An Overview Of Our Solution
Link-AR Borneo is a non-governmental organization established on April 2nd 2009. The process of establishment LINK - AR Borneo started since 2007, the results of the interaction of the student activists, trade unionists and other social movement activists who are members of the Union of People of West Kalimantan (PRKB ) to respond to the issue of land seizures (land grabbing), criminalization, environmental and eviction. To strengthen and systematize the advocacywas agreed to establish a an agency called the Circle of Advocacy and Research (Link-AR) Borneo, which is then commonly called Linkar Borneo.
Who is this solution impacting?
Community Type
Rural
Additional Information
- Population Impacted:
- Continent: Asia
General Information
Organization type
Sin fines de lucro/No Gubernamental
Ecosystem (select all that apply)
Forests
Population impacted
500
Challenge
Size of agricultural area
1Ha/Members of Farmers Union
Production quantity
50Kg Paddy/Members of Farmers Union, 10Kg Rubber/Farmers Union
People employed
100
Solution
Describe your solution
Strengthening and education to the public directly and participatory activities as capacity building efforts of the citizens, because they are closest and first among the outdoors and forest. Some forms of success made by Link-Ar Borneo is the formation of peasant unions in the 5 target villages and 2 villages outside the target. Name peasant unions have been formed are: 1) Kek Bosi peasant union in Kualan Upper Village at 70 community 2) Dori 'Merawa peasant union in Merawa village of 25 communities 3) Butoh Swinging peasant union in Paoh Concong village of 70 community 4) Toras Betuah Power Stone peasant union in the village of 35 communities 5) peasant union officials Betino Gerai Village of 500 communities. people enthusiastic to learn and adjust to various communities demanded to continue the discussion and training at the community level. This raises the idea to form public schools (folk studies center), at the office of Link-Ar Borneo. Until this point, Link-Ar Borneo in the manufacturing phase of learning modules for elementary school and also improve and expand office Link-Ar Borneo in Ketapang. In addition to maps, signs and training of agricultural produce agro-forestry products, the resulting shaped biodiversity photo albums and dictionaries in the language of the local community of Batu Daya also videos ( visit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCWOIF5BDu0 ).
Implementation
Describe your implementation
Specific activities
1 Series of FGD (carried out to increase the knowledge of community and encouraging them to protect the forest area and community land use area from deforestation through village revitalization concept ).
2 Identification of community land and forest area (This activity carried out to collect, to identify, and to document the biodiversity in the forest area as well as in the community land use area).
3 Participatory mapping of community land and forest area (This activity carried out to produce spatial map of village and protected forest (customary forest) that will be proposed as community conservation area. In this activity, maps that produced will be include with forest cover and community land use area).
4 Training on non-timber forest product utilization (handicrafts) Forming handicraft groups.
5 Assisting the forming of village-based regulation to protect their motherland.
6 Establishment of the Farmers’ organisation and Agricultural Training
7 Map Launching of indigenous territories and the protection of the rights of indigenous peoples of simpang Hulu sub-districts and simpang Dua Sub District ketapang.
How you ensured your solution was adopted: Honest; Well Plan based; Make A contact ; Follow their activities and live with them; Held Educations ( Agriculture, Laws, etc ); Set them to think and realize that they were the great indigenous people not poor people; Build Organizations; FGD/Discussions; Door to door invitations; Scheduling their Activities and teach how to make a progress report
Enabling Conditions : Tell the truth about their conditions also their relationships/connections with the natural destructions (impact on them) and the sustainable natural (how they keep the natural since their ancestors), Who they are, what they can do and can’t, when they can and can’t, where they can and can’t, why they can and can’t, how they can and can’t
Key Success Factor : Investigations, Educations & Strengthening, Organizations
External connections
Stake holders : communities, head of the village, head of customs, religious leaders, the village officials, government ( local,districts,regency,province ). Explaining to each stakeholder about the importance of protecting the environment and nature. Finding problems or advantages of the region through the investigation, offered a solution, opening opportunities in other fields (use of nature is still maintained both water and forests) and encourage the importance of a specific regulation that protects regulate basic rights of indigenous peoples using traditional law, a religious point , state law, policies villages and even encouragement to the policy at the provincial scale. Provide organization, finance and administration (both families and organizations) trainning.
Results
What is the environmental or ecological challenge you are targeting with your solution?
The first challenge is facing the Large Scale Expansion Oil Company, HTI, Tambang.dan second challenge is to change the mindset of society, traditional measures undertaken by the community to manage their land is often seen as part of the destruction, despite the fact that communities has managed to maintain and implement a management system long before now.
Describe the context in which you are operating
Link-AR Borneo encourage education and Strengthening shown to 'people in 5 villages (Kualan Hulu, Merawa, Pauh Concong, Power Stone, and Gema) revitalization to preserve the public lands and forests in Ketapang, West Kalimantan. revitalization of the village is an improvement of village authorities, traditional leaders and local residents to manage and utilize their own natural resources through a range of activities to improve the livelihoods and welfare without ignoring the natural sustained. Link-AR Borneo also create some impetus to the public to conduct participatory mapping associated forest areas and customs that are still owned by the community for the purpose of the establishment of protected forest land or of the remaining land can then be utilized by applying local wisdom of community land management, as well as evidence that the indigenous peoples is not a destroyer of forests / forest killer / destroyer of nature but indigenous people are people - people who maintain and exploit its natural wisely. (Pic from left to right: People during the Educations, man with a rare Jangkang Fruit, Orang Utan, Bloody Starfruit / local "Belimbing Blood", Natural farm products; forest cucumber).
How did you impact natural resource use and greenhouse gas emissions?
Inviting and provide awareness and strengthening the civil society to continue to maintain the forest and implement agricultural practices / utilization of the natural which is responsible
Language(s)
Indonesian (official), Malay (Pontianak Malay, Sambas Malay), Dayak (Iban, Kendayan, Jangkang, Bukar Sadong etc.), Chinese (Hakka, Teochew)
Water
Clean Water the communities protect their own lands and waters
Food Security/Nutrition
Sustainable Paddy/Rice Farming
Economic/Sustainable Development
Natural Resources results (fruits,handycrafts,traditional medicines,rare iron trees/“Belian”trees)
Climate
Customary laws on protecting the custom lands/area so the better chance of nature to break down pollution, which impacts both the local climate
Sustainability
Revenue-Based Market
Return on investment
About 20,000 EUR and the results the result would very likely be achieved either the same scale as above, or even more than the above, depending on funding.
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Replication and Scale
How could we successfully replicate this solution elsewhere?
It is possible to do the same in other areas. Such things have been done in several other areas in West Kalimantan and one of them also is Kapuas Hulu, for training and other materials tailored to regions and local communities, funding or assistance in the range of 20,000 EUR, from FPP.