Investor Presentaiton
Advancing Environmental Sustainability
Forest Dependent and Customary Communities
Advancing Environmental Sustainability
RIMBA Project
The RIMBA Ecosystem Connectivity
Project (RIMBA) is supported by UNEP.
This KEMITRAAN project, focused in the
hinterlands of central Sumatera, partners
with Ministry of Lands and Spatial Planning
(ATR). RIMBA aims to protect biodiversity
and to increase carbon stocks across the
RIMBA critical landscape of heartland
of central Sumatera, this is done by
enhancing forest ecosystem connectivity
through green economic development.
Work on the program has included desk
top dan baseline assessments.
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The signing of Barambang Katute indigenous forest determination
A separate, but related set of
KEMITRAAN initiatives related to the
environment, focus on the livelihoods
and land rights of forest dependent
communities including customary
communities. KEMITRAAN has been a
prime supporter of the Government's
social forestry program under which forest
dependent communities are able to apply
for and obtain permits to manage and
exploit the forests near their communities.
The Government has a target of allocating
12.7 million hectares under social forestry
permits by 2024. To the end of 2021 a total
of 4.7 million hectares had been allocated.
This last figure included approximately one
million hectares of indicative customary
community forests.
Partnering with the Ministry of
Environment and Forestry together
with the Ford Foundation, KEMITRAAN
conducts a number of activities to support
communities prepare their proposals for
social forestry permits as well as develop
enterprises once these permits have been
secured. The program works with three
provinces namely Jambi, West Kalimantan
and South Sulawesi.
With regards to the district of Sinjai in
South Sulawesi, KEMITRAAN has worked
with a local customary community in its
efforts to seek official recognition as a
Legal Customary Community.
During 2021 KEMITRAAN worked
with nine separate communities including
two customary communities to prepare
their claims to secure social forestry
permits. These communities engage three
provinces and with proposed permit areas
covering 3,880 hectares. In conclusion,
and if the permissions for these most
recent 3,880 hectares are approved, our
support accounts for more than 18 percent
of all social forestry lands. If this number
is combined with the 850,000 hectares in
social forestry permits that KEMITRAAN
has helped promote since 2007.
In addition, KEMITRAAN works closely
with the social forestry working groups
that operate in each of the three provinces
in which KEMITRAAN is active with the
program with a focus on compiling data
bases on social forestry activities in each
province.
Advancing Environmental Sustainability
Sustainable Business Unit
In the Bintuni region of West Papua
KEMITRAAN with support of BP has
worked to support the capacity building
of Government Officials and Civil Society
Organizations. This project emphasized
the involvement with local authorities at
the kabupaten (district) level together
with communities to both create
improvements in local governance as well
as to encourage communities at village
level to create village level enterprises as
part of efforts to raise local incomes and
employment opportunities. During this
time BP-Bintuni project was able to work
with the local authorities to strengthen
the integration of electronic based sub-
national financial budgeting and planning,
the development of Perdasus Dana
Bagi Hasil Kabupaten Bintuni (special
local government regulation on revenue
sharing), Teluk Bintuni and Fak-Fak
Governance Index. Facilitation on the
implementation of development planning
and coordination, and the provision of
technical assistance to the sub-national
development planning agency of Fak-Fak
District.
Opening Ceremonial for Local
Government Agencies and Development
Plan Deliberation Forum Fakfak Regency
for Fiscal Year 2021
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