14 November 2023 Indonesia
In Kenanga Village, Simpang Hulu Sub-District, Ketapang District, West Kalimantan, almost 13,000 ha of the village area is under the status of cultivation rights (HGU). The village people actually have no ownership over its forest, land, and residential areas. Whereas in fact, they have lived and settled in this area since their ancestors’ era, managing tembawang and guarding forest using local wisdom, and closely maintaining inherited traditional customs that have been passed down from generation to generation. Almost the entire Kenanga community, including women, still rely on forest and tembawang as sources of livelihoods and take daily necessities such as medicine, woods (bajaka, pasak bumi, sarang semut, etc.), jengkol, fruits, including materials for ritual tradition.
30 October 2023 Indonesia
What is to choose between rubber and oil palm seeds? Or between fruit and palm oil? Then if husband and wife have different choices, whose choice will be taken? These were among a number of questions asked by Elok Ponco Mulyoutami, gender specialist at Tropenbos Indonesia (TI) who conducted a study related to gender inclusivity towards climate-smart practices implemented in TI’s landscape from 18-26 August 2023. This study involved around 80 respondents from a number of villages in Pawan Pesaguan sub-landscape and Simpang Dua sub-landscape, Ketapang, West Kalimantan.
20 October 2023 Indonesia
The 2023 Nusantara Harvest Festival (Parara) is part of the activities of the Green Livelihoods Alliance (GLA) Partners which was held again on 11-15 October 2023 at the Fashion Atrium, Ground Flour Kota Kasablanka, South Jakarta. This activity is a biennial activity that has entered its fifth implementation. This year the Parara Festival has the theme "Young, Sovereign and Empowered" by carrying the concept of "Rumah Parara/House of Parara" which is closer to the daily lives of Jakarta's urbanites. This activity was carried out to introduce local products assisted by 32 Parara consortium institutions, one of which is Tropenbos Indonesia (TI).
18 October 2023 Indonesia
Ketapang District Government and the Joint Secretariat for Sustainable Natural Resources Management (Sekber PSDA) continue to strengthen collaborative actions to prevent fires and improve peat-landscape governance in Ketapang District, West Kalimantan, especially in the Pawan-Kepulu Peat Hydrological Unit (KHG) and Kepulu-Pesaguan KHG.
09 September 2023 Indonesia
Ketapang District Government held a dissemination of Ketapang Regent Regulation (Perbup) No. 48/2023 on the prevention of forest and land fires in the two Peatland Hydrological Units (PHUs, locally called KHG), i.e. KHG Pawan-Kepulu and KHG Kepulu-Pesaguan, Ketapang, West Kalimantan. The event was held on 23 August 2023 and was also scheduled as a Plenary Meeting for the preparation of District Action Plans (RAD) in implementing strategies for preventing and suppressing forest and land fires (karhutla) in Ketapang District for the next five years. In his written key opening speech, the Regent of Ketapang, Martinus Rantan, expressed that this activity was in line with the vision and mission of Ketapang District as stated in the Medium-term Development Plan (RPJM) to improve the quality of life and welfare of the community, especially through preventing fires that could harm the community.
07 September 2023 Indonesia
UPPB Juring Raya and Tropenbos Indonesia (TI) attended the "2023 Meeting on Increasing International Market Access and Business Matching for Plantation Business Actors" organized by the West Kalimantan Province Livestock and Plantation Agency in Pontianak, 26-28 July 2023. The activity involves almost all parties related to the rubber commodity supply chains starting from farmer groups, UPPB (Bokar (Crumb Rubber) Processing and Marketing Unit), crumb rubber processing companies, rubber farmer associations, rubber entrepreneur associations (industry), agricultural extension workers, district and provincial Plantation Agencies, district and provincial Industry Services, Regional Office of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise in West Kalimantan, Directorate of Processing and Marketing of Plantation Products, Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate of Export of Agricultural and Forestry Products, Ministry of Trade, as well as NGOs and work projects development team that has attention and work focus on rubber commodity in West Kalimantan Province.