Long Term Forests Management Plan of KPHP Tambrauw is Publicly Discussed

Panel discussion, Mr Max, Dona and Sepus with Marthen Nauw as Moderator

Sausapor, November 16. Attending by 38 people representing Government, Customary Community, University, Technical Unit of MoEF and Timber concession in Tambrauw the one discussion was conducted to elaborate the current long term forests management plan of KPHP Unit IV Tambrauw. Specifically the discussion was aiming to gets a common agreement on spatial delineation of the forests areas that overlap among KPH, the turtle management body with the logging concession PT. Multi Wahana Wijaya. At the same time identified and listing the ideas to develop a good forests management partnership with customary community inside KPH areas.

Joined as resources person Mr. Max Tokede as the experts of Long Term Forests management plan, Mr. Dona Marewa as the head of KPHP Unit IV Tambrauw and Sepus Fatem the Bupati Tambrauw adviser on natural resource management. Mr. Max on his presentation was elaborating much on the basic concept of KPH and how its position on current forests administrative arrangement. Max also pointed out the difference between forestry department with KPH in the technical services and administrative control, in which all the administrative responsibilities such as licenses control and provision of resources are handle by forestry department while field based management and onsite monitoring to the forests uses are the duties of KPH. Adding to Mr. Max, Dona Marewa shows the spatial delineation and lists of forests resources management activities the KPHP Unit IV Tambrauw will do. They includes monitoring the uses of forests product, developing social forestry plots and facilitate forests products business marketing. While Sepus Fatem shared the overall idea and progress of conservation district agenda in Tambrauw and where is KPH position as the locus of implementation. All these presentation were accomplished the opening remarks by the Secretary of Tambrauw District, Mr. Engel Kocu that reminding all the actors that management of north coast Tambrauw with many different initiative should be packaging with clear community participation. Because he remains about increasing complain from the community sites. KPH should exists and create a good condition of partnership to help local government in addressing the complex problem in the north coast of Tambrauw.

Based on the Ministry of Environment and Forestry Decree No 630/MenLHK-Setjen/2015 total area of KPHP Unit IV Tambrauw is 155,423 ha with about 121,107 ha are in the production function. But jurisdictional acknowledge about 80% this forests are already granted for timber management licenses to PT Multi Wahana Wijaya and the rests are protection forests. On his presentation, the head KPHP Unit IV Tambrauw, Mr. Donna mentioned that to secure the social forestry initiative and partnership agenda with the community, the KPH has delineated about 15,385 ha of empowerment block or certain areas for social purposes. In here the pilots of village forests, community forestry, community plantation forests or customary forests will be build gradually. Donna then added that all this block are addressing to optimizing the non timber forests products and environmental services in the area. Meeting the good partnership mechanism that will be guiding the implementation of empowerment block is urgent for Tambrauw because based on customary boundary maps, all the areas of KPHP Units IV Tambrauw are inside Abun Tribes areas and indicatively based on AKA WUON Data there are about 36 clans that claiming the customary areas in this part.

Management Block Maps of KPHP Unit IV Tambrauw

At the close session, some summary was produced and listed as recommendation to be followed up by the KPHP Unit IV Tambrauw they includes: clear designation and arrangement of turtle nesting sites to be managed by the established management units. Community participation is a must so it recommended that the KPH should gradually talk and design the partnership mechanism with customary community in KPH designated areas to manage the certain area that already allocated.