Yayasan PLASMA

FINAL PROJECT STATUS BRIEF 2001

Promoting and Strengthening Models for Community Based Forest and Land Management

Yayasan PLASMA (Pengembangan Lingkungan Hidup dan Sumberdaya Manusia) for Konsorsium SHK Kaltim
Jl Juanda I No. 8, Samarinda 75124
Tel: (62) (0541) 761 245 Fax: 739 071
E-mail: simpukng@smd.mega.net.id

Geographical focus

Kutai and Pasir Districts, East Kalimantan

Tropical and subtropical broadleaf forests

Through PLASMA's facilitation, the East Kalimantan forestry network's secretariat (called Sistem Hutan Kerakyatan SHK - Kaltim) has worked to gain recognition of rattan gardens as a model for community-based resource management. SHK-Kaltim is composed of PLASMA and Lembaga Bela Banua Puti Jaji (LBBPJ). The SHK-Kaltim secretariat has five full-time staff and works with local communities in Kutai and Pasir.

In previous work, SHK-Kaltim worked together with government and other stakeholders on rattan trading policies that are beneficial to rattan farmers. They selected Idaatn village in the river area Kedang Pahu in Kutai District, to map, inventory and set up a marketing unit for rattan. They are now expanding to include key areas in the sub-districts of Muara Pahu, Muara Lawa and Damai of the same river system. The Dayak Benuaq tribe largely occupy this area and have been practicing simpukng, a traditional agro-forestry system that protects and sustainably uses cleared land so that it can support forest regeneration. They also plant rattan that supplies most of their own rattan trade. SHK-Kaltim found the local organizations and systems of resource management ill prepared to handle external threats. These areas have experienced negative impacts from logging, mining and plantation development. Their local institutions need better planning and conservation tools, as well as support to effectively advocate their rights to lands and resources.

In this grant period, PLASMA will support the SHK-Kaltim secretariat to pursue the following objectives:

a workable trading system for forest products, starting with rattan;
government recognition of rights over resources with arrangements to implement this recognition;
strong natural resources management and conservation capacity of Kedang Pahu communities.

SHK-Kaltim has been working intensively in eight villages in the Kedang Pahu Hilir river catchment area, to develop community legislative, judicial and executive institutions. These institutions will be in line with the new Regional Autonomy law. Several villages have finished developing operational rules and policies and are now using their village legislative bodies (BPMD) for planning, decision making and interaction with outside institutions. For example, in Besiq, the largest village in Kedang Pahu, the village legislature was used to consider whether to accept a proposal to use about a third of their lands (20,000 ha) for an oil palm plantation. After debate on the issue, the community representatives voted 18 to 5 against the proposal. Besiq leaders had invited the District Head and the plantation company (P.T. Alfaindo) officials to witness the vote, but only the District Head attended. In a potentially precedent setting case, he declared to uphold the village body's decision and made commitments to send a letter to P.T. Alfaindo to this effect. He also promised to issue a letter recognizing the legitimacy of the village legislative body.

In Tepulang, SHK-Kaltim organizers have supported the community in developing land use planning maps. Area management rules, monitoring protocols and enforcement mechanisms should be agreed before the end of the year and will be brought to district government for recognition when completed. Already, community members have started implementing this plan by re-planting over 300 ha. of burned forests. Between June and September, Tepulang community members also opposed a proposal for a local forest harvest permit (IPHH).

Around East Kalimantan there has been a rush to acquire these local forest harvest permits on public and private lands. SHK-Kaltim has analyzed the policy frameworks governing this permit allocation process and found a rash of problems with them, with the district and national forest policy framework and with the entire approach to forest and natural resource management underlying them. A position paper and power point presentation has been drafted outlining this critique and presenting an alternative "ecosystem based" approach to forest management in Indonesia. These will be presented to the West Kutai and Induk District governments and will form the basis for developing a draft district regulation on ecosystem based forest management to be presented to the District Assembly of West Kutai.

SHK-Kaltim has initiated discussions with the District Head and District Spatial Planning Office of West Kutai and given testimony to the Kutai Induk District Assembly (DPRD) concerning the establishment of village legislatures, incorporation of community maps and land use plans into district land use plans and the need for a policy mechanism for registering customary land claims. They have organized two workshops which brought together district and sub-district governments, community leaders and NGOs; one on the experience of establishing village legislatures and developing village land use maps and plans in Kedung Pahu; and another on the techniques and process of participatory mapping. This mapping workshop is the first step in initiating community mapping and land use planning in the eight Kedung Pahu Hilir villages and their village legislatures.

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	FINAL PROJECT STATUS BRIEF 2001

Project	Promoting and Strengthening Models for Community Based Forest and Land Management
Partner	Yayasan PLASMA (Pengembangan Lingkungan Hidup dan Sumberdaya Manusia) for Konsorsium SHK Kaltim Jl Juanda I No. 8, Samarinda 75124 Tel: (62) (0541) 761 245 Fax: 739 071 E-mail: simpukng@smd.mega.net.id
Geographical focus	Kutai and Pasir Districts, East Kalimantan
Biome	Tropical and subtropical broadleaf forests
Timing	Commencing May 1999
Description	Through PLASMA's facilitation, the East Kalimantan forestry network's secretariat (called Sistem Hutan Kerakyatan SHK - Kaltim) has worked to gain recognition of rattan gardens as a model for community-based resource management. SHK-Kaltim is composed of PLASMA and Lembaga Bela Banua Puti Jaji (LBBPJ). The SHK-Kaltim secretariat has five full-time staff and works with local communities in Kutai and Pasir. In previous work, SHK-Kaltim worked together with government and other stakeholders on rattan trading policies that are beneficial to rattan farmers. They selected Idaatn village in the river area Kedang Pahu in Kutai District, to map, inventory and set up a marketing unit for rattan. They are now expanding to include key areas in the sub-districts of Muara Pahu, Muara Lawa and Damai of the same river system. The Dayak Benuaq tribe largely occupy this area and have been practicing simpukng, a traditional agro-forestry system that protects and sustainably uses cleared land so that it can support forest regeneration. They also plant rattan that supplies most of their own rattan trade. SHK-Kaltim found the local organizations and systems of resource management ill prepared to handle external threats. These areas have experienced negative impacts from logging, mining and plantation development. Their local institutions need better planning and conservation tools, as well as support to effectively advocate their rights to lands and resources. In this grant period, PLASMA will support the SHK-Kaltim secretariat to pursue the following objectives: a workable trading system for forest products, starting with rattan; government recognition of rights over resources with arrangements to implement this recognition; strong natural resources management and conservation capacity of Kedang Pahu communities.
Results	SHK-Kaltim has been working intensively in eight villages in the Kedang Pahu Hilir river catchment area, to develop community legislative, judicial and executive institutions. These institutions will be in line with the new Regional Autonomy law. Several villages have finished developing operational rules and policies and are now using their village legislative bodies (BPMD) for planning, decision making and interaction with outside institutions. For example, in Besiq, the largest village in Kedang Pahu, the village legislature was used to consider whether to accept a proposal to use about a third of their lands (20,000 ha) for an oil palm plantation. After debate on the issue, the community representatives voted 18 to 5 against the proposal. Besiq leaders had invited the District Head and the plantation company (P.T. Alfaindo) officials to witness the vote, but only the District Head attended. In a potentially precedent setting case, he declared to uphold the village body's decision and made commitments to send a letter to P.T. Alfaindo to this effect. He also promised to issue a letter recognizing the legitimacy of the village legislative body. In Tepulang, SHK-Kaltim organizers have supported the community in developing land use planning maps. Area management rules, monitoring protocols and enforcement mechanisms should be agreed before the end of the year and will be brought to district government for recognition when completed. Already, community members have started implementing this plan by re-planting over 300 ha. of burned forests. Between June and September, Tepulang community members also opposed a proposal for a local forest harvest permit (IPHH). Around East Kalimantan there has been a rush to acquire these local forest harvest permits on public and private lands. SHK-Kaltim has analyzed the policy frameworks governing this permit allocation process and found a rash of problems with them, with the district and national forest policy framework and with the entire approach to forest and natural resource management underlying them. A position paper and power point presentation has been drafted outlining this critique and presenting an alternative "ecosystem based" approach to forest management in Indonesia. These will be presented to the West Kutai and Induk District governments and will form the basis for developing a draft district regulation on ecosystem based forest management to be presented to the District Assembly of West Kutai. SHK-Kaltim has initiated discussions with the District Head and District Spatial Planning Office of West Kutai and given testimony to the Kutai Induk District Assembly (DPRD) concerning the establishment of village legislatures, incorporation of community maps and land use plans into district land use plans and the need for a policy mechanism for registering customary land claims. They have organized two workshops which brought together district and sub-district governments, community leaders and NGOs; one on the experience of establishing village legislatures and developing village land use maps and plans in Kedung Pahu; and another on the techniques and process of participatory mapping. This mapping workshop is the first step in initiating community mapping and land use planning in the eight Kedung Pahu Hilir villages and their village legislatures.