Introducing Samdhana Institute Works in Papua

Papua and West Papua Provinces, of Indonesia

Support Local Based Forests and Land Uses Management under Clear Right of the Land

Forest management, customary land-right mapping, REDD+, KPH, conservation district, conflict resolution mechanism and spatial planning are the main scope of projects entry points Samdhana is dealing with in Papua in distributing small and medium grants, providing technical assistance, documenting partners lessons learned and channeling them towards potential support. Since 2008 the works have been involving NGOs, Universities, Low carbon task force, local community, practitioners and government body. The overall program of Samdhana and partners have also effectively been conducting with the engagement of some specific government institutions and two Customary Community Groups that collaborated on issues of REDD+ preparedness, KPH and CBFM – even though they did not receive funding support from Samdhana.

Samdhana vision in Papua is “customary community of Papua is sovereign to their land and natural resources and they can derive high sustainable benefit from it”. Long term objective samdhana in Papua “to enhance capacities of customary community groups and Papuan civil society organizations in effectively secure right and enhance livelihood whilst maintaining the natural diversity”. Based on experience to date and analysis of opportunities to influence change, the 5 year goals of Samdhana’s work in Papua are described below. They can be abbreviated to ‘alignment’, ‘recognition’, and ‘management’: 

• Legal recognition of the customary land and resource rights of Indigenous Papuans (RECOGNITION)
• Integrating formal systems with local systems for forest resources management, ensuring that community land rights are recognized and clarified are addressing hand in hand with natural resources management policy by state and their legally participation is acknowledged (ALIGNMENT)
• Working with partners on the examples of natural resources management in Papua which are legal, sustainable and contribute to improving the livelihoods of beneficiaries (MANAGEMENT)

To realize above objectives some approaches been using to works with partners they are: (a) Mapping, : social, technical and legal recognition, (b) Conflict resolution: develop arbitration mechanism of land and forest conflict using customary boundary mapping as resolution tool. (c) Stakeholder engagement: Support multi-stakeholder communication forum to enhance the successful implementation of FPIC – participatory decision making process. (d) Community based forest management (CBFM) – forest management, institution and small timber business. (e) Spatial planning: Forest function regulation, pattern and structure of space. (f) Encourage national and sub-nation policy: scaling up priority issue and active communication with national and sub-national policy makers, and (g) capacity building. This approaches are implemented on specific locus of works they area: (1) KPH (Forest Management Unit) Support the development of detail management plan for official forest management unit, making sure that it has accommodated customary land/forest maps. Work with the KPH management team to provide opportunities and procedures for communities with customary rights in the area to get legal licenses for their forestry businesses. (2) REDD/Climate Change:Working closely with the Provincial Task Force for Low Carbon Economic Development (LCD – TF) in Papua and Papua Barat Provinces. Supporting the implementation of provincial strategy and action plan for REDD+ and the Provincial Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction plan. (3) Eco-Forestry (IUPHHK-MHA, Village Forests and Partnership on KPH area) : Develop a model of community, government and private partnership in sustainable forests and land use management. To secure legal basis for CBFM, support community empowerment and develop good community forest management and business plans and implementation capacity. Learn from past benefit sharing experience and develop a mechanism that ensures the community will have equitable and sustainable benefits from their forestry business. And (4) Provincial special regulation under Papua Special Autonomy Law: push for the implementation of this regulation, using the results of mapping and conflict resolution (abovbe) as a test case to demonstrate its value. Advocate awareness raising and wider application of the regulation at District and Provincial scale. 

The maps bellow in summary provide a picture of Samdhana intervention sites. In each sites Samdhana has local partners as a grantee who take a role as project implementer. As follow the matrix bellow in summary presenting the update of Samdhana grantees since 2009.  

No	Nama Lembaga	Lokasi	Tahun 2009	Tahun 2010	Tahun 2011	Tahun 2012	Tahun 2013
1	MNUKWAR	Manokwari	Dukungan untuk Workshop SOsialisasi REDD di Manokwari	Dukungan untuk pembuatan film tentang kaimana dan Media komunikasi REDD+ Berupa Komik	Dukungan untuk studi Pola adaptasi masyarkat terhadap perubahan iklim di Pegunungan Arfak	Komunikasi REDD+ di Kebupaten Teluk Wondama dan menyusun pembelajaran dari Project Carbon Papua Barat	Film Komunikasi Pemetaan Wilayah adat
2	Triton	Sorong	Sosialisasi REDD di Sorong Selatan	Mendorong komunikasi lewat tv	Sosialisasi dan media komunikasi REDD	-	-
3	Yamiko	Fak-Fak	Bersama dengan Triton melakukan sosialisasi REDD+ di Fak-Fak	Dukungan pemetaan social di Pertuanan Arguni, Fak-Fak	-	Musyawarah adat dan diskusi keterancaman masyarakat Adat Arguni terhadap tinggi-nya investasi di wilayahnya.	-
4	YASANTO	Merauke		Sosialisasi dan Training FPIC di Merauke	Fasilitasi FPIC di Merauke Bersama FORPAMER	-	-
5	Pt PPMA	Jayapura	-	-	Dukungan ke SBPP Tanah Papua	Dukungan ke SBPP Tanah Papua	--
6	Yali-Papua	Jayapura	-	-	SOsialisasi REDD+ dan pelatihan FPIC di Mamberamo	-	-
7	SKP	Merauke	-	-	-	Kajian Posisi Masyarakat dalam Investasi MIFEE bersama dengan Sains	Dukungan Pemetaan Wilayah adat di Sub Suku Marind Yei
8	YBAW	Wamena	-	-	-	Dukungan untuk pemetaan social 2 wilayah adat di Wamena (wolo & Yalengga)	-
9	DPMA Knasoimos	Sorong	Dukungan untuk musyawarah adat masyarkaat	Dukungan untuk kegiatan kelembagaan koperasi yang terbentuk	-	-	-
10	AMAN Yapen	Kepulauan Yapen	-	-	Dukungan Pemetaan wilayah adat Kampung Saubeba	-	-
11	POKJA RELAK/AMAN Sentani	Jayapura			Dukungan Pemetaan social dan FPIC di Kampung Ifale – Jayapura	-	-
12	Masyarakat Yapen Barat	Kepulauan Yapen	-	-	-	Dukungan pemetaan wilayah adat masyarakat di Ansus- Yapen Barat	-
13	UNIVERSITAS NEGERI PAPUA (UNIPA)	Manokwari				Study Gender di Papua Barat dan implikasinya terhadap rencana pelaksanaan REDD+ di Provinsi Papua Barat	Diskusi dan konsultasi kabupaten rancang bangun kelembagaan kabupaten konservasi Tambraw
14	KSPM	Sorong Selatan	-	-	-	-	Training FPIC di 2 Kampung di Sorong Selatan
15	Radio Suara Kaido	Dogiyai	Dukungan untuk diskusi awal pembangunan radio komunitas	-	-	-	Dukungan ke pelatihan jurnalis local, reporter dan pembawa berita
16	APF3	Jayapura	-	-	-	-	Perencanaan partisipatif pengelolaan dan pemanfaatan wilayah adat
17	Bentara	Sorong Selatan	-	-	-	-	Pemetaan Sosial dan dukungan penguatan kapasitas aktot kampung dalam pengelolaan sumber daya hutan dan lahan
18	LMA Malamoi	Sorong	-	-	-	-	Pemetaan wilayah adat di Moi Kalasa - kelim
19	Pusat Studi Teknologi Inormasi Universitas OG	Jayapura	-	-	-	-	Pengembangan draft system informasi online wilayah adat di Papua
20	KPHL Biak Numfor						Support stakeholder assessment, problem analysis and stakeholder communication. Develop a frame of joint with with Papua State University.
	Jumlah	8 Kabupaten	4 Dukungan	5 Dukungan	7 Dukungan	6 Dukungan	10 Dukungan