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

Senin, 28 Februari 2011

6 Customary Community Groups In Baliem Valley Finalized and Agreed on Their Boundary Maps

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YBAW Director (Right) gave the customary boundary maps the chief of Omarekma Customary Groups.
Photo: Martin Hardino

After a long process of customary boundary mapping facilitated by Yayasan Bina Adat Walesi (YBAW) with supported by Samdhana Institute and Forestry Department of Jayawijaya District, 6 customary community groups received and agreed upon their boundary maps. In front of the head of Planning Agency and representative of a parliament member the elders from Wusilimo, Hubulama, Musalfak, Omarekma, Asudogima and Muliama confirm and request for legal recognition over their land rights. They were then asked for the government to put the pole as a sign of ownership over the land.

In his opening remarks, Mr. John Way (the Head of Dorestry Department Jayawijaya District) said that the main objective of the customary boundary mapping is to solve the land right conflict and document the rights that currently lives in the mind of the elders. The maps will also helps the government to appropriately identifying and planning the program in each region based on specific community needs and inline with the land uses wisdom they have for centuries. For forestry program they were often found a problem with right either on different actor claiming one piece of land until the zoning conflict between the way how community acknowledge the function of land uses and the legal delineation the government made. Most of the rehabilitation program for instance are often ended without a continuity guaranty from the community because it comes note based on their needs and not in the rights places. So he expected that during mapping community can then thinking on what would they do with their customary land and how it connects to the currents forests and land use development needs.

While the Head of Planning Agency in his speech expressed the efforts that YBAW, Forestry Department and Communities did. Government is positively welcoming the maps and expects to see how the maps could then help them to re-governing the border of sub-districts. Particularly because the history of confederation war in the valley are remain influence the development - they're often find this now in the sub-districts that administratively covers two different groups with a war history in the past. He is also requested all the leader to take an advance steps to control the land trading that increasing in the valley. Community should able to keeps their land and trying to find a best and benefits option to manage it.

As addition YBAW presented the progress and plan they will do to finalize the rests customary boundary maps in Baliem Valley. There are about 27 groups of customary confederation in Balliem valley and 15 of them have mapped their boundary while 6 of which are now be agreed. YBAW with supports from Samdhana Institute and Forestry Department is planning to finalize all the groups boundary maps then push them for legal recognition, land uses planning and administratively re-justifying the sub-district and district boundary based on customary rights.  


The elders reviewed the maps for clarification and final approval in the Forestry office. Photo: Martin Hardiono