“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.
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