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21 May 2019 Indonesia
In 2014, the Indonesian government started an ambitious social forestry program, aiming to provide communities with legal permits to manage and use forests located on state lands. As of March 2019, around 2.5 million hectares of land were titled under the program.
21 May 2019 Indonesia
In Indonesia, forest tenure has long been a source of conflict. About two thirds of the country's terrestrial area is classified as state-forest land, even though local people have been living there for many generations. When the government allocates these areas for production or conservation purposes, local people face the threat of losing access to their traditional territories. To resolve this, the Indonesian government launched an ambitious social forestry program in 2014, giving communities formal rights to use and manage forests that are located on state land. Significant progress has been made, but many challenges remain. This video introduces the program and highlights some of the conditions for success.
08 January 2019 Indonesia
The Essential Ecosystem Area (KEE) Orangutan Corridor in Sungai Putri - Gunung Tarak - Gunung Palung Landscape in Indonesia will be jointly managed by nine instances including governmental and non-governmental institutions, and oil and mining concessions. The joint management aims at the protection, preservation and sustainable use of the KEE.
04 September 2018 Indonesia
In 2017, Tropenbos Indonesia initiated a partnership between the village of Laman Satong in West Kalimantan and the oil palm company PT Kayong Agro Lestari, which owns the nearby oil palm plantation.
04 September 2018 Indonesia
In 2017, Tropenbos Indonesia conducted training in participatory mapping (PM) and participatory conservation planning (PCP) in the villages of Laman Satong and Pangkalan Jihing. Both methods were enthusiastically embraced by the communities. They used PM to establish clear village boundaries. Consensus on boundaries will help to avoid encroachment on nearby national park areas and protection forests and will reduce conflicts between neighbouring communities. PCP was used to develop a database of land-use types — such as rubber, oil palm and other agro-commodities — and to identify the potential of various natural resources for creating more sustainable livelihoods.
04 September 2018 Indonesia
The Gunung Tarak Landscape in Ketapang District in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, consists of natural and production forests surrounded by oil palm plantations. Some of these plantations, as well as major roads constructed since the early 2000s, cut through the forest areas. This has had a major impact on the habitat of orangutan groups, especially the 2,500 orangutans living in the Sungai Putri production forest that have become completely cut off from the rest of the habitat.