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

Rabu, 20 Juli 2016

Inconsistent Weather in Manokwari

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".....We would fly in about 35000 feet above sea level and will cross some clouds with little turbulence before we approaching Sorong...." the sound of Garuda Indonesia cabin crew announcement before we took off from Manokwari. Yes, the weather in Manokwari was slowly rainy and the sky are covers by the clouds today. But It was sunny and light days in the before. The weather is not consistent, my wife told me to again and again in the last 4 month, its difficult to say it is rainy or dry season as we had couples of years ago.I aware that the meteorology and geo-physic department have always shown their weather prediction on the TV broadcast and reminding people to always preparing their self with the changes.

The inconstancy of weather condition has been happening since the beginning of this years particularly the long rainy days. And its definitely the extreme changes after Indonesia faced long el-nino and drought last year. Actually in manokwari the inconsistent we meant here is the changes between rainy, sunny days, windy and cloudy and fluctuation of temperature that could easily affecting the human health. In the last a week at least two days are sunny light day while the rests are rainy and cloudy with high intensity of winds in the morning and afternoon.

Selasa, 19 Juli 2016

1,2 Million ha of 5 tribes Maps were Produced in West Papua Province – Indonesia

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The new compilation of customary boundary in West Papua Province shows that about 1,2 million ha of customary areas belong to 5 tribes have been mapped. This was produced in the period of 2010 – 2015 facilitated by CSO/NGO, customary community groups in West Papua Province and The Samdhana Institute. As shown in the map below, 4 of 5 tribes are in bird heads consist of Moi Kelim, Miyah, Abun and Knasaimos while Madewana is in south east Bomberai Peninsula. Overall these 5 tribe areas cover 12% of total administrative boundary of the province which about 9.7 million ha according to Spatial Plan. Provincial document of strategic environmental assessment noted that there are 67 indigenous tribes in the province that have strong customary right over the land and resources on it. Which means there are a lot of works remain to do. Recently some other advance mapping were conducted in other region applying indicative approaches such as South Manokwari, Fak-Fak and Maybrat districts. Which these 3 district covers almost 10 tribes.

Samdhana and partners acknowledged this as a good momentum to moving forwards on reform agenda of land use regulation and natural management arrangement in the province that should clearly determine and secure the position of Indigenous People. Customary boundary mapping has been acknowledging as strategic tools to bring the back trusts and dignity ways of social friendly natural resources governance in this eastern island of Indonesia. The clarity of tenure/land right and access to resources are also the vehicles to helps government reaches their poverty alleviation targets and social justice in Papua. The maps and all the approaches been applying should be packaging to be mainstreamed into governance land uses and forest development agenda.

Experiences from South Sorong and Kaimana where the communities have moved with their forests resources management agenda has pointing out how mapping is crucial tools to bring customary community to contribute in the development agenda. Next step to taking are bring this maps to legally recognized and keeps working with the Government to set up a system in which it is administratively accepted and be used as land uses development plan and implementation reference. Big and long history of natural resources conflict because of the not clear benefit sharing arrangement and legal justification for Papuan IPs to claim the benefit from their rights are now open to find the new ways of natural resources management governance within clear right claim.

Expanding mapping works to help other tribes and clan secure their rights and bring the management vision should be realized by all actor. It is crucial to step out from the risks that highlighted by NGO/CSO Land Right Care Coalition that the land uses and forests development plan are deploy customary community aside rather than big cooperation needs to extract natural resources. The 1,2 million ha of 5 tribes map are a momentum to reflects and repackaging the ways forward to helps customary community in Papua addressing their needs in legal clarity and certainty of rights and access to resources within their rights.