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CONSERVATION IS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

2020-08-08T10:52:00.000+07:00

This is responding to Jean-Michel Severino and Peter Seligmann’s opinion “Conservation with a Human Face” (Jakarta Post, August 8, 2008). In it the authors argue that conservation-based development projects, in this case the 9 million hectares of new protected areas created with the help of the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), prove that economic growth and environmental protection are not incompatible.
Several issues regarding the notion of compatibility between the economy and environmental protection or conservation need to be highlighted. What’s wrong with the economy that it usually is not compatible with conservation agenda? And what’s wrong with environmental protection or conservation that so often it hinders economic growth?

The ultimate argument is that the drastic decline of the world’s natural capital, the unprecedented pace of species extinction, the destruction of forest and coral reef, and eventually climate change are the direct result of the wrong economy. To put it bluntly, as a plesetan (wordplay) of a phrase in American politics widely used during Bill Clinton's successful 1992 presidential campaign against George H.W. Bush, “It’s the wrong economy, stupid!”.

Fossil fuel economy is the wrong economy. For a century now the growth of the world’s economy is fuelled by fossil fuel, literally taking out into the air billions of tons of carbon deposited through million years of biological and geological processes. Growth-oriented economy is the wrong economy. It’s behind previously developed and currently developing countries’ rush to development by capitalizing on natural resources. Even these sources of life, forest-ocean-water-mineral, is now called “natural capital”. Market and capital-accumulation economy is the wrong economy. It pushes aside social and environmental concerns. On this the almost biblical Stern Review (2007) even concluded that “climate change is the greatest market failure the world has ever seen”. Yes indeed, these wrong economies are incompatible with environmental protection.

What is the right economy then?

The right economy is the one that also means conservation. The definition of conservation is the protection, improvement and wise use of natural resources to provide the greatest social and economic value for the present and future. Furthermore, conservation implies active management of human-nature interactions, as compared to “preservation,” which usually involves setting aside scenic or fragile areas to minimize human impact or for amenity or existence values (Carol D. Saunders in Human Ecology Review, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2003). It happens too often: conservation turns into wrong conservation, when environmental groups or government agencies narrow it down into just protection and preservation of certain species or ecosystem. That’s when conservation collides with economic development. In the case of Indonesia, the national parks system, marine protected areas, and protected forests are examples of wrong conservation. Protected areas are almost always the least economically developed area. Managing a conservation area almost always involves marginalizing local indigenous people, evicting them from their ancestral lands, and denying people’s access to their forests or seas.

Therefore, there is no need to converge economic development and conservation priorities as advocated by Messrs. Severino and Seligmann in their article. The right economic development and the right conservation are one and the same thing. The right economic development is actually conservation, and conservation means economic development.

At a micro level Indonesia has actually many models of this “right economy/conservation”. Take the case of South Konaweha in Southeast Sulawesi where thousands of illegal loggers have transformed themselves and operate a successful FSC certified community logging. Here, community logging is defined as community-based and sustainable timber, non-timber, and ecological services forestry. They are now enjoying prosperity and healthy forest. Another example is in Bali where hundreds of fishers from several villages have stop destructive fishing and coral mining, and joined arms to become currently the first and only exclusively non-cyanide ornamental fish and cultured corals exporters in Indonesia. They are now enjoying better income and healthier coastal ecosystem. All these economic development/conservation requires that forests and seas be protected, the integrity of natural resources and ecosystems be improved, and local community and indigenous people use the natural resources wisely, producing greatest social and economic return for the community and for their future generation.
These are indeed examples of “economy/conservation” the world needs to address poverty and environmental destruction.

Les and Serangan Beyond Adaptation to Climate Change

2011-08-08T11:26:00.000+07:00

For coastal and fishing communities in Indonesia the real and present danger is not future climate change induced impacts, but the current direct anthropogenic-induced destruction of the ecosystem. Addressing the latter, Les and Serangan Villages in Bali have actually offered a solution for and beyond what the global talks have identified as the adaptation to climate change, and the reasoning of the Coral Triangle Initiative.
The United Nation Convention on Climate Change Bali conference has ended. Along with it, the media hyper coverage of climate change has also ended. The Bali UNFCCC made a decision called the “Bali Action Plan”. It made Adaptation to climate change one of its top priorities. The Bali Action Plan calls for “enhanced action on adaptation” that would consider international cooperation to support urgent implementation of actions of adaptations, risk management and risk reduction strategies. Part of the strategy would include risk sharing, disaster reduction strategies and means to address loss and damage associated with impacts of climate change. It would seek methods to strengthen the catalytic role of the UN Convention in supporting economic diversification to build resilience and in encouraging multilateral bodies, civil society, the public and private sectors. It would rely on the synergies among activities and processes in a coherent and integrated manner.

Another piece of activities that caught media attention was the launching of the Coral Triangle Initiative, covering vast exclusive economic zones of Indonesia (Central and Eastern), Timor Leste, the Philippines, Malaysia (part of Borneo), Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The existing threat in the marine sector to marine life and its habitats that needs urgent attention and mitigation is one of the main agenda of this initiative. The Jakarta Post recently published an Op Ed by Prof. Syamsul Maarif and Dr. Indroyono Soesilo “Safeguarding Rich Marine Resources” (The Jakarta Post, 7 January 2008). In it, the writers explained that a set of five broad goals were agreed for the Coral Triangle Initiative, including application of an "ecosystem approach" to managing fisheries (e.g. tuna, reef fish) and implementation of strategies that allow marine resources to adapt to climate change.

The question is; are we coping and going beyond what is being called for? Are we showing the world an example?

In a micro perspective there are two villages in Bali that can be cited as an example that are unknowingly contributing to the efforts and goals of both the UNFCCC’s Bali Action Plan and the Coral Triangle Initiative. These villages are addressing this in their own way. They not only cope and adapt but went beyond adaptation with what they have been doing.

Les, a coastal village in Buleleng Regency in the northern island of Bali, and the island Village of Serangan in Denpasar, Bali have gone into something bold and pioneering. It can be a model for some other island and coastal villages to emulate. It deals with human needs and at the same time removes the threats to the marine habitat where they derive their livelihood. It addresses problems of human destruction of environments due to dire economic needs in a direct manner.

The Village of Les has high concentrations of fisherfolks. The main livelihood of 120 fishermen in this village is collecting marine ornamental fish. The problem is that to collect these exotic species they used cyanide, a deadly poison that even in small quantity kills coral reefs, larvae and other fishes that resides in these reefs. Not only that. It also eventually kills the targeted fish that are stunned by this poison. The length of time it takes for these targeted species to die depends on how much poison they use. Cyanide is a silent deadly killer. By using cyanide they cut off the food chain affecting other fishermen in their own and nearby villages that relies on these habitats for other means of marine livelihood. The coral reef dies and crumbles, removing natural barriers that prevent disaster and erosion.

In the year 2003, after several years of working together with NGOs, these fishermen stopped using cyanide and converted to environmentally friendly nets. They formed a local fishermen association, Mina Bhakti Soansari. This association is instrumental in preventing any backslide to destructive fishing and extraction. The Mina Bhakti Soansari together with the aid of the “Desa Adat” (Head of the Indigenous Village Institution) established a village-level community-based coastal resource management and protected zone and a total ban on cyanide fishing; all of which has been decreed under the local customary-indigenous law. Local indigenous laws are highly observed, respected and followed by the villagers. To keep ahead in safeguarding their source of revenue and be well informed, they learned how to do participatory resource assessments. This lets them know how effective their coral rehabilitation are and the state and health of their marine resources. Responsible actions that allow specific reef areas a respite from fishing activities that minimizes stress so more fish and corals can aggregate and recruit. And they did not stop there. In a very bold move they established a community-owned ornamental fish export company to take advantage of a big growing market in the developed countries. The export company, PT Bahtera LEStari, has since then been shipping out best quality marine ornamental fish from Indonesia. Exporting needs some science application that has to be understood to keep the fish alive and healthy, including the mechanics of water quality and stress related triggers that weaken live tropical fishes and invertebrates. The villagers cope and learn how to substitute and use local materials instead of complicated expensive high tech equipments that needs to be imported. Science converted into uncomplicated terms that ordinary laymen can understand is one of their strength to implement their activities effectively. Not rocket science but it is still something that needs to be understood for them to be able to work and get to their goals the right way. The village also undertakes a small eco-tourism project, “Adopt the Coral”. That is the village of Les.

Serangan village is an island near the world famous Kuta of Denpasar, Bali. Just 10 minutes away and connected by a bridge so one can conveniently drive over. Problems abound brought on by land reclamation, coral mining and cyanide fishing. The reclamation in Serangan was not done properly and without taking time to do studies on its effects to the ecosystem. It is a disaster in the making. It endangers the survival of coastal dwellers where this is being done since these dwellers depend for their subsistence the use of these marine resources that are being destroyed. Add to that coral mining that is being use as construction materials and the ornamental trade. Then there was also cyanide fishing. All these together formed a cocktail recipe that is very volatile and destructive. There are no words that can describe what those centuries old coral reefs look like at present in Serangan Island because of these problems.

In Serangan village there is a group of local fisherfolks that are coping with the situation and making a dent in addressing the environmental problems while dealing with their economic situation at the same time. They formed their own group called Kelompok Nelayan Pesisir Karya Segara. From the year 2000 up to date this group has come a long way. They have become the catalyst to reforms in their village. Coral mining has ceased. Cyanide fishing has stopped and fishermen have been converted to the use of nets. What is commendable is they are addressing both the anthropogenic destruction and their economic condition at the same time. The group established a community-owned coral farm for rehabilitation and for coral export. What is different here is that they fragment corals and make them into their needed brood stock so they do not have to fragment from the wild. Fragments from their brood stock multiply their supply of corals in the farm. By their own initiatives they set aside 40% of this to rehabilitate several hundreds square meters of destroyed reef area as their rehabilitation zone. For them this is just a beginning. They then established a cultured coral and base rock export company PT Poros Nusantara Utama. What it has achieved so far is addressing the market needs and demand for ornamental base rocks by creating their own base rock out of cement. Again, a bold pioneering and novel approach to help in marine conservation and local economic empowerment.

These two villages have a bigger vision and a more far reaching goal than just focusing in their villages. That is destructive fishing reform. These fisherfolks understands that anthropogenic problems are faster in destruction than climate change and if it continues the effects of global warming will be more rapid and devastating. They realize the danger of not being able to cope and adapt when the impact is more severe. They fear their next generation will be at a loss and helpless to the effects of climate change if they do not act now and help out. Both villages also want to influence others in different islands of Indonesia to do what they are doing, and therefore help preserve the 600 coral species, 3,000 fish species, and the world greatest extent of mangrove forests of any region found in the Coral Triangle. Many villages are now following the example of Les and Serangan, often on their own initiative and resources.

Non-governmental organizations, namely Telapak, which has its main secretariat in Bogor, in partnership with other local NGOs and a Philippine-based East Asia Seas and Terrestrial Initiatives (EASTI), have key roles in bringing about the changes in Les and Serangan. They have been developing the methods, manuals, and approaches basing everything from long field experiences and valuable lessons that are continuously being learned. With advices on science from resource group of scientists in the developed countries they helped implement hands-on “reef to market pilots”, seeing to it that the quality of product and conservation is given top priority by the stakeholders. The unique thing is that all of these activities were done and achieved together with the villagers as highly active partners. In return the stakeholders are benefitting from access to market, technology, information and expertise. These two villages in Bali have also been successful in attracting support from various donors, including most notably the Small Grants Programme of the Global Environment Facility (the same Global Environment Facility which has been invited by the UN climate change conference to provide secretariat services to the Adaptation Fund Board).

What the people of Les and Serangan have shown is a pioneering approach to address some of the challenges which will be posed by climate change: ecosystem degradation and the chain of negative effect of poverty, ignorance and lack of education within the society. This is pioneering because while some components of the approach have always been favorite topics in international talks, they are not yet common locally done and acted on and resulting in positive impacts.

The communities of Serangan and Les have finally benefitted from access to technology, information, and expertise needed to synchronize collection and harvest techniques while dealing with their fragile marine environment. The community has experienced micro-economic development through their community-based enterprises in which reef fishes from a guaranteed cyanide-free environment, and cultured corals and base rocks are directly exported to aquarium trade buyers. The community benefits from the direct business management of its natural resources, and realizes a comparatively larger profit than before. This is probably as close as one can get to answer the “Bali Action Plan” on adaptation, especially those on risk sharing, technology transfer, and preparing to address loss and damage associated with impacts of climate change and building resilience through economic diversification. It directly addresses problems of human destruction of environments due to dire economic needs.

As you look at what these two villages have done; the bold move to go for export and deal with the intricacies of international trade is unthought-of of since that is the role of the “Establishment” in this trade. Only well finance educated businessmen are supposed to do exports. Middlemen are well established in this kind of lucrative trade. Even in the West there is an unspoken set arrangement that buyers do not cross. There are negative ripples in the pond that can be felt but the positive ripples will come in waves if replication can be achieved. This method has never been done before and no one expected it to succeed and last, but it is succeeding and it is expanding. The road is not smooth but these fisherfolks are getting to where they want to go. These villages have prepared their people for coping with climatic changes that have brought in environmental and natural destruction and threats to livelihoods of their own coastal communities.

Being Balinese, apart from their wish for their children to go to school and enjoy continued education, to never have to worry about what to eat and what to wear, and to have a decent place to shelter their family, their aspiration is having enough to offer to their faith and the need to practice the Tri Hita Karana: harmonious and balance living in the relationships between human and the Gods, the nature, and fellow human beings. Being Balinese enables them to address mitigating and adaptation challenges that are being brought out now by climate change euphoria. Their ability to cope and adapt to the real and present danger of anthropogenic-induced destruction will also serves as their social and knowledge capital in dealing with much latter climate change-induced destruction. This, I believe, is just what the world needs in regards to adaptation to climate change and meeting the goals of the so called “Coral Triangle Initiative”.

(The writers are President and Member of Telapak, respectively. Based in Bogor, Telapak (www.telapak.org) works with indigenous people, farmers and fishers towards ecological justice, economic empowerment, and cultural integrity).

INDONESIA vs. GUATEMALA?

2010-08-08T15:50:00.000+07:00

Indonesia mesti kagum dengan keberhasilan Guatemala mengelola hutan secara lestari dan berbasis masyarakat. Di wilayah Peten, utara Guatemala, antara tahun 1960 sampai 1980 hutan-hutan di sana terancam oleh eksploitasi mahoni besar-besaran oleh 13 HPH dan para illegal logger. Kini hutan-hutan ini menjadi contoh terbaik pengelolaan hutan lestari, bahkan per tahun 2004, 14 unit community logging atau konsesi masyarakat dan dua perusahaan industri kehutanan dengan luas total 511.611 hektar sudah memperoleh sertifikat internasional dari FSC (Forest Stewardship Council). Ini bukan saja mengindikasikan pengelolaan hutan yang baik secara ekologis, namun juga menunjukkan betapa hak-hak masyarakat lokal dan masyarakat adat dipenuhi dengan selayaknya. Total luasan hutan Guatemala hanya 3,9 juta hektar. Ini berarti lebih dari sepersepuluh luas wilayah hutan di negara ini telah tersertifikasi.
Guatemala telah mencapai skor yang sangat baik dalam perlombaan menuju pengelolaan hutan yang adil dan lestari. Dari seluruh luasan kawasan hutan yang telah disertifikasi tersebut, 380.334 hektar di antaranya adalah kawasan community logging dengan luas wilayah kelola yang bervariasi dari 4 ribu hektar hingga lebih dari 83 ribu hektar. Kelompok-kelompok masyarakat pengelola hutan tersebut juga mendirikan perusahaan-perusahaan milik bersama untuk menangani perdagangan dan jasa-jasa teknis, seperti 8 usaha penggergajian. Mereka menikmati pendapatan tahunan sekitar 1 juta dolar, dan pendapatan harian setiap anggota koperasi pengelola hutan adalah antara 4 dolar sampai 7 dolar. Walau siklus pemanenan kayu adalah 25-40 tahun, namun masyarakat lokal juga mendapatkan penghasilan lain dari pengusahaan berbagai hasil hutan non-kayu. Sebagian dari keuntungan koperasi-koperasi pengelola hutan tersebut telah diinvestasikan dalam bentuk pendirian sekolah-sekolah, fasilitas-fasilitas pengolah air minum, dan pengembangan industri perkayuan untuk meningkatkan nilai tambah.
Berbagai laporan menyatakan bahwa kawasan-kawasan community logging tersebut jauh lebih lestari dan aman dibandingkan bahkan kawasan konservasi taman nasional, di Guatemala. Citra satelit terakhir menunjukkan bahwa hanya 3% dari kawasan konsesi hutan masyarakat yang mengalami kebakaran hutan, jauh lebih rendah dibandingkan 22% di kawasan konservasi dan taman nasional.
Indonesia Kalah Jauh.
Indonesia dikarunia hutan yang jauh lebih luas dibandingkan Guatemala. Tak ada data konsisten tentang luas hutan ini. Namun Forest Watch Indonesia menyatakan bahwa pada tahun 2002 kita memiliki kawasan yang tertutup hutan seluas 105 juta hektar, Namun di hutan ini illegal logging merajalela. Data Telapak dan EIA (dua lembaga pemantau illegal logging) pada tahun 2006, illegal logging di Indonesia telah merugikan negara sebesar paling sedikit 40 trilyun tiap tahun hanya dari hilangnya pajak saja! Dan hutan yang musnah mencapai 2,8 juta hektar tiap tahun. Sejauh ini baru ada dua community logging yang telah memperoleh sertifikasi ekolabel. Koperasi Hutan Jaya Lestari di Sulawesi Tenggara memperoleh sertifikat FSC, dan masyarakat Desa Selopuro dan Desa Sumber Rejo di Wonogiri memperoleh sertifikat dari Lembaga Ekolabel Indonesia. Total luas hutan dari keduanya adalah sekitar 1.200 hektar.

Di Konawe Selatan, Sulawesi Tenggara, Koperasi Hutan Jaya Lestari memiliki anggota lebih dari 8.300 kepala keluarga Koperasi ini mengelola seluruh rangkaian pengelolaan hutan yang meliputi survei potensi, menentukan jatah tebangan, mengatur pemanenan dan penanaman kembali, memastikan lacak balak, menyiapkan perijinan dan pembayaran pajak kepada pemerintah dan desa, memfasilitasi mekanisme penyelesaian konflik, dan melakukan perdagangan kayu. Sertifikat dari FSC diperoleh di awal tahun 2005. Berkat community logging yang lestari ini, harga kayu di tingkat masyarakat meningkat dari sekitar Rp 400.000/meter kubik menjadi sekitar Rp 5.000.000/meter kubik. Pemerintah Daerah Kabupaten Konawe Selatan memperoleh pendapatan asli daerah baru dari usaha ini sekitar Rp 62.000.000 per tiga bulan. Produksi kayu jati dari koperasi ini saat ini adalah sekitar 36 meter kubik per bulan.

Indonesia yang memiliki hutan dan penduduk berpuluh kali lipat lebih luas dari Guatemala , dan dukungan dana dari lembaga donor berpuluh kali lipat, sudah selayaknya mencapai prestasi yang berpuluh kali lipat pula dalam upaya membangun pengelolaan hutan yang lestari dan berkeadilan sosial.

Agar Indonesia mampu mengejar ketinggalan dari Guatemala, ada tiga keutamaan yang harus dimiliki, yaitu

(1) syarat utama: kepastian hak kepemilikan dan pengelolaan oleh masyarakat. Pengelolaan hutan yang lestari berbasiskan masyarakat, dimana pemerintah memberikan pengakuan dan hak-hak pengelolaan atau hak kepemilikan kawasan hutan kepada masyarakat setempat, baik secara kolektif maupun perorangan adalah jalan ampuh untuk mengurangi kemiskinan. Dalam hal ini hutan betul-betul menjadi aset milik masyarakat. Bayangkan bahwa apabila ada kepastian kepemilikan aset ini, maka aset tersebut tentu akan langsung menyumbang kepada kesejahteraan masyarakat sekitar hutan dan memberi mereka peluang untuk keluar dari kemiskinan (sebagaimana dikatakan bahkan juga oleh Bank Dunia di tahun 2000). Lebih jauh lagi, ternyata pengakuan hak kepemilikan dan pengelolaan hutan oleh masyarakat adalah sudah seharusnya dan sewajarnya. Pemerintah Republik Indonesia dalam hal ini Departemen Kehutanan sebetulnya tidak memiliki landasan hukum atau sejarah untuk menguasai sekitar 120 juta hektar kawasan hutan atau 62% dari seluruh luas daratan Negara Kesatuan Republik Indonesia (data Departemen Kehutanan di tahun 2002). Idealnya mungkin hanya 33 juta hektar saja yang perlu dikuasai oleh Departemen Kehutanan.

(2) infrastruktur utama: koperasi dan berbagai institusi adat sebagai infrastruktur sosial dan ekonomi untuk pengusahaan hutan yang lestari dan adil. Koperasi adalah sokoguru perekonomian Indonesia, demikian kesepakatan para pendiri bangsa ini. Koperasi adalah kumpulan manusia, bukan kumpulan modal. Program yang paling penting bagi koperasi adalah pendidikan anggota-anggotanya. Artinya jelas lah bahwa untuk mencapai cita-cita pengelolaan hutan yang lestari dan adil maka infrastruktur yang harus dibangun adalah koperasi. Trik ini sudah dipahami betul oleh Guatemala, juga oleh masyarakat di 46 desa di Konawe Selatan yang berhasil memperoleh sertifikat FSC.

(3) rejim utama: community logging sebagai rejim mainstream pengusahaan hutan, alih-alih yang selama ini dikenal yaitu HPH dan HTI. Hak Pengusahaan Hutan (HPH) sebagai sebuah sistem pengusahaan hutan berskala besar mulai beroperasi di Indonesia pada awal tahun 1970an. Sejak saat itu pula dimulailah periode perusakan besar-besaran atas hutan Indonesia. Pemerintah saat itu membagi-bagikan konsesi hutan kepada segelintir pengusaha yang dekat dengan penguasa dan militer. Jelaslah bahwa kebijakan pembangunan kehutanan dikontrol oleh kepentingan-kepentingan balas jasa politik dan rente ekonomi, bukan berdasarkan pada suatu kepentingan strategis untuk mengembangkan industri kehutanan di Indonesia. Menjadikan community logging sebagai mainstream berarti bahwa kesejahteraan masyarakat lokal, pelestarian hutan, dan keberlanjutan industri kehutanan lah yang menjadi kepentingan utama kebijakan pembangunan kehutanan tersebut. HPH juga gagal karena konsesi HPH diberikan tanpa aturan pengelolaan hutan yang memadai, tanpa data yang akurat tentang kondisi ekologis maupun sosial budaya masyarakat yang tinggal di dalam dan sekitar hutan, dan karena Departemen Kehutanan sebagai departemen teknis yang mengurusi kehutanan tidak pernah memiliki kapasitas yang cukup untuk melakukan pengawasan dan pembinaan. Dengan community logging maka masyarakat setempat lah yang berkuasa atas pengusahaan hutan, berlandaskan pada basis pengetahuan, pengalaman, dan berbagai aturan lokal yang masih hidup di tengah-tengah masyarakat tersebut. Dalam skenario ini maka yang melakukan fungsi-fungsi pengawasan dan pembinaan adalah pemerintahan desa atau kabupaten, yang lebih dekat dan terlibat langsung dalam dinamika sehari-hari pengelolaan hutan di daerahnya.Meskipun skala keberhasilan yang ditunjukkan berbeda. Indonesia dan Guatemala sama-sama mampu membuktikan bahwa community logging yang lestari dan berbasis masyarakat adalah pilihan terbaik untuk mengelola dan memanfaatkan hutan demi sebesar-besarnya kemakmuran rakyat dan kelestarian alam. Skor Guatemala saat ini: 380.334 hektar , sedangkan Skor Indonesia hanya: 1.200 hektar. Mampukah Indonesia berlomba menebus ketertinggalan ini? Beranikan pemerintah mempercayai kemampuan masyarakatnya dan mengakui hak-hak mereka? KABINET INDONESIA BERSATU MARI KITA BERLOMBA DENGAN GUATEMALA!

Bukan Indonesia Incorporated!

2010-08-08T15:43:00.000+07:00

Tapi mestinya Indonesia in-cooperatives. Bukan Indonesia Inc. tetapi Indonesia In-coop. Indonesia yang berkoperasi, bukan Indonesia yang berlagak sebagai atau bahkan dikendalikan oleh korporasi! Setelah lama tak terdengar, rupanya ide Indonesia Inc. ini diangkat kembali oleh Presiden SBY dalam kaitannya dengan perjalanan ke Amerika Serikat akhir-akhir ini. Berita harian ini menyebutkan, “…Presiden mengharapkan perjalanannya dengan sejumlah delegasi, yang disebutnya sebagai Indonesia Incorporated itu, tidak sia-sia (Perubahan Iklim; Indonesia Harus Memiliki Posisi Tawar yang Lebih Baik dalam Harian Kompas, Selasa 25 September 2007). Apakah makna pernyataan Presiden RI itu? Apa pula pesan yang ingin disampaikan dalam berita Kompas itu? Apakah dimaksudkan bahwa agar memiliki posisi tawar yang lebih baik dalam percaturan global tentang perubahan iklim maka Indonesia harus bertindak sebagai sebuah korporasi besar, atau mengakomodasi dan menggantungkan diri kepada korporasi-korporasi besar?
Jangan-jangan yang dimaksudkan adalah seperti judul buku yang ditulis Tanri Abeng, MBA, mantan Menteri Negara BUMN, terbit tahun 2001: “Indonesia Inc: Privatising State Owned Enterprises”. Kalau itu yang dibayangkan, maka dengan demikian dimaksudkan bahwa Indonesia akan memiliki posisi tawar yang lebih baik apabila fungsi-fungsi pelayanan publik, kepentingan umum, dan kepentingan strategis negara dilakukan oleh perusahaan-perusahaan swasta – korporasi besar. Berarti pula bahwa bukan Negara Indonesia yang akan dan perlu memiliki posisi tawar yang kuat dalam percaturan global, tetapi korporasi-korporasi itu?

Korporasi, dari kata Bahasa Inggris Corporation, menurut Kamus Online Wikipedia, adalah bentuk yang paling umum untuk sebuah organisasi bisnis, dimana kepadanya negara memberikan status badan hukum dan berbagai hak legal sebagai sebuah entitas yang terpisah dari para pemiliknya. Tapi kita seyogyanya ingat kata-kata yang menohok dari Lord Thurlow (1731-1806) yang seringkali dikutip, termasuk dalam film ”The Corporations” (Joel Bakan, 2003), bahwa ”corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned; they therefore do as they like” (korporasi-korporasi tidak punya tubuh untuk dihukum, atau jiwa untuk dikutuk; mereka bertindak sekehendaknya). Kemudian Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913) dalam the Devil’s Dictionary mendefinisikan korporasi sebagai sebuah alat yang sangat cerdas dan orisinil untuk menggalang keuntungan individual tanpa harus bertanggung jawab secara individual.

Harapan penguatan posisi tawar Indonesia sebagaimana maksud Presiden Indonesia dan upaya mondial untuk penanganan perubahan iklim tentu saja tidak bisa digantungkan kepada korporasi-korporasi dengan kualitas-kualitas tersebut, yaitu yang (hampir) tidak bisa dihukum, tak bisa dikutuk, dan secara cerdas imun dari pertanggungjawaban tersebut. Justru korporasi dan kejahatan korporasi lah yang paling bertanggung jawab terhadap kerusakan lingkungan, kehancuran sumber daya alam, dan pemanasan global.

Penyebab utama pemanasan global adalah keseluruhan sistem perekonomian dunia yang berlandaskan pada bahan bakar fosil. Daftar Fortune Global 500 tahun 2007 menunjukkan bahwa enam dari sepuluh korporasi terbesar di dunia adalah perusahaan pertambangan dan perminyakan. Mereka adalah Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, dan Total. Tiga sisanya adalah General Motors, Toyota Motor, dan DaimlerChrysler. Tiga yang terakhir ini adalah pilar utama sektor transportasi di dunia, yang menyumbangkan 14% dari keseluruhan emisi gas rumah kaca secara global (Stern Review, 2007). Jelaslah bahwa kekuasaan korporasi dan kejahatan korporasi telah menjadikan bumi sebagai korban. Selanjutnya, masyarakat adat dan masyarakat lokal yang memiliki relasi paling dekat dengan bumi lah yang menjadi korban yang pertama dan terutama dari korporasi, baik sebagai kelompok yang paling rentan terhadap perubahan iklim, maupun secara langsung melalui hancurnya lingkungan dan sumber daya alam yang merupakan aset ekonomi dan sosial masyarakat adat/lokal tersebut.

Salah satu cara kerja korporasi adalah melalui tangan-tangan berbagai kebijakan pembangunan nasional dan global. Konsep pembangunan, sistem hukum, kebijakan, dan moda ekonomi yang diterapkan secara paksa, tanpa partisipasi aktif dan konsultasi dengan masyarakat adat/lokal sebagai pihak yang paling terkena dampak telah mendorong dan memfasilitasi penghancuran sumberdaya alam dan lingkungan di nusantara ini. Sekali lagi, laju deforestasi di Indonesia telah mencapai 1,8 juta hektar per tahun (Forest Watch Indonesia, 2007). Sementara illegal fishing dan destructive fishing menyebabkan kerusakan masif di ekosistem pesisir dan laut Indonesia. Sedihnya, laju kerusakan lingkungan dan sumber daya alam tersebut berbarengan dengan pemiskinan masyarakat yang hidup di dalam kekayaan alam, dan lebih luas lagi pemiskinan bangsa Indonesia. Situasi terkini sosial ekonomi masyarakat tempatan dicirikan oleh trauma masal dari berbagai penderitaan, tak mewujudnya pengakuan atas hak-hak dasar, dan tidak lagi berfungsinya berbagai institusi sosial di dalam masyarakat. Demikianlah cengkeraman korporasi dalam perekonomian Indonesia.
Padahal koperasi, bukan korporasi, seharusnya sebagai sendi perekonomian Indonesia sebagai amanat Kosntitusi. Pasal 33 UUD 45 menyatakan bahwa (1) Perekonomian disusun sebagai usaha bersama berdasar atas asas kekeluargaan, (2) Cabang-cabang produksi yang penting bagi negara dan yang menguasai hajat hidup orang banyak dikuasai oleh negara, (3) Bumi dan air dan kekayaan alam yang terkandung di dalamnya dikuasai oleh negara dan dipergunakan untuk sebesar-besar kemakmuran rakyat, dan (4) Perekonomian nasional diselenggarakan berdasar atas demokrasi ekonomi dengan prinsip kebersamaan, efisiensi berkeadilan, berkelanjutan, berwawasan lingkungan, kemandirian, serta dengan menjaga keseimbangan kemajuan dan kesatuan ekonomi nasional.

Masa depan kejayaan ekonomi Indonesia dan kesejahteraan masyarakat adat/lokal utamanya akan tergantung pada kekuatan unit sosial di tingkat yang paling dekat dengan sumber daya alam: kelompok masyarakat dan masyarakat adat, sebagai manajer (pengelola) sumber daya alam. Di sini lah letaknya koperasi sebagai tulang punggung pembangunan ekonomi. Meskipun koperasi telah mendapat stigma buruk berkat puluhan tahun proyek KUD (Koperasi Unit Desa yang kemudian menjadi Ketua Untung Duluan), belakangan di seluruh penjuru mulai muncul gebrakan-gebrakan baru dimana koperasi yang sesungguhnya, dalam arti yang sebenar-benarnya, ternyata bisa dibangun dan sukses. Salah satunya adalah berbagai Koperasi Kredit yang bergabung dalam Badan Kordinasi Koperasi Kredit (BK3D) Kalimantan. Hingga Maret 2007, jumlah anggota dari 48 Koperasi Kredit yang bergabung di BK3D telah mencapai 334.119 orang dengan total aset Rp 1.628.267.075.968 (Antara, 26 Juni 2007). Contoh lain adalah Koperasi Hutan Jaya Lestari (KHJL) di Konawe Selatan, Sulawesi Tenggara. KHJL yang saat ini beranggota sekitar 8,500 keluarga adalah yang pertama dan satu-satunya kelompok masyarakat di Asia Tenggara yang memperoleh pengakuan dan sertifikat internasional dari Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) untuk pengelolaan hutan yang lestari. Contoh yang lain lagi adalah Koperasi Sira Angen di Pulau Serangan, Denpasar, Bali yang telah bertahun-tahun melakukan pengelolaan kawasan pesisir, membudidayakan terumbu karang untuk pemulihan ekosistem maupun untuk perdagangan marine ornamental.

Koperasi-koperasi dan kelompok masyarakat tersebut, beserta berbagai contoh lain di seantero Indonesia, menunjukkan bahwa kawasan dan sumber daya alam mampu dikelola secara bermartabat oleh masyarakat setempat dengan mempertahankan fungsi ekologis dan sosialnya, dan terutama menjamin keamanan ekonomi masyarakat setempat tersebut. Meningkatkan posisi tawar Indonesia dalam perdebatan global tentang perubahan iklim mestinya dimulai dengan meningkatkan posisi tawar masyarakat adat dan masyarakat lokal sebagai pemilik-pengurus-pengawas hutan dan laut yang menjadi penyerap karbon maupun korban pemanasan global.

Koperasi adalah jawaban paling relevan untuk menjawab tantangan mitigasi perubahan iklim dan pemanasan global. Sebab nilai-nilai koperasi: swadaya, swa-tanggung jawab, demokrasi, kesetaraan, keadilan dan solidaritas, lah yang menjadi harapan dan prasyarat kita untuk sebuah gerakan global penduduk bumi ini menghadapi perubahan iklim.

Kembali ke berita yang sama di Harian Kompas, Presiden SBY menyatakan bahwa “negara ini akan mendapatkan keuntungan yang konkret dalam kerjasama global, misalnya dalam bentuk fund (dana) ataupun transfer teknologi untuk mengelola dampak perubahan iklim. Kemudian, Presiden menegaskan posisi Indonesia yang moderat dan tidak konfrontatif. Apabila ada polemik mengenai hal ini, lanjutnya, Indonesia akan berusaha membangun jembatan”. Penulis berandai-andai bahwa bukan pernyataan itu yang disampaikan oleh Presiden Indonesia, akan tetapi, misalnya, ”Indonesia akan menjadi pelopor dalam upaya bersama menghadapi perubahan iklim, yaitu dengan memastikan demokrasi, kesetaraan, keadilan dan solidaritas di seluruh muka bumi, dan pertanggungjawaban yang sesungguhnya dari setiap korporasi dan negara-negara penyumbang emisi terbesar”, dan bahwa tanggung jawab Indonesia adalah ”memastikan bahwa hutan, tanah dan air akan menjadi rahmat bagi iklim dunia dengan pengelolaan yang lestari, berkelanjutan, dan menyejahterakan bangsa”.

Jangan kaget, “Incorporated” ternyata juga judul sebuah album oleh band The Legion of the Doom yang dirilis di tahun 2006. Jangan kaget pula bahwa track listing dalam album ini termasuk: I Know What You Buried Last Summer, The Quiet Screaming, Dangerous Business Since 1979, Stupid Kill, The Shooting Star That Destroyed Us, At Your Funeral, dan Hands Down Gandhi.

Penulis:
Ambrosius Ruwindrijarto, Ketua Badan Pengurus Perkumpulan Telapak (www.telapak.org), berkantor di Bogor

Alamat: Jl. Pajajaran 54, Bogor 16143 Tel. 0251-393245, Fax. 0251-393246, email: mbajing@telapak.org

NORWEGIAN MONEY

2010-08-05T10:34:00.002+07:00

(thanks to Paul McCartney and John Lennon who wrote the original song, Norwegian Wood)

I once heard of an LoI *)
and I should say LoI not DIY **)
They said its the future of our forests
Isn't it good norwegian money

So the government asked me to hang in and let them
So I boozed around and I noticed they didn't bring theirs

They sat on my rug, bidding their time
Drinking my wine
They talked all night, and then they said:
“It's time for bed,”

They told me they have a lot of plans and started to laugh
I told them we've finished ours, and crawled off to sleep the dream

And when I awoke, I was alone
The bird has flown
So I lit a fire
Isn't it good Norwegian money?

Note:
*) Letter of Intent
**) Do It Yourself!

2009-01-23T10:10:00.001+07:00

Sajak tentang Sengon dan Kita

Cerita hari-hari ini

adalah tentang pesta Obama

krisis finansial global

peperangan di Jalur Gaza

pergolakan iklim dan cuaca

caleg capres

dan politik pemilihan umum

lelucon hukum

hak asasi manusia yang sedang dipentaskan dimana-mana.

Tapi hari ini kita bertemu di sini

Dan bicara tentang pohon-pohon sengon yang sederhana itu

Yang tidak pernah berpura-pura menjadi jati, mahoni, atau meranti.

Tentang sengon itu,

Kita bicara tentang menggelar terpal di bawah tegakannya

dan mengumpulkan biji-bijinya di bulan November

saat puncak musim buahnya

Kemudian kita menjemur biji-biji itu empat hari sampai terbuka polongnya, kering dan merekah

Kita akan memasukkannya ke dalam karung dan merontokkan benih-benih itu

Menurunkan kadar airnya sampai enam atau tujuh persen

Menyemaikannya di lapangan yang datar

Kita akan sediakan air untuknya sepanjang tahun

Kita akan siapkan tanah yang subur dan ringan, tidak liat, tidak berbatu berkerikil

Kita akan membuat bedengan, dan menanamnya di bulan Januari

dimana hujan akan menghidupi sengon-sengon itu.

Kita akan merawatnya

Kita akan mendangirnya

Kita akan memupuknya

Kita akan menjaganya dari ulat kumbang, lalat daun, jamur akar merah, dan lain-lain penyakitnya.

Dan kita akan selalu berharap dan percaya akan memanennya suatu saat nanti.

Sengon-sengon yang sederhana itu, bukan jati-mahoni-meranti.

(Pekandangan-Lampung, Januari 2009)

Beda dengan Selera Pasar 2

2008-11-04T09:21:00.002+07:00

Nah... kalau yang ini benar-benar berbeda dengan selera pasar, sekaligus barangkali berguna buat umat manusia dan bumi ini. Mungkin bagus kalau semangat ini memasyarakat... hanya saja... kalau mau memasyarakatkan sesuatu kan harus dimulai dari diri sendiri.... aku, terus terang, tentu saja, tidak berani.

Petikan dari sebuah website, entah dimana, lupa:

Kaul kemiskinan adalah kaul di mana kaum religius merelakan kepemilikan atas harta duniawi dan saling berbagi dalam segala sesuatu, agar mereka dapat menemukan “harta” mereka di surga. “Jikalau engkau hendak sempurna, pergilah, juallah segala milikmu dan berikanlah itu kepada orang-orang miskin, maka engkau akan beroleh harta di sorga, kemudian datanglah ke mari dan ikutlah Aku.” (diambil dari salah satu kitab suci)

POVERTY - A religious chooses to share all in common rather than have personal ownership of material goods. In the face of a materialistic, consumer culture where one’s value is often determined by earning power or the acquisition of wealth, poverty testifies to our dependence upon God as the source of all gifts and our solidarity with one another, especially the poor. When so many are ignoring people who are on the fringes of society, religious with a vow of poverty can connect with the poor, work with them and speak about their needs and concerns.

Community Logging may Address Deforestation

2008-08-05T12:44:00.000+07:00

Indonesia is the third biggest contributor to global warming after the United States and China, adding to the country's position as having the highest deforestation rate in the world. But on the other hand, Indonesia also wants to form Forestry Eight, which will propose Avoided Deforestation (AD) as a way to mitigate climate change.This is more or less taking up a position leading up to the United Nations conference on climate change to be held in Bali in December, which will have as its main agenda discussions on how to achieve Reduced Emissions from Deforestation (RED). As reported by Stern Review (2007), deforestation produces 18 percent of global greenhouse gasses, higher than emissions from the global transportation sector.
Simply put, AD is the prevention or reduction of forest loss in order to reduce emissions of global warming gases, by which economic incentives -- payment for carbon stored in the forests -- will be provided. These payments may come from the carbon market mechanism, public funding or a mix of the two. The problem with climate change, clean development mechanisms (CDM), carbon trading, AD, etc., is that they seem to be part of a hugely complex global mechanism, too complicated to be understood and acted upon by lay people and communities. This greatest challenge to humankind has spiraled into the domain of intergovernmental forums, international conferences, consultants and experts. This should not be the case because this is a simple problem that civilization has been experiencing and working on for a long time: The fossil fuel economy from the North's point of view, conserving forest natural resources and improving the livelihoods of local communities from the South's point of view, and promoting human rights and democracy from both points of view.

The major argument in favor of carbon-market financed AD is that it will provide an opportunity to respond with critically-needed funding for conservation work. It has been said that global AD funds will be in the order of US$100 billion annually. While this is a huge amount in the eyes of developing country governments and conservation groups, it is nothing compared to, say, agricultural subsidies in the US or Europe ($180 billion in the U.S. in 2005), the trident missile replacement plan in the UK (up to $150 billion), or the cost of the Iraq war ($350 billion since 2003).

Carbon market financed AD could hinder real and meaningful ways of mitigating global warming by reducing GHG emissions from fossil fuels. International NGOs like Friends of the Earth International have said that avoided deforestation/destruction, which is a carbon offsetting scheme, is being used as a smoke-screen to ward off legislation and delay the urgent action needed to cut emissions and develop alternative low-carbon solutions.

If, or when, the Bali meeting gives its consent to AD, it should be financed through public funds, sourcing from fossil fuel or carbon taxes, and should not come from the carbon-market mechanism. Even with public funding, which has always been a financing mechanism for conservation work and NGOs, the London-based Forest People's Program in June 2007 warned that the avoided deforestation scheme risks renewed and even increased state and "expert" control over forests, overzealous government support for anti-people and exclusionary models of forest conservation (evictions, expropriation) to protect lucrative forest carbon "reservoirs", and unjust targeting of indigenous and marginal peoples as the "drivers" of deforestation.

Current AD development initiatives are led by the World Bank, big international conservation NGOs, and carbon-trading brokers and consultants. The failure and destructive performance of these parties in past and on-going global environmental and development initiatives is very well documented, which should have effectively undermined their authority and credibility to lead the world in fighting against climate change. To avoid deforestation, one needs to tackle the underlying causes. These include major international economic phenomena, such as macroeconomic strategies that provide strong incentives for short-term profit-making instead of long-term sustainability, deep-rooted social structures that result in inequalities in land tenure, discrimination against indigenous peoples, subsistence farmers and poor people in general, political factors, such as the lack of participatory democracy, the influence of the military and the exploitation of rural areas by urban elites, overconsumption by rich consumers, and uncontrolled industrialization.

For Indonesia, self-sufficiency, sovereignty and dignity can only be achieved by actively resisting carbon trading schemes that will preserve economic-political dominance of the developing countries by the developed countries, and instead focusing on strengthening the country's economy and political posture while opting for socially and environmentally friendly carbon-trading approaches. Indonesia should support global movements against trade liberalization, privatization and commodification, while challenging oil wars and fossil fuel extraction. Equal allowances of carbon emissions per capita should be the strongest negotiating argument to push for reduced emissions in the developed countries and support conservation and development in developing countries (Indonesia currently ranks 102 out of 176 in terms of carbon emissions per capita).

It is in this context that "From Illegal Logging to Community Logging" movements championed by groups like the Bogor-based Telapak need to be considered as the central building block of avoided deforestation. Community logging is defined as community-based sustainable timber and non-timber forest product, and ecological services based forestry. This serves as a means to deliver forest conservation and carbon storage while generating livelihood benefits for local communities on an ongoing basis. The scope of this includes the building of local socio-economic infrastructure made up of indigenous institutions that can participate in resource assessment and mapping, and sustainable forest resource and carbon storage management. Ecolabel certification and the development of local small-scale post-production and value-adding timber industries may also be supported. Community logging should become the mainstream of forest management in, and not just, at the model sites of AD and carbon financing.

The writer is president of Telapak, an environmental group based in Bogor.

Source: Copyright 2007, Jakarta Post
Date: September 23, 2007
Byline: A. Ruwindrijarto
Original URL

REDD, Redemption or Real Action?

2008-08-05T12:33:00.000+07:00

BOGOR, West Java (JP): REDD is the latest acronym in climate change town. It stands for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and is also now the hottest show leading up to the next UN climate meeting. One of the strongest advocates is the UN climate meeting host, Indonesia, as deforestation and forest degradation is believed to contribute 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emission.
Under the proposed REDD scheme, Indonesia has said that it would select four forests from across the country to pilot the project. The four forest projects would be located in South Kalimantan, South Sulawesi, North Sumatra and Southeast Sulawesi (The Jakarta Post, Oct. 26, 2007). It is not yet clear, however, how exactly four pilot projects will help reduce overall emissions in Indonesia instead of just push more deforestation elsewhere.
On the other hand, the provincial governments of Aceh, West Papua, and Papua, supported by international NGOs and courted by carbon brokers, have been actively seeking ways to implement REDD in their respective territories.

A Forest Watch Indonesia report shows Papua and West Papua have the biggest intact forest landscape in Indonesia, totaling 17,9 million hectares (Greenpeace/FWI, 2006). Being as environmentally aware and close to mother earth as they are, the Papuan people and governments have
repeatedly shown their commitment to sustainable development, recognition of indigenous peoples and their tenure rights, and community logging, which means community-based and sustainable timber and non-timber products and environmental services forestry. Some weeks ago the governors of both provinces stated their commitment to shipping only processed timber instead of the logs and sawn timber of today. For this, Time Magazine has named Papua Governor Barnabas Suebu, along with
former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Prince Charles, a Hero of the Environment.

Aceh is also pushing forward with policies for a logging moratorium, which will lead to redesigning forestry in the province. The province is taking initial steps towards producing a pilot project under the REDD mechanism. This pilot project in the Ulu Masen ecosystem in North Aceh, is currently being audited for compliance with the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standards.

However, while much focus has been placed on avoiding deforestation in Aceh and Papua, the ongoing disasters are occurring mostly in Kalimantan and Sumatra. Indonesia's carbon emissions come from forest fires, conversion of forest into other uses, unsustainable industrial logging, and other destructive activities that affect forests. Of these, the destruction of peat swamp forests is thought to be the most significant as a hectare of 1 meter deep peat swamp forest holds 600 tons of carbon, compared to approximately 200 tons of carbon in one hectare of tropical forest.
The peat layer in these forests is usually 10 to 20 meters deep. This carbon stock is be released during peat land fires, or when canals are built and peat swamp forests are dried and turned into paddy fields or palm oil plantations. A case of the latter is the one million hectare peat land project in Kalimantan, initiated under the Soeharto regime, and efforts to revive
them are still alive today.

Dried peat swamp forests risk fires, again releasing more greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere. So, logically, if Indonesia wants to cut its emissions, and if the world is really serious about climate change, deforestation and forest degradation, and more importantly forest fires and peat swamp forests’ destruction must be addressed.

Daily we see the most active proponents of trade in order to reduce emissions from deforestation, forest degradation, and land use changes, are international organizations and consultants. Indonesia has been lagging behind in terms of actually developing projects on the ground. If Indonesia wants to significantly contribute to reducing emissions for the world, it needs to address the more difficult challenge of rehabilitating and restoring forests in heavily deforested Kalimantan and Sumatra, and prevent forest fires. And, unless overall policy and practices are changed, this will also mean that the government needs to drop the huge palm oil and industrial timber plantation expansion plans significantly. Indeed, this mammoth challenge has come with higher economic costs, keeping carbon brokers and potential carbon buyers away from the islands.

The Ministry of Forestry has spent Rp 8,7 trillion (approximately US$934 million) since 2003 for forest and land rehabilitation. In a sense Indonesia does not need to rely (too much or at all?) on the carbon market to finance
rehabilitating forests and prevent forest fires in Kalimantan and Sumatra.
Instead, the government should rely more on the local communities, recognizing their rights of tenure, and facilitate them to implement community-based and sustainable forestry in a community logging scheme – it is in supporting these activities that deforestation rates have been reduced, for example in Konaweha Selatan in Southeast Sulawesi, or
Gunung Kidul in Yogyakarta and Wonogiri in Central Java.

Setting up carbon forests, national parks and protected areas, or developing legality standards for timber and timber trading, will be just dealing with the symptoms of deforestation. In contrast, working on inequalities in land tenure, discrimination against indigenous peoples and farmers, participatory democracy, corruption and military involvement in
resource economics and politics, over-consumption in high-income countries and uncontrolled industrialization, will mean addressing the underlying causes of deforestation.

REDD trading proposals should then be critically analyzed and put into the wider context of deforestation and not reduced to the focus of emissions from deforestation. The basic concept should be expanded from just rewarding the good to remain good, to also rewarding the bad to become good. Even if this means creating new acronyms such as Redemption (reducing emission from deforestation and degradation but more importantly from preventing forest fire and peat swamp forests’ destruction), or perhaps even Real Action (reducing emission by addressing the underlying causes of deforestation).

--A. Ruwindrijarto
The writer is President of Telapak (www.telapak.org), a forestry non-governmental organization based in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia.
Source : http://www.thejakartapost.com/climate/index.php menu=stories&detail=101

Salam dari Les, 12 Mei 2008

2008-05-13T10:42:00.001+07:00

Bape, Meme, Nengah, Eka, Pak Gede, Surya, Made, Nari, Chik, Roma, Takur, Pak Nengah, Suma, Budi, dan lain-lain semua menyampaikan salam buat Alex, Wawan, Onte, Abdon, Ndaru, Hapsoro, Debi, Maringi, Budi, Imran, dan lain-lain...yaitu semua teman-teman di Telapak, baik yang di Bogor maupun di Kendari, Palu, dan di mana mana saja.

Teman-teman di Les bilang mereka baik-baik saja. Memang harga-harga kebutuhan hidup pada naik, perekonomian gak tentu, cuaca gak tentu, dan lain-lain dan lain-lain... akan tetapi semua baik-baik saja dan....istilahnya... enjoy aja! Jadi, tuak dan arak tetap mengalir. Sekali-sekali bir. Sekali-sekali genjekan. Sekali-sekali turun ke laut. Dan lain-lain...

Bahkan Nengah Arsana sudah punya agenda untuk upacara besar di pura keluarga juli atau agustus ini. Mungkin potong babi empat. Bape berkali-kali ingatkanku untuk hadir.

Aku baru pulang dari sana setelah menginap dua malam. Aku bersama rombongan LSM dari Filipina dan Papua yang sedang tukar belajar tentang kewirausahaan dan tentang kegiatan perikanan. Les menarik, kata mereka. Kemarin dan hari ini mereka meneruskan belajar, yaitu tentang Video, sama Nanang.

Palu Harusnya Masuk Guinness World of Record

2008-05-13T10:40:00.000+07:00

Thursday, May 08, 2008

Itu mauku. Setelah 5 kali pergi ke Palu sejak yang pertama dulu, tahun 1999. Kunjungan terakhir yang hampir sepuluh hari menegaskan kecurigaanku bahwa memang Palu harus didaftarkan ke dalam buku rekor dunia itu. Rekor apa? Rekor nongkrong… Menurut penelitianku, rata-rata orang Palu, khususnya para aktivis dan LSM nya, rata-rata nongkrong-ngobrol-ngopi selama 18,74 jam per hari. Angka ini jauh di atas angka rata-rata nasional, yang menurut BPS adalah 3,64 jam per hari, dan angka rata-rata dunia 0,32 jam per hari.Akibatnya bagi Kedai Telapak di Palu, yang baru saja dibuka, adalah harus punya banyak karyawan yang kuat melek. Paling cepat tutup kedai adalah jam 04.00. Agus Kedai, yang dikirim dari Bogor khusus untuk menyajikan kopi, yang menjadi pioneer di Kedai Telapak-Palu mengatakan, “Saya akan mengajak Serikat Pekerja Kedai Seluruh Indonesia (SPKSI) untuk berunjuk rasa meminta perbaikan fasilitas kerja. Kami minta para pengusaha Kedai menyediakan batang korek api dan selotip agar kami para pekerja Kedai bisa menyangga mata kami saat lewat tengah malam dan masih harus melayani para penongkrong-pengobrol-pengopi!”Kedai Telapak di Palu sendiri juga mungkin bisa masuk ke Buku Rekor Dunia itu. Yaitu untuk kecepatan buka usaha. Waktu pertama datang, Wisnu, Eki dan Agus F (d/h Agus Marxist) langsung bekerja seperti setan. Beli cat warna hijau yang terkenal itu. (Satu kaleng cat 5 kg yang dibawa wisnu dari bogor ternyata ditahan petugas pemeriksaan di Bandara Soekarno-Hatta. Nampaknya para petugas bandara sedang punya proyek pengecatan rumah masing-masing dengan berbagai macam warna cat sitaan dari para calon penumpang). Kemudian mengecat-mengecat-mengecat. Para seniman cat lokal di antara nya adalah Joko Gimbal, Farid Krempeng, Fahmi Dukun, Sumadi Direktur, DikDik Kopyah, dll. Terus panggil tukang kayu dan membuat meja bar dengan bahan lokal, kerapian lokal, dan kecepatan lokal. Persis 5 hari kemudian meja bar sudah selesai, beserta bangku panjang, kursi-kursi, meja-meja, dan neon sign. Ini mungkin juga baru pertama di dunia, neon sign dengan kerangka bahan dari kayu kamper.Jadi ternyata, Kedai Telapak di Palu adalah contoh co-investment: tabung gas dan sebagian piring-sendok adalah investasi Ibunya Wisnu, sebagian meja adalah investasinya Yayasan Rosontapura, istrinya Pak Sumadi menyediakan jajanan pasar dan berbagai ube rampe keperluan selamatan pembukaan, tenaga kerja adalah investasi dari banyak teman penongkrong-pengobrol-pengopi, wisnu menginvestasikan sebagian tabungannya untuk modal belanja, dan Telapak/PT PNU berinvestasi lain-lainnya. Rupanya model investasi ini juga dicontoh oleh rekan-rekan yang sedang bekerja bersama masyarakat nelayan dan membangun usaha perikanan di sana. Ferdie, Nael, Mas’ud dan Agus Faisal berhasil menggalang investasi dari Kakak Haji untuk modal usaha dan modal awal koperasi (kalau gak salah sampai Rp 50 juta), Pak Kepala Desa Pangalaseang mengalokasikan Rp 500 ribu untuk konsumsi dan akomodasi pertemuan-pertemuan dan pelatihan, dan Pak Tawakkal (Kepala Dinas Perikanan Kab. Donggala) berkomitmen menyumbangkan 2 buah ketinting dan satu buah kapal 15 ton, Yayasan Rosontapura sendiri sudah keluarkan sekitar Rp 15 juta untuk biaya-biaya transportasi dan akomodasi tim, juga untuk pembelian peralatan-peralatan pelatihan. Telapak dan PT PNU di Bogor sejauh ini hanya keluarkan dana untuk transportasi dari Bogor, Manado, dan Bali ke Palu.Mari dukung Palu untuk masuk Guinness World of Record! Tanpa bermaksud mencuri atau merampok, gambar di atas hanyalah untuk illustrasi saja, diambil aslinya dari sini
Posted by Perkumpulan Telapak at 11:00:00 AM
Labels: Penelapak, roewi

my cv

2006-07-21T11:11:00.000+07:00

CURRICULUM VITAE
Ambrosius Ruwindrijarto
Age : 36
Nationality : Indonesia
Contact : Email: mbajing@telapak.org
Tel: +62-811 110 2008; +62-251-8393245

CURRENT OCCUPATION
President, TELAPAK
It is an independent membership-based organization set up in mid 1995. Telapak works with indigenous people, farmers, and fishers towards ecological justice, economic independence, and cultural integrity.

AFFILIATIONS
Member and co-founder of Telapak (www.telapak.org)
Fellow and co-founder of the Samdhana Institute (www.samdhana.org)
Member and co-founder of Forest Watch Indonesia (www.fwi.or.id)
Member of Yascita (www.yascita.or.id)
Member of Student Nature Club of Bogor Agricultural University (Lawalata-IPB)

PAST OCCUPATIONS
President Director, PT POROS NUSANTARA UTAMA
A social and commercial consortium which provides a framework for people to people cooperation and trade initiatives, a common ground for a just natural resource management, and nature-based industries in the archipelago. Website: www.porosnusantara.com
President Director, PT Bahtera LEStari
A community-owned company based in Bali, Indonesia operating on reef fishery, marine ecotourism, and coral reef management. The company is the first and only cyanide-free marine ornamental exporter in Indonesia. It is set up as a part of a destructive fishing reform program of Indonesian environmental NGOs which includes transformation of destructive fishing into environmentally friendly practices, education and empowerment of fishing communities, and marine ornamental business reform.
Executive Director, the SAMDHANA INSTITUTE
An Asian Center for Social and Environmental Renewal. Samdhana’s main areas are:
a. Institutional Strengthening (NGO focus/mentoring “giving back”)
b. Support for conflict mediation, with the objective of setting up a network of mediators
c. Retreat and Sabbatical Center
d. Small grants program (in partnership with the Green Grants Fund).
1999-2002 : Executive Director, Telapak Indonesia, Bogor, Indonesia
1994–1996 : Environmental Education Manager, RMI-The Indonesia Institute for Forest and Environment, Bogor, Indonesia

COMMUNITY-BASED AND SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS ENTERPRISES Co-FOUNDED/CO-OWNED
1. Kedai Telapak, founded in 2006, is a coffeeshop which also promotes organic agricultural products, handicrafts, and other environmentally and socially friendly products. Kedai Telapak has also open in Palu, Central Sulawesi, and soon to be open in Kendari-Southeast Sulawesi and Bengkulu-Sumatra. Website: www.kedaitelapak.com
2. PT Kayu Jaya Lestari, founded in 2006 in Southeast Sulawesi. This is a timber industry to process post harvest products of Koperasi Hutan Jaya Lestari, the first and only community-based FSC certified community logging operation in Indonesia.
3. UB (Usaha Bersama) Telapak-Lindung Harapan, founded in 2006, transporting agricultural commodities and other goods for Kampung Tapos in West Java. This is a joint venture with Kelompok Petani Lindung Harapan, Tapos, Bogor, West Java.
4. UB Sebesi, founded in 2006, currently operates 3 fishing boats in Sebesi Island, Lampung. This is a joint venture of Telapak and Kelompok Nelayan Sebesi.
5. KIPPY is a digital printing and copy shop founded in 2006. Website: www.kippyku.com
6. GEKKO, founded in 2006, is a company providing multimedia services, filmmaker, and film production house. Website: www.gekkovoices.com
7. T-Port Integration, founded in 2006, is a company providing web services, internet connection, and other information technology related services. Website: www.tportintegration.com
8. PT Bengkulu Televisi, which runs Bengkulu TV, founded in 2005.
9. CV LIMOR, founded in 2005 in Semarang, Central Java. This company manufactures and distributes simple agricultural equipment.
10. PT Samadil Eka Perkasa, founded in 2004 in East Kalimantan, is processing and trading rattan. The company is currently owned by Ratan Farmers Association, SHK Kaltim, and several individuals.
11. PT BAL, founded in 2004 in South Sulawesi. The company is trading non-timber forest products. It is co-founded by Telapak through its Non-Timber Forest Product Project.
12. PT Swara Alam Kendari Televisi. Founded in 2003 and runs the local tv station, Kendari TV.
13. PT Bahtera LEStari, founded in 2003, a company exporting marine ornamentals based in Bali.
14. PT Poros Nusantara Utama, founded in 2002, operating a joint marketing office for community-based enterprises and providing business development service for community-based enterprises. It now has branches in Bali, West Java, and Palu-Central Sulawesi.
15. PT Poros Nusantara, which is founded in 2001 in Southeast Sulawesi to address transportation and distribution needs for small islands economy in eastern Sulawesi. The company operated a cargo vessel, MV Poros Nusantara, transporting products like seaweed, fish, and basic needs connecting many islands in South, Central, and Southeast Sulawesi and North Molucca with major trade hubs in Kendari, Bau-Bau and Makassar. MV Poros Nusantara is currently serving as passenger boat connecting Kaledupa Island in Wakatobi and Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi.
16. PT Radio Swara Alam, an FM radio station in Kendari, founded in 1999.

LIST OF FACILITATED OR AFFILIATED COOPERATIVES/CREDIT UNION
1. Koperasi Telapak, Bogor
2. Koperasi Petani Tanaman Obat Jawa Barat, Bogor, West Java
3. Koperasi Hutan Jaya Lestari, Southeast Sulawesi
4. Koperasi Petani Tapos, West Java
5. Koperasi Prana Dewi, Bali
6. Kelompok Nelayan Ikan Hias Mina Bhakti Soansari, Bali
7. Kelompok Nelayan Pesisir Karya Segara, Bali
8. Koperasi Yascita
9. Credit Union SNO, East Kalimantan
10. Koperasi Petani Cipeteuy, West Java
11. Kelompok Nelayan Sebesi, Lampung
12. Koperasi Mahasiswa Universitas Bengkulu, Bengkulu
13. Credit Union Tali Asih, Jogja
14. Koperasi Sinar Ueesi Alaaha, Southeast Sulawesi
15. Koperasi Usaha Nelayan Mantigola, Southeast Sulawesi
16. Koperasi Masyarakat Wawoheo Lestari Asera, Southeast Sulawesi
17. Koperasi Moleno Asera, Southeast Sulawesi
18. Koperasi Watuulo Asera, Southeast Sulawesi
19. Koperasi Batara Lanowulu, Southeast Sulawesi
20. Usaha Kelompok Lestari Lingkungan Saponda-Baho, Southeast Sulawesi
21. Koperasi Simpan Pinjam Hijau Finans, Riau
22. Koperasi Usaha Bersama Talang Prigi, Riau
23. Koperasi Durian Caca, Riau
24. Koperasi Petani Karet Kuntu, Riau
25. Koperasi Hayati Laut, Gorontalo
26. Koperasi Bonevico, Gorontalo
27. Koperasi Mahulo, Lodang, South Sulawesi
28. Credit Union Pancur Kasih, Pontianak

Facilitation and CONSULTANCY SERVICES
2005 : Consultant, Development of Fisheries Programs in Perkumpulan HAK, East Timor. OXFAM.
2004 : Consultant, Sustainable Fisheries in East Timor, HIVOS
The assessment aims to provide recommendations for the Netherland-based HIVOS future interventions in the marine and fisheries issues in East Timor and to encourage individuals/NGOs/CBOs in East-Timor to lobby the government and international agencies on moving the country's current fisheries programs and policies into a (more) sustainable direction, and to contribute to their capacity to do so.
2002-2004 : Researcher, Economic Survey-CCIF for CII, Indonesia
The survey identifies problems and opportunities, and develop business plan for alternative economic activities in the Togean Islands-Central Sulawesi, Wakatobi-Southeast Sulawesi, and Raja Ampat-West Papua. The assignment is for CCIF (Conservation and Community Investment Forum). The context of the survey is the development of a community-based coastal and marine management system in the ecologically important areas in Indonesia.
2004 : Presenter, Marine Ornamental Seminar, Honolulu-USA
Under contract of Ford Foundation, the consultant presented two papers on marine ornamental industry and destructive fishing reform in Indonesia.

OTHER EXPERIENCES
2000 : Investigative Reporting on cross-border drug trafficking, AIDS problem, people’s movement and forest destruction. Myanmar and China
1999-2002 : ProMOLA, a program and network on destructive fishing reform in Indonesia
1997-1998 : Member of the Team for Forest and Land Fire Mitigation, Indonesian Environmental Impact Assessment Agency, Jakarta, Indonesia
1997 : Independent Forest Monitoring Network (FWI), Bogor, Indonesia

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2007 : “REDD, Redemption or Real Action”, an article published in the Jakarta Post, October 26, 2007
2007 : “Community Logging may Address Deforestation”, an article published in the Jakarta Post, September 22, 2007
2006 : Contributor, “Politik Lingkungan dan Kekuasaan di Indonesia”, Kartodiharjo, Hariadi dan Jhamtani, Hira (eds), Equinox Publishing.
2004 : Underwater camera and Scriptwriter, Sameton Segara; a Video Documentary of a Fishing Community
A 20 minutes video documentation of the changes taking place in a fishing village in Bali toward a more environmentally friendly fishery, economic and social empowerment of the people, and NGO’s involvement in the changes.
2004 : Underwater camera and Scriptwriter, Modul Coral Farming Berbasis Masyarakat
A 20 minutes audio visual training material on community-based coral farming for coral reef rehabilitation and marine ornamental trade.
2004 : Underwater camera and Scriptwriter, Modul Penangkapan Ikan Hias Ramah Lingkungan
A 20 minutes audio visual training material on ornamental fish collection.
2002 : Featured in "The Timber Mafia", Broadcast on Four Corners, ABC TV 29 July 2002 (http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2002/timber_mafia/webextras/transcript.htm)
2002 : Producer and Director, Perempuan di Titik Nol; Behind the Stage Video Documentary, Jakarta, Indonesia
The video documentary of a play based on the novel by Nawal El Sadaawi, performed at Taman Ismail Marjuki, Jakarta, in April 2002, organized by Solidaritas Perempuan.
2001 : Director and Lead Cameraperson, Going Under, Denpasar, Indonesia
The video brings to light the actual habitat condition of, threats to, and existing management regime of, Bali’s coral reefs, contrasting it with tourism promotion, hence what people around the world believe; and to recommend that immediate action be taken to address the problems.
2001 : Director, Suaka Abadi, Bogor, Indonesia
A video on community-based forest management in Lore Lindu National Park, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
2001 : Contributor, Country Status Overview on Destructive Fishing in Indonesia, Bogor, Indonesia
A Report on the state of fisheries and destructive fishing in Indonesia.
2001 : Contributor, State of Forest Report-Indonesia, Bogor, Indonesia
A Report on the state of Indonesia’s forest.
2000 : Contributor, “Monitoring for impact: lessons on natural resource monitoring from 13 NGO's”, Rodenburg, E., Kristensen, P., Maddox, D., & Ottke, C. 2000, World Resources Institute, Conservation International.
2000 : Co-author, Planting Disaster, Bogor, Indonesia
A Report on Oil Palm Plantation in Indonesia.
2000 : Director, Planting Disaster, Bogor, Indonesia
A video documentary on Oil Palm Plantation in Indonesia.
1999 : Featured in CNN, November 5, 1999 (http://edition.cnn.com/NATURE/9911/05/indonesia.parks/index.html)
1999 : Co-author, The Final Cut, Bogor, Indonesia & London, UK
A report on Illegal Logging in Indonesia’s natural parks.
1999 : Co-director, The Final Cut, Bogor, Indonesia & London, UK
A video documentary on Illegal Logging in Indonesia’s natural parks.
1998 : Co-author, Kotak Alat Investigasi Hutan, Bogor, Indonesia
A field guide, a tool box, to forest investigation and monitoring.
1998 : Contributor, State of World Indigenous Affair, Copenhagen, Denmark
A report on world-wide indigenous people’s affairs.

LANGUAGES
Fluency in Bahasa Indonesia, Javanesse, and English.

TRAININGS
· Diving and Marine Biology. Licensed as One Star Dive Instructor of the Association of Diving School International.
· Filming and Photography.

EDUCATION
1989-1996 : B.S., Marine Science., Bogor Agricultural University
1994 : Environmental Education Course. North America Association for Environmental Education. Washington, D.C.

LATEST AND CURRENT READING
Paulo Coelho’s novels, short stories, and interviews.