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

Minggu, 30 November 2014

Customary Boundary Map Declaration and Agreement of Moi Kelim

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Sorong, West Papua Province – Indonesia 
Final discussion and Declaration of Moi Kelim Map. Photo Yunus Yumte
Two days event on 20 and 21 of November 2014 have created a new memorial moment for the people in Moi Kelim – Sorong, West Papua Provinces of Indonesia. About 140 local leaders came and join the last final workshop to clarify, validate and recognize the tribe boundaries they mapped. Led by the local customary community Group of Malamoi (LMA Malamoi) Mr. Silas Ongge Kalami, the event  were organized well and the dynamic breath of proud is come.

Attended on the 2nd day the representative of local government and a technical unit from Ministry of Forestry. On his speech that red by the 1st assistant of Sorong district secretary, the Bupati said that ‘this is a important momentum for all Moi people to become one unity, and the government will definitely provide support to the next process’ he also noted that ‘the government has stating to invited national land body develop a regulation draft for Moi tribes rights and we would like to endorse LMA Malamoi to taking part in this process”. Together with the district assistant the chief of law units in Sorong District that responsible to legal process and requirement also said that the next PERDA process should be facilitated soon. They commit to pushing the legal recognition soon and expect to see other sub tribe do the same mapping and social consolidation.

On the separate session, the Parliament of Sorong District in which 9 members are originally from Moi tribes are announcing the importance and urgency to push the recognition of the Moi people local right. “next year the PERDA should be realized” said Tory Kalami, the new elected parliament member from Moi tribe. “9 moi people in the parliament have commits to push the development with respect to local right and accommodate the needs of community development” Torry added.

From the long process of mapping the Moi Kelim has found that their total customary areas are about 430,000 ha that cover the city of Sorong and Sorong District. On it living 372 clans/family names that spread from Makbon to Salawati. This process was funded and facilitated by Samdhana Institute, starting since July 2013 and ended in September 2014. 


Selasa, 04 November 2014

Village Forests Licenses for Sira and Manggroholo

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“We Want to Protect and Manage our Customary Land Rights and Resources”

Mapping of Clan Boundary in Sira and Manggroholo Villages, South Sorong - Photo: Bentara Papua


“The community in this village are depending much on forests, so weed this forests. It is our live, we not allow any company or any other government investment initiative to cuts the trees in this village” Says Alfred Kladit one of the elders in Sira village, Sub District of Saifi Sorong Sorong – West Papua Province of Indonesia. Kladit is the clan name that included in the big Knasoimos tribes those who lives and claim of 81.390,6 ha of land in south west of bird head Papua.

Population of Sira village are only 178 people within 38 household living in 1,961.8 ha of total Sira Village boundary. The forests are remain primary with dense tree crown covers. We can easily find the high commercial Papua timber such as Merbau (Instia, sp), Matoa (pometia piñata) eboni (diospiros celebica), angsana (dipterocapace) and red resin (damara) that could reach more than 25m high. Alfred emphasized his argument and showing of the big Merbau tree “we can easy find the big tree like this”. Sago, resin and other non-timber forests products are largely available and waiting to be manages by the community.

Understanding the threat on their forests, community in Sira and their neighbor village Manggroholo have committed to secure their ancestral land from destruction. Vision to maintain the forests and manage it wisely are moved as a consensus when they mapped their customary territories and submitted the legal village forests licenses. In 2014 through ministry of forestry decree number 767 and 768 of 2014 that realized on September 18th the aspiration of community from about 7 clans to secure and manages their territories and its resources are answered. A big positive stepping stone after long advocacy started on 2009 when the community refused the government agenda to puts their forests and land for oil palm and rubber plantation expansion. Ariklaus Kladit again on behalf of the community pointed out their expectation “we hope by this licenses, the security of livelihood sources are keep maintained through proper management practices, improve economic income and provides new jobs opportunity through all the resources management activities they can do such as, sago production, resin collection, rotan harvesting and eagle wood collection”.

A new long journey is beginning with the licenses. Community is now moving to organize them self by concretely packaging the management vision and technical-social facilitation plan that required by the village forests licenses. A proposal to the governor for the management licenses after ministry of forestry decree has been taking and it now waiting for approval. Field based readiness on all technical and social facilitation requirements are waiting for more deeply and growing facilitation.