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» Top Download Site Profile of Sumberjaya in PDF Sumberjaya (which means ‘source of wealth’) - a sub district in the mountain range (Bukit Barisan) a benchmark for conflicts of forest watershed functions in Indonesia, and has witnessed one of the most intensive ‘eviction’ episodes, increasing poverty of squatter families. Under the RUPES Program, the action research in this watershed will be focus on three sub watersheds of 200-1500 ha: Way Petai, Way Ringkih and the Gunung Abung-Simpangsari watershed.
» Top Singkarak (West Sumatra Province) Download Site Profile of Singkarak in PDF Tanah Datar district surrounding Singkarak Lake, West Sumatra Province Lake Singkarak functions as upstream reservoir of the Inderagiri river, source of irrigation water, fishery, a hydro-power electricity generator and recreation area. The watershed function problems arise in this area, such as regularity of water flow and water quality.
» Top Lambusango (Sulawesi Tenggara Province) The Lambusango
site under Operation Wallacea Trust a not-for-profit charity based
in the United Kingdom One priority in the Lambusango project is for investment enabling communities to generate long-term business income in exchange for guaranteeing that no villagers continue to illegally log or hunt in the core zone conservation forests. Wallacea and RUPES, through a Memorandum of Understanding with ICRAF, will consult and cooperate in identifying key research problems, implementing research activities addressing these problems, and communicating the results of such research. For more information, please visit http://www.opwall.com/Trust/lambusango.shtml Contact: Dr. Edi Purwanto (Project Manager) » Top Setulang, Malinau (East Kalimantan Province) One village
in the area where the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
is working, Setulang village in Malinau District, has expressed interest
in negotiating a conservation concession for their forest.
Setulang is committed to conserving their forests and remains one
of the few isolated cases to have been successful at forest
conservation. However, there is increasing pressure both from within and
without to allow logging. It is opportune to find ways to make
conservation worthwhile for the village and thereby provide some
resistance to the dissenting voices in the community. Though the amount
of money being sought through this proposal is very little compared to
the offers they have been receiving for their forests, there is local
consensus that the community would agree to maintain the forest and to
use it for non-timber forest products, limited timber for subsistence
use and a small amount of eco-tourism. The present proposal prepared by
CIFOR, represents a
locally constituted concession agreement by the Setulang village and
would symbolize a conservation payment to the community for the first
few years. Revenues generated from eco-tourism and conservation
concession payments would be managed through a village development fund
administered by a village management body that consists of legitimate
traditional village structures with representation from the district (Kabupaten)
administration and facilitation from CIFOR. » Top Cidanau Watershed is one of the important watersheds in Banten Province, covering an area of 22,042 ha. The Cidanau River collects water from 17 large and small streams, and flows into the Sunda Strait that separates the islands of Java and Sumatra. The Cidanau watershed is home to an active farming community and 30% of the area has been converted to paddy rice fields. The area has two main roles in the economic development of the western area of Banten Province, specifically Cilegon city. Firstly, it is the only water reservoir with adequate discharge in this area to provide water for heavy industrial activities and domestic uses, and secondly, Cidanau watershed includes the Rawa Danau Nature Conservation Area (2500 ha – 9% of the total catchment area), which is the only remaining mountain swamp conservation site in Java and contains several endemic species of plants and animals. Forest cover on the steep mountain slopes (7% of the area) and the swamp are key to the maintenance of these environmental services. Land holdings are small (< 1 ha per household) and poverty levels high. About 72% of the community only have basic education and 13% is illiterate. PT. Krakatau Tirta Industri, the water company, is authorized to manage distribution of the water to the whole industries in Cilegon and for domestic use in Serang and Cilegon as well. It supplies 1,000 liter water/second and pays water tax to Government and Cilegon. Various works for rehabilitation of Cidanau River are also conducted by this company. Encroachment to the swamp and intensification of land use in the catchment as a whole affects the quality of the waterflows from the Cidanau watershed. In general the land use on the catchments area of Cidanau is composed of thicket forest,swampy area (Rawa Danau), mixed garden, rubber plantation, rice field, rain fed land, industrial forest and human settlement (Munawir et al 2003). In the newly created province of Banten integrated management of the Cidanau watershed is a priority. Decree Number 124.3/Kep.64-Huk/02 of the Banten Governor, dated May 24th 2002, formally established the Forum Komunikasi DAS Cidanau – FKDC (Cidanau Watershed Communication Forum). FKDC as the intermediary is now in the process of establishing an alternative financial institution, which will collect all the ‘rewards’ and channel them to the providers of the environmental services. The FKDC intends to develop a proper reward mechanism through collaboration among capable stakeholders and to integrate various stakeholders both internal and external that potentially have capabilities in conducting RUPES mechanisms. » Top The project location is the Gunung Halimun area of West Java. The target sub-districts are Nanggung and Cibadak, where local farmers have limited farm-based income generation opportunities due to low production and minimal market access. Farmers in the target sub-districts are primarily smallholders on or below the poverty line with access to less than 2 hectares of land. Many of these land holdings are found on steep slopes. Farmers have limited access to professional technical assistance and poor market linkages, particularly to more the lucrative urban and regional markets in nearby Bogor and Jakarta. Because their lands are under-productive, many local communities are forced to openly or surreptitiously encroach on neighboring protected areas to meet their livelihoods needs. This is a cause for concern as Gunung Halimun is the major watershed for Jakarta and vicinity and an important reservoir for biodiversity of national park. Experience indicates that farmers are interested in planting trees but not necessarily the species promoted through past government reforestation projects. Those efforts often failed due to the lack of farmer participation in species selection, poor germplasm, lack of market understanding, and a general top down extension approach that had poor follow-up. In collaboration with USAID, ICRAF is developing a project that will enhance smallholders' capacity to understand and evaluate their agroforestry systems, including market options and address production and market access constraints. This type of community-level capacity building will contribute to the development of low-cost, locally-directed and widespread reforestation of Indonesia’s degraded lands. At the same time, it will increase smallholder incomes through the development of effective market-oriented agroforestry systems. It is also important to note that in all field activities ICRAF works with a local NGO, Rimbawan Muda Indonesia (RMI - the Indonesian Forestry and Environment Institute), which has close ties with the local communities. Community organizing is done by RMI with ICRAF provides the technical assistance and policy analysis required. » Top Rinjani’s ecosystems, located in the northern part of the island, is the most important ecosystem for its water sources as well as for forest and non-forest products in Lombok island. Mount Rinjani, stands at 3.624 meters above sea level, is the third highest volcanic mountain in Indonesia. Mount Rinjani has fast potentials of environmental services, such as watershed functions, landscape beauty, terrestrial carbon storage and rich biodiversity. The prospective of water supply from Mount Rinjani is tremendous, as its slopes possess no less than 137 springs, 4 watersheds and 10 sub-watersheds. These serve as main water sources that nourishes approximately 2.9 million people in Lombok. The estimated value of the water resource is IDR 4.718 quintillion per year (Rinjani Economic Valuation, WWF, 2001). However, some community groups have gained almost no benefits from the values generated from water utilization. This is largely due to the less transparent policy and rewarding mechanism for the environmental services, and the absence of a fair share in water resource utilization. Inappropriate water management in the villages has given raise to major problems for the local community groups, and a number of 157 cases of water conflict occurred in 2002 (LP3ES, 2002). Many key stakeholders are determined to change the forest use paradigm from timber into providing the environmental services. The new paradigm is expected to promote the forest conservation while simultaneously bring more benefits for the society. Accordingly, during the period 2001-2002 WWF Indonesia together with its partners, including LP3ES and the NTB Forestry Service Unit conducted some initiatives for development of a mechanism of water payment for poor community in West Lombok and Mataram. The project being proposed here is aimed at developing a system for rewarding the Rinjani upland poor in Lombok, for maintaining Rinjani’s watershed functions as water sources for the population in Mataram. » Top
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