With an aim to share experiences in the areas of conflict management, land tenure negotiation and private public partnerships; four bilateral programmes of the German and Indonesian governments conducted a webinar on 23 June 2020 using the MS Teams application.
The four programmes are: Forests and Climate Change Programme (FORCLIME), Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains (SASCI), Sustainable and Climate-Friendly Palm Oil Production and Procurement (SCPOPP) and Low Emissions Oil Palm Development (LEOPALD).
The participants of the webinar were local partners of the four Programmes mentioned in East and West Kalimantan provinces, which represent government agencies, NGOs and private companies at the provincial and district levels.

This sharing session will be conducted in series. The first webinar presented shared experiences from the conflict management integrated team (Tim Terpadu Penanganan Gangguan Usaha dan Konflik Perkebunan) from Berau district (East Kalimantan) and the Kapuas Hulu district resolution conflict desk (Desk Resolusi Konflik) from West Kalimantan. In addition, they also presented the progress of “toolkit” development for facilitating partnerships and conflict management in the plantation sector.

For more information, please contact:
Asman Aziz, Adviser for Stakeholder Engagement and Partnership, LEOPALD
Edy Marbyanto, Strategic Area Manager for Human Capacity Development, FORCLIME
Ananda Putri Permatasari, Junior Adviser for Low Carbon Development, LEOPALD

Created: 29 June 2020

The Tarakan forest management unit (KPH Tarakan) is preparing a community-based ecotourism programme in its protection forest which will apply the “payment for environmental services concept”. The proposed ecotourism site is a reservoir, Embung Binalatung, which supplies clean water for the city of Tarakan in North Kalimantan. For the purpose of ecotourism development, the KPH Tarakan, supported by FORCLIME, conducted a study on detail engineering design (DED). The results of this study were presented by the consultant on 29 May 2020 using the MS Teams application. 15 participants joined the virtual meeting representing the Province Forestry Service, KPH Tarakan and FORCLIME.

The DED provides cost estimation with the specification of the designed items, as well as the estimation work schedule. Based on the study, KPH Tarakan will prepare a proposal for the provincial government and relevant parties to develop a payment for environmental services programme, called: “Green Slipi Ecotourism Embung Binalatung".

Following up from the meeting, the consultant will finalize the DED study report based on inputs collected during the event. Afterwards, the KPH Tarakan will arrange a meeting with relevant parties to develop a public-private partnership on ecotourism business development.

For more information, please contact:
Mohammad Sidiq, Coordinator North Kalimantan Province
Novita Andes Nurdiana, Coordinator Malinau district and Technical Adviser for Social Forestry

Created: 09 June 2020

A good Forest management plan is essential for a forest management unit (KPH) to successfully manage its forest operations. Therefore, it needs to be well prepared. With the purpose of preparing for the long-term forest management plan (RPHJP) of the KPH Malinau, the North Kalimantan Province Forestry Service and the technical unit of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (BPKH IV Samarinda), supported by FORCLIME, conducted a coaching session for the KPH Malinau on 29 May 2020 using the MS Teams application. “Despite the coronovirus pandemic , we hope that the RPHJP of KPH Malinau can be completed this year”, said Syafarudin, the Head of KPH Malinau.

During the coaching sesion, discussions were held on the socio-economic and biogeophysics data collected during two surveys in 2019. This data will be further analyzed to obtain KPH Malinau’s forest resource potential, which will be presented by KPH Malinau in its draft RPHJP. However, to finalize the document plan, the stakeholders need to physicaly meet at the BPKH IV office in Samarinda, East Kalimantan.

For further information, please contact:
Novita Andes Nurdiana, Coordinator Malinau district and Technical Adviser for Social Forestry
Mohammad Sidiq, Coordinator North Kalimantan Province

Created: 09 June 2020