Papua
and West Papua Provinces with 42 million ha of forests in which almost 70% are
still virgin plays significant position in Indonesia Greenhouses gas emission
action. The appropriate actions and win ways are needed urgently to make sure
that all keys stakeholder getting the wise option for natural resources
management strategy and policy. As respond to global climate changes the
provinces since 2008 announced their commitment to bring both provinces as the
leader in saving forests for tackle the effect of global warming. Event both
governor together with Arnold Schwarzenegger – the governor of California and the governor of Aceh built the Governor Climate and Forests Task Force, which now
expanded to more than six county.
2008
until 2012 were the pre-condition pathway to build what people called with a
foundation to makes government to government collaboration program could works
that would enable each parties to contributes in saving the worlds by
protecting the last remaining tropical forests in Asia and Pacific. At National
level-Indonesia government with several REDD platform body had launch several
low carbon development frameworks include the REDD+ strategy, national emission
reduction target, safeguard instruments and many other tools to makes REDD
works in the country. At sub national through LoI Indonesia – Norway the
province has their provinces strategy and action plan to REDD+ implementation.
While through national initiative the provinces has also developed greenhouses
gas emission reduction action plan. Papua and Wests Papua provinces were
engaged actively in both level and had have both document in place in the end
of 2013.
The
question then come after all these heavy worked have done: Are there any low
carbon development initiative run in these provinces? Are the government as the
keys policy and program maker has starting to do something that mentioned in
the documents they developed? Do all parties are aware of low carbon ideas in
the development at provinces and district?
How could we measure to validate the answer on above questions?
REDD or any low carbon development initiative in Papua are heavily depending on political commitments of political and institution leader of the government. Political commitment that interpreted into detail official government plans and program will become a guaranty that these initiative would works in the field. Understanding the plan and program of government could be explored by looking into detail spatial plan and strategic program plans of each institution. The plan and strategic plan should clearly mentioning the low carbon development program as the priority action
This paper is trying to critically provides quick views on how weak are the low carbon development initiative that fast in preparing the strategy and action plan documents but then slow in the actualization of the strategy and action plan. One by one the above questions will be answered in a robust comments based on the fact and condition in the both Papua and West Papua Province.
Are there any low carbon development initiative run in these provinces?
Some initiative came in the period of 2009 - 2012 such as Emirate Planet for the low carbon development project in Wamena, Carbon Strategic and Asia Pacific Carbon in West Papua. All these company came with an intended to applied VCS projects for credits. But most of the them were stopped in legal requirement such as the availability of forests the will do their projects. Since the low carbon projects was a new kinds of licenses that most parties are not familiar with. At the national levels experts are still in long discussion on building an ideal mechanism to makes low carbon development initiative could happen. No clear juridictional mechanism were agreed as national and sub-national low carbon development mechanism so most the this projects were given up find an appropriates national references to moving forward with their projects.
Another constrain that the projects faced was political leader and community supports. Most of the projects came were failed to convince political leader and some community leader about the benefits that community and government could get by putting their support into the projects.
Are the government as the keys policy and program maker has starting to do something that mentioned in the documents they developed?
The province REDD+ and GHG reduction action plan and strategy had clearly mentioning several pilots action plan that should be conducted to reach the provinces emission reduction targets (look this analysis: ............). But until now no one of this lists are started on the selected pilot sites. Some specific initiative are going so far are most run by an NGO project based such as Samdhana with Forests Management Unit (KPH), UKCCU with their Green Investment and Spatial Plan Program (Protarih), USAID IFACS and ICRAF with Participatory Monitoring System (Parcimont).
Not clear how the government is kind to taking an advance steps on facilitating all the projects initiative, taking an coordinator function and directed all the parties to testing the implementation of all lists action plan were mentioned in the official documents.
Do all parties are aware of low carbon ideas in the development at provinces and district?
Since it was announced as a new forests management scheme, low carbon development concept are not well distributed to all relevant parties. The gap of understanding in this issues and miss-understanding in seeing the project from the simple perspective of the easily getting money by protecting forests has rights an empty expectation. Distribution and dissemination information as part of public awareness were not worked well since the preparation stages.
In west Papua and Papua Provinces the interpretation of low carbon were vary depending on the organization background. Some projects mentioned above that has in contacted with community are often mistake to use the more proper words in explaining what is the low carbon development are so miss interpretation we also occurred at grass roots as shown by MNUKWAR videos.
So will low carbon initiative works in Papua and West Papua?
Make the foundation as noted in the documents as enabling condition should be a vital priority that the government needs to take soon. In collaboration with all related stakeholder sharpening this concepts into technical activities that measurable and verifiable are a urgent steps the government should takes.
It is a big worry that the the initiative will slowly disappear with the slow down action that the government has.
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