two villages in Eastern Biak, while RUMSRAM showed how their working in revitalizing cooperative and customary boundary mapping. Both RUMSRAM and MNUKWAR appreciated the support Samdhana is providing in Biak and support to build new model of Government – CSO and Community partnership to enhance the value of forests to the community and region. KPH also emphasized that they are lucky to have this partnership and looking forward to learn more from the works MNUKWAR and RUMSRAM are doing with the community.

 The meetings then ended with tree planting in the arboretum. All quest include the executive director of Samdhana Institute involve on this planting. The arboretum is emerge as the initiative to build a collection garden for KPH. This is also part of KPH program on forests for education that will contributes to environmental curriculum in Biak.

Jumat, 15 Januari 2016

NORAD Team In Touched with The Head of Jayapura - Papua Province

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Jayapura, 14th January 2016. As a part of the monitoring and learning needs, Administrator of CSO Grant Program - NORAD representative Frida Skjaraasen and Rannveig Formo, The Forests and Climate Counsellor in Norway Embassy in Jakarta visiting The Samdhana Projects sites. The 1st visit was conducting in Jayapura and met with Government Representative from Jayapura and Tambrauw Districts. The official meeting was designed by the Government in half day workshop.

The Bupati of Jayapura Districts on his opening remarks emphasized the importance of Indigenous Peoples role in saving the planet from the climate change impact. Given the current priority of the districts development in good governance, customary value reviving and sustainable land uses development, he was pointed out that the districts is gradually revitalize it steps forward with engaging non-government organization because they understand the limitation in their sides to implementing all the right based approached on sustainable development. He then thanks for all parties includes Samdhana Institute whose been putting a lot of attention and support in the customary community right development process and appreciate the efforts that Norway Government is doing for climate change mitigation and adaptation action globally.

Rannveig then added that the Norway government are still stand in their bilateral commitment to helps Indonesia in tackling the problem of Deforestation and Degradation and they believe that to achieve the emission reduction target, Indonesia should lead the action. She also expressed that one way to secure the natural forests is by secure the rights of people in and around forest. So she come to Papua to see and learn for such facts in community. Norway supports are providing not only to the government but also civil society, NGOs and Community groups to working in collaboration addressing the forests, climate and people issues. One form of support as what Samdhana is received from NORAD.
NGO and CSO roles in district development are crucial. In Jayapura, there are several NGOs who’s working closely with the government such as Pt PPMA with customary boundary mapping and community organizing, AFP3 with research, assessment and capacity building to customary village governance and Hirosih Foundation their works in conservation of Cyclops mountain. Several keys products have been produced by them in which strengthening the customary villages policy that the district has. AFP3 for example shared that they been working with the government and now almost final with the customary village governance education and training package. Bupati of Jayapura then asked for good collaboration among CSO/NGO and government to realize the overall targeted changes in the development pathway that the government has initiated. The meeting was also included 9 tribe leaders where the legal recognition has be given.

Included in the workshop the representative from Tambrauw district. They shared the initiative in conservation policy and local rights recognition. Head of Tambrauw Parliament as the speaker says that its important to take Jayapura as an example from them to start the works in customary right recognition. 

 Jayapura and Tambrauw Districts in Papua Island are two of eight sites of the new approved NORAD Grant implementation sites of Samdhana Institute. Three component are in planning to be achieved in 5 years consists of (1) customary boundary mapping and legal recognition, (2) capacity building and (3) a good example of forests and land uses management. The Samdhana Institute Executive director added that Samdhana is working through partners and will mostly listen from what is needed on the ground. Samdhana niece is to helps customary community getting their dignitary and sovereignty over their land and resources. So priority is given to the areas with strong networking and political commitment in this issues in which all the support are packaging in the capacity and networking building direction.