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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.

Sabtu, 16 Januari 2016

NORAD Team Visit Forests Management Unit in Biak Numfor


Biak January 15,Through KPH, I have vision to turn the current public paradigm that forests governance in Indonesia are far from good because it full of conflict, not sustainable, lack of community participation and lack of contribution to local economic development.” said Mr. Ariestoteles Ap – the Head of Forests Management Unit (KPHL) Biak Numfor on his welcoming words to the NORAD and Samdhana team. Holding the responsibilities to manage 206,016 ha of forests in Biak and Numfor Island he acknowledged that community are the main actors since customary right claim are strong in the islands.

Biak is one of the priority site of Samdhana intervention in Papua. The overall objective of projects is to creates the forests management integrative approaches that put in balance the needs of forests governance, economic business of forests resources, protection of indigenous people rights and poverty alleviation. Making this happen Samdhana is seeing Forests Management Unit (KPH) as legal platform and spaces to bring government, CSO/NGOs, customary community and privates sector in achieving the equitable forests value development. The works then been initiating since 2012/2013 started with stakeholder assessment and full forests inventory that become the bases for KPH in Biak to moves in technical and strategic partnership developing their long term management plan in participatory and comprehensive ways. KPH is now having a good relationship both with CSO/NGO in Biak and community in their concession areas. They also have a business commitment with the investor from Korea in developing the bamboo plantation for pellet and flooring industry in Biak.

The visit of NORAD and Norway Embassy Officer were to learned on what have been happening in Biak from The works of Samdhana with Partners and understand how the strategic position of forests management units in relation to customary rights issues. This was also part of regular projects visit to understand how their grantees and partners are working.

In addition to his shared about KPHL Biak, the head of KPHL Biak Numfor noted that the way how Samdhana is working with the partners are very much useful and enormously impacting the way of program KPH is doing and the core message KPH is conveying about the development of KPH based on customary rights recognition and protection. He also acknowledged the importance of Samdhana supports staff are contributing much in the KPH works and formulation of internal KPH implementation agenda. And highlighted the limitation that the government has in financing the implementation of field activities and more often delay as scheduled of distributing finance are realize in midyear. 

Joined in this meeting the program manager of Rumsram and the director of MNUKWAR who presented their works in this collaboration. MNUKWAR shared the works they been doing in build the model of eco-tourism in two villages in Eastern Biak, while RUMSRAM showed how their working in revitalizing cooperative and customary boundary mapping. Both RUMSRAM and MNUKWAR appreciated the support Samdhana is providing in Biak and support to build new model of Government – CSO and Community partnership to enhance the value of forests to the community and region. KPH also emphasized that they are lucky to have this partnership and looking forward to learn more from the works MNUKWAR and RUMSRAM are doing with the community.

The meetings then ended with tree planting in the arboretum. All quest include the executive director of Samdhana Institute involve on this planting. The arboretum is emerge as the initiative to build a collection garden for KPH. This is also part of KPH program on forests for education that will contributes to environmental curriculum in Biak.


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