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

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Rabu, 14 Desember 2016

CSO/NGO Coalition in West Papua, Refuse the Conservation Province Policy

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Press release in Matoa Cafe, Manokwari. Photo: Cahaya Papua
Cahaya Papua -the local newspaper in Manokwari on their main page at December 13 putting a press released from the CSO/NGO Coalition in West Papua about Conservation Province policy that the current governor Mr Atururi has announced a year ago. In tight words the refused this policy because they considered its not clearly recognize the rights of Indigenous Papuan and not consistent with current land uses and forests development agenda that far from conservation. The coalition is consist of Nine organization include: Papuana Conservation, Paradisea, Kamuki Papua, Mnukwar Papua, Bentara Manokwari, Perdu Manokwari, Gemapala Fak-Fak, Peduli Sehat Manokwari and Jangkar Papua. In about two moths they have preparing their position paper with 6 argumentation and 6 recommendation in responded to the policy. Full resport of the paper (in Bahasa Indonesia) can be downloaded in the following link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BygScToA2HKFcGE5aldncFp2V1E/view?usp=sharing 

As reported in www.papuakini.co the coalition emphasized that there in no clear acts/words in the legal draft that mentioning and normatively regulate about the right of IPs and their intelectual knowledge in conserving the mother earth. Abdul Solichin, one of the spoke-man said "in the time where international parties has clearly mentioning the important of IPs roles in global forests and conservation problem West Papua Province in their conservation policy are not yet clearly addressing it". Added to that Sahat Saragih as the senior NGO activist in Papua pointing out "it is important for the province to do full inventory and maps the territories of the Papuan IPs and then move with the conservation agenda based on the information from customary community. So all the conservation action are happen in and above customary land.". They also criticized the policy development process that using top down approaches and remain puts aide the needs to build public awareness.

Overall as they have mentioned in the Paper, the coalition will open and agree to supports this policy development if it is clearly regulated about (1) the definition of Papuan customary community in the facts that the relations of human, values, lands and resources are strong. (2) equal position on rights and responsibility in conservation development, implementation and evaluation, (3) the government is recognizing the right of Papuan IPs through provincial regulation, (4) securing the right of Papuan IPs to access benefit, (5) applying free, prior and informed consent (FPIC).

Minggu, 29 Desember 2013

Paper/Publication: Mapping, Tenure Right and REDD+ In Indonesia

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Summary

Understanding the linkages between forests, peoples and climate changes are important in tropical country to appropriately reduce the impact of deforestation and degradation and enhancing the benefit to forests owner. The appropriate approaches is also needs to reduce the conflict among parties. 

Papua as a part of the last remaining tropical forests in the world plays important position for future emission reduction of GHG. With large and virgin forests cover the island could store a millions of ton carbon. But ironically the large forests with high natural resources treasure not necessary align with the wealth development of Indigenous Papuan. Natural resources conflict are remain high. This is often appear as implication of the weak of local right recognition, lack of community participation and empty space of regulations to cover it. So it is acknowledge that avoiding the increasing of deforestation and degradation in Papua are about how you could helps community to find their right be recognize and get legal chance the manage their resources. 

REDD+ as a new scheme to mitigate the impact of climate changes must also consider the rights issues. But the question then how to know who own the right over the forests? What tools we can uses to understand the linkage community livelihood with a forests? How should REDD working on the place where customary right claim are strong? This will trying to elaborate above questions. This was developed based on 3 years mapping experiences that Samdhana Institute and partners in Papua had. The paper in brief will provide a description about rights and how customary boundary mapping could become an suitable tools for Papua to address the right of land and resources issues. 

Tittle: Mapping, Tenure Right and REDD+ in Indonesia 
Author: Yunus Yumte, Peter Wood and Ita Natalia
Paper: 2012  
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