Indonesia

Asia

February 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018

Rakata Alam Terbuka Organization (RAKATA)

$65,004

This SRM-funded project took advantage of a small and critical window of opportunity to champion rights based approaches, and built on one of the major outcomes of the RRI supported October 2017 Tenure Conference held in Jakarta.

In 2017, RAKATA sought to develop and pilot a viable collaborative framework in four national parks pilot sites. These pilot sites would become the model for upscaling in the 74 national parks and protected areas in Indonesia. There are 33.6 million hectares of protected areas in Indonesia, with almost 5,000 villages located inside or close to them that lack legally recognized rights over their customary lands or forests. RAKATA seeks to work with Parks Authorities, CSOs, Indigenous Peoples and local communities inside parks and protected areas, and local entrepreneurs to create co-management systems through Integrated Site Planning Agreements (IPSAs).

The objectives were achieved by supporting the Ministry of Forestry Conservation Unit Directorate (KSDAE) establish model partnerships, co-management systems, and collaborative and collective management procedures; conducting an assessment of existing co-management systems in four priority sites and designing viable and up-scalable models for Integrated Site Planning Agreements (ISPA); conducting trainings, workshops, and e-commerce trainings collaboratively with KSDAE Units, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, local governments, and other groups signing up for Integrated Site Planning Agreements (ISPA); and strengthening/establishing active “Learning Centres” and “Knowledge Management of Culture, Forestry Conservation and Tourism Education Centres” for customary forests and village forests.