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QUARTERLY REPORT THIRD QUARTER OF YEAR 1 WORK PLAN April 1 – June 30, 2016

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USAID LESTARI Quarterly Report Year 1, April 1 – June 30, 2016 P a g e | 3

QUARTERLY REPORT

THIRD QUARTER OF YEAR 1 WORK PLAN

April 1 – June 30, 2016

DISCLAIMER

This publication is made possible by the support of the American People through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of Tetra Tech ARD and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.


TABLE OF CONTENTS Acronyms and Abbreviations ............................................................................................ 5

Executive Summary ............................................................................................................ 7

Ringkasan Eksekutif ......................................................................................................... 12

LESTARI Program Activities ............................................................................................ 18

Technical Theme 1: Forest & Land Use Governance & Advocacy ................................................ 18 Overview ........................................................................................................................................... 18 LESTARI 1 – Awareness and Advocacy ........................................................................................... 19 LESTARI 2 – Operationalize Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs) and Landscape Conservation Plans (LCPs) ............................................................................................................... 25 LESTARI 3 – Environmental Governance ........................................................................................ 32

Technical Theme 2: Conservation Co-Management ...................................................................... 39 Overview ........................................................................................................................................... 39 LESTARI 4 – Co-Management ......................................................................................................... 39 LESTARI 5 – Protected Area Management ...................................................................................... 45

Technical Theme 3: Private Sector Engagement ............................................................................. 52 Overview ........................................................................................................................................... 52 LESTARI 6 – Green Enterprises ....................................................................................................... 52 LESTARI 7 – Private Sector Best Management Practices (BMPs) .................................................. 58 LESTARI 8 – PES and REDD+ Innovative Finance ......................................................................... 61

Project Coordination, Management, and Communications ............................................................ 63

Monitoring and Evaluation ................................................................................................................. 68

Grants Fund ......................................................................................................................................... 70

LESTARI Initiatives ........................................................................................................... 73

National Initiatives .............................................................................................................................. 73

Landscape Initiatives .......................................................................................................................... 77 Leuser Landscape ............................................................................................................................. 77 Katingan-Kahayan Landscape .......................................................................................................... 84 Lorentz Lowlands Landscape ........................................................................................................... 94 Mappi-Bouven Digoel Landscape ..................................................................................................... 97 Sarmi Landscape .............................................................................................................................. 99 Cyclops Landscape ......................................................................................................................... 101

Appendix ......................................................................................................................... 106

Appendix 1: LESTARI Progress for Third Quarter – Year 1 .......................................................... 106

Appendix 2: LESTARI Results Framework ..................................................................................... 110

Appendix 3: LESTARI Landscape Initiatives.................................................................................. 111

Appendix 4: Staffing Plan ................................................................................................................. 112


ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS AMEP Activity Monitoring and Evaluation Plan ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations ATR Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning BAPPENAS Ministry of National Development Planning BIG Geospatial Information Agency BCC Behavior Change Communication BKSDA Nature Conservation Agency BMP Best Management Practice BRG National Peatland Restoration Agency CBO Community Based Organization CBS Constituency Building Strategy CCA / KKM Community Conservation Agreements / Kesepakatan Konservasi Masyarakat CCLA Community Conservation and Livelihood Agreement CLA Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting CMMP Conservation Management and Monitoring Plan COP Chief of Party CSO Civil Society Organization DAK Special Budget Allocation Fund DAU Regular Budget Allocation Fund DCOP Deputy Chief of Party DSC Destination Stewardship Council EU European Union FIP Forest Investment Program FMU Forest Management Unit (or KPH) FSC Forest Service Council GFW Global Forest Watch GHG Greenhouse Gas GOI Government of Indonesia HCS High Carbon Stock HCV High Conservation Value ICCTF Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund ICT Information and Communication Technologies IDIQ Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity contracting mechanism IFACS Indonesia Forestry and Climate Support Project IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ISCC International Sustainability and Carbon Certification ISPO Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil Foundation KADIN Indonesian Chamber of Commerce KfW German Development Bank KLHK Ministry of Environment and Forestry KM Knowledge Management LCP Landscape Conservation Plan LEDS Low Emission Development Strategy LOP Life of Project LTTA Long-Term Technical Assistance LULUCF Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry

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M&E Monitoring and Evaluation METT Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool MIS Management Information System MOU Memorandum of Understanding MRV Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification MSF Multi-Stakeholder Forum MSU Michigan State University MTD Monthly Thematic Discussion NGO Nongovernmental Organization NP National Park NRM Natural Resource Management NTFP Non-Timber Forest Product PA Protected Area PCN Project Concept Note PDD Project Design Document PES Payment for Environmental Services PHKA Directorate General of Forest and Nature PPP Public-Private Partnership RDMA Regional Development Mission for Asia RDTR Detailed Spatial Plan / Rencana Detail Tata Ruang REC Review and Evaluation Committee REDD+ Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation,

including conservation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks

REL Reference Emission Level REPLACE Restoring the Environment through Prosperity, Livelihoods and

Conserving Ecosystems RFTOP Request for Task Order Proposal RKT Provincial Development Plan RPJM District Development Plan RPJMD Regional Development Plan RPJMDes Village-level Development Plan RSPO Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil RTRWK District Spatial Plan RTRWP Provincial Spatial Plan SDI Spatial Data Infrastructure SEA / KLHS Strategic Environmental Assessment SMART Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool SP Spatial Planners SRAP REDD+ Agency’s Strategic Action Plan for REDD+ STI Sustainable Travel International STTA Short-Term Technical Assistance TBI The Borneo Initiative TFA Tropical Forest Alliance UKCCU UK Climate Change Unit UNPAR University of Palangkaraya USAID United States Agency for International Development USDA United States Department of Agriculture USDOI United States Department of the Interior USFS United States Forest Service USG United States Government WCS Wildlife Conservation Society WDC Washington, DC WWF World Wildlife Fund


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This Quarterly Progress Report (QPR) summarizes the activities and achievements of the USAID LESTARI project during the third quarter of Year 1, April 1 to June 30, 2016. USAID LESTARI supports the Government of Indonesia (GOI) to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and conserve biodiversity in carbon rich and biologically significant forest and mangrove ecosystems. Built on the strong foundation of USAID’s IFACS project, LESTARI applies a landscape approach to reduce GHG emissions, integrating forest and peatland conservation with low emissions development (LEDS) on other, already degraded land. This is achieved through improved land use governance, enhanced protected areas management and protection of key species, sustainable private sector and industry practices, and expanded constituencies for conservation among various stakeholders. LESTARI is implemented under the leadership of Tetra Tech and a consortium of partners including WWF-Indonesia, Winrock International, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Blue Forests, Yayasan Sahabat Cipta, PT Hydro South Pole Carbon, Sustainable Travel International (STI), Michigan State University, and the FIELD Foundation. LESTARI runs from August 2015 through July 2020. LESTARI activities are targeted in six strategic landscapes on three of Indonesia’s largest islands, where primary forest cover remains most intact and carbon stocks are greatest. In northern Sumatra, the Leuser Landscape comprises significant portions of Aceh Selatan, Gayo Lues, Aceh Tenggara, and Aceh Barat Daya districts, and includes the Aceh portion of Leuser National Park and Singkil Wildlife Sanctuary. In Central Kalimantan, LESTARI works in the Katingan-Kahayan Landscape, comprising Pulang Pisau, Katingan, and Gunung Mas districts; Palangkaraya municipality; and Sebangau and Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Parks. LESTARI also works in four landscapes in Papua. Sarmi and Cyclops Landscapes are located along the northern coast and comprise Sarmi district as well as Jayapura district and municipality. The Lorentz Lowlands Landscape, comprising Mimika and Asmat districts plus a large portion of Lorentz National Park, and the Mappi-Bouven Digoel Landscape are located along Papua’s southern coast. LESTARI is managed from its headquarters in Jakarta, with offices in each landscape as well as the provincial capitals of Aceh, Central Kalimantan, and Papua. Overall Results of LESTARI are:

1. At least 41% of total CO2-equivalent emissions reduced from land use, land use change and deforestation averaged across all landscapes within the project scope;

2. At least 8.42 Million hectares of primary or secondary forest, including orangutan habitat, under improved management;

3. Management of at least six conservation areas improved, resulting in the conservation of valuable orangutan and other key species habitat, and the reduction in poaching of threatened and endemic species;

4. At least ten public-private partnerships (PPPs) promoting low-emissions conservation oriented development established;


5. Funding leveraged from public and private sources, representing co-investment in project outcomes;

6. Increased commitment of key private sector, government, and community stakeholders regarding the positive benefits of conservation and sustainable use of forests and the species they encompass;

7. Policies, laws, regulations, and procedures in support of low emission development and forest conservation and management increased, promulgated, and enforced at all levels; and

8. Models for successful integration of district, provincial, and national low emissions development and forest conservation strategies developed and shared at all levels of government and with other key stakeholders

PROGRESS THIS QUARTER April 1 – June 30, 2016 marked the third quarter of full-scale LESTARI implementation. LESTARI continues to make significant progress in planning and executing activities in line with the First Annual Work Plan. Following a foundational first two quarters, this quarter focused on the deepening of existing LESTARI on-the-ground activities across the landscapes in Aceh, Central Kalimantan, and Papua and focused intensively on the overarching goals of GHG emissions reduction and improved biodiversity conservation. In Aceh, due to the importance of the Leuser Ecosystem with regards to biodiversity values and deforestation threats, LESTARI continued to engage in activities under all thematic areas. The major highlights included initiating support for Aceh Barat Daya District detailed spatial planning (RDTR) following the signing of the MoU with LESTARI; an assessment for social forestry in the Manggamat area; policy discourse with MSF involvement regarding leveraging the Village Fund in support of environmental considerations in the Leuser Landscape; continued METT, SMART patrol, and wildlife conservation support around Leuser National Park; journalist training to build awareness and advocacy on key issues; and PPP launching for organic cacao development. In Central Kalimantan, initiatives in the Katingan-Kahayan Landscape continued to focus on the pressing need for integrated fire management and peatland restoration. The major activities included advancement of the provincial level SEA/KLHS for Central Kalimantan, progress on the rapid hydrological assessment to mitigate the destructive fire-flood cycle and guide peatland restoration, preparations for technically-focused MSFs that support canal blocking; development of a demonstration Sustainability Screening Tool and sharing with stakeholders in Central Kalimantan; support for co-management and social forestry initiatives; improved METT implementation in Sebangau and Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Parks; PPPs finalized in support for the community rubber sector; continued awareness raising and media advocacy on peatland issues led by Mongabay; and the finalization of the LESTARI-MSU July 2016-September 2017 work plan aimed at educational capacity development with regards to forestry at major universities. In Papua, the major activities occurring over the last quarter included consultation on the Cyclops Nature Reserve KPH management plan and continued capacity building for the KPH in Mimika; partnership agreement for biodiversity conservation around Lorentz National Park with PT Freeport Indonesia, national park management authorities, BKSDA Papua, Mimika District government, adat community representatives, and LESTARI; MSF initiation in Mimika and preparation for upcoming technical discussions at MSFs in Mappi and Bouven


Digoel; an assessment on sustainable livelihood development through local commodities and value chain mapping in Mappi-Bouven Digoel Landscape; facilitation of district regulation development in support of Cyclops Nature Reserve co-management; SMART patrol assessment and training for Cyclops Nature Reserve; and identification of 2 concession companies for BMP collaboration in Sarmi Landscape. LESTARI also continued to actively engage at the national level with key government and non-government stakeholders on issues of strategic importance to LESTARI. This included taking part in a METT Training of Trainers event co-funded by KSDAE, LESTARI, WCS, and GIZ Forclime aimed at enhancing capacity of core METT facilitators across Indonesia to carry out METT assessments; engaging in a national One Map event with Badan Informasi Geospasial to support the incorporation of community maps into Papua’s spatial planning database; providing technical assistance to KSDAE to support CA managers in Central Kalimantan and Papua to submit thematic and bloc maps to be integrated into One Map; and raising national-level awareness by writing articles on peatland restoration, rattan export policy, and the need for green growth planning that were published in the Jakarta Post and Kompas. In support of Grants, the focus of this quarter was on the preparation of and selection process for RFA-004, Collaborative Management and Sustainable Livelihood Initiatives. Pre-RFA workshops were conducted in Banda Aceh, Palangka Raya, Jayapura, and Timika. A total of 122 representatives from 119 organizations attended the workshops. 54 applications were received from Aceh, 31 from Central Kalimantan, and 21 from Papua. After document screening, 47 applications from Aceh, 28 applications from Central Kalimantan, and 20 from Papua went to the REC in the middle of June. The REC involved both landscape staff and Jakarta-based staff. Based on the REC results, LESTARI is currently conducting clarifications and pre-award surveys to 14 organizations to verify and determine the ability of the organizations to receive the grants. In Support of Knowledge Management and Communications, the LESTARI team continued to utilize a wide range of channels to share relevant issues, activities/achievements, and findings. Notably, this quarter saw the initiation of the LESTARI Brief, a communication product designed to highlight challenges and opportunities for action and policy interventions to sustain landscape management. The first volume discussed Integrated Fire and Land Management, followed by Impact of Rattan Policy on Climate Change Mitigation Efforts, and then Community Engagement on Peatland Restoration. LESTARI briefs have been distributed to more than 400 people (MSF, national and local government, CSOs, NGOs, and private sector) through email blast. They will continue to be published on a monthly basis. The LESTARI website was also launched within this quarter and has been consistently updated with relevant project documents and news updates. Finally, following the gender assessment and gender integration training that was carried out in all landscapes, the LESTARI Gender Assessment and Strategy report was finalized within this quarter. The document was shared widely with USAID, KLHK, Bappenas, district/provincial government partners, MSFs, and the entire LESTARI team. This quarterly report includes a Bahasa Indonesia translation of the Executive Summary and presents a summary of progress, challenges/opportunities, and priorities for the 3 LESTARI technical themes; 6 LESTARI landscapes; Project Coordination, Management, and Communications; Monitoring and Evaluation; and Grants Fund. Appendices at the end of the report include a third quarter progress matrix, LESTARI Results Framework, LESTARI Landscape Initiatives Summary Diagram, and an updated LESTARI staffing plan.


PRIORITIES FOR NEXT QUARTER LESTARI Briefs produced with background guidance papers on RDTR zonation,

MSF Utility, challenge of decentralized forest and land fire governance; Co-management in conservation areas; social forestry roadmaps; SMART patrols.

Assessment of patrol systems in Lorentz National Park and Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park and preparation of SMART Patrol roll out to be held in year 2.

Implementation of Field School for RPJMDes and co-management in Aceh and Central Kalimantan and followed by the development of village zonation plan and co-management agreements with relevant government agencies.

National workshop on KPH, organized by BAPENAS and co-funded by USAID LESTARI, GIZ and UKCCU.

Support social forestry workshop and festival (Festival Pesona) to be held on September 2016. The event is organized by MoEF and will be co-supported by various institutions and donors, including LESTARI.

Signing PPP agreements for community rubber in Katingan-Kahayan Landscape in Palangkaraya with Bank Indonesia and PT. Insan Bonafide. The event will be held in the Bank Indonesia office on July 19, 2016.

Finalization of the pre-award process for RFA-004 for all 6 landscapes and awarding the final selections.

Preparation for LESTARI’s third PPP with PT Givaudan Indonesia for sustainable nutmeg and patchouli development in Aceh landscape.

Sign BMP collaboration agreements with two HPHs in Sarmi Landscape, Papua.

Implement a new Product Evaluation Tool (PET) to rate the potential of ecotourism opportunities in Katingan-Kahayan and Leuser Landscapes, screening PPP interventions for conservation value, community benefit, and economic viability.

Produce a toolkit and conduct feasibility analysis for implementing PES schemes in 5 landscapes.

Jakarta and landscape meetings for strategic planning for Year 2 Work Plan.


Figure 1. LESTARI Landscapes Map


RINGKASAN EKSEKUTIF Laporan Kemajuan Triwulanan ini merangkum kegiatan dan pencapaian proyek USAID LESTARI pada triwulan ketiga di tahun 1, selama 1 April sampai dengan 30 Juni 2016. Proyek USAID LESTARI mendukung upaya Pemerintah Republik Indonesia (RI) menurunkan emisi gas rumah kaca (GRK), melestarikan keanekaragaman hayati di ekosistem hutan dan mangrove yang bernilai secara biologis serta kaya akan simpanan karbon. Dibangun di atas fondasi proyek USAID IFACS, LESTARI menerapkan pendekatan lanskap untuk menurunkan emisi GRK, dengan mengintegrasikan aksi konservasi hutan dan lahan gambut dan strategi pembangunan rendah emisi (LEDS) di lahan lain yang sudah terdegradasi. Upaya ini bisa dicapai melalui perbaikan tata guna lahan, tata kelola hutan lindung, perlindungan spesies kunci, praktik sektor swasta dan industri yang berkelanjutan, serta peningkatan keterlibatan berbagai pemangku kepentingan dalam kegiatan konservasi. Proyek LESTARI diimplementasikan oleh Tetra Tech bersama mitra konsorsium yang terdiri dari WWF-Indonesia, Winrock International, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Blue Forests, Yayasan Sahabat Cipta, PT Hydro South Pole Carbon, Sustainable Travel International (STI), Michigan State University, dan FIELD Foundation. Proyek LESTARI berlangsung dari Agustus 2015 hingga Juli 2020. Kegiatan LESTARI dilaksanakan di enam lanskap strategis di tiga pulau terbesar Indonesia, yang memiliki sebagian tutupan hutan primer yang masih utuh dan memiliki simpanan karbon terbesar. Di Sumatra bagian utara, Lanskap Leuser mencakup Kabupaten Aceh Selatan, Gayo Lues, Aceh Tenggara dan Aceh Barat Daya, termasuk Taman Nasional Leuser dan Suaka Margasatwa Rawa Singkil. Di Kalimantan Tengah, LESTARI bekerja di Lanskap Katingan-Kahayan, yang mencakup Kabupaten Pulang Pisau, Katingan dan Gunung Mas, Kotamadya Palangkaraya, dan Taman Nasional Sebangau dan Taman Nasional Bukit Baka Bukit Raya. LESTARI juga bekerja di empat lanskap di Papua. Lanskap Sarmi dan Cyclops terletak sepanjang pesisir utara. Lanskap Lorentz Lowlands, mencakup Kabupaten Mimika dan Asmat ditambah sebagian dari Taman Nasional Lorentz, dan Lanskap Mappi-Bouven Digoel yang terletak di pesisir selatan Papua. LESTARI memiliki kantor pusat di Jakarta, dengan kantor cabang di setiap lansekap dan di ibukota provinsi Aceh, Kalimantan Tengah dan Papua. Hasil yang ingin dicapai LESTARI adalah:

1. Penurunan total emisi CO2 ekuivalen sebesar 41 % dari kegiatan pemanfaatan lahan, perubahan pemanfaatan lahan dan deforestasi di seluruh wilayah lanskap proyek;

2. Perbaikan pengelolaan 8,42 juta hektar hutan primer atau sekunder, termasuk

wilayah yang menjadi habitat orangutan;

3. Perbaikan manajemen paling tidak, di enam wilayah konservasi, sehingga mampu

melestarikan habitat orangutan dan spesies kunci lainnya, dan mengurangi

perburuan spesies hewan endemik;

4. Paling tidak terwujud sepuluh Kemitraan Pemerintah dan Swasta (KPS) yang

memromosikan pembangunan rendah emisi dan pembangunan berbasis konservasi;

5. Penggalangan dana dari sumber pemerintah dan swasta, dalam bentuk investasi

bersama guna menunjang keberhasilan proyek;


6. Meningkatnya komitmen para pemangku kepentingan dari sektor swasta, pemerintah

dan masyarakat dalam mendukung upaya konservasi dan pemanfaatan hutan

secara berkelanjutan berikut perlindungan spesies yang hidup di dalamnya;

7. Terciptanya kebijakan, undang-undang, peraturan, dan prosedur - yang mendukung

pembangunan rendah emisi, perbaikan pengelolaan dan konservasi hutan – yang

disahkan dan diterapkan di semua jenjang; dan

8. Terdapat model untuk integrasi strategi pembangunan rendah emisi dan konservasi

hutan di tingkat kabupaten, provinsi dan nasional yang didistribusikan ke semua level

pemerintahan dan pemangku kepentingan kunci lainnya.

KEMAJUAN PADA TRIWULAN INI 1 April – 30 Juni 2016 adalah periode Triwulan ketiga dari implementasi penuh LESTARI. LESTARI terus membuat kemajuan yang signifikan dalam perencanaan dan pelaksanaannya yang disesuaikan dengan Rencana Kerja Tahunan Pertama. Setelah melewati dua triwulan sebelumnya, yang merupakan landasan dasar proyek ini, triwulan ketiga berfokus pada pendalaman kegiatan - kegiatan lapangan yang tersebar di lansekap Aceh, Kalimantan Tengah, dan Papua dan menitikberatkan pada pencapaian tujuan utama LESTARI yaitu untuk mengurangi emisi GRK dan meningkatkan konservasi keaneka-ragaman hayati. Mengingat pentingnya pelestarian Ekosistem Leuser di Aceh terkait dengan keanekaragaman hayatinya dan keberadaan ancaman perusakan hutan, LESTARI terus mengadakan berbagai kegiatan dalam semua bidang. Kegiatan-kegiatan utama LESTARI yang patut disoroti antara lain: (1) pemberian bantuan kepada Kabupaten Aceh Barat Daya dalam menyusun RDTR setelah ditandatanganinya MoU antara pemerintah Kab. Aceh Barat Daya dengan Proyek LESTARI, (2) penilaian (asesmen) terhadap kehutanan sosial di wilayah Manggamat, (3) pembahasan mengenai kebijakan Dana Desa yang melibatkan MSF untuk memastikan bahwa Dana Desa dapat mendukung kegiatan konservasi lingkungan di Lansekap Leuser, (4) dilanjutkannya pemberian dukungan bagi METT; patroli SMART; dan konservasi satwa liar di sekitar Taman Nasional Leuser, (5) pelatihan bagi jurnalis guna meningkatkan kesadaran dan kemampuan advokasi pada masalah-masalah terpenting, dan (6) peluncuran PPP untuk pengembangan kakao organik. Di Kalimantan Tengah, proyek di Lansekap Katingan-Kahayan difokuskan pada pemenuhan kebutuhan mendesak atas manajemen kebakaran hutan yang terintegrasi dan restorasi lahan gambut. Kegiatan utamanya mencakup (1) menyempurnakan SEA/KLHS tingkat provinsi bagi Provinsi Kalimantan Tengah, (2) membuat progres asesmen penilaian hidrologi cepat untuk menanggulangi siklus bencana kebakaran-banjir (fire-flood cycle) dan memberikan panduan untuk restorasi lahan gambut, (3) mempersiapkan MSF yang terfokus pada aspek teknis untuk mendukung pembangunan sekat kanal, (4) mengembangkan demonstrasi Alat Seleksi Keberlanjutan (Sustainability Screening Tool) dan berbagi dengan para pemangku kepentingan di Kalimantan Tengah, (5) mendukung pengelolaan bersama (co-management) program kehutanan sosial, (6) memperbaiki implementasi METT di Taman Nasional Sebangau dan Bukit Baka Bukit Raya, (7) menyelesaikan PPP untuk komunitas sektor karet, (8) melanjutkan program peningkatan kesadaran masyarakat dan pembinaan media mengenai masalah lahan gambut yang dipimpin oleh Mongabay, dan (8) finalisasi perjanjian LESTARI-MSU pada 1 Juli 2016. Rencana kerja September 2017 berfokus pada pengembangan kapasitas pendidikan terkait isu kehutanan di beberapa universitas unggulan.


Di Papua, kegiatan utama yang dilaksanakan pada triwulan terakhir mencakup (1) mengadakan konsultasi terkait rencana pengelolaan Kawasan Pelestarian Hutan di Cagar Alam Cyclops dan melanjutkan usaha pengembangan kapasitas KPH Mimika, (2) mengadakan perjanjian kerjasama kemitraan untuk konservasi alam di Taman Nasional Lorentz antara PT Freeport Indonesia dengan otoritas manajemen taman nasional; BKSDA Papua; PemKab. Mimika; wakil masyarakat adat; dan LESTARI, (3) menginisiasi MSF di Mimika dan mempersiapkan diskusi-diskusi teknis lanjutan di MSF di Mappi dan Bouven Digoel, (4) melakukan asesmen terhadap dampak pengembangan produk/komoditas lokal dan pemetaan rantai nilai (value chain mapping) terhadap peningkatan taraf hidup masyarakat di Lansekap Mappi-Bouven Digoel, (5) memfasilitasi penyusunan peraturan kabupaten terkait dengan pengelolaan bersama (co-management) Cagar Alam Cyclops, (6) melakukan asesmen pelaksanaan patroli SMART sekaligus mengadakan pelatihan bagi Cagar Alam Cyclops, dan (7) mengidentifikasi dua perusahaan konsesi yang akan berkolaborasi dengan BMP di lansekap Sarmi. LESTARI juga secara aktif melanjutkan usaha untuk menjalin kerja sama tingkat nasional dengan berbagai pemangku kepentingan dari pihak pemerintah maupun pihak non-pemerintah terkait dengan masalah-masalah strategis yang penting bagi LESTARI. Hal tersebut mencakup (1) ikut serta dalam pelatihan METT Training of Trainers yang didanai secara bersama oleh KSDAE; LESTARI; WCS; dan GIZ Forclime yang bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kapasitas tim inti fasilitator METT di seluruh Indonesia agar dapat melaksanakan asesmen METT, (2) terlibat dalam kegiatan Satu Peta (One Map) secara nasional bersama Badan Informasi Geospasial guna mendukung penyatuan peta yang dibuat oleh masyarakat ke dalam data dasar (database) tata ruang Papua, (3) memberikan bantuan teknis kepada KSDAE guna membantu manajer Kawasan Konservasi di Kalimantan Tengah dan Papua agar dapat menyerahkan peta tematik dan peta blok sehingga dapat dimasukkan ke dalam satu peta (One Map), dan (4) meningkatkan kesadaran pentingnya konservasi pada tingkat nasional dengan menulis artikel mengenai restorasi lahan gambut, kebijakan ekspor rotan, dan pentingnya perencanaan pertumbuhan hijau yang kemudian dimuat di Jakarta Post dan Kompas. Terkait dengan pemberian hibah, fokus pada Triwulan ini adalah pada persiapan dan proses seleksi RFA-004, Pengelolaan Kolaboratif dan Program Peningkatan Mata Pencaharian yang Berkelanjutan (Collaborative Management and Sustainable Livelihood Initiatives). Lokakarya Pra-RFA dilaksanakan di Banda Aceh, Palangka Raya, Jayapura, dan Timika. Sebanyak 122 wakil dari 119 organisasi menghadiri lokakarya tersebut. Lima puluh empat (54) permohonan diterima dari Aceh, 31 dari Kalimantan Tengah, dan 21 dari Papua. Setelah melalui seleksi dokumen, 47 permohonan dari Aceh, 28 permohonan dari Kalimantan Tengah, dan 20 dari Papua diajukan ke REC pada pertengahan bulan Juni. REC melibatkan staf baik dari staf di lansekap maupuan staf dari kantor Jakarta. Beradsarkan hasil REC, LESTARI saat ini sedang melakukan verifikasi dan survei pendahuluan sebelum pemberian hibah kepada 14 organisasi untuk memverifikasi dan menentukan kemampuan organisasi dalam menerima hibah. Terkait dengan Pengelolaan Pengetahuan dan Komunikasi, Tim LESTARI terus memanfaatkan berbagai kanal untuk mensosialisasikan beragam isu, kegiatan dan pencapaian, dan temuan. Terutama, pada triwulan ini LESTARI meluncurkan LESTARI Brief (Ringkasan LESTARI) yakni suatu produk komunikasi yang dirancang untuk menyoroti berbagai tantangan dan peluang yang memerlukan aksi dan intervensi kebijakan agar dapat mempertahankan manajemen lansekap yang berkelanjutan. Bagian pertama (dari LESTARI Brief) membahas Pengelolaan Kebakaran dan Lahan terintergrasi. Kemudian dilanjutkan dengan pembahasan mengenai Dampak Kebijakan Rotan terkait Upaya Mitigasi Perubahan Iklim. Bagian terakhir adalah mengenai Partisipasi Masyarakat pada Restorasi Lahan Gambut. LESTARI briefs telah disebarkan kepada lebih dari 400 orang (MSF, pemerintah pusat dan daerah, OMS, LSM, dan sektor swasta) melalui email blast. LESTARI Brief ini


akan terus dicetak secara bulanan. Laman (website) LESTARI juga diluncurkan pada triwulan ini dan secara konsisten dimutakhirkan dengan berbagai dokumen dan berita baru. Terakhir, setelah dilakukan asesmen terhadap gender dan pelatihan integrasi gender di seluruh lansekap terkait, Laporan LESTARI Asesmen dan Strategi Gender juga telah diselesaikan pada triwulan ini. Dokumen ini dibagikan secara luas kepada USAID, KLHK, Bappenas, para mitra pemerintah kabupaten/provinsi, MSF dan seluruh tim LESTARI. Laporan Triwulan ini juga dibuat dalam bentuk Ringkasan Eksekutif yang diterjemahkan ke dalam Bahasa Indonesia dan menyajikan ringkasan kemajuan, tantangan/peluang, dan prioritas untuk 3 tema teknis LESTARI; 6 lansekap LESTARI; Koordinasi Proyek, Manajeman, Komunikasi, Monitoring dan Evaluasi; dan Dana Hibah. Lampiran pada bagian akhir laporan termasuk matriks kemajuan Triwulan Ketiga, Kerangka Hasil LESTARI, Diagram Ringkasan Program/Inisiatif Lansekap LESTARI, dan rencana perekrutan staff LESTARI yang terkini.

PRIORITAS UNTUK TRIWULAN BERIKUTNYA Dokumen publikasi “LESTARI Brief” diterbitkan dengan memuat berbagai makalah

tentang zonasi RDTR, pemanfaatan MSF, tantangan hal tata kelola kebakaran hutan dan lahan yang terdesentralisasi, pengelolaan bersama (co-management) kawasan konservasi, peta kehutanan sosial, dan patroli SMART.

Asesmen sistem patrol di Taman Nasional Lorentz dan Bukit Baka Bukit Raya dan persiapan gelar Patroli SMART yang akan dilaksanakan pada tahun ke 2.

Implementasi Sekolah Lapangan untuk RPJMDes dan manajemen bersama di Aceh dan Kalimantan Tengah yang kemudian dilanjutkan dengan penetapan rencana zonasi desa dan perjanjian pengelolaan bersama instansi pemerintah.

Lokakarya nasional tentang KPH, diselenggarakan oleh BAPPENAS dan disponsori bersama oleh USAID LESTARI, GIZ dan UKCCU.

Mendukung lokakarya kehutanan sosial dan mendukung Festival Pesona yang akan diselenggarakan pada bulan September 2016. Kegiatan ini diselenggarakan oleh KLHK dan dibantu oleh berbagai institusi dan donor termasuk LESTARI.

Menandatangani perjanjian PPP untuk perkebunan rakyat karet di Lansekap Katingan-Kahayan di Palangkaraya antara Bank Indonesia dan PT Insan Bonafide. Penandatangani perjanjian ini diadakan di kantor Bank Indonesia pada 19 Juli 2016.

Finalisasi proses survei pra-hibah untuk RFA-004 di semua enam lansekap dan seleksi akhir untuk pemberian hibah.

Persiapan PPP LESTARI yang ketiga bersama PT Givaudan Indonesia untuk pengembangan budidaya biji pala dan nilam di lansekap Aceh.

Menandatangani perjanjian kerjasama BMP dengan dua perusahaan HPH di lansekap Sarmi, Papua.

Menggunakan perangkat baru berupa Product Evaluation Tool (PET) untuk menilai potensi peluang ekowisata di lansekap Katingan-Kahayan dan Leuser, intervensi


PPP untuk menentukan nilai konservasi, manfaat bagi masyarakat dan manfaat ekonomi.

Membuat suatu perangkat analisis kelayakan (feasibility analysis) untuk implementasi skema PES pada 5 lansekap.

Mengadakan pertemuan-pertemuan di Jakarta dan di masing-masing lansekap untuk membahas rencana strategis dalam Rencana Kerja Tahun ke 2.


Figure 2. Peta Lanskap LESTARI


LESTARI PROGRAM ACTIVITIES In its third quarter of implementation, LESTARI continues to make significant progress in planning and executing activities in line with the First Annual Work Plan. Following a foundational first two quarters in which a broad array of activities were planned and launched, this quarter focused on the deepening of existing activities to achieve impact across all three technical themes. These activities are in line with LESTARI’s Theories of Change and hence will contribute to achieving our emissions reduction and biodiversity conservation goals. This section of the QPR provides an update of LESTARI’s progress, challenges and opportunities, and priorities for next quarter, per strategic approach.

TECHNICAL THEME 1: FOREST & LAND USE GOVERNANCE & ADVOCACY

Overview Technical Theme 1 focuses on supporting effective forest and land use governance practices while building strong constituencies that can advocate for their communities’ rights and interests. LESTARI implements a range of strategic approaches to support this theme and foster a shared vision for sustainable land use. This includes increasing media, government, and local level awareness; operationalizing LCPs and SEAs; and enhancing environmental governance practices at the district level. LESTARI’s theory of change for this technical theme is that through strengthened governance and advocacy (including inclusive and transparent planning, budgeting and increased funding, natural resource licensing, and monitoring and enforcement), biodiversity will be conserved and emissions ultimately reduced in LESTARI landscapes.


LESTARI 1 – Awareness and Advocacy

Progress This Quarter

Continuing to recognize the importance of strategic interventions in the foundational first year of LESTARI, alongside a wide range of initiatives across the landscapes, special awareness and advocacy emphasis continued to be placed on the major immediate threats to biodiversity conservation and GHG emissions. This was targeted within Leuser and Katingan-Kahayan Landscapes, as revealed by the Landscape Baseline Analysis and range of technical assessments and on-the-ground experiences related to fire, peatlands, and biodiversity. Hence particular attention is being given to high-vulnerability areas, e.g., specific wildlife trafficking outlets in Aceh and degraded peatlands of Pulang Pisau District, Central Kalimantan. In line with the ToC for this Strategic Approach, LESTARI interventions in all landscapes this quarter were focused on the Target audience receives message intermediate result. This was supported by the provisioning of communications and knowledge products through a wide range of channels (website, social media, email blast, MSF, and offline events). Social media activity was particularly robust in showcasing the Value Landscape in Lorentz to a broad audience both within and outside the landscape. In Aceh and Central Kalimantan, this intermediate result was suppoted by journalist training and media empowerment activities. Moreover, MSF strengthening and revitalization activities took place in all landscapes, and are detailed in the sub-section on LESTARI 3 – Environmental Governance. Formation of community-civil society champions will take place in Year 2. Journalist and General Media Capacity. A journalist training was held in Aceh from April 11-17, 2016 that aimed to raise the awareness and capacity of local and national media to report on issues faced by the local communities in the Leuser Landscape with regards to climate change, forestry, and biodiversity conservation. Attendees engaged with LESTARI partners such as KPH V, MSF, and the Elephant Conservation Unit to deepen their understanding. In addition to contributing to the long-term process of building media and journalism capacity on LESTARI issues, in the more immediate term, the event resulted in the publication of 27 relevant articles. Another significant initiative was to raise journalistic professionalism through the mobilization and initial work of Mongabay in Central Kalimantan, providing opportunities of important learning-by-doing as well as producing quality advocacy products. Mongabay has completed a media advocacy plan and strategy whereby they identified issues, key messages, target audiences, and dissemination methods. Moving forward, all key messages will focus on the importance of peatland and peatland restoration. Meanwhile, the series of fire-hero videos were finalized for deployment, e.g., to MSF and peat people (masyarakat gambut) events.

Vizualization. Progress was made in the crucial role of visualization of landscape management challenges where interventions result in winners and losers but a lack of appropriate action results in everyone losing. Crucial visualization of peatland restoration benefits to raise local awareness was provided through the results of drone imagery survey (Figure 17 and Figure 18) as well as animated artwork to be presented at the next MSF in Pulang Pisau District where GHG emissions were among Indonesia’s highest and certainly higher than in any other LESTARI landscape area. A storyboard was prepared for animation to be presented at the next MSF in Pulang Pisau to make a compelling case for the need to dam major canals in ex-PLG Block C / KHG14, comparing resulting livelihood support from higher water levels during dry seasons with dramatic destruction by fire of livelihoods in excessively drained peatlands.


Social Media Impact. LESTARI continued its active presence on social media channels (both national and landscsape accounts) to raise awareness of key forestry and biodiversity developments at both the national and landscape-level. Overall, the LESTARI social media channels target a broader audience by providing relevant information on project interventions and surrounding issues. In line with the ToC, it is a Communications Outreach mechanism aimed at general awareness raising, with a wide target audience within and beyond the landscape level. The most impressive social media successes have been in the Lorentz Lowlands Landscape where posted images of the ecosystem have approached international standards (Figure 3) – a substantial improvement from the early LESTARI Facebook posts that tended to concentrate on depicting trainings and other indoor events.

Figure 3. A selection of LESTARI Lorentz Lowlands Facebook images depicting the social, environmental

and socioeconomic endowments of the landscape.


LESTARI Briefs. A series of LESTARI Briefs was initiated to highlight challenges and opportunities for action and policy interventions to sustain landscape management. In line with the ToC for this Strategic Approach, the LESTARI Brief serves as a Communication Outreach mechanism in order to support the Target Audience Receives Message intermediate result. The target audience is GOI (national and local), MSF, and NGOs/CSOs in LESTARI landscapes. The purpose of the brief is to share knowledge about the most pressing issues facing the landscape and its communities with regards to the forestry and land use sector. It is expected that decision-makers will take the information provided by the brief as input for policymaking. In addition, the brief will be used as material to inform and guide MSF discussion, for instance at the MSF in Pulang Pisau to discuss canal blocking. Meanwhile for local NGOs/CSOs, briefs provided by LESTARI will equip them not only with knowledge, but also data and analysis that can be used by these groups to pressure government agencies to be more accountable to the needs of its communities. This is crucial as often in Indonesia, the NGO sector works on environmental advocacy issues without being supported by sufficient data/information nor a comprehensive understanding about the key issues. The first brief was on the risk that maintaining the ban on exports of semi-finished smallholder rattan will result in increasing conversion to oil palm and related GHG emissions. Another Brief was completed on the value of canal-blocking informed by hydrological survey to raise water in peatlands thereby reducing the risk of fire and haze. A third Brief introduced a practical roadmap for community forest licensing’s potential to increase sustainability of both peatlands and mineral soils. The final Brief highlighted local and sustainable farming practices in Kalampangan, Palangka Raya that successfully prevented fire in 2015. Notably, the fire-related briefs were discussed with BRG and trigged some ideas of having knowledge exchanges between local peatland communities. Draft LESTARI Briefs were prepared for the detailed spatial planning approach that provides better zonation maps in forest and private land areas as well as for integrated land and fire management that requires coordinated actions from the national down to the village levels. The Theory of Change diagram for this Strategic Approach, with LESTARI’s current areas of progress and/or focus circled in red, can be found on the following page.


Challenges and Opportunities

Heavy rains in 2016 following the 2015 El Niño dry year are diminishing public concern about the vulnerability of the peatlands to fire and haze (Figure 4). Furthermore, Provincial Public Works recently had the temerity to build a new major canal in Pulang Pisau District across one of the most severely burned areas (observed from Kilometer 33 of the main road south). The District executive and legislature as well as BRG expressed indignation at this countervailing action to their commitment to block major canals. Local newspapers, however, try to keep reminding readers of the fire threat now that small fires are returning but doused by continuing rains (Figure 5).

Figure 4. A rainstorm over the peatlands of Central Kalimantan, one of many seasonal downpours in

early to mid-2016 diverting public attention from forest and land fires, contributing to the floods made worse by the degraded peatlands reduced capacity to absorb excess water.

Figure 5. Forest fires are, however, only a dry season away, Borneo News July 17, 2016.

The practical mobile phone application, (ex-IFACS) ASEAN Fire Alert Tool was promoted in the peatlands of the Katingan-Kahayan Landscape.


LESTARI’s peatland surveys and related geospatial analyses including the sustainability screening tool integrated with bottom-up village level planning to raise the value of local livelihoods in ways that incentivize local integrated land and fire management should contribute to the construction of improved spatial planning akin to that demonstrated by the prize-winning Aogu Wetland Forest Park Masterplan (https://www.asla.org/2011awards/217.html). The LESTARI endpoint should be to ensure the result is not just an expert tool but incorporated in high-resolution detailed spatial planning (RDTR) in line with Indonesian regulations.

It has been a challenge to elicit active and regular reporting on LESTARI activities from advocacy staff in the field. This underscores the need for ongoing engagement from Jakarta to the landscapes.

Priorities for Next Quarter

Keep peatland fire prevention and suppression in the forefront of public attention, e.g., the major theme of the next meeting of Pulang Pisau’s MSF strengthened with the use of drone imagery, dissemination of LESTARI Briefs, and presentation of Fire Hero Videos as well as the report of the impacts of fire on public health.

Finalize animated posters and other compelling communications products to increase the level of understanding and awareness of deforestation, sustainable land use, biodiversity conservation, forest and land fire prevention, and other LESTARI-relevant issues amongst both national and landscape-level audiences.

Develop and implement communications strategy for publishing Singkil Concept Note, Forest and Land Fires Impact Study, and other completed technical studies/assessments.


LESTARI 2 – Operationalize Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs) and Landscape Conservation Plans (LCPs)


The development relevance of operationalizing SEA’s (KLHS) and Landscape Conservation Plans (LCPs) is moving beyond improvements to district-level spatial plans (RTRWK), most of which are now completed, under five-year review, and in some cases being revised. Mimika District is, however, revisiting the KLHS and updating it during this year’s revision of the RTRWK. The KLHS for Katingan, Palangka Raya, and Pulang Pisau have been referred to during preparation of the KLHS for the provincial RPJMD of Kalteng. KLHS have informed policymaking for the use of the village fund and an environmental regional regulation in Aceh Tenggara and Aceh Selatan, respectively. LCP zonation, on the other hand, will soon be superseded by higher-resolution detailed spatial plans (RDTR) that draw on bottom-up village-based as well as top-down expert analysis, e.g., Pulang Pisau District. They remain, nonetheless, a reference point for development of the sustainability screening tool (SST) until RDTR are in place. LESTARI continued to expand its reach to the provincial level, a necessary consequence of Law 23 of 2014 as well as an opportunity for more effective linkages between national and sub-national levels as they impact the landscapes. This was seen primarily through support for the development of the Spatial Planning Information System (SIMTARU) in Papua and KLHS RPJMD Central Kalimantan for the tenure of the new Governor, an initiative that may be replicated in Aceh for next year’s new Governor. Notably, IFACS’ supported KLHS and LCP documents have been distributed to all LESTARI technical staff with the reminder of their foundational importance for guiding changes that improve LESTARI landscape management. In future QPRs, a matrix approach will be used to catalogue how KLHS/LCP are being used. KLHS RPJMD, Central Kalimantan Province. After a slow start because of delays related to a lack of a LESTARI MoU (caused by the objections from the Ministry of KLHK, recently in part rectified by the KLHK technical agreement with LESTARI) and protracted delays until May of the inauguration of the new Governor, the KLHS RPJMD 2016-21 Central Kalimantan transitioned from technical analysis to a full-scale public process. It was decided that two scenarios would be the focus of the KLHS: a base case business-as-usual economic development and an optimal land use and related development that could reasonably be expected. The analysis and public consultation were completed with stakeholders under the direction of the BAPPEDA KLHS team. Being an iterative process, the SEA has already managed to influence the crafters of the RPJMD to include explicit reference to LEDS and consequent action in the final economic development plan. Public consultation stakeholders should serve as the membership basis for a province level MSF aimed at raising the profile of synergy between biodiversity conservation and economic growth. SIMTARU, Papua Province. SIMTARU will help achieve what has so far been elusive, dynamic transparent information exchanges between SKPD at the provincial level and between Provincial and Kabupaten IDS within LESTARI landscapes. This will include community / adat areas that Badan informasi Spasial (BIG) wishes to see incorporated in the One Map initiative. Secondly, SIMTARU will be an efficient basis for sustainable natural resource licensing. Since the handover from UKCCU Protarih, the one-stop-shop for province-level licensing has requested training to better achieve this.


Support for SIMTARU this quarter consisted of a strengthening of linkages with provincial service agencies as well as Sarmi and Mimika Districts. An important step was the linkage of SIMTARU to the one-stop-shop for natural resource licensing. The LESTARI team facilitated the MoU document between the Governor and BIG that explicitly refers to SIMTARU, as well as verified the registration of two draft Governor’s decrees for SIMTARU development, one on establishment and the other on licensing. Spatial Planning Zonation. While the current focus of SIMTARU and others working to strengthen spatial planning is to improve existing RTRWK and RTRWP (in some case even challenging their legality and environmental validity, e.g., Central Kalimantan and Aceh), the next stage of spatial planning as anticipated by law (UU27 of 2009 and PP15 of 2010) provides the last and most important opportunity to integrate expert top-down planning with local livelihood realities, namely, the RDTR. The process may even resolve some of the intractable disputes about RTRWK and RTRWP (Figure 6) through the higher-resolution RDTR characterized by integration of social and technical integration not just in state forest areas (Kawasan Hutan) but also in private land (APL), especially where the latter flanks the former. Responding to the request of Aceh Barat Daya (Abdya) District and the signing of a collaboration MoU with the Bupati, LESTARI prepared a strategy for the Rencana Detail Tata Ruang (RDTR) pilot model in the Susoh river basin (Figure 7). This Abdya work identifies Gunung Leuser National Park (TNGL) and KPH upstream of Blang Pidie in DAS Susoh as Kawasan Strategis where the Landscape Baseline Analysis had also identified high deforestation taking place. Overall, this work is better understood as support for improved zonation in the KPH, TNGL as well as APL in an area vulnerable to deforestation, not just RDTR. Furthermore, KLHS is being used to emphasize the difference between business-as-usual and better, more enforceable zonation that has the support of local communities. BAPPEDA Abdya understood that the approach must be fully embedded and not treated as an external consultancy activity. It prepared a draft SK Bupati for a Tim RDTR to this effect. The strategy includes the integration of top-down GIS analysis and bottom-up village land use, selecting as fit-to-purpose (tepat sasaran) the kind of land use zonation achieved during village boundary-setting under IFACS in the western part of the Katingan-Kahayan Landscape (Figure 8) as well as RPJMDes Field School approach’s land use mapping of livelihoods and conservation areas. RDTR takes spatial planning to the local level, facilitating local-community and private sector sense of ownership because it depends upon a tenfold level of the on-the-ground accuracy in comparison with the District spatial plans (RTRWK), from 1:50,000 to 1:5,000 scale. At this scale, the delineation and functional oddities of RTRWK can be resolved and insights gained into zoning forest management units (KPH) 5 and 6 as well as TNGL currently undergoing a review of its outdated zonation. End-points will be the identification of Kawasan Perdesaan and Peraturan Zonasi. Not only is zonation within the existing land use functions anticipated (e.g., subdividing Protection Forest Areas into Hutan Kebun and Hutan Alam that will strengthen local interest in maintaining ecological functions) but also recommendations for re-alignment of forestry function boundaries that were originally mis-drawn at lower resolutions and as such make little sense to both local land users and state forestry agencies.


Figure 6. Irreconcilable differences? The mismatch between RTRWP Kalteng and draft RTRWKab. Pulang

Pisau.

Figure 7. River network of the Susoh river basin with its source in Taman Nasional Gunung Leuser, the

source of the capital Blang Pidie’s urban and surrounding farmland.


Figure 8. Land use zonation in Terantang village, East Kotawaringin District as a fit-to-purpose model for

RDTR zonation.

The Abdya zonation approach has application to Pulang Pisau District RDTR, integrating the zonation results of the present hydrological survey of the peatlands (see next page) and the ongoing RPJMDes Field School approach there that uses as one of its reference points the land use maps of the existing RPJMDes. In sum, improved spatial planning in lowland (Pulang Pisau) and upland (Abdya) settings provide signature sub-landscape models for all LESTARI landscapes.

Peatland surveys for rational canal blocking to reduce the risk of fire and related Floods. Most of the major fieldwork of the rapid hydrological survey along 300 kilometers of canals across the 440,000 hectares of Block C (KHG 14), Pulang Pisau, was conducted during this quarter. One of the four sub-blocks (C2) was fully analyzed, including identification of the location of a proposed set of demonstration compacted-peat dams in sub-block C2 as requested by District Government / PEMDA and Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG); only some minor measurements at road bridges remain to be taken (after Lebaran). The complementary geodetic survey for the largest of the sub-blocks (C4 in the south) was completed and this survey moved to C2. The results will allow pinpointing of exactly where the major canal dams should be located. Interim results were presented to PEMDA and warmly received and written up in readiness for the expert review in July. A complementary socio-economic survey of present canal use was planned. Not only will the surveys directly help restore the peatlands by raising water levels during the dry season and managing floods during the rainy season, but the results are feeding into a refinement of the present zonation areas for conservation and limited use, in turn informing spatial planning, both RTRWK and RDTR. Local consultation for free prior and informed consent (FPIC) for the construction of the proposed compacted peat dams in the demonstration area of sub-block C2 also feeds into LESTARI support for local community contributions to integrated land and fire management. Local-community contributions to effective integrated land and fire management (IFLM). The LESTARI team commenced community engagement initiatives through an RPJMDes Field School approach in five villages (Saka Kajang, Garung, Gohong, Mantaren 1, Buntoi) in Block C / KHG 14 to ensure the integration of environmental and fire management visions in the village management plan and zonation system. Anchoring IFLM


support to an enhanced and formal village planning development tool such as RPJMDes ensures that the results will have a better chance of success particularly through the spatial basis provided by RPJMDes land use maps. This approach also accommodates efforts for collaborative forest management (starting with the Hutan Desa in Buntoi). LESTARI support for the national-level Masyarakat Gambut initiative are also strengthening BRG’s Desa Perduli Gambut program. While clearly not enough in of itself, local community IFLM can make a significant contribution (see LESTARI Brief on smallholder practices in Kalampangan, Palangka Raya). The Theory of Change diagram for this Strategic Approach, with LESTARI’s current areas of progress and/or focus circled in red, can be found on the following page.



LESTARI is now closest to realizing a landscape-based approach in the sub-landscape of Kec. Kahayan Hilir sub-District nested within the Block C peatscape of Pulang Pisau itself nested within the wider Katingan-Kahayan Landscape. It is here that the synergy between conservation and growth holds the most promise for demonstration in contrast to the often divisive divide between environmental and economic development mindsets among decision-makers. The pieces are being put in place to ensure the right kind of landscape-wide spatial certainty through spatial planning zonation (conservation and limited production ultimately to be reflected in detailed spatial planning, RDTR down to the village level) and through RPJMDes to orientate village-level development planning towards fire prevention and fire-fighting.

The greatest institutional challenge remains the establishment of a stewardship mechanism for the entire hydrological peatland unit (KHG 14) to coordinate socially responsible behavior of local communities, private sector oil palm plantations, and local government agencies as well as outside agencies. The hydrological survey of Block C / KHG14 discovered that Provincial Public Works has constructed a new major canal within the peatland while District Government and BRG are supporting canal blocking. This apparent contradiction of government interests illustrates the challenge of achieving coordinated stewardship of the peatland hydrological unit yet at the same time stiffening the resolve of BRG and District Government to act in the direction of restoration rather than short-term exploitation.


Overcoming bureaucratic processes that place the use of fire-fighting equipment from LESTARI in administrative limbo until its handover is fully-formalized by Berita Acara.

Plan for periodic M&E via drones in selected sub-landscapes to set up comparative

imagery that establishes the beneficial attribution of LESTARI initiatives in line with the main biodiversity and GHG emission goals.

Enrich the SST on a regular basis with up-to-date spatial information while allowing for smart phone utility and effective responses on the ground to citizen-based inputs.


LESTARI 3 – Environmental Governance


During this quarter, all landscapes had MSF or MSF-like structures in place. Multi-stakeholder discourse for reforms to conservation, environmental, and village fund policy were initiated. LESTARI Brief’s and newspaper articles contributed to knowledge management for policy action and reform. Bureaucratic hurdles to social forestry in LESTARI landscapes were alleviated. Of note, all LESTARI supported MSF now have at least a draft SK Bupati. MSF do not and should not have formal authority so that they are not misperceived as trying to replace that function which rightly belongs to the government executive and legislature. However, they are widely recognized as playing an important role to build understanding, respect, and trust among stakeholders in LESTARI landscapes. This is crucial to forge unified visions that each party will then pursue in its proper capacity, sometimes alone and sometimes with others. MSF membership is now more broadly based than under IFACS. Moreover, MSF complement, not overlap, government institutions by encouraging them to act in ways that benefit the management of the landscape. MSF members identify technical themes (informed by KLHS) and appropriate action teams that operate between MSF meetings. While not formal decision-making bodies, their continuation post-LESTARI will depend upon funding. This is one of the reasons for obtaining SK Bupati (or similar instrument) recognition, as outlined in the ToC (District Government issues decree to formalize / institutionalize MSFs). Unlike under IFACS, they will not need “revitalization” because of their broader-based multi-stakeholder support born of their evident utility as MSF. Ultimately, the potential for non-government as well as government budgetary support will be sought. Advancing the MSF Agenda in support of better management of LESTARI landscapes. To ensure a more systematic approach to MSF strengthening and application across all LESTARI landscapes, the LESTARI team worked on preparing a simple MSF reporting template and background guidance paper. These protocols aim to encourage accountability and continuity, as well as unifying clarification of MSF purpose as a genuine forum for multi-stakeholder discourse with necessarily wide membership. Some MSF have proven better than others at realizing this; others, mistakenly persist in treating the MSF as a project management unit (as it often was before). Many multi-stakeholder discourse needs can and should be consolidated into the one LESTARI-supported MSF. Mimika District has agreed to consolidate all its various pre-existing MSFs into the one being supported by LESTARI. Now that the early process steps for MSF are in progress, emphasis is being placed on technical themes for MSF discourse of direct utility for improved management of LESTARI landscapes, e.g., canal blocking in Pulang Pisau to reduce fire, use of Dana Desa in Aceh Tenggara, Qanun Lingkungan in Aceh Selatan, PANGLO Gotong Royong of women potential in Gayo Lues, wildlife conflict in the Aceh landscape, RDTR zonation in Abdya, Sahabat Cyclops initiative for collaborative management and zonation, Kelompok Kerja Perhutanan Sosial for Kalteng, peat dome conservation imperative in Singkil as well as related zonation, smallholder and plantation needs that conflict or coincide especially in peatlands, PPP for organic cacao in Aceh. One of the more exemplary MSFs is that for Pulang Pisau District where the next effort will be made to develop the MSF to greater utility. Preparations began for the third MSF in Pulang Pisau and Palangka Raya (scheduled for end July) to be primarily focused on a


tangible technical theme, namely, canal blocking based upon recommendations of the hydrological survey. The intention is to obtain a crucial sense of ownership on the part of all key stakeholders for both construction and maintenance phases. A draft animated presentation about the value of building appropriate dams in the peatlands was prepared as well as a Bahasa Indonesia version of the LESTARI Brief on the topic. Each MSF member will be given a full, hardcopy version of the (ex-IFACS) KLHS. The MSF will also be used to initiate the process of free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) for villages where the demonstration set of dams is located. On-going preparations for the establishment of the Katingan MSF will incorporate the above. Further preparations for upcoming series of MSF events. In addition to the Kalteng MSF work mentioned above, significant groundwork was also completed in anticipation of upcoming MSF meetings in July-September 2016. This progress is summarized as follows:

Sarmi: Follow up meeting of the first MSF Sarmi meeting conducted in May to finalize the draft SK Bupati (includes vision/mission, first year plan, and membership extension).

Pulang Pisau: MSF Dialogue Session on canal blocking in the main canals of Block C to inform and discuss with relevant stakeholders about the meaning of the canal blocking and how it will affect their livelihoods. Building a better understanding and sense of ownership are the keys of the multi stakeholder dialogue of this event.

Katingan: MSF development preparation in Katingan will be started with series of FGDs with group of government, communities and NGOs (individual group for each FGD) to identify the need to have a multi stakeholder dialogue for Katingan as the first step to build a strong foundation of ownership toward MSF, if the stakeholders agree to form an MSF. Once the final FGD with private sector is completed, the first multi-stakeholder meeting will be prepared. It is in the pipeline of second year activities.

Palangkaraya: MSF Launching and One day workshop on strategic engagement and collaboration of stakeholder in IFM to prevent fire and haze.

Mappi: MSF dialogue on mapping investments and what it means for supporting their livelihoods and managing their land and natural resources.

Boven Digoel: MSF dialogue session on results of survey of local communities to identify solutions for sustainable livelihoods. Developed a template for MSF secretariat to be used as an internal accountability mechanism to their constituencies.

Social forestry facilitation. In LESTARI landscapes, LESTARI continued to facilitate Indonesia’s ambitious social forestry program to reach 12.7 million hectares over the next five years. A LESTARI Brief introduced a roadmap for anyone seeking a social forestry license (HKm, Hutan Desa or HTR). Peoples Forest or HKm (Hutan Kemasyarakatan) licensing in Aceh Selatan District reduced the initial scope of 13 to 3 villages in the traditional Manggamat lands to avoid highly contentious areas where there is simmering social discord related to a gold mine license; once successful in the three villages, the situation for expansion will be revisited. LESTARI facilitated the submission of applications for HKm in Tusang Raya Village, Gunung Mas District. This problem recalls the bureaucratic bottleneck in the Ministry of KLHK. For this reason, LESTARI continued the policy analysis of social


forestry aimed at reducing constraints in an environmentally and socially-responsible way through deregulation and debureaucratization. Support for Forest Management Units (KPH). Analysis of the state of KPH in Mimika indicated that the single greatest constraint to progress remains the process for formulating long-term development plans without which the KPH cannot be self-reliant. LESTARI provided inputs during consultation on the Mimika KPH management plan during public consultation in Mimika and at the Ministry of KLHK. Considering that most of the KPHL staff members (21 people) still have limited understanding of KPH, their roles and responsibilities, and forest management capacity, the LESTARI team worked on preparing a capacity building training that is planned to be rolled out during the next quarter. Notably, due to the cross-cutting nature of KPH, this work was supported and synergized between the Forest and Land Use Governance (TT1) and Co-Management (TT2) technical themes. In Aceh, where KPH development is more advanced, LESTARI provided inputs during public consultations and worked on supporting the finalization of the long-term management plans for KPH 5 and 6. Zonation / Blocking input will also be provided through the RDTR initiative in Abdya (see above). Public discourse for policy reform. Public discourse for policy reform operated at the provincial level in Central Kalimantan (preparation of a Naskah Akademik related to calls for revision of the provincial plan) but more often at the district level. Public consultations for a New Environmental Funding Policy in Aceh Tenggara was informed by the ex-IFACS KLHS. Following technical meetings, the Bupati created a technical team to formulate a Bupati’s decree in Aceh Tenggara to enable the use of the village fund / Dana Desa for environmental interventions in support of the Leuser Landscape. The team includes MSF members who will support preparations for public consultation about the decree. The technical meeting explicitly drew from the IFACS SEA-LEDS for justification and direction, specifically, 39 issues from pages 51-78 of the SEA. Public Discourse for New Environmental Policy in Aceh Selatan was also informed by KLHS. A technical team consisting of MSF members began preparations for a draft Qanun / Perda to be submitted to DPRD for Environmental Management in Aceh Selatan with emphasis on the Leuser Landscape. Technical considerations explicitly drew from the IFACS SEA-LEDS for justification and direction. Sustainability Screening Tool. Arguably, the greatest utility of improved spatial planning is as a fundamental decision-making tool for regional development. During this quarter, the provincial KLHS for RPJMD with a spatial basis derived from the RTWRP Kalteng became assured. Given that the sharp-end of development is typically manifested in natural resource licensing, the development of the web-based sustainability screening tool (SST) was focused where mis-application licensing has been most damaging and represents the highest risk of GHG emissions anywhere in LESTARI landscapes, namely, Pulang Pisau District. Stakeholder engagement with government agencies in Pulang Pisau and Central Kalimantan Province was formalized resulting in the sharing of important license and land use data, increasing the potential for effective public scrutiny. Early results made clear to all parties that some oil palm licenses overlap with protection and conservation areas (Figure 9).


Figure 9. Sustainability Screening Tool highlights overlaps between existing oil palm concessions with

protection (light green) and protected / conservation (dark green) areas.

The web-based SST is now poised to assist with the village-level planning about integrated fire and land management, identification of fire-risk areas to assist with preparations for fire suppression, and determination of appropriate food-security areas. Further details regarding the SST team’s progress can be found on the callout box on the following page.


Update from the SST Team

Progress to Date

Led by LESTARI team member Winrock International, the Sustainability Screening Tool (SST) is a web platform that leverages spatial (GIS data) and non-spatial data to provide online open source “tools” that are intended to improve land use governance in LESATRI landscapes. A demonstration SST was developed for presentation to stakeholders in Central Kalimantan. The demonstration SST was presented to stakeholders over a two-week period from May 23 to June 3, 2016. The results were a success, as stakeholders from district and provincial government and private organizations expressed considerable interest in having this tool developed for their needs. Not only was there overall support and excitement for how the SST can help local stakeholders, but numerous concrete ideas were expressed by different stakeholders that we are now developing specifically for them. This showed not only a comprehension of how web based mapping tools can be use to meet their needs, but a comprehension above that that shows they can tell us how the tools should be developed. Some of the tools we are currently developing for stakeholders in this first round of SST development are:

Licensing and permitting tool development and the pursuit of ‘one map’

The goal of this is to work across government agencies to compile all the different licensed and permitted concession data with location boundaries and legal status information and make ‘one map.’ This will follow Indonesia’s ‘One Map’ Decree 26 2016.

Village/participatory mapping tool

Develop a web-based tool that will allow participatory mapping to be either scanned from a paper map, or manually digitized using high-resolution imagery into a web map application. The application will be user friendly and will not require any GIS expertise or software.

Available land for lowland rice

Pilot a web-map that will help Agriculture Agency identify lands that are suitable for lowland rice development.

Annual fire frequency map for village, concession and other areas of interests

Work with the Environment Agency to develop a set of tools that will allow them to assess fire frequency for different areas (villages, concession, etc.) so they can prioritize efforts for “socialization” of fire risk and prevention.

HCV & HCS Tool

Put together a web-map that displays data High Conservation Value (HCV) and High Carbon Stock (HCS) for any area of interest the user selects.

The SST work is harnessing the evolving technological advances that every year are improving our ability to: 1) allow landscape scale mapping of natural resources at resolution and accuracy that can properly inform policies on the ground, 2) publishing this information on the web in a user friendly format that allows the dissemination of data to a broad base of stakeholders, and 3) allows all this to be done with software that is flexible and easy to use enabling the products to be developed in an organic way for stakeholder needs. This technology is still new and evolving, challenges remain, but it is clear from stakeholder feedback that it is now sufficiently integrated into our culture to allow stakeholders from Central Kalimantan at both the provincial and district levels to understand its potential and even request and direct its development.

Next Steps

The next steps are to develop work plans for each if the SST ideas listed above, implement the work plans, and develop the first set of tools for the SST. These initial tools will be presented to stakeholders in Central Kalimantan in 3-4 months for review. At the same time we will pursue the installation of a LESTARI Server in the LESTARI office that will have all the GIS data and software for hosting the SST.

Immediate Next Steps


The Theory of Change diagram for this Strategic Approach, with LESTARI’s current areas of progress and/or focus circled in red, is shown below.



While LESTARI relations with local government are generally very good, too many LESTARI engagements take place one formal event at a time rather than on a day-to-day basis. An especial effort will be made to better embed LESTARI activities within partner agencies.

As LESTARI has pointed out in the past, the large landscape challenge invites focus on exemplary signature or model sub-landscapes. The reason is not just a matter of logistical and efficiency considerations. The more activities that are concentrated in a nested sub-landscape rather than scattered, the more likely that a larger share of local communities will benefit and be incentivized to collaborate. Attribution of LESTARI benefits will be easier to measure. At present, the best candidate for a nested sub-landscape is the Kec. Kahayan Hilir sub-landscape nested within Block C / KHG 14, itself within the wider Kahayan-Hilir landscape, site of the hydrological survey and demonstration site for canal dams as well as RPJMDes and community forestry support including increasing the productivity of rubber smallholders. It also includes one of BRG’s Desa Perduli Gambut sites.

Following the wide interest in LESTARI’s Brief on semi-finished rattan export ban that

is reducing farmgate prices and encouraging smallholder rattan agroforesters in peatlands to convert to oil palm with attendant high GHG emissions, there is an untapped potential for facilitating multi-stakeholder public discourse for policy reform. This problem of a policy-undervalued forestry resource is relevant to the more politically-challenging ban on the export of natural forest logs and sawn timber that may ultimately result in more forest concessions leaving the business and opening up forests to much more destructive harvesting by small-scale quasi-legal enterprises. Whether the forest undervaluation challenge is a timber or NTFP one, informed public discourse offers the most sustainable solution.


There is a pressing need to address concerns among the Cyclops necessarily-influential customary (Adat) leaders. The Dewan Adat Suku (DAS) complained that they were insufficiently involved in Cyclops Collaborative Management, in particular zonation of the Nature Reserve. Although the Sahabat Cyclops initiative should help to bring about a more inclusive approach to collaborative management in line with the joint declaration of January 21, 2016, an MSF modality with wider membership may prove to be a significant complementary approach (that would at the same time open up the possibility of a Province-wide MSF relevant to the needs of the LESTARI landscapes). The challenge is also a reminder that conservation zonation is not just an expert activity but needs to draw on local community perceptions and realities.

LESTARI Briefs produced with background guidance papers on RDTR zonation, MSF Utility, challenge of decentralized forest and land fire governance.


TECHNICAL THEME 2: CONSERVATION CO-MANAGEMENT

Overview LESTARI’s success at the landscape level is dependent on effective management of PAs and other critical areas. LESTARI defines the term critical area as an area identified for conservation because of its high conservation value or high carbon value. Both PA and critical area co-management target the preservation of high-carbon forests as well as habitat for key species such as the orangutan. Our theory of change for this technical theme is that through improved governance, protection and management, innovative finance, expanded and empowered constituencies for conservation, and co-management of adjacent and critical areas, PA management will be improved, emissions reduced, and biodiversity conserved. LESTARI works to support and improve conservation co-management by working at three levels: increasing capacity of the NP staff responsible for their conservation area management with partners WWF and WCS, piloting innovative financing for PAs, and improving co-management adjacent to the PA and in critical areas. As with all of the Technical Themes, this is an integrated approach, particularly to Green Enterprise development and the connection between livelihoods and successful co-management.

LESTARI 4 – Co-Management


Communities Engagement in Conservation and Forest Management. LESTARI strives to promote communities’ increasing participation in biodiversity conservation and forest management and secure benefits from forest resources in the form of co-management agreements. LESTARI’s support for this effort covers three main activities. First, at the community level, LESTARI facilitates capacity building in the communities to adopt sustainable livelihoods and manage forests sustainably. Second, LESTARI assists communities to develop forest management plans and negotiate co-management agreements with relevant institutions. The co-management agreements will consist of roles and responsibilities for both parties, communities, and relevant government agencies for forest management in a selected site. The communities will take on a crucial role in managing the forest in a sustainable manner and obtaining the benefits from the resources, depending on the type of forest allocated in the agreement. Third, if social forestry is chosen


as the type of co-management to be implemented, the LESTARI team will provide technical assistance to foster the permit submission and approval from local to national level. This quarter, work under Strategic Approach 4 focused on piloting communities’ engagement in 5 villages (Saka Kajang, Garung, Gohong, Mantaren 1, Buntoi) in the Katingan-Kahayan Landscape to ensure the integration of the environmental and fire management vision in village management plans, zonation systems, and collaborative forest management. In four villages (Buntoi, Gohong, Mantaren 1, Kalawa), the forest area covered in form of village forest (hutan desa) covers 16,257 ha. A series of meetings in these 4 villages were held to review and improve village forest management plans in Pulang Pisau District, Central Kalimantan. Community facilitation for integrated fire and land management in three pilot villages around Block C started in the fourth week of May-June, 2016. The result of this facilitation will be the incorporation of the integrated fire management vision in the RPJMDes (Village Development Plan). LESTARI has also facilitated the submission of application for community plantation forest (hutan tanaman rakyat) covering 4,604 ha in 7 villages in Gunung Mas District to the MoEF. A similar initiative was also implemented in Leuser Landscape, starting with 3 villages (Gulo/Aceh Tenggara, Sangir/Gayo Lues and Lawe Cimanok/Aceh Selatan) that later on will be leveraged in several villages around the selected 3 villages, hence providing a solid base for the sub-landscape approach. The team will facilitate the RPJMDes revision that integrates environmental and water protection vision. In addition, the LESTARI team also carried out an initial assessment on community forestry initiative (Hutan Kemasyarakatan) that was conducted in the Manggamat area. In the mid-1990s, 13 villages in the area had prepared mukim-based forest management over the area in and around their villages. The adat leaders have been enthusiastic to follow this up by getting a permit to manage the area through the social forestry initiative. However, the assessment team found a complicated political situation in the Manggamat area and suggested LESTARI to focus on community facilitation processes in two villages that are currently facilitated by a LESTARI grantee, Orangutan Information Center (OIC). OIC has completed socio-economic surveys in 2 villages (Lawe Melang and Koto Village) in Kluet Sub-district, Aceh Selatan in preparation for the implementation of the community forestry initiative. Following up the completion of the Environmental and Socio-economic resilience assessment in Mimika, the LESTARI team organized aTraining of Trainers for community facilitation and co-management training in June 2016. The training was attended by LESTARI community facilitators and representatives from local government agencies (forestry, fisheries, and cooperative), KPHL, and Lorentz National Park. It aimed to equip attendees with facilitation skills and improve their knowledge on co-management. LESTARI also actively advocates for enabling policies, such as those involving social forestry, to allow communities to get secure access to forestlands. The establishment of a social forestry working group is a mandatory requirement from Directorate General of PSKL in the provincial level, and it will play an essential role to verify all applications for social forestry at the Central Kalimantan Province. The working group will also be a foundational embryo for a Multi-Stakeholder Forum at the provincial level, in which one of the commissions will specifically discuss and advocate for issues on social forestry. In Central Kalimantan, a workshop was held in Palangkaraya on May 27, 2016 to establish a social forestry working group. This workshop aimed to: 1) Disseminate policy change with regards to Social Forestry in Indonesia; 2) Update on the achievement of targets to allocate forestlands to local communities, particularly in Central Kalimantan; and 3) Establish the social forestry working group at the provincial level, whose members include officers of relevant government agencies, NGO activists, and university representatives. This working


group will play a crucial role in the verification process of Social Forestry permit applications in Central Kalimantan Province. The meeting was also attended by representatives from Directorate General of Social Forestry and Environmental Partnership, which has been very supportive of the initiative. As a result of the workshop, a draft of governor decree (Surat Keputusan Gubernur) on working group tasks and members was developed. In addition, a first year action plan has also been developed and will be followed up further by the task force. Also in support of communities’ efforts to acquire secured access to forest and improved sustainable livelihoods, LESTARI completed selection of grantees for co-management and livelihoods initiatives (joint efforts from TT2 and TT3). Details on the grant selection processes are described in the Grants section of this QPR. A talk show on Financing Collaborative Management entitled, “Pengelolaan Hutan Kolaboratif: Siapa yang akan Mendanai?” was organized during Indo Green Expo in Jakarta on May 28, 2016. The talkshow invited speakers from the Leuser Landscape, which included an ecotourism practitioner, village head, and the head of KPH V to share their views and experiences on the subject. In addition, the talkshow also featured representatives from KLHK and Yayasan Sahabat Cipta. Co-Management of Conservation Area. LESTARI continues to promote a collaborative approach to conservation management. To follow up the co-management agreement for Cyclops Nature Reserve, which has been signed by multi-stakeholders in January 2016, LESTARI has been supporting the implementation of the agreement. In doing so, LESTARI facilitated the development of district regulation on Cyclops Buffer Zone management to secure long-term commitments (including budget allocation) from district government. The event was entitled Initial consultation of the first draft of the Jayapura Municipality regulation (Raperda) on the management and conservation of Cyclops Nature Reserve buffer zone area. The event was hosted by the Legal Unit of Jayapura Municipality and attended by government officers from relevant government agencies at the municipality and provincial levels, and community representatives for Ormu and Port Numbay. Two important points that were suggested to be included in the regulation included highlighting the role of Cyclops Nature Reserve as water resources for Jayapura City and the need to regulate mobility of migrant citizens who live in the buffer zone area. The public consultation of the district regulation draft follow up activity was held on June 2, 2016. Inputs from the public have been systematically integrated in the updated version of the district regulation draft. In Mimika, LESTARI closely engaged multi-stakeholders to develop a partnership agreement to support biodiversity conservation in and around Lorentz National Park. A workshop to foster a partnership between BKSDA, PT Freeport Indonesia, and Lorentz National Park to support biodiversity conservation in the Lorentz Lowlands Landscape was held on May 10-11, 2016. The workshop concluded with the signing of partnership agreement between BKSDA Papua, Lorentz National Park, Mimika District Government, adat communities’ representatives (LEMASKO and village head of Fanamo), PT Freeport, and LESTARI. The agreement covers three major areas that all of the signatories will work together on: first, data management and research of biodiversity conservation in Mimika District; second, communities’ empowerment and engagement in biodiversity conservation; third, law enforcement with regards to biodiversity conservation. Action plans have also been developed to implement the commitment, which include joint patrol, joint research and survey, standard operation procedure (SOP) for handing confiscated wildlife, and community engagement activities, among others. Forest Management Unit (FMU/KPH) Support. In this quarter, LESTARI started to have a more programmatic approach to support several forest management units (Kesatuan Pengelolaan Hutan/KPH) outside conservation areas to improve the FMUs’ capacity to


manage their forest area and adopt a collaborative approach. In May 2016, LESTARI supported 2 FMUs in Leuser Landscape, KPHL V and KPHL VI to carry out public consultations to garner public inputs for their long term management plans at the district and provincial level. This event was organized to allow broader stakeholders to provide meaningful inputs to the long term management plan. A crucial aspect of the public consultation is ensuring that the management plans provide a space for local communities to participate in the forest management through partnership agreements between communities and KPHL V and KPHL VI. The LESTARI team also supported KPHL in Mimika, Papua by providing technical assistance to improve its long term management plan. The LESTARI team provided inputs during consultation on the management plan in the MoEF headquarters and was followed up with a public consultation in Mimika on June 23, 2016. Considering that most of KPHL staff members (21 people) still have limited understanding on KPH, their roles and responsibilities, and forest management capacity, the LESTARI team is currently preparing a capacity building training for them that is planned to be rolled out during the next quarter. In addition, the LESTARI team also prepared support to BAPPENAS, in collaboration with GIZ and UKCCU, to organize a national workshop on KPH to be held in Jakarta sometime in August 2016.



The social forestry initiatives provide ample opportunities for communities to acquire long term secured access to forests. However, the current unclear mechanisms to obtain the permits under the social forestry scheme could hamper the progress of establishing co-management agreements. Hence, LESTARI will also explore other forms of co-management agreements such as partnership agreements with conservation area managers or private sector entities.

BAPPENAS has requested LESTARI support to co-funding a national workshop on FMU management.


Capacity building training for KPHL in Mimika on collaborative forest management.

Implementation of Field School for RPJMDES and co-management in Aceh and Central Kalimantan and followed by the development of village zonation plan and co-management agreements with relevant government agencies.


Continue support for KPH 5 and KPH 6 to finalize their management plan.

Support social forestry workshop and festival (Festival Pesona) to be held on September, 2016. The event is organized by MoEF and will be co-supported by various institutions and donors, including LESTARI.


LESTARI 5 – Protected Area Management


Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (METT). This quarter, the LESTARI team focused on streamlining the use of METT assessment in evaluating the effectiveness of conservation area management in all LESTARI landscapes. In doing so, the team used two approaches: first, carrying out a workshop to improve conservation area managers’ capacity to use METT as a tool to evaluate the effectiveness of CA management and second, facilitating conservation area managers to develop action plans to improve the METT score in their respective conservation areas. In carrying out the workshop to disseminate the METT approach and develop an action plan to improve the METT score, LESTARI engages not only conservation area mangers but also multistakeholders to enhance their understanding of the tool and garner their inputs for protected area management effectiveness. This approach is crucial to improve constituencies for conservation and enhance their participation in the upcoming participatory METT mid-term evaluation to be held towards the end of 2017. LESTARI supported a Training of Trainers of METT event, which was been held in Banyuwangi on April 10-16, 2016. The event was co-funded by Ditjen KSDAE, LESTARI, WCS IP and GIZ Forclime and aimed at enhancing capacity of core METT facilitators across Indonesia to carry out METT assessment. There were 40 participants, which included representatives of technical service unit (Unit Pelayanan Teknis/UPT) of Ditjen KSDAE, academics and NGOs and facilitated by two facilitators from IUCN. The core trainers are expected to lead facilitation of METT assessment process in CAs across Indonesia, especially during mid-term evaluation on 2017 and final evaluation on 2019. They are also expected to train relevant partners on METT assessment; A series of METT workshops were held in Rawa Singkil Wildlife Sanctuary, Leuser National Park, Sebangau National Park, Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park, and Tangkiling Ecopark. These workshops were aimed at disseminating the results of METT score assessment of each conservation area to increase the sense of ownership of the CA managers toward the result, hence generating their commitment to improve the METT score and develop an action plan to improve their METT score.

In Rawa Singkil Wildlife Sanctuary, the workshop was held in Banda Aceh on April 26-27, 2016. The action plan will then be integrated in the revision of Rawa Singkil management plan. The workshop participants included: representatives from BKSDA Aceh, KPH VI, Tahura Pocut Meurah Intan, Tahura Lae Kombih, Syiah Kuala University, Bappeda Singkil, Bappeda Aceh Selatan, Bappeda Subulussalam, Leuser International Foundation, WCS, and LESTARI staff.

In Leuser National Park, the event was held in Medan on May 31-June 2, 2016 involving the park staff members and partners (universities, relevant government agencies, NGOs, LESTARI). In conjunction with the event, the LESTARI team also met with the park staff members to discuss program synergy.

METT workshops for Sebangau National Park, Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park, and Tangkiling Ecopark were held on June 28-29, 2016 and engaged the managers of those conservation areas. The workshop resulted in action plans to improve METT scores in those areas.


In overall METT activities, LESTARI is closely engaged with the national working group of METT of MoEF to ensure synergy and integration with the national target for METT score improvement of conservation areas. SMART Patrol. LESTARI strives to support conservation area managers to improve their protected area management through promoting the adoption of innovative tools for conservation. One such tool is the SMART-based patrolling system. The adoption of new technology for patrolling will enable the conservation area managers to gather, enter, and interpet data on patrol results, allowing them to better identify threats to conservation and implement more timely decisions and responses to improve conservation area protection and management . This quarter, LESTARI expanded the roll out of SMART patrol support to Cyclops Nature Reserve. The training and roll out of SMART patrol in several conservation areas will engage community patrols (Masyarakat Mitra Polhut) to not only enhance their skills to monitor and patrol conservation areas, but also to make commitments to improve habitat protection. In preparation of rolling out SMART patrol, a rapid assessment was held in Cyclops Nature Reserve and Sebangau National Park to discuss: 1) existing patrol system and patrol intensity; 2) priority areas for patrolling; and 3) resources (human resources and budgeting). In the case of Cyclops Nature Reserve, the assessment engaged BKSDA Papua and local Forestry Agency (Dinas Kehutanan), and community patrol (Masyarakat Mitra Polhut). Based on these discussions, it has been acknowledged that there is a need to improve the intensity of patrolling systems in priority areas. In addition, it has been agreed to improve the standards and procedures through conducting SMART Patrol training and implementing patrol. To follow this up, SMART patrol training was held in Cyclops Nature Reserve on May 12-20, 2016. The training for Sebangau National Park will be held sometime in October 2016. SMART patrol training in Cyclops Nature Reserve included five days of training on database system management and two days on data collection practices. This involved rangers from BKSDA Papua (Cyclops Nature Reserve), provincial forestry agencies, and two representatives from Lorentz National Park (training involving broader rangers in Lorentz National Park will be held sometime in September/October 2016). The training included 21 officers that will be upgraded to be data managers and data operators to implement and maintain the system in the future. As follow up to the training on integrated database system and rangers data collection techniques, SMART Patrol will be an important and strategic method to improve the previously disorganized data. BKSDA Papua and the LESTARI team are carrying out 4-months patrol and database system trial that started in June 2016. Three community ranger teams in Moy, Sereh, and Angkasa Villages have been engaged in the patrol. The patrol budget is co-funded by BKSDA Papua and LESTARI. Two officers of BKSDA Papua

What is SMART?

SMART (Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool) is an application

tool that can be utilized for managing an integrated real time database by forest rangers in the field. This system is connected to a smartphone so that it can be effectively used in managing data

from the field.


coordinate and hold the integrated database system in the office in Jayapura and are supported by 3 trained officers assisted by LESTARI staff that together will monitor the 3 ranger teams (45 community rangers) to conduct the continuous patrol and data collection. After the completion of the system trial, an initial evaluation will be held and a long term roll out of SMART patrol will be implemented.

In the Leuser Landscape, led by LESTARI team member WCS, LESTARI is supporting 3 SMART patrol teams in Leuser National Park and 3 teams SMART patrol teams in Rawa Singkil Wildlife Sanctuary. The teams have broadened their routine patrols in several strategic areas in the Leuser Landscape, which includes the FMU V area that is in adjacent to Leuser National Park in Aceh Selatan District, Jambur Gele and Marpunge Resort (Gayo Lues District), and Lawe Gurah Resort (Aceh Tenggara District). The focus area for the patrol teams is the area with high biodiversity values. During this quarter, the patrol teams carried out patrols for 110 days with total distance covered of 450 km. They found that the main threats to biodiversity conservation in this area are high illegal logging and land clearing, particularly in Gayo Lues District. The patrol teams increased their level of effort by broadening their patrol operation and lengthening the patrol duration. Currently, Leuser National Park is developing a strategy to improve SMART implementation that engages all national park partners and the police department. Also during this quarter, LESTARI supported 3 new SMART patrol teams in Rawa Singkil Wildlife Sanctuary. The teams are in the initial phase of understanding problems with regards to typology and distribution. In this area, the team found high encroachment and illegal logging (82 active illegal logging and 23 sites of illegal clearing). The team also found 52 accesses to the conservation area. LESTARI will support the managers of Rawa Singkil Wildlife Sanctuary to develop its management plan that could better accommodate partnership with various stakeholders, especially communities, in the conservation area management.

Figure 10. BBKSDA Papua staff member supervising the process of manual data recording, used in conjunction with smartphone-based data management.


Wildlife Crime Unit. LESTARI supports a Wildlife Crime Unit (WCU), which operates in the Leuser Landscape. The WRU continues to gather information about wildlife crimes and methods to reduce human-wildlife conflict in the landscape. Based on the report by WCU team, 2 illegal wildlife traders have been captured by a joint police team in Aceh. The criminal evidence has also been secured by the police. Several illegal wildlife traffickers have been captured by police and the cases are being processed in the court. One notable case involves illegal wildlife traffickers that tried to smuggle ivory and tiger skin. Two people are currently detained by the police as the case is processed in the court. In collaboration with BKSDA Aceh, WCU team has also released an Asian golden cat (Catopuma temminckii), which was illegally trapped in Gayo Lues District. Wildlife Response Unit. LESTARI supports one Wildlife Response Unit (WRU) team in the Leuser Landscape. The team continues activities to increase communities’ awareness on the importance of biodiversity conservation and mitigating human-wildlife conflicts. The WRU team has established two teams for community based human-wildlife conflict mitigation in Teris and Lesten Village, Gayo Lues District. Along with both communities in Terlis, the WRU team has implemented preventive measures to mitigate conflicts between human and wildlife (e.g., elephant and Sumatran tiger). In addition, WRU also monitors the pattern of human-wildlife conflicts by putting camera traps four spots in Lawe Sambekan village (Aceh Tenggara District). The WRU team, along with BKSDA Aceh, have been carrying out a public campaign to increase awareness of local communities so that they stop supporting illegal wildlife trafficking in Gayo Lues and Aceh Tenggara. They also participated in the release of captured wildlife to the national park area. The team has assisted the communities in Terlis Village to establish tiger proof enclosures (TPEs). Key Species Conservation. LESTARI supports GOI targets for key species conservation through several initiatives in conservation areas under LESTARI Landscapes. In Leuser National Park, LESTARI continued efforts to monitor the distribution and density of key species, in this case, Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae), rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis), and prey species of the Sumatran tiger. Better understanding of biological and ecological aspects of the key species will enable the park to devise and implement a better conservation strategy. The LESTARI team has established 2 teams to place camera traps. Thus far they have been able to place 104 cameras in 50 posts in cluster IV of Leuser Landscape. Moreover, two grants have been initiatied specifically targeted for key species conservation. LESTARI grantee, Orangutan Information Centre, works to support collaborative Sumatran Orangutan conservation in the western part of Leuser National Park. It has completed a survey of human-orangutan conflicts in another two villages (Kampung Sawah and Kampung Padang) to prepare for the establishment of a Human-Orangutan Conservation Response Unit. A new grant for Orangutan conservation in Kalimantan has been awarded to Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF). The foundation plans to kick off activities in next quarter. Conservation Area Management Plan. LESTARI supports KSDAE target to establish and ensure the operationalization of Forest Management Unit – Conservation (KPHK) in Rawa Singkil Wildlife Sanctuary and KPHK Cyclops-Yuteva. An important element of this establishment is developing a long term management plan. This quarter, LESTARI collaborated with BKSDA Papua to carry out a public consultation meeting held on June 2, 2016 in Jayapura to gain public inputs toward the long-term management plan of KPHK Cyclops-Yuteva. The meeting was attended by relevant government agencies at the district and provincial level, adat community representatives, NGOs, and private sectors. Conservation Area Zoning System and Spatial Data Management. Following up discussions with Ditjen PIKA (Pemolaan dan Informasi Kawasan Konservasi Alam) and


responding their request to support finalization of CAs zonation/blocking system and integration of the system into One Map Policy, LESTARI plans to hire a STTA to help with the integration of zonation system (scale 1:50,000). He/she will start this assignment in the next quarter. Currently, three conservation areas in the LESTARI landscape have completed their zonation system, which include Sebangau, Bukit Baka Bukit Raya, and Lorentz National Parks. Therefore, the focus during the next quarter will be on integrating the zonation plans of those conservation areas into the One Map. Moreover, LESTARI also facilitated Leuser National Park, Rawa Singkil Nature Reserve, and Cyclops Nature Reserve to finalize their zonation plans. On June 17, 2016, LESTARI supported Leuser National Park to hold a public consultation of its zonation plan in Medan. The meeting was attended by representatives from government agencies in Aceh and North Sumatra Province; MSF from Aceh Selatan, Gayo Lues and Aceh Tenggara; NGOs; and universities. Some important recommendations from the event included: 1) allow more space for communities to participate in biodiversity conservation initiative and obtain benefits from the national park; 2) maintain existing core zone of the national park to ensure effective biodiversity conservation. An assessment has also been conducted with the Cyclops Nature Reserve and Lorentz National Park on existing spatial data and capacity building needs to improve the spatial management in the park engaging CA managers. Training in GIS applications for improving the effectiveness of CA management will be held in both Cyclops and Lorentz National Park during the next quarter. The Theory of Change diagram for this Strategic Approach, with LESTARI’s current areas of progress and/or focus circled in red, can be found on the following page.



There has been increasing interest from CA managers in LESTARI landscapes to roll out SMART Patrols in their respective conservation areas. In the next quarter, the LESTARI team will focus on rolling out SMART Patrol in Sebangau National Park and Cyclops Nature Reserve and carrying out assessments in BBBR National Park and Lorentz National Park.

Formalization of partnerships between LESTARI and some CA managers has been hindered by the delayed finalization processes of technical agreement between USAID and KLHK.


SMART patrol training in Sebangau National Park in October 2016.

Assessment of patrol systems in Lorentz National Park and Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park and preparation of SMART Patrol roll out to be held in year 2.

Briefs: 1) Co-management in the conservation area brief; 2) social forestry roadmap brief (in alignment with TT1); 3) SMART Patrol.

Support the drafting and finalization of management plan of KPHK Rawa Singkil.

Support the finalization of management plan of KPHK Cyclops-Yuteva.

Training for spatial data management and zonation in Cyclops Nature Reserve.


TECHNICAL THEME 3: PRIVATE SECTOR ENGAGEMENT

Overview As with all other Technical Themes, Private Sector Engagement takes an integrated approach to the development of livelihoods, responsibilities of environmental governance, and shared roles in co-management of natural resources. This theme is executed by supporting green enterprise development, BMP adoption, and innovative financing. Through establishing public-private partnerships for green enterprises, LESTARI supports alternative livelihoods while reducing pressure on forest resources. LESTARI also engages with timber concessions, palm oil plantations, and other private sector actors operating in its landscapes to apply BMPs focused on improving efficiency and acquiring sustainability certification. This work also focuses on operationalizing CMMPs developed under IFACS. Thirdly, our innovative financing approach entails finding new financing schemes and sources. Our theory of change for Technical Theme 3 is that if private sector entities develop PPPs for green enterprises, adopt best management practices for sustainability, and create additional sustainable financing access, then emissions will be reduced and biodiversity conserved.

LESTARI 6 – Green Enterprises


During this quarter, LESTARI continued its work developing PPPs for Green Enterprises, based on sound technical assessments and inline with the ToC to build enabling market conditions which ultimately reduce pressures on LESTARI’s forest and biodiversity focal interests. LESTARI’s first Public-Private Partnership (PPP), in support of organic cacao development, was officially signed on May 10, 2016 in Jakarta between LESTARI and PT Kampung Kearifan Indonesia, the holder of JAVARA trademark. The PPP is currently under implementation in three districts in Aceh – Aceh Tenggara, Gayo Lues and Aceh Selatan. By fostering the PPP for organic cacao, both LESTARI and JAVARA hope to combine strengths in widening access to technology and innovations, linking farmers to better


markets, facilitating the development of sustainable green enterprises that support community-scale businesses critical to local livelihoods, and importantly, reducing the pressure on forests by increasing income/job opportunities for communities in the targeted landscape. The PPP also incorporates a committment from communities to refrain from further expansion into forest areas. The initial activities that took place from May to June primarily focused on socialization for farmer groups as well as identification of potential champions. So far these initial activities have been fully conducted in Aceh Selatan while in Gayo Lues and Aceh Tenggara the activities are still ongoing. Socialization will be followed up with setting up an Internal Control System (ICS) in each of the focus districts. The ICS will comprise the core of the cacao activities in controlling and monitoring the cacao on and off-farm activities against the organic standard/certification requirements. This includes how to integrate the objective of reducing deforestation and improve biodiversity into the scheme. Coordination with JAVARA is also being conducted on a regular basis, especially regarding key issues such as pricing and organic certification standards.

Figure 11. Socialization of organic cacao PPP with female farmers

Figure 12. Socialization of organic cacao PPP in Cinta Damai Village, Aceh Tenggara.

The second PPP within the Leuser landscape in Aceh is currently under development. The local commodities to be supported are nutmeg (pala) and patchouli (nilam), in Gayo Lues


and Aceh Selatan, with potential private sector partner PT. Givaudan Indonesia (Givaudan). Givaudan is a multinational corporation and global leader in flavors and fragrances. It operates in all major regions of the world with a strong presence in Indonesia. With more than 90 locations worldwide, 30 production sites, and over 9,500 employees, Givaudan provides access to better and improved markets for local famers in the landscapes. Givaudan is also operating under strong policies in sustainable sourcing and sustainable innovation that goes hand in hand with LESTARI’s project goals. Currently, LESTARI is under intensive communication with PT. Givaudan to finalize the PPP agreement. The signing of the agreement is expected to take place in August/September 2016. Moreover, these activities will be closely integrated with the work under grant mechanism for nutmeg with local NGO FORPALA in Aceh Selatan. The LESTARI team will ensure that these activities are optimized and synergized in order to work efficiently while amplifying benefits. In the Katingan-Kahayan Landscape, LESTARI is supporting PPPs for the community rubber sector – a proven LEDS that can bring about long-term climate-compatible economic growth. The signing event will take place on July 19, 2016 in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan. This work is based on the previous work under IFACS which had demonstrated a viable model to improve the rubber value chain that provided benefits at scale. The key aspect of the model is that rubber farmers are organized into rubber marketing groups known as Kelompok Usaha Bersama Karet (KUBK). The KUBK model also includes collaboration and partnerships with rubber processing factories, input suppliers, and financial institutions that serve the needs of the community rubber sector. This PPP will expand the work on the KUBK model in existing areas, focusing on the rehabilitation of the burnt rubber plantations, and also extend to new geographic areas and villages. A significant percentage of the rubber plantations and rubber forests in Pulang Pisau and Palangkaraya districts were burnt during the previous fire season. Previous technical assessments conducted by LESTARI indicate that the farmers did not conduct proper maintainance within their plantation due to the unfavorable price of natural rubber in the market. Thus the farmers tended to simply abandon their rubber trees and let the fire damage the plantation. Therefore, besides focusing on rehabilitation of the rubber plantation, this PPP also aims to educate farmers in implementing good agriculture practices and integrated fire management to minimize fire risk and improve harvesting techniques. This should enhance the quality and quantity of rubber so that they will be able to fetch a higher price. Considering that most of the rubber plantations in Pulang Pisau are located on peatland area, minimizing the fire risk will help reduce the land degradation rate and have a tremendous impact on carbon emissions. In total there will be 3 PPP documents to be signed with three different partners: Bank Indonesia (collaborating in funding and training for rubber farmers), CV Mitra Sidirepo (providing local rubber tools/equipment/organic supplement as well as contributing tools for dem-plots) and crumb-rubber factories (providing training and privilege treatment on good agricultural practices and fire mitigation for selected farmers with qualified products). Implementation of the activities will be in Pulang Pisau District in the villages of Sakakajang, Garung, Buntoi, Kalawa, Gohong, Mantaren1, Kanamit, Gandang, Gandang Barat, Sei Baru Tewu, and Talio.

Also during this quarter, an assessment on sustainable livelihood development through local commodities and value chain mapping in Mappi-Bouven Digoel Landscape proceeded through the data gathering process. This activity will be combined with the result of the land suitability assessment to develop a strategy plan throughout the landscape. The expected output is a strategic plan to foster partnerships with private sector entities to rationalize land use (especially in the land conservsion sector, such as palm oil) and develop and improve the livelihoods of local communities. The final report is being finalized and will be shared with MSF members and other relevant stakeholders.


Work under the Green Enterprises strategic approach is also supported through the grant mechanism under RFA-004. The LESTARI team received a total of 106 proposals from all 6 landscapes and after a thorough technical review, it has been screened down to 14 potential grantees. The activities under the RFA will support collaborative management and sustainable livelihood initiatives by improving the management of land use activities. Further details can be found in the Grants section of this QPR.

The Theory of Change diagram for this Strategic Approach, with LESTARI’s current areas of progress and/or focus circled in red, can be found on the following page.



LESTARI can develop the identified high-potential commodities in Aceh by facilitating expanded market access and greater added value for these products. There are also sufficient numbers of private sector entities that are interested to be involved in developing these local produce.

Most local commodities in Aceh are located within forested areas. Thus, collaboration and coordination with the forest authority is crucial in addition to sustainably managing the harvest and forest at the same time.

The work under RFA-004 will be inevitably overlap in some areas with LESTARI landscape team, thus coordination is crucial to make sure that all activities are well integrated to support the achievement of LESTARI goals.

LESTARI has initiated a series of activities for supporting Buloh Semak Village in Aceh Selatan (Singkil region) in the sustainable production of forest honey. This commodity holds tremendous potential (estimated at 50,000 liters/year) as the target of green enterprise development. However, the exploitation of forest honey is closely related to some serious conflicts between the locals and authorities. The LESTARI team needs to move smartly and cautiously to avoid any further complications in the area since we are working with both parties.


Internal coordination between the LESTARI landscape team and the JAVARA team on pricing and organic certification mechanism. Discussions will also involve potential champions from the cacao farmer community. To be held in Gayo Lues.

Signing PPP agreements for community rubber in Katingan-Kahayan Landscape in Palangkaraya with Bank Indonesia and PT. Insan Bonafide. The event will be held in the Bank Indonesia office on July 19, 2016.

Finalization of the pre-award process for RFA-004 for all 6 landscapes and awarding the final selections.

Preparation for LESTARI’s third PPP with PT Givaudan Indonesia for sustainable

nutmeg and patchouli development in Aceh landscape. Especially for nutmeg, this

work will need to be coordinated closely with related work under the grant

mechanism.


LESTARI 7 – Private Sector Best Management Practices (BMPs)


During this quarter, the engagement with HPH companies in the Katingan-Kahayan Landscape progressed into the signing of collaboration agreements between LESTARI and 9 HPH concessions on June 30 and July 1, 2016. The nine concessions are: PT. GSP, PT. Dwima Jaya, PT. Sikatan Wana Raya, PT. Kayu Waja, PT. Hutan Domas Raya, PT. Fitamaya Asmapara, PT Carus Indonesia, PT Hutan Mulia, and PT. Sarana Piranti Utama. The agreements address BMP collaboration (RIL-C and HCV training), potential PPP collaboration, and if feasible, also the development of co-management agreements. Priority will be given to the implementation of the BMP program starting this year, while PPP and co-management will be rolled out starting in the second year. The common objectives of the collaboration between LESTARI and the concessions are:

Reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from land-based forest management activities;

Improve the conservation management of areas with high conservation value (HCV).

Improve the welfare of forest-dependent communities through environmentally- friendly economic development activities.

Support a collaborative management approach – with necessary written agreements to manage forest resources in a sustainable and equitable manner that ensures lasting benefits for local communities.

The Parties also agreed to the specific objectives:

Increased company capacity for Reduced Impact Logging Practices to Reduce Carbon Emissions (RIL-C).

Increased company capacity in conservation management of HCV forest.

Improvement and/or development of economic activities of forest-dependent communities through the utilization of non-timber forest products, and the cultivation of environmentally friendly agriculture.

The realization of a joint agreement between the community and the parties in order to maintain and preserve the environment.

The first BMP program to be rolled out will be the implementation of RIL-C trainings. This is to further support the concessions in improving the logging practices so that it will minimize the impact to the environment while also reducing GHG emissions. LESTARI will engage a third party under sub-contractor mechanism to conduct the RIL-C trainings. Activities in the field are expected to commence in September/October 2016. The RIL-C trainings will be conducted in two stages. The first stage involves a baseline-gap analysis to identify the current situation and baseline setting for each concession, while the second stage is the RIL-C training itself. The training will be tailored according to the needs of each concession based on the baseline-gap report. Similar activities with HPH concessions in Sarmi are also commencing. There are two concessions that are interested in collaborating with LESTARI (PT. Wapoga Mutiara Timber and PT. Salaki Mandiri Sejahtera) to receive RIL-C training. The collaboration agreements are currently under finalization and the signing is expected to take place in July 2016. The LESTARI team will conduct a similar process as in the Katingan-Kahayan Landscape for recruiting the RIL-C trainers. The majority of the training is expected to occur next year. .



LESTARI is working with USAID to explore opportunities to provide technical training in Reduced Impact Logging (RIL) in natural forest timber concessions (HPHs) that were established before December 30, 2013. This provides an essential opportunity for collaboration with the logging companies and ultimately support their adoption of low emissions and conservation oriented business practices.

LESTARI will also work closely with its RIL training implementer to ensure a robust training curriculum that effectively incorporates biodiversity conservation practices into its standard RIL guidelines.


Sign BMP collaboration agreements with two HPHs in Sarmi Landscape, Papua.

Start the recruitment process of RIL-C trainers through the appropriate mechanism for all eleven HPH concession partners.

Initiate the first stage baseline gap analysis for RIL-C trainings for the HPH concessions in Katingan-Kahayan Landscape.

Engage further with two major oil palm groups (MAKIN group and BEST Agro Group). BMP issues with oil palm sector include HCV management, peat management (fire and flood), and wildlife conflict mitigation.


LESTARI 8 – PES and REDD+ Innovative Finance


The LESTARI team continued to build on its work from the previous quarter aimed at assessing and ultimately leveraging funding mechanisms in support of sustainable landscapes. During this quarter, this strategic approach continued to focus on two key areas: (1) ecotourism potential assessment led by Sustainable Travel International (STI) and (2) leveraging innovative financing mechanisms for community-level PES and REDD+ led by PT Hydro. For ecotourism, this work has focused on identifying and developing opportunities in the Leuser (TNGL area) and Katingan-Kahayan Landscapes (TN Sebangau and TN BBBR areas). One of the main problems facing the ecotourism industry in this region is the low number of tourist arrivals. LESTARI is working with stakeholders in these landscapes to improve the ecotourism product, improve the ease of access, increase tourism arrivals, increase total visitor spending that stay in the identified communities, and ensure the sustainable development of tourism. Initial workshops were conducted in January-February of this year in both landscapes. Subsequently, the LESTARI team has been preparing an action plan to be implemented in the field after the Lebaran holiday. The aim of the LESTARI ecotourism activities is to facilitate the development of ecotourism as a sustainable alternative livelihood opportunity for targeted communities adjacent to important conservation areas in the Aceh and Central Kalimantan Landscapes.

As for the innovative financing-related work, the LESTARI team edited and redesigned the 5 project concept notes (PCN) that were initially developed under IFACS and submitted by LESTARI for ICCTF funding. Unfortunately none of the 5 PCNs were selected for funding by ICCTF. Although the 5 PCNs are not part of LESTARI implementation activities, LESTARI continues to provide full support in preparing the projects for potential donor funding. LESTARI will also provide technical and administrative support to the projects once they are up and running. The 5 PCNs are all sustainable land use projects with a focus on community engagement. Two projects are located within Leuser landscape, one project in Katingan-Kahayan Landscape, one project in Papua Landscape, and one project in West Kalimantan (former IFACS landscape).


Implement a new Product Evaluation Tool (PET) to rate the potential of ecotourism opportunities in Katingan-Kahayan and Leuser Landscapes, screening PPP interventions for conservation value, community benefit, and economic viability.

Visitor survey to deepen understanding of the domestic ecotourism market, characteristics, and motivations

Finalize redesigning (technical and budgetary) the 5 PCNs.

Identify potential donor funding sources for the 5 PCNs.

Produce a toolkit and conduct feasibility analysis for implementing PES schemes in 5 landscapes.


PROJECT COORDINATION, MANAGEMENT, AND COMMUNICATIONS Success and sustainability of LESTARI hinges on effective horizontal and vertical coordination and communication both within and beyond the project. LESTARI uses a mixed-matrix management approach, as landscape staff are supported technically by the Jakarta office but report to staff inside the landscape offices. Within the project, the COP facilitates integration and collaboration among staff and subcontractors to ensure synergy among technical themes, and work with partners to ensure landscape-level best practices and lessons learned inform provincial and national-level policy.

Coordination and Management During this quarter, LESTARI provided continued senior management support to ensure the ramp-up of landscape-level field activities that form the foundation for achieving contract deliverables and results. Besides increasing the number of field activities, emphasis this quarter was given to building synergies between technical themes and creating a vision among staff and partners for a landscape approach. Highlights include the following:

Regular senior management and technical team support visits to landscapes, including implementation of a policy requiring senior technical staff to spend a minimum of two weeks per month working in the landscapes to support and mentor LESTARI staff and partners in relevant sustainable landscapes and biodiversity conservation work.

Island-based (Aceh, Kalimantan, and Papua) mid-year review meetings were held in Jakarta, in April, to assess progress and adjust approaches to landscape-level work plans. These meetings were essential in setting the tone for integrated and synergized landscape approach to field activities.

Regular Senior Management Meetings, held each Monday morning at 9:00 AM and including senior staff while also open to other technical staff and subcontractors, to ensure coherence and impact of LESTARI work.

Regular senior management engagement with LESTARI subcontractors to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of technical support to the project.

Roll-out and modification of the LESTARI MIS to ensure regular, accurate, and efficient monitoring and management of landscape field activities.

Routine engagement with GOI and CSO partners at the landscape and national levels to ensure LESTARI clearly supports priorities of mutual interest.

Ramp-up of landscape field activities through LESTARI’s Grants under Contract program, including awards for orangutan conservation in Sumatra and Kalimantan as well as shortlisting of 14 grants that will support forest conservation and livelihoods development (with these grants expected to be launched next quarter).

Regular communications with USAID through weekly meetings, field visits, and other meetings as necessary.


Communications The LESTARI Advocacy and Communications team is tasked with effectively communicating LESTARI project achievements, results, best practices, and lessons learned to a broad audience at the international, national, and local levels. During this quarter, the LESTARI website went live. Since then, it has served as an important communication tool to share all aspects of LESTARI’s work – latest on-the-ground activities, new technical assessments/reports, LESTARI Briefs, photos and videos, and so forth. The website can be accessed at the following URL: http://www.lestari-indonesia.org/ Meanwhile, the LESTARI Facebook pages continued to be updated with primarily three types of posts: (1) latest articles aimed at awareness raising on climate change, forestry, and biodiversity issues in Indonesia; (2) compelling imagery of the natural capital present in LESTARI’s landscapes; and (3) key LESTARI activities and outcomes, with a minimal depiction of indoor meetings. Also during this quarter, the Advocacy and Communications team supported the designing, editing, publishing, and disseminating of the LESTARI Briefs. The Briefs are published on a monthly basis and shared with MSF members, KLHK, Bappenas, USAID, and civil society members in Jakarta and across the relevant LESTARI Landscapes. Further details of the Brief can be found under the LESTARI 1 – Awareness and Advocacy sub-section, including its purpose, target, and alignment with the SA 1 ToC. In addition to the LESTARI Briefs, the Communications team started to compile several human interest stories from the field that will be used for the upcoming Story from the Field publication, scheduled to be published twice per month. Compelling animated posters are also being designed in support of each LESTARI technical theme. Notably, between the period of January 22 - June 8, 2016, LESTARI received mention in a number of articles at the national and landscape level. This is summarized in the following table:

REGION NUMBER OF ARTICLES TYPE OF MEDIA

Papua

11 Print media

1 Digital media

Aceh 27 Digital media

Jakarta 4 Print media

Moreover, the Advocacy and Communications team supported LESTARI’s presence at the Indo Green Environment and Forestry Expo 2016 held on May 26-29, 2016 at the Jakarta Convention Centre. Through this event, LESTARI promoted its activities in the Leuser Landscape to a wide audience to gain public support on collaborative forest management initiatives, encourage the involvement of local champions in LESTARI’s communication and advocacy activities, as well as support the Forestry Service of Aceh, one of LESTARI’s main partners in the Leuser landscape. During the event, LESTARI facilitated an interactive dialogue with 3 local champions from Aceh: Rajali Jemali (ecotourism guide), Muhammad Harya (village head), and T.Kamaruzzaman (Head of KPH V Gayo Lues), in which each guest speaker shared his personal experiences and perspectives on collaborative forest management. Approximately 700 people in total visited the booth and interactive dialogue.

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The Communications team also continued to play a key role in the finalization and dissemination of LESTARI technical assessments and project documents to relevant stakeholders, including the LESTARI Gender Assessment and Strategy, Forest Fire Impact Study, Singkil Concept Note, PES/REDD+ Finance Assessment, among others. Such dissemination is fundamental to sharing knowledge, fostering collaboration, and garnering support for LESTARI’s strategic activities. Finally, all LESTARI project documents, technical assessments, and communications materials have been updated to be in compliance with USAID branding and marking guidelines as outlined in ADS 320.

Personnel As field activities were scaled up and human resources needs expanded this quarter, the LESTARI management team recruited several high quality candidates. LTTA recruitment included:

Media Advocacy Specialist (Jakarta)

Landscape Governance Specialist (Aceh)

Landscape Administrative Officer (Aceh)

STTA support, including respective role/outputs, is summarized in the table below:

STTA RECRUITMENT – 3RD QUARTER OF YEAR 1

Region STTA Role/Outputs

Jakarta

Sustainable Land Use Planning Coordinator

Provide GIS-based technical analysis and assessments to encourage recommendations from IFACS SEA-LEDS and LCPs are incorporated into relevant government planning documents; contribute to the identification and description of sub-landscapes to enable synergy of project activities

Spatial Planning and Resource Licensing Specialist

Facilitate and manage support for SIMTARU through coordinating with ex-Protarih staff, refining Governor’s Decree, expanding community maps database, ensuring integration with BIG standards, and linking Papua provincial and district level SDI units

Protected Area Management Specialist

Rollout co-management initiatives; design and facilitate activities to improve CA managers’ buy-in; provide technical support for CA management plans; facilitate capacity building for KPHK managers; support development and/or implementation of enabling policies for co-management

Co-Management and PES Specialist

Develop and implement strategy to improve co-management of CAs in LESTARI landscapes; capacity building for PES and social forestry initiatives

Co-Management Specialist

Develop and implement strategy to improve co-management of CAs in LESTARI landscapes; carry out policy analysis on co-mangement and social forestry to identify entry points; capacity building activities for KPHL


STTA RECRUITMENT – 3RD QUARTER OF YEAR 1

Region STTA Role/Outputs

Terrestrial Biodiversity Liaison Officer

Support coordination of LESTARI with USAID Indonesia’s Terrestrial Biodiversity Program, EA Secretariat, MoEF, and other relevant national and sub-national agencies

Aceh

Consultant for Dana Desa Regulation of Aceh Tenggara

Provide technical support for preparing and implementing district-level regulation for sustainable forest management and conservation supported by Dana Desa funds

Landscape Ecotourism Specialist

Serve as the local representative and project specialist for ecotourism development in the Leuser Landscape; support STI and local stakeholders to improve the ecotourism product, establish PPPs, and increase tourism arrivals and spending

Central Kalimantan

Landscape Management Advisor

Provide mentoring and technical and administraive backstopping for Katingan-Kahayan Landscape staff; support bridging LESTARI with key stakeholders

Peatland Hydrology Management Specialist

Design and manage the rapid hydrological appraisal of Block C, Pulang Pisau District, including recommendations for improvement to peatland hydrology to reduce the risk of fires and flooding

Senior Peatland Hydrology Management Advisor

Provide oversight for the design and management at the field level of the rapid hydrological appraisal of Block C, Pulang Pisau District

Peatland Hydrology Management Peer Reviewer

Provide a peer review of the interim and final report of the rapid hydrological appraisal of Block C, Pulang Pisau District

Economic Resource Valuation Specialist

Conduct economic resource valuation of the development scenarios selected by the BAPPEDA-LESTARI SEA development team

Challenges and Opportunities:

USAID and LESTARI need to resolve formal, written agreements clarifying working relationships with various government agencies at the national, provincial, and district levels in order to ensure more effective LESTARI technical support in all the landscapes. These written agreements are critical for clarifying roles and responsibilities of LESTARI and government partners for technical implementation, and for catalyzing government technical and financial support to ensure effective project implementation as well as lay the foundation for long-term sustainability of LESTARI.


Priorities for Next Quarter:

Finalize formal, written agreements with relevant central, provincial and district government agencies in order to provide a clear framework for LESTARI programmatic support. Priorities include with Ministry of Environment & Forestry’s KSDAE, Papua and Central Kalimantan provincial governments, and key National Parks in the LESTARI landscapes.

To work more strategically, adopt a hard copy and soft copy portfolio approach to information management about LESTARI activities, combining mapping geo-location and tracing project management linkages (Work Plan, AMEP and Theory of Change) with explicit linkages to other LESTARI and non-LESTARI activities that impact the LESTARI goals.


MONITORING AND EVALUATION


From the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) and Knowledge Management (KM) standpoint, there were three key priorities planned within this third quarter. First, facilitate the landscape team to review their current activities guided by key questions regarding where these activities are leading to and develop program logic (“connecting the dots”) for the landscape team. Second, produce knowledge management materials developed from LESTARI experience-based and evidence-based reports, and disseminate LESTARI knowledge products. Third, provide on-going support for the MIS and operationalizing the LESTARI AMEP. All planned priorities have been implemented well and are on the right track to produce results, as explained below. During the stocktaking meeting that involved the field technical teams from Aceh, Papua, and Central Kalimantan, M&E facilitated an internal review and assumption validation process using Theory of Change, specific and contextualized by landscape. This process has resulted in greater clarity on the overall landscape vision as well as creating synergy amongst project partners (e.g., YSC, Field, and WWF). The ToC review has also affected some significant changes on implementation strategy. For instance, the sustainable livelihood assessment approach undertaken in Aceh and Central Kalimantan has been sharpened and modified into a legal formal planning approach, namely RPJMDes, as an entry point to have better integrated development planning as well as ensuring sustainability due to utilizing a government pipeline. For Knowledge Management, LESTARI has been consistent and active in soliciting tacit knowledge and translating it into written products that are disseminated widely among stakeholders. LESTARI Briefs have been produced once in a month as targeted since April 2016. The first volume discussed Integrated Fire and Land Management, followed by Impact of Rattan Policy on Climate Change Mitigation Efforts, and then Community Engagement on Peatland Restoration. For the latest brief, the KM team has identified, verified, and visited various locations where community best practices were reported prior to writing the brief. LESTARI briefs have been distributed to more than 400 people (MSF, national and local government, CSOs, NGOs, and private sector) through email blast mechanism. The KM team is also working on producing a LESTARI journal (approximately 100 pages) that is planned to be finalized and distributed in August 2016. The first volume is currently 70% complete, with 12 scientific articles about peatland and fire received from practitioners, researchers, academics, and LESTARI staff. The KM team has also been very active in writing articles for newspapers at the national level. Three articles have been published in Kompas and The Jakarta Post, namely: 1) Reviving Peatlands Needs Strict Control (The Jakarta Post, May 24, 2016); 2) Rattan and Climate Change Mitigation (Kompas, May 24, 2016); and 3) Reducing Environmental Damage, Poverty (The Jakarta Post, May 7, 2016). All these efforts in producing KM materials have triggered a writing culture both within and outside LESTARI. For M&E routine procedures and MIS operationalization, all activities have been running smoothly. Internal capacity building among M&E staff has been initiated and implemented. This includes report writing, ToC facilitation, and data analysis.


Challenges and Opportunities:

As a project, LESTARI has robust concepts that are worth being brought into public discourse, for instance IFLM, PPP, and Landscape Approach. However, intellectual stimulus had been missing in the project. Staff tend to be trapped in activity completion and hence there is a lack of technical, conceptual debate. For KM, this is seen as a big challenge in how to create a culture of technical debates both verbally and in written form. As Indonesia is currently lacking in robust development concepts, LESTARI has a good opportunity to fill in the gap. But prior to this, the LESTARI team needs to strengthen its technical concepts and understanding among both Jakarta and landscape-based staff.

Foster closer coordination and synergy with technical teams to ensure that KM products are utilized effectively in the field. For example, LESTARI Briefs should serve as an important knowledge-sharing and discussion-guiding tool at MSF meetings.

Priorities for Next Quarter:

M&E – undertake routine tasks as outlined in the AMEP and keep providing support for MIS operation.

KM – finalize and distribute Volume 1 of the LESTARI journal.

KM – produce LESTARI briefs on a regular basis, initiate technical discussion/exchange knowledge about certain issues or concepts contained in LESTARI briefs both internally and externally with other USAID projects and programs.

Review ToC diagrams in conjunction with technical teams for Year 2 Work Plan.


GRANTS FUND LESTARI employs a Grants under Contract (GUC) program that supports project objectives, leverages funding from other non-USG resources, and builds the capacity of local partners. The grants program is used to achieve the overall results and targeted outcomes of the LESTARI project. The full procedure for the selection of grantees is detailed in the LESTARI Grants Management Plan. The full criteria for selection of grantees will be detailed in the RFAs released biannually.


During this quarter, LESTARI completed milestone 1 and 2 of G-002, awarded one grant for RFA-003, conducted pre-RFA workshop of RFA 004, and completed the evaluation and review of RFA-004. G-002 Continues

Yayasan Orangutan Sumatera Lestari – Orangutan Information Centre (YOSL-OIC) continued to implement G-002, entitled Community-led Conservation of Orangutan Habitat in the Kluet Protected Area, South Aceh. YOSL-OIC conducted socioeconomic surveys in Lawe Melang and Koto Manggamat in Kluet Tengah sub district of Aceh Selatan. It was shown that apart from low economic status, there is a broadly held public perception that wildlife (including orangutans) is a major source of disruption to agricultural activities. There is also a general lack of community understanding on village forest status and regulations. Through the socialization and FGD process, the community supported the proposed social forestry format of HKm (Hutan Kemasyarakatan). G-003 Awaiting USAID Approval

The selection process for RFA-003 on Borneo Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) Conservation in Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park concluded with Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) selected as the grantee out of 7 incoming applications, 6 of which were evaluated by the REC for RFA-003. A grant agreement is awaiting approval from USAID.

RFA-004 at Selection Process

Substantial resources this quarter were spent on the preparation of and selection process for RFA-004, which was approved by USAID on April 29, 2016. RFA-004 is entitled Collaborative Management and Sustainable Livelihood Initiatives, and made available in all LESTARI landscapes. The grants will be divided into two tracks. While both tracks will develop sustainable livelihoods, Track 1 will focus on co-management while Track 2 will focus on sustainable land use. In preparation for RFA-004, pre-RFA workshops were conducted in Banda Aceh, Palangka Raya, Jayapura, and Timika. The workshops aimed to achieve the following objectives:

1. Increase local organizations’ awareness of and interest on LESTARI’s work and its grants program;

2. Increase local organizations’ understanding on the utilization of co-management and livelihood approach with gender integration;

3. Contribute to better quality applications for RFA 004 on co-management and livelihood grants from local organizations.

There was a considerably high interest in RFA-004. A total of 122 representatives from 119 organizations attended the workshops; 57 organizations attended the workshop in Banda Aceh, 22 organizations in Palangka Raya, 27 organizations in Jayapura, and 13 organizations in Timika. During the workshops, consortiums were encouraged, as it would


widen the possibility for local organizations to be involved in the grants and give them access to experience in co-management issues possessed by organizations not based in LESTARI landscapes. The invitation was sent out to the public in the fourth week of April 2016 and organizations were given 1 month to submit their applications. 54 applications were received from Aceh, 31 from Central Kalimantan, and 21 from Papua. As was encouraged by RFA-004, there were 35 applications coming from consortiums that included national and local organizations. 20 applied for Track 1 and 15 applied for Track 2 grants. After document screening, 47 applications from Aceh, 28 applications from Central Kalimantan, and 20 from Papua went to the Review and Evaluation Committee (REC) for RFA-004 in the middle of June. The REC involved both landscape staff and Jakarta-based staff. While Jakarta staff conducted a full review and evaluation of the applications, landscape staff contributed to the Strategic Fit aspect of the process for their respective landscapes. The evaluation process provided a total of 28 applications who received scores above 60, thus available for considerations for receiving the grants. Based on the REC results, LESTARI is currently conducting clarifications and pre-award surveys to 14 organizations from all landscapes and outside the landscapes to verify and determine the ability of the organizations to receive the grants. 6 applications proposed to work in Aceh, 5 in Kalteng, and 3 in Papua. The majority of selected applications applied for Track 1 grants. 6 lead organizations are based outside LESTARI landscapes, proposing to work with one or more local partners. 5 pre-award surveys had been conducted by the end of June, while the remaining will be completed after the Idul Fitri holiday period.

Challenges And Opportunities

The quality of applications varied, with only 29% of the received applications resulting in scores higher than 60. A majority of them were not completely submitted or did not provide sufficient information that was requested by the RFA. This applies to all landscapes, but is especially true for applications from Papua.

Involvement of the landscape team in the REC contributed to sharpening the strategy of the proposed project with LESTARI project implementation in each landscape.

There is a wide range of experience and expertise from the organizations on co-management issues. Some were quite experienced, while others brought other skills such as community facilitation and livelihood development to the table. Allowing a sharing of experiences and discussions among the grantees and between the grantees and LESTARI landscape teams would contribute to higher understanding and increased synergy.

Although some of the organizations have received USAID grants in the past, most of them have not and will need to have more assistance in managing their grant funds and reporting to LESTARI.


Priorities For Next Quarter

Signing and kicking off G-003

Completing pre-award surveys and negotiations for RFA-004 and converting them to grants.

Undertaking workshops on co-management and grant management to LESTARI grantees in Aceh and Kalteng, as there will be quite a few of them. This will be part of capacity building for the grantees in a platform where exchange of experience and knowledge will be encouraged and synergy with LESTARI landscape work will be intensified.


LESTARI INITIATIVES NATIONAL INITIATIVES Adapting from lessons learned through IFACS project implementation, LESTARI places greater emphasis on building and nurturing national-level relationships in order to increase impact at the landscape level; amplify tools, approaches, models, and lessons learned from LESTARI landscapes to other critical areas; and ensure sustainability of LESTARI climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation beyond the life of project through necessary policy reform and budget support. This is essential to clarify and resolve ongoing gaps in roles and responsibilities under decentralization reform between the national, provincial, and district level governments as well as work with highly centralized natural resource extraction companies (natural forest concessions, large palm oil companies, and large mining operations) whose key decisions are made from Jakarta. Building these bridges from the landscapes to the national level is especially important in national park management and other instances where the national government maintains significant authority through deconcentrated rather than decentralized institutional arrangements.


During this third quarter, the LESTARI team continued to engage in several national-level policy discussions and initiatives of strategic importance to LESTARI’s objectives. These engagements fell largely under Technical Themes 1 and 2, due to their focus on policy, governance, and conservation area management issues.

A METT Training of Trainers event was held in Banyuwangi on April 10-16, 2016. The event was co-funded by Ditjen KSDAE, LESTARI, WCS, and GIZ Forclime. The training was aimed at enhancing capacity of core METT facilitators across Indonesia to carry out METT assessments. There were 40 participants, which included representatives of technical service unit (Unit Pelayanan Teknis/UPT) of Ditjen KSDAE, academics, and NGOs. The core trainers are expected to lead facilitation of the METT assessment process in CAs across Indonesia, especially during mid-term evaluation on 2017 and final evaluation on 2019. They are also expected to train relevant partners on METT assessment.

LESTARI participated in the METT and SMART Patrol workshop held in Bogor, May 30, 2016. The event was organized by DG KSDAE to disseminate information on the result of METT assessment in conservation areas and follow up activities to be done. The team has also actively engaged in the follow up discussions at national level to promote a nationwide adoption of SMART based patrol in conservation areas.

In overall METT activities, LESTARI is closely engaged with the national working group of METT of MoEF to ensure synergy and integration with the national target for METT score improvement of conservation areas.

Badan Informasi Geospasial (BIG) invited LESTARI to attend a national “one-map” event. High-level BIG representatives requested LESTARI support to incorporate community maps into Papua’s spatial planning database, which is also the plan for forthcoming LESTARI support to SIMTARU (Sistem Informasi Tata Ruang) both at the Province and Kabupaten levels with e-linkages between them where there are LESTARI landscapes.


LESTARI participated in the Aceh Commitment for Climate Change Seminar held in Banda Aceh on May 26. During this time, LESTARI also held informal discussions with other relevant donor-funded projects operating in the Leuser Landscape, including SIRCC and BioClime Leuser, in order to foster collaboration and identify synergies. Coordination meetings will be taking place between LESTARI Leuser landscape staff and these fellow projects on a regular basis.

LESTARI technical staff members provided technical assistance (BIMTEK) requested by PIKA of DG KSDAE in the first round of preparation event to support Conservation Area Managers to submit thematic and bloc maps to be integrated into one map policy. The workshop was held on May 25-28, 2016 in Bogor. Participants of the event included conservation areas in LESTARI landscape in Papua and Central Kalimantan.

Forestry Information Center (Pusat Informasi Kehutanan/PIKA) requested LESTARI to support some initiatives, which include review and finalization of zonation in conservation areas in LESTARI Landscapes. In addition, LESTARI staff attended socialization of NSPK (Norma, Standar, Prosedur dan Kriteria – Norms, Standard, Procedure and Criteria for zonation and blocking in conservation areas). LESTARI has developed a more programmatic plan to support PIKA in fostering the finalization of zonation/blocking system in several CA areas in LESTARI Landscapes.

Responding to a request from the ASEAN Secretariat, LESTARI made the case at an international gathering of ASEAN science and policy in Jakarta that Indonesia, through LESTARI support for the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG), is taking significant steps to prevent a recurrence of future climate change disasters by a peatland hydrology survey to inform sustainable canal blocking in the peatlands of Pulang Pisau District.

The LESTARI Gender Assessment and Strategy report has been finalized and shared with USAID and other relevant stakeholders. A brief introduction session on gender integration training has also been held in conjunction to the pre-RFA workshop for RFA-004 engaging potential grantees in Banda Aceh, Palangkaraya, Jayapura, and Mimika.

The LESTARI Knowledge Management team has been active in raising national-level awareness via article writing for the most widely distributed newspapers. Three articles have been published in Kompas and The Jakarta Post, namely: 1) Reviving Peatlands Needs Strict Control (The Jakarta Post, May 24, 2016); 2) Rattan and Climate Change Mitigation (Kompas, May 24, 2016); and 3) Reducing Environmental Damage, Poverty (The Jakarta Post, May 7, 2016).


USAID LESTARI – MSU Progress Update During this third quarter, the LESTARI-MSU team completed a July 2016 – September 2017 work plan for its educational capacity development work relevant to LESTARI landscapes. The initiative relies upon close collaboration with the University of Palangka Raya (UNPAR), Muhammadiyah University (MU), and Bogor Agricultural University (IPB). The 15-month work plan will focus on 5 key activities: Activity 1: Institutional Linkages | Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) or General Agreement (GA) Formal Relationships MSU will work with UNPAR, MU, IPB and the LESTARI team to formalize the academic relationships between MSU’s Department of Forestry and each of the three academic institutions. This will be accomplished through the institutional processes for developing and signing an MOU or GA between the agreeing institutions. These MOU/GA documents will specify key LESTARI focus areas of work and activities. Activity 2: Certificate Program MSU will work with IPB and UNPAR to develop curricula material and a short-course or online program that would include a certificate of academic record for participation from IPB with MSU linkage. The curricula and program would be focused in the REDD+ Design Elements: National Forest Monitoring System (NFMS), Forest Reference Emission Levels (FREL/REL) and Safeguard Information Systems (SIS). The initial program would be implemented through UNPAR and if successful, this would serve as a model for other institutions across Indonesia and in particular those academic institutions in the LESTARI landscapes. Activity 3: Training of Master Trainers for Service Learning MSU will work with the LESTARI Field Office in Palangkaraya, UNPAR and MU to develop and hold two or three short course programs for training master trainers in the following program topical areas: (1) Forest Carbon Accounting, (2) Spatial Analyses (Remote Sensing and GIS) for Mapping Forest Carbon, and (3) Participatory Community-Mapping and Measurement of Forest Carbon. These topic areas were identified in the May 24, 2016 Workshop with UNPAR, MU and the LESTARI Field Office. Training will include practicum in the LESTARI Katingan-Kahayan landscape in Central Kalimantan, and if possible specifically in Block C / KHG 14, Sebangau National Park, and/or Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park. Activity 4: MSU Academic Training Program for UNPAR and MU (Short Course) MSU will develop and implement a two-week training program for two to four academic faculty from UNPAR and MU. The training will take place at the GOES laboratory, Department of Forestry, Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI. The focus of the two week program will include (1) establishing Professor-to-Professor linkages to facilitate institutional strengthening and enhanced faculty skills and (2) training in spatial modeling/analysis and tools for computing emission factors and activity data. Activity 5: Sabbatical/US Academic Expert at UNPAR An Academic expert from the US will be placed at UNPAR to work directly with UNPAR staff on

institutional strengthening, educational training and capacity-building along the core elements of the LESTARI project. The first year person will start in September or October 2016 and support the MSU-LESTARI-UNPAR logistics for all activities, especially in the development of the Certificate Program with IPB. A second year person will be identified to start in September 2017.


Challenges And Opportunities

With the dismantling of the National REDD+ Agency, there is a clear lack of national government leadership on MRV for REDD+ and other climate change mitigation efforts from the forest and land use sectors. Without this, provinces and other sub-national entities face a difficult time engaging in any tangible climate change mitigation contributions and/or market opportunities. This also represents an ongoing constraint for LESTARI’s climate change mitigation efforts at the landscape level.

BAPPENAS has requested LESTARI support to co-funding a national workshop on KPH management

Priorities For Next Quarter

Kick off the implementation of gender strategy will be started sometimes in July/August with the recruitment of STTA gender specialist to carry out several capacity building activities, particularly targeted for the grantee of RFA-004 to ensure gender is integrated in all phases of project implementation.


Support social forestry workshop and festival (Festival Pesona) to be held on September 2016. The event is organized by MoEF and will be co-supported by various institutions and donors, including LESTARI.


LANDSCAPE INITIATIVES

Leuser Landscape


Landscape Profile

The Leuser Landscape encompasses a region in Aceh that is rich in natural resources and dominated by the agriculture industry. Crops such as cacao, nutmeg, rubber, and oil palm are important contributors to the region’s development and community livelihoods. The value landscape is largely defined by the Leuser National Park and contains large tracts of lowland and montane forests supporting Sumatran mega diversity and key species (tiger, elephant, rhino, and orangutans). The landscape includes at least 375,000 ha of orangutan habitat. The operational landscape is largely defined by the district boundary of Gayo Lues, Aceh Tenggara, and Aceh Selatan. A significant proportion of Aceh Barat Daya and the adjacent villages that have an impact on forest conservation within the value landscape are also included in the operational landscape and will be targeted for activities to reduce pressure on the national park and surrounding forested watersheds. LESTARI’s overall vision for this landscape is to reduce deforestation and improve biodiversity conservation through sustainable co-management of forest lands and PA management. This is to be achieved through the following initiatives:

Watershed management to safeguard water resources and mitigate natural disasters through sustainable livelihoods

Protected forest management (including peatlands)


During this quarter, several impactful and on-the-ground activities continued to progress in the Leuser Landscape. Due to the importance of the Leuser Ecosystem with regards to biodiversity values, deforestation threats, and accompanying GHG emissions, particular attention continues to be given to this landscape. This is evidenced by a deep engagement of LESTARI across all three technical themes. The major highlights included support for Abdya spatial planning, social forestry and policy discourse with MSF involvement, continued METT and SMART patrol support around Leuser National Park, and PPP launching for organic cacao development. The locations of major activities operating on the ground are highlighted on the landscape map on the previous page. A journalist training was held in Aceh from April 11-17, 2016 that aimed to raise the awareness and capacity of local and national media to report on issues faced by local communities in the Leuser Landscape with regards to climate change, forestry, and biodiversity conservation. Attendees engaged with LESTARI partners such as KPH V, MSF, and the Elephant Conservation Unit to deepen their understanding. In addition to contributing to the long-term process of building media and journalism capacity on LESTARI issues, in the more immediate term, the event resulted in the publication of 27 relevant articles. On the spatial planning front, responding to the request of Aceh Barat Daya District and the signing of a collaboration MoU with the Bupati, LESTARI prepared a strategy for the Rencana Detail Tata Ruang (RDTR) pilot model in the Susoh river basin. BAPPEDA Abdya understood that the approach must be fully embedded and not treated as an external consultancy activity. It prepared a draft SK Bupati for a Tim RDTR to this effect. The strategy includes the integration of top-down GIS analysis and bottom-up village land use, selecting as fit-to-purpose (tepat sasaran) the kind of land use zonation achieved during village boundary-setting under IFACS in the western part of the Katingan-Kahayan Landscape as well as RPJMDes Field School approach’s land use mapping of livelihoods and conservation areas. RDTR takes spatial planning to the local level, facilitating local-community and private sector sense of ownership because it depends upon a tenfold level of the on-the-ground


accuracy in comparison with the District spatial plans (RTRWK), from 1:50,000 to 1:5,000 scale. At this scale, the delineation and functional oddities of RTRWK can be resolved and insights gained into zoning forest management units (KPH) 5 and 6 as well as Leuser National Park currently undergoing a review of its outdated zonation. The end point of this work will be the identification of Kawasan Perdesaan and Peraturan Zonasi. Not only is zonation within the existing land use functions anticipated (e.g., subdividing Protection Forest Areas into Hutan Kebun and Hutan Alam that will strengthen local interest in maintaining ecological functions), but also recommendations for re-alignment of forestry function boundaries that were originally mis-drawn at lower resolutions and as such make little sense to both local land users and state forestry agencies. Building on last quarter’s sustainable livelihoods assessment (SLA) work, this approach was realigned into a legal formal planning approach, namely RPJMDes, as an entry point to have better integrated development planning as well as ensuring sustainability due to utilizing a government pipeline. This will be implemented starting with 3 villages (Gulo/Aceh Tenggara, Sangir/Gayo Lues and Lawe Cimanok/Aceh Selatan) that later on will be scaled up to several villages around the selected 3 villages, hence providing a solid base for the sub-landscape approach. The team will facilitate the RPJMDes revision that integrates environmental and water protection vision. In support for GoI’s social forestry initiative, the LESTARI team carried out an initial assessment on community forestry (Hutan Kemasyarakatan) that was conducted in the Manggamat area. In the mid-1990s, 13 villages in the area had prepared mukim-based forest management over the area in and around their villages. The adat leaders have been enthusiastic to follow this up by getting a permit to manage the area through the social forestry initiative. However, the assessment team found a complicated political situation in the Manggamat area and suggested LESTARI to focus on community facilitation processes in two villages that are currently facilitated by a LESTARI grantee, Orangutan Information Center (OIC). OIC has completed socio-economic surveys in 2 villages (Lawe Melang and Koto Village) in Kluet Sub-district, Aceh Selatan in preparation for the implementation of the community forestry initiative. Regarding public discourse for policy reform in the Leuser Landscape, public consultations for a New Environmental Funding Policy in Aceh Tenggara was informed by the ex-IFACS KLHS. Following technical meetings, the Bupati created a technical team to formulate a Bupati’s decree in Aceh Tenggara to enable the use of the village fund / Dana Desa for environmental interventions in support of the Leuser Landscape. The team includes MSF members who will support preparations for public consultation about the decree. The technical meeting explicitly drew from the IFACS SEA-LEDS for justification and direction, specifically, 39 issues from pages 51-78 of the SEA. Public discourse for New Environmental Policy in Aceh Selatan was also informed by KLHS. A technical team consisting of MSF members began preparations for a draft Qanun / Perda to be submitted to DPRD for Environmental Management in Aceh Selatan with emphasis on the Leuser Landscape. Technical considerations explicitly drew from the IFACS SEA-LEDS for justification and direction. In support of Protected Area Management, METT workshops were held in Rawa Singkil Wildlife Sanctuary and Leuser National Park. These workshops were aimed at disseminating the results of METT score assessment of each conservation area to increase the sense of ownership of the CA managers toward the result, hence generating their commitment to improve the METT score and develop an action plan to improve their METT score. In Rawa Singkil Wildlife Sanctuary, the workshop was held in Banda Aceh on April 26-27, 2016. The action plan will then be integrated in the revision of Rawa Singkil management plan. The workshop participants included: representatives from BKSDA Aceh, KPH VI, Tahura Pocut Meurah Intan, Tahura Lae Kombih, Syiah Kuala University, Bappeda Singkil, Bappeda Aceh


Selatan, Bappeda Subulussalam, Leuser International Foundation, WCS, and LESTARI staff. In Leuser National Park, the event was held in Medan on May 31-June 2, 2016 involving the park staff members and partners (universities, relevant government agencies, NGOs, LESTARI). In conjunction with the event, the LESTARI team also met with the park staff members to discuss program synergy. Moreover, LESTARI continued supporting 3 SMART patrol teams in Leuser National Park and 3 teams SMART patrol teams in Rawa Singkil Wildlife Sanctuary. The teams have broadened their routine patrols in several strategic areas in the Leuser Landscape, which includes the FMU V area that is in adjacent to Leuser National Park in Aceh Selatan District, Jambur Gele and Marpunge Resort (Gayo Lues District), and Lawe Gurah Resort (Aceh Tenggara District). The focus area for the patrol teams is the area with high biodiversity values. During this quarter, the patrol teams carried out patrols for 110 days with total distance covered of 450 km. They found that the main threats to biodiversity conservation in this area are high illegal logging and land clearing, particularly in Gayo Lues District. The patrol teams increased their level of effort by broadening their patrol operation and lengthening the patrol duration. Currently, Leuser National Park is developing a strategy to improve SMART implementation that engages all national park partners and the police department. The table below illustrates the findings of the patrol teams in Leuser National Park.

Figure 13. Key SMART Patrol outcomes in Gunung Leuser National Park, March-May 2016.

Also during this quarter, LESTARI supported 3 new SMART patrol teams in Rawa Singkil Wildlife Sanctuary. The teams are in the initial phase of understanding problems with regards to typology and distribution. In this area, the team found high encroachment and illegal logging (82 active illegal logging and 23 sites of illegal clearing). The team also found 52 accesses to the conservation area. LESTARI will support the managers of Rawa Singkil Wildlife Sanctuary to develop its management plan that could better accommodate partnership with various stakeholders, especially communities, in the conservation area management. To improve biodiversity conservation efforts, LESTARI continued to support a Wildlife Crime Unit (WCU) in the Leuser Landscape. The WRU continued to gather information about

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wildlife crimes and methods to reduce human-wildlife conflict in the landscape. Based on the report by WCU team, 2 illegal wildlife traders have been captured by a joint police team in Aceh. The criminal evidence has also been secured by the police. Several illegal wildlife traffickers have been captured by police and the cases are being processed in the court. One notable case involves illegal wildlife traffickers that tried to smuggle ivory and tiger skin. Two people are currently detained by the police as the case is processed in the court. In collaboration with BKSDA Aceh, WCU team has also released an Asian golden cat (Catopuma temminckii), which was illegally trapped in Gayo Lues District. Similarly, a Wildlife Response Unit (WRU) team continued activities to increase communities’ awareness on the importance of biodiversity conservation and mitigating human-wildlife conflicts in the Leuser Landscape. The WRU team has established two teams for community based human-wildlife conflict mitigation in Teris and Lesten Village, Gayo Lues District. Along with both communities in Terlis, the WRU team has implemented preventive measures to mitigate conflicts between human and wildlife (e.g., elephant and Sumatran tiger). In addition, WRU also monitors the pattern of human-wildlife conflicts by putting camera traps four spots in Lawe Sambekan village (Aceh Tenggara District). The WRU team, along with BKSDA Aceh, have been carrying out a public campaign to increase awareness of local communities so that they stop supporting illegal wildlife trafficking in Gayo Lues and Aceh Tenggara. They also participated in the release of captured wildlife to the national park area. The team has assisted the communities in Terlis Village to establish tiger proof enclosures (TPEs). Moreover, LESTARI continued to support Leuser National Park to improve its efforts to monitor the distribution and density of key species in the National Park, in this case, Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) and rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis). The LESTARI team has established 2 teams to place camera traps. Thus far they have been able to place 104 cameras in 50 posts in cluster IV of Leuser Landscape. This is illustrated in Figure 14.

Figure 14. Location of biodiversity distribution and density survey area in Leuser Landscape.

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Finally, under the private sector engagement technical theme, LESTARI’s first Public-Private Partnership (PPP), for organic cacao development, was officially signed on May 10, 2016 in Jakarta between LESTARI and PT Kampung Kearifan (JAVARA) Indonesia. The PPP is currently under implementation in three districts in Aceh – Aceh Tenggara, Gayo Lues, and Aceh Selatan. By fostering the PPP for organic cacao, both LESTARI and JAVARA hope to combine strengths in widening access to technology and innovations, linking farmers to better markets, facilitating the development of sustainable green enterprises that support community-scale businesses critical to local livelihoods, and reducing the pressure on forests by increasing income/job opportunities for forest-dependent communities. The initial activities that took place from May to June primarily focused on socialization for farmer groups as well as identification of potential champions. Thus far these initial activities have been fully conducted in Aceh Selatan while in Gayo Lues and Aceh Tenggara the activities are still ongoing. Coordination with JAVARA is also being conducted on a regular basis, especially regarding key issues such as pricing and organic certification standards.


SEA opportunity for Aceh Province’s RPJMD 2017-2022 – At a meeting of Aceh donors, provincial government responded with interest about support for a spatially-based SEA similar to that for Kalteng that could be used for the RPJMD of the newly-elected governor in 2017.

Demand-driven activities in line with LESTARI goals present enormous opportunities. E.g., Aceh Barat Daya’s request for assistance to support its ongoing RDTR.

Gayo Lues request for RDTR assistance – Having heard about LESTARI support for RDTR Abdya, PEMDA Gayo Lues requested similar assistance on the understanding that it would not proceed unless appropriately embedded in the spatial planning agency of BAPPEDA. Only once an embedded modus operandi is established for Abdya will it make sense to respond to such a request.

LESTARI supported MSFs have begun to a show greater capacity and engagement through their participation in KPH workshops, journalist trainings, public consultations, development of local regulations, and other key activities. MSFs are widely considered as important entities by major partners including Forestry Department, BKSDA, and BBTNGL.

LESTARI has initiated a series of activities for supporting Buloh Semak Village in

Aceh Selatan (Singkil region) in the sustainable production of forest honey. This commodity holds tremendous potential (estimated at 50,000 liters/year) as the target of green enterprise development. However, the exploitation of forest honey is closely related to some serious conflicts between the locals and authorities. The LESTARI team needs to move smartly and cautiously to avoid any further complications in the area since we are working with both parties.

There are more 600 forest rangers (Pamhut) in KPH III, V, and VI as human resource

assets to support the forestry sector in the Leuser Landscape, but many of the Pamhut still lack capacity such as navigation (GPS Mapping, data analysis ), investigation and patrol procedure, community facilitation, and other knowledge.


Zoning of Leuser National Park being developed by BBTNGL will encourage protection in the core area in a more integrated manner and with hopefully greater opportunities for community empowerment.

SMART Patrol activities must continue in Leuser National Park and Singkil Wildlife

Reserve considering the still high prevalence of crimes threatening the flora and fauna in these areas.

While MSF revitalization workshops have been conducted in Aceh Selatan and Aceh

Tenggara, the workshop in Gayo Lues (for MSF FMUL) has not yet been conducted due to scheduling conflicts of MSF members.

LESTARI can support KPH V and VI to improve the RPJHP document through

provision of technical assistance that will revise the content of the document based on input from experts and relevant stakeholders.

The Aceh Government has issued letter form No. 522.12 / 2686-III, June 17, 2016

signed by Head of the Aceh Provincial Forestry services and addressed to all holders

of HGU / Plantation Business License (IUP) in Leuser Ecosystem. It states that all

land clearing activities of oil palm plantations around the Leuser Ecosystem must be

suspended, while waiting for release of the Government's policy (Inpres moratorium

on the expansion of palm).


Finalize and sign third PPP involving sustainable development of nutmeg and patchouli.

Implementation of Field School for RPJMDes followed by the development of village zonation plan and co-management agreements with relevant government agencies.

Routine SMART patrols to be carried out in sites adjacent to Leuser National Park and in KPHK Rawa Singkil. WRU team will continue its efforts to reduce wildlife crimes and human-wildlife conflicts.

Singkil action plan implementation

Continue supporting KPH V and VI via RPJHP document.

Support formation of Civil Society Champions, strengthen journalist network, and support advocacy campaign implementation.

Support Trumon Corridor initiatives (e.g. human-elephant conflict mitigation) that will be conducted in a wider area than present, as well as co-management and livelihood activities for communities in the area.

Follow-up on STI assessment for priority ecotourism development in Aceh


Katingan-Kahayan Landscape


Landscape Profile

The Katingan-Kahayan Landscape in Central Kalimantan covers more than 4 million hectares and includes both deep peatland and Sebangau National Park. Much of the landscape is vulnerable to forest fires, illegal logging, forest degradation, and conversion for oil palm plantations. The value landscape in Central Kalimantan is dominated by Sebangau National Park that is included in its entirety, the surrounding peatlands adjoining it, and the Central Kalimantan portion of the Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park. The operational landscape is defined by Katingan, Pulang Pisau, and Gunung Mas Districts, as well as Palangkaraya municipality. Similar to the Leuser Landscape, villages surrounding important conservation targets in adjacent neighboring districts are included in the operational landscape. For the peat sub-landscape, LESTARI’s overall vision is to reduce GHG emissions from peat degradation, deforestation, and fire through improved peatland management for sustainable livelihoods and conservation, and/or improved PA management. This is to be achieved through the following initiatives:

Integrated Fire Management

Integrated Water Management

For the mineral soil sub-landscape, LESTARI’s overall vision is to reduce deforestation and improve biodiversity conservation through sustainable co-management, forest management, or PA management. This is to be achieved through the following initiatives:

Improved sustainable livelihoods

Rationalization of conversion by land-based private sector


During this quarter, LESTARI continued to prioritize activities in the Katingan-Kahayan Landscape given the unsustainably high rate of GHG emissions and biodiversity loss. On-the-ground activities were supported across all three technical themes, deepening the work of previous quarters around integrated fire management and peatland restoration. The major activities included advancement of the SEA/KLHS for Central Kalimantan, progress on the rapid hydrological assessment to mitigate the destructive fire-flood cycle and guide peatland restoration, preparations for technically-focused MSFs that support canal blocking, support for co-management and social forestry initiatives, improved METT implementation in Sebangau and Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Parks, and PPPs for the community rubber sector. The locations of major activities are highlighted on the landscape map on the previous page. Most notably, the SEA / KLHS RPJMD 2016-21 for Central Kalimantan transitioned from technical analysis to a full-scale public process. It was decided that two scenarios would be the focus of the KLHS: a base case business-as-usual economic development (Figure 15) and an optimal land use and related development that could reasonably be expected (Figure 16). The analysis and public consultation were completed with stakeholders under the direction of the BAPPEDA KLHS team. Being an iterative process, the SEA has already managed to influence the crafters of the RPJMD to include explicit reference to LEDS and consequent action in the final economic development plan. Public consultation stakeholders should serve as the membership basis for a province level MSF aimed at raising the profile of synergy between biodiversity conservation and economic growth.


Figure 15. KLHS RPJMD base case for economic development.

Figure 16. KLHS RPJMD optimal case for economic development.

Related to this KLHS work with regards to natural resource licensing, the development of the web-based sustainability screening tool (SST) was focused where mis-application licensing has been most damaging and represents the highest risk of GHG emissions anywhere in LESTARI landscapes, namely, Pulang Pisau District. Stakeholder engagement with government agencies in Pulang Pisau and Central Kalimantan Province was formalized resulting in the sharing of important license and land use data, increasing the potential for effective public scrutiny. Early results made clear to all parties that some oil palm licenses overlap with protection and conservation areas. The web-based SST is now poised to assist with the village-level planning about integrated fire and land management, identification of fire-risk areas to assist with preparations for fire suppression, and determination of


appropriate food-security areas. Further details regarding the SST team’s progress can be found on the callout box on page 33. Mongabay was mobilized this quarter and began initial work on media advocacy and communications for the Katingan-Kahayan Landscape. Mongabay has completed a media advocacy plan and strategy whereby they identified issues, key messages, target audiences, and dissemination methods. Moving forward, all key messages will focus on the importance of peatland and peatland restoration. Meanwhile, the series of fire-hero videos were finalized for deployment, e.g., to MSF and peat people (masyarakat gambut) events. Moreover, progress was made in the crucial role of visualization of landscape management challenges where interventions result in winners and losers but a lack of appropriate action results in everyone losing. Crucial visualization of peatland restoration benefits to raise local awareness was provided through the results of drone imagery survey (Figure 17 and Figure 18) as well as animated artwork to be presented at the next MSF in Pulang Pisau District.

Figure 17. (Left) A drone picture of long-unused part of the canal supporting natural woodland

regeneration that therefore remained moist enough to escape fire damage indicated by 2015 fire hotspots (right).

Figure 18. Close-up of regenerated woodland inside the long-unused canal where the peat was wet

enough to resist catching fire.


Regarding the rapid hydrological assessment, most of the major fieldwork along 300 kilometers of canals across the 440,000 hectares of Block C (KHG 14), Pulang Pisau, was conducted during this quarter (Figure 19 and Figure 20). One of the four sub-blocks (C2) was fully analyzed, including identification of the location of a proposed set of demonstration compacted-peat dams in sub-block C2 as requested by District Government / PEMDA and Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG); only some minor measurements at road bridges remain to be taken (after Lebaran). The complementary geodetic survey for the largest of the sub-blocks (C4 in the south) was completed and this survey moved to C2. The results will allow pinpointing of exactly where the major canal dams should be located. Interim results were presented to PEMDA and warmly received and written up in readiness for the expert review in July. A complementary socio-economic survey of present canal use was planned. Not only will the surveys directly help restore the peatlands by raising water levels during the dry season and managing floods during the rainy season, but the results are feeding into a refinement of the present zonation areas for conservation and limited use, in turn informing spatial planning, both RTRWK and RDTR. Local consultation for free prior and informed consent (FPIC) for the construction of the proposed compacted peat dams in the demonstration area of sub-block C2 also feeds into LESTARI support for local community contributions to integrated land and fire management.

Figure 19. Four sub-blocks of the hydrological survey.


Figure 20. Canal measurements being made as part of the rapid hydrological survey, Block C, Pulang Pisau, Central Kalimantan.

Therefore, also during this quarter, significant preparations began for the third MSF in Pulang Pisau and Palangka Raya (scheduled for end July) to be primarily focused on a tangible technical theme, namely, canal blocking based upon recommendations of the hydrological survey. The intention is to obtain a crucial sense of ownership on the part of all key stakeholders for both construction and maintenance phases. A draft animated presentation about the value of building appropriate dams in the peatlands was prepared as well as a Bahasa Indonesia version of the LESTARI Brief on the topic. Each MSF member will be given a full, hardcopy version of the (ex-IFACS) KLHS. The MSF will also be used to initiate the process of free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) for villages where the demonstration set of dams is located. Additionally, in Katingan, MSF development preparation will be started with a series of FGDs with group of government, communities and NGOs (individual group for each FGD) to identify the need to have a multi stakeholder dialogue for Katingan as the first step to build a strong foundation of ownership toward MSF, if the stakeholders agree to form an MSF. Once the final FGD with private sector is completed, the first multi-stakeholder meeting will be prepared. This is in the pipeline of second year activities. In support of co-management with communities, this quarter saw the realignment of the Sustainable Livelihoods Assessment (SLA) approach to now focus on RPJMDes (Village Development Plan), as an entry point to have better integrated development planning as well as ensuring sustainability due to utilizing a government pipeline. This work focused on piloting communities’ engagement in 5 villages (Saka Kajang, Garung, Gohong, Mantaren 1, Buntoi) in the Katingan-Kahayan Landscape to ensure the integration of the environmental and fire management vision in village management plans, zonation systems, and collaborative forest management. A series of meetings in 4 villages (Buntoi, Gohong, Mantaren 1, Kalawa) were held to review and improve village forest management plans in Pulang Pisau District, Central Kalimantan. Community facilitation for integrated fire and land management in three pilot villages around Block C started in the fourth week of May-June, 2016. The result of this facilitation will be the incorporation of the integrated fire management vision in the RPJMDes (Village Development Plan). LESTARI has also facilitated the submission of application for community forestry/HKm of Tusang Raya Village (Gunung Mas District) to the MoEF. On the social forestry policy front, a workshop was held in Palangkaraya on May 27, 2016 to establish a social forestry working group. This workshop aimed to: 1) Disseminate policy change with regards to Social Forestry in Indonesia; 2) Update on the achievement of targets to allocate forestlands to local communities, particularly in Central Kalimantan; and 3)


Establish the social forestry working group at the provincial level, whose members include officers of relevant government agencies, NGO activists, and university representatives. This working group will play a crucial role in the verification process of Social Forestry permit applications in Central Kalimantan Province. The meeting was also attended by representatives from Directorate General of Social Forestry and Environmental Partnership, which has been very supportive of the initiative. As a result of the workshop, a draft governor decree (SK) on working group tasks and members was developed. In addition, a first year action plan has also been developed and will be followed up further by the task force. For improved protected area management, a series of METT workshops were held in Sebangau National Park and Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park on June 28-29, 2016. These workshops were aimed at disseminating the results of METT score assessment of each conservation area to increase the sense of ownership of the CA managers toward the result, hence generating their commitment to improve the METT score and develop an action plan to improve their METT score. In support of green enterprise development in the Katingan-Kahayan Landscape, the PPPs for the community rubber sector were finalized and are now ready for signing. The signing event will take place on July 19, 2016 in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan. This work is based on the previous work under IFACS which had demonstrated a viable model to improve the rubber value chain that provided benefits at scale. The key aspect of the model is that rubber farmers are organized into rubber marketing groups known as Kelompok Usaha Bersama Karet (KUBK). The KUBK model also includes collaboration and partnerships with rubber processing factories, input suppliers, and financial institutions that serve the needs of the community rubber sector. This PPP will expand the work on the KUBK model in existing areas, focusing on the rehabilitation of the burnt rubber plantations, and also extend to new geographic areas and villages. The main goals of this activity are the following:

Goal #1: Improve the land use, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and maintaining biodiversity.

Goal #2: Increase the output and quality of natural rubber production from smallholders.

Goal #3: Increase the level of income and livelihoods of natural rubber producers.

The objectives for the Rubber Green Enterprise Activity:

Objective #1: Upgrade the production of 3,000 natural rubber farmers in the landscape (focusing on several sub-districts) over the next 4 years, with initial activities for Y1 and Y2 in Pulang Pisau District.

Objective #2: Improve the production and land management practices on approximately 6,000 ha of smallholder rubber plantations over the next 4 years.

Objective #3: Support the formation of approximately 50 KUBKs to serve the input supply, marketing, and technical assistance needs of their member farmers.

Objective #4: Incorporate a fire management plan for each KUBK.

In total there will be 3 PPP documents to be signed with three different partners: Bank Indonesia (collaborating in funding and training for rubber farmers), CV Mitra Sidirepo (providing local rubber tools/equipment/organic supplement as well as contributing tools for


dem-plots) and crumb-rubber factories (providing training and privilege treatment for selected farmers with qualified products). Implementation of the activities will be in Pulang Pisau District in the villages of Sakakajang, Garung, Buntoi, Kalawa, Gohong, Mantaren1, Kanamit, Gandang, Gandang Barat, Sei Baru Tewu, and Talio. Finally, the LESTARI-MSU team continued its efforts to support educational capacity development aimed at the Katingan-Kahayan Landscape. Building on last quarter’s initial engagements, the LESTARI-MSU team finalized a 15-month work plan (July 2016 – September 2017) that will involve close collaboration with the University of Palangka Raya, Muhammadiyah University, and Bogor Agricultural University. Curriculum support will involve National Forest Monitoring System (NFMS), Forest Reference Emission Levels (FREL/REL), and Safeguard Information Systems (SIS). Further information can be found in the callout box on page 67.


Heavy rains in 2016 following the 2015 El Niño dry year are diminishing public concern about the vulnerability of the peatlands to fire and haze. Furthermore, Provincial Public Works recently had the temerity to build a new major canal in Pulang Pisau District across one of the most severely burned areas (observed from Kilometer 33 of the main road south). The District executive and legislature as well as BRG expressed indignation at this countervailing action to their commitment to block major canals.

LESTARI’s peatland surveys and related geospatial analyses including the sustainability screening tool integrated with bottom-up village level planning to raise the value of local livelihoods in ways that incentivize local integrated land and fire management should contribute to the construction of improved spatial planning.

Towards on-the-ground landscape-based approach – Arguably, LESTARI is closest to realizing a landscape-based approach in Kahayan Hilir sub-District nested within the Block C peatscape, itself nested within the wider Kahayan-Katingan landscape. It is here that the synergy between conservation and growth holds the most promise for demonstration in contrast to the often a divisive divide between environmental and economic development mindsets among decision-makers. The pieces are being put in place to ensure the right kind of landscape-wide spatial certainty through spatial planning zonation (conservation and limited production ultimately to be reflected in detailed spatial planning, RDTR down to the village level) and through RPJMDes to orientate village-level development planning towards fire prevention and fire-fighting.

Resolving conflicting actions in Pulang Pisau District that undermine peatland restoration – Discovery by the hydrological survey of Block C that Provincial Public Works has constructed a new major canal within the peatland while District Government and BRG are supporting canal blocking (Figure 21.) This apparent contradiction of government interests illustrates the challenge of achieving coordinated stewardship of the peatland hydrological unit yet at the same time stiffening the resolve of BRG and District Government to act in the direction of restoration rather than short-term exploitation.


Figure 21. A new canal built by Public Works Kalteng Province inside KHG 14, of understandable concern to Pulang Pisau District government that is supporting canal blocking, emphasizes the need for effective

coordination across the range of administrative levels from national, provincial, district to village to achieve restoration of peatland hydrology.

RDTR processes offer the opportunity to resolve intractable RTRWK problems – The persistent stand-off between Pulang Pisau and Central Kalimantan about District and Provincial spatial plan misalignments can be informed and perhaps resolved by reference to the more socially, environmentally and economically-credible higher-resolution approach of RDTR zonation down to the village level.

While joint patrols are proposed at a regional national park level, further official agreement by the head of the park is still required, necessitating official agreements between the project and the MOEF, specifically the Office of Nature Conservation and Ecosystems (KSDAE).

APHI – the Indonesian Association of Forestry Companies – are enthusiastic about developing a landscape approach for sustainable forestry and timber production around Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park.


Sign PPP agreements in Palangkaraya for community rubber sector with Bank Indonesia and PT. Insan Bonafide. The event will be held in the Bank Indonesia office on July 19, 2016.

Sign the remaining BMP agreements with HPH companies.

Initiate the first stage baseline gap analysis for RIL-C trainings for the HPH concessions.

Keep peatland fire prevention and suppression in the forefront of public attention, e.g., the major theme of the next meeting of Pulang Pisau’s MSF strengthened with


the use of drone imagery, dissemination of LESTARI Briefs, and presentation of Fire Hero Videos as well as the report of the impacts of fire on public health.

Overcome bureaucratic processes that place the use of fire-fighting equipment from LESTARI in administrative limbo until its handover is fully formalized by Berita Acara.

Plan for periodic M&E via drones in selected sub-landscapes to set up comparative

imagery that establishes the beneficial attribution of LESTARI initiatives in line with the main biodiversity and GHG emission goals.

Enrich the SST on a regular basis with up-to-date spatial information while allowing for smart phone utility and effective responses on the ground to citizen-based inputs.

Implementation of Field School for RPJMDes and co-management followed by the development of village zonation plan and co-management agreements with relevant government agencies

SMART patrol training will be held in Sebangau National Park in October 2016.

Assessment of patrol systems in Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park and preparation of SMART Patrol roll out to be held in year 2.

MSF preparation development for Katingan.

Follow-up on STI assessment for priority ecotourism site development in Central Kalimantan.

Start LESTARI-MSU work on instituional linkages and certificate program.


Lorentz Lowlands Landscape


The Lorentz Lowlands Landscape in south Papua consists of largely intact upland (free draining, mineral soil) forests in the northern parts of the landscape, extensive lowland swamp forests, and mangrove ecosystems. The Mimika and Asmat Mangroves stretch along 500 km of coastline and cover over 400,000 ha of mangroves. The bordering freshwater swamp forest covers an additional approximately 1M ha. These mangrove and backwater swamps are a world-class asset and harbor some of the highest carbon stock per hectare of any forest on the planet. The operational landscape is defined by Mimika and Asmat Districts. Lorentz National Park provides a shared centerpiece in the landscape. LESTARI’s overall vision for this landscape is to reduce degradation and future deforestation of primary forest and mangrove and improve biodiversity conservation through sustainable co-management, improved spatial planning and PA management. This is to be achieved through the following initiatives:

Maintenance of mangrove and peatland resilience (including hydrological and socio-economic resilience) through sustainable livelihoods

Protected forest management (includes peatlands) through co-management

Improvement and implementation of the spatial plan focusing on peat, through the operationalization of SEA-LEDS recommendations


Following a foundational first two quarters, LESTARI continued to intensify activities in the Lorentz Lowlands Landscape in support of the GHG reduction and biodiversity conservation goals. Activities focused primarily on co-management initiatives with communities in and around Lorentz National Park, continued capacity building support for KPH, partnerships with the private sector in support of the NP, and spatial planning and zonation initiatives. During this quarter, an analysis of the state of KPH in Mimika indicated that the single greatest constraint to progress remains the process for formulating long-term development plans without which the KPH cannot be self-reliant. The LESTARI team provided inputs during consultation on the management plan in the MoEF headquarters and was followed up with a public consultation in Mimika on June 23, 2016. Considering that most of the KPHL staff members (21 people) still have limited understanding of KPH, their roles and responsibilities, and forest management capacity, the LESTARI team worked on preparing a capacity building training that is planned to be rolled out during the next quarter. Following up the completion of the Environmental and Socio-economic resilience assessment in Mimika, the LESTARI team organized a Training of Trainers for community facilitation and co-management training in June 2016. The training was attended by LESTARI community facilitators and representatives from local government agencies (forestry, fisheries, and cooperative), KPHL, and Lorentz National Park. It aimed to equip attendees with facilitation skills and improve their knowledge on co-management. Also during this quarter, LESTARI closely engaged multi-stakeholders to develop a partnership agreement to support biodiversity conservation in and around Lorentz National Park. A workshop to foster a partnership between BKSDA, PT Freeport Indonesia and Lorentz National Park to support biodiversity conservation in the Lorentz Lowlands Landscape was held on May 10-11, 2016. The workshop concluded with the signing of partnership agreement between BKSDA Papua, Lorentz National Park, Mimika District Government, adat communities’ representatives (LEMASKO and village head of Fanamo), PT Freeport, and LESTARI. The agreement covers three major areas that all of the signatories will work together on:

Data management and research of biodiversity conservation in Mimika District


Communities’ empowerment and engagement in biodiversity conservation

Law enforcement with regards to biodiversity conservation. Action plans have also been developed to implement the commitment, which include joint patrol, joint research and survey, standard operation procedure (SOP) for handing confiscated wildlife, and community engagement activities, among others.

An assessment was conducted in Lorentz National Park on the existing condition of spatial data infrastructure and needs assessment for capacity building activities to improve the spatial data infrastructure in the park, which closely engages the CA managers. To follow up the discussion, a training for GIS application for improving the effectiveness of CA management will be held in Lorentz National Park during the next quarter. Following up the discussions with Ditjen PIKA (Pemolaan dan Informasi Kawasan Konservasi Alam) and responding their request to support finalization of CAs zonation/blocking system and integration of the system into One Map Policy, LESTARI plans to hire a STTA to help with the integration of zonation system (scale 1:50,000). As Lorentz National Park has already completed its zonation system, the focus during the next quarter will be to integrate the zonation plan of this CA into One Map. Finally, in support of upcoming MSFs, the LESTARI team worked on streamlining and standardizing MSF protocol by preparing a simple MSF reporting template and background guidance paper as unifying clarification of MSF purpose as a genuine forum for multi-stakeholder discourse. The MSF in Mimika was initiated, keeping in mind the early lessons learned from previous MSF sessions in Mappi, Bouven Digoel, Aceh, and Central Kalimantan. This includes instilling LESTARI’s definition, role, and function of MSF with all stakeholders. Mimika District agreed to consolidate all its various pre-existing MSFs into the one being supported by LESTARI.


Mappi-Bouven Digoel Landscape


The Mappi-Bouven Digoel Landscape in covers a large undeveloped expanse of lowland forest on a lowland mineral terrace, and extensive peat lands, swamps and some mangrove in the lower reaches towards the coast. The landscape is characterized by Papua’s largest river, the Digul, which forms the eastern boundary of the landscape. The operational landscape is defined by Mappi district and a significant portion of Bouven Digoel district bounded by the Digul River. LESTARI’s overall vision for this landscape is to reduce future deforestation and degradation of forest by large-scale private sector. This is to be achieved through the following initiative:

Land use rationalization to include essential hydrological, ecological, socio-economic functions in private sector planning.


During this quarter, much of the initial work was focused on socializing the LESTARI project and conducting stakeholder mapping as a precursor for developing inclusive MSFs. This foundational work was especially important considering Bouven-Digoel is a new district for USAID environmental projects. An assessment on sustainable livelihood development through local commodities and value chain mapping in Mappi-Bouven Digoel Landscape proceeded through the data gathering process. This activity will be combined with the result of the land suitability assessment to develop a strategy plan throughout the landscape. The expected output is a strategic plan to foster partnerships with private sector entities to rationalize land use (especially in the land conversion sector, such as oil palm) and developing and improving the livelihoods of local communities. The final report is being finalized. The final result will be shared and discussed with MSF members and other relevant stakeholders. In support of the newly formed MSFs, preparatory work was completed in anticipation of the next MSF meetings in July-September 2016. In Mappi, this will involve dialogue on mapping investments and what this means for supporting livelihoods and managing land and natural resource assets. In Boven Digoel, the MSF dialogue session will focus on the results of the survey of local communities to identify solutions for sustainable livelihoods. Additionally, a template has been developed for the MSF secretariat to be used as an internal accountability and reporting tool.


Sarmi Landscape


The LESTARI Sarmi Landscape in northern Papua is almost entirely covered with natural forests, from the low coastal land up to the Foja Mountains in the hinterlands. This includes extensive areas of lowland peat swamp forest as well as mangrove forests along the 200 km coast. The region is known for its rich biodiversity in all forest types including tree-kangaroos, the enigmatic Northern Cassowary, 16 species of parrot and cockatoos, and 6 species of birds of paradise – all of which are relatively common throughout the landscape. As 96% of the Sarmi Landscape is forest-covered, the operational landscape is almost identical to the value landscape. LESTARI’s overall vision for this landscape is to reduce degradation of primary forest, improve sustainable forest management, and reduce future deforestation by large scale private sector. This is to be achieved through the following initiatives:

Improved adoption of BMPs in timber concessions

Community based forest management

Land use Rationalization of any future private sector through operationalizing SEA-LEDS and LCPs


Due to the ongoing political constraints in Sarmi District, LESTARI’s activities in the Sarmi Landscape continued to be considerably limited during the third quarter. Of most significance, progress was made on BMP collaboration with HPHs operating in Sarmi Landscape. There are two concessions that are interested in collaborating with LESTARI – PT. Wapoga Mutiara Timber and PT. Salaki Mandiri Sejahtera on training for Reduced Impact Logging that reduces carbon emissions (RIL-C). The collaboration agreements are currently under finalization, and the signing is expected to take place in July 2016. The majority of the training will take place next year. LESTARI-supported RIL-C trainings aim to build capacity for the concessions to improve logging practices so that impacts to the environment are mitigated while GHG emissions are reduced. LESTARI will engage a third party under sub-contractor to conduct the RIL-C trainings. The trainings will be conducted in two stages. The first stage involves a baseline-gap analysis to identify the current situation and baseline setting for each concession, while the second stage is the RIL-C training itself. The training will be tailored according to the needs of each concession based on the baseline-gap report. In support of multi-stakeholder engagement, a follow-up meeting to the first MSF meeting in Sarmi was conducted in May in order to finalize the draft SK Bupati, which included vision/mission, first year work plan, and membership extension. Notably, the MSF was better organized and now only awaits formal approval. Finally, LESTARI continued coordinating and cooperating with Bappeda at the district level to facilitate capacity development for SDI units in terms of both human resource capacity and spatial data management. Discussions were also held with the Provincial Bappeda to establish connectivity between SDI at the district level with SIMTARU at the provincial level.


Cyclops Landscape


The Cyclops Landscape in northern Papua is the smallest LESTARI Landscape (47,000 ha), but nevertheless rich in forest and biodiversity resources. The proximity of the mountain range to the provincial capital provides a focal point for conservation of environmental services. Due to the proximity of Papua’s largest population center, the mountain range is under threat from illegal logging, charcoal making, wildlife poaching, and encroachment for agricultural land by mountain communities migrating to the capital. The value landscape is defined by the remaining forest within and surrounding the nature reserve. The operational landscape contains the bordering buffer zone to the reserve. The overall vision for this landscape is to reduce deforestation and degradation of Cyclops Nature Reserve through improved co-management of the PA. This is to be achieved through improved management through the KPH and co-management with communities to improve livelihoods. .


During this quarter, LESTARI continued to build on the previous quarters’ successful preparation and signing of the declaration for co-management of Cyclops Nature Reserve, while also focusing on capacity building for improved monitoring and enforcement practices around the Nature Reserve. In following up the co-management agreement, which was signed by multi stakeholders in January 2016, LESTARI has been supporting its implementation. In doing so, LESTARI facilitated the development of a district regulation on Cyclops Buffer Zone management to secure long-term commitments (including budget allocation) from district government. The event was entitled Initial consultation of the first draft of the Jayapura Municipality regulation (Raperda) on the management and conservation of Cyclops Nature Reserve buffer zone area. The event was hosted by the Legal Unit of Jayapura Municipality and attended by government officers from relevant government agencies at the municipal and provincial levels, and community representatives for Ormu and Port Numbay. Two important points that were suggested to be incorporated into the regulation included: highlighting the role of Cyclops Nature Reserve as water resources for Jayapura City and the need to regulate mobility of migrant citizens who live in the buffer zone area. The public consultation of the district regulation draft follow up activity was held on June 2, 2016. Inputs from the public have been systematically integrated in the updated version of the district regulation draft. In support of capacity building for improved PA management, a rapid SMART patrol assessment was held in Cyclops Nature Reserve to discuss: 1) existing patrol systems and patrol intensity, 2) priority areas for patrolling, and 3) human and financial resources. The assessment engaged BKSDA Papua, Forestry Agency (Dinas Kehutanan), and community patrol (Masyarakat Mitra Polhut). Based on these discussions, it has been acknowledged that there is a need to improve the intensity of patrolling systems in priority areas. In addition, it has been agreed to improve the standards and procedures through conducting SMART Patrol training and implementing patrol. To follow this up, SMART patrol training was held in Cyclops Nature Reserve on May 12-20, 2016. The SMART patrol training in Cyclops Nature Reserve included five days of training on database system management and two days on data collection practices. This involved rangers from BKSDA Papua (Cyclops Nature Reserve), provincial forestry agencies, and two representatives from Lorentz National Park (training involving broader rangers in Lorentz National Park will be held sometime in September/October 2016). The training included 21 officers that will be upgraded to be data managers and data operators to implement and maintain the system in the future.


Figure 22. SMART patrol database training attended by BBKSDA Papua, Lorentz National Park, and the Forestry Service. .

Importantly, these data management practices instilled under the SMART patrol training will serve as a strategic method to improve the previously disorganized data. BKSDA Papua and the LESTARI team are carrying out 4-months patrol and database system trial that started in June 2016. Three community ranger teams in Moy, Sereh, and Angkasa Villages have been engaged in the patrol. The patrol budget is co-funded by BKSDA Papua and LESTARI. Two officers of BKSDA Papua coordinate and hold the integrated database system in the office in Jayapura and are supported by 3 trained officers assisted by LESTARI staff that together will monitor the 3 ranger teams (45 community rangers) to conduct the continuous patrol and data collection. After the completion of the system trial, an initial evaluation will be held and a long term roll out of SMART patrol will be implemented. Finally, LESTARI continued to support KSDAE’s target to establish and ensure the operationalization of Forest Management Unit – Conservation (KPHK) in Cyclops-Yuteva. An important element of this establishment is developing a long term management plan. This quarter, LESTARI collaborated with BKSDA Papua to carry out a public consultation meeting held on June 2, 2016 to gain public inputs toward the long-term management plan of KPHK Cyclops-Yuteva. The meeting was attended by relevant government agencies at the district and provincial level, adat community representatives, NGOs and private sectors.


Papua Provincial Initiatives Activities at the Provincial level are especially important in Papua as LESTARI works in four landscapes, and issues resolved at the provincial level will often have an impact for one of more landscapes, creating efficiencies. During this quarter, LESTARI continued its support for Papua Provincial-level spatial planning through SIMTARU (Sistim Informasi Tataruang), which consisted of a strengthening of linkages with provincial service agencies as well as Sarmi and Mimika Districts. An important step was the linkage of SIMTARU to the one-stop-shop for natural resource licensing. The LESTARI team facilitated the MoU document between the Governor and Badan informasi Spasial (BIG) that explicitly refers to SIMTARU, as well as verified the registration of two draft Governor’s decrees for SIMTARU development, one on establishment and the other on licensing.

Challenges and Opportunities in Papua Landscapes There is a pressing need to address concerns among the Cyclops necessarily

influential customary (Adat) leaders. The Dewan Adat Suku (DAS) complained that they were insufficiently involved in Cyclops Collaborative Management, in particular zonation of the Nature Reserve. Although the Sahabat Cyclops initiative should help to bring about a more inclusive approach to collaborative management in line with the joint declaration of January 21, 2016, an MSF modality with wider membership may prove to be a significant complementary approach that would at the same time open up the possibility of a Province-wide MSF relevant to the needs of the LESTARI landscapes.

There has been increasing interest from CA managers in Cyclops Nature Reserve and Lorentz National Park to roll out SMART patrols. In the next quarter, the LESTARI team will focus on rolling out SMART patrol in Cyclops Nature Reserve and carrying out assessments in Lorentz National Park.

Analysis of the state of KPH in Mimika indicated that the single greatest constraint to progress remains the process for formulating long-term development plans without which the KPH cannot be self-reliant.

Demand-driven activities in line with LESTARI goals present enormous opportunities. E.g., BAPPEDA’s request to support and develop the Spatial Planning Information System (SIMTARU), initiated by USAID-ESP and further developed by UKCCU’s PROTARIH that ended in February, to serve Districts inside LESTARI landscapes.

Mimika, Sarmi, and Jayapura have shown commitment to LESTARI and budgeted funds for activities that will contribute to improved natural resource management and reduced GHG emissions. Activities budgeted include financial support for the MSF, development of the SDI, and collaborative management of protected areas.

The results of the mapping exercises will serve as key data for Bappeda Timika and Asmat in the revision of the RTRW.

Foundations that work in Mimika and Asmat lack the capacity to compete for grants and lack sustained support from the government and donor agencies.


The political uncertainty in Sarmi has caused LESTARI to postpone travel plans to the landscape and discuss future activities with the local government.

The involvement of women in LESTARI activities in Papua is still too low.

Priorities for Next Quarter in Papua Landscapes Capacity building training for KPHL in Mimika on collaborative forest management.

Signing agreements on BMP collaboration with HPH companies in Sarmi Landscape.

Assessment of patrol systems in Lorentz National Park and preparation of SMART patrol roll out to be conducted in Year 2.

Training for spatial data management and zonation in Cyclops Nature Reserve.

Establishment of the Forum of Indigenous Peoples in Lorentz National Park.

Establishment of KKMD (Kelompok Kerja Mangrove Daerah) – a working group for collaborative management of mangroves in Asmat District.


APPENDIX APPENDIX 1: LESTARI PROGRESS FOR THIRD QUARTER – YEAR 1

Indicator Target of

Work Plan 2016

Actual (Q1) Actual (Q2)

Actual (Q3)

% of Completion (Actual vs

Target)

Remarks

#1 – Percentage reduction in GHG emissions as a result of USG assistance measured using actual emissions compared to REL (Outcome – contributes to FACTS 4.8-7)

Not measured Not measured Not measured Not measured -

#2 – Number of hectares of biological significance and/or natural resources under improved natural resource management as a result of USG assistance (Outcome –FACTS 4.8.1-26)


#3 – Percentage reduction in poaching (Outcome)


#4 – Number of public policies addressing climate change and/or biodiversity conservation introduced, changed or adopted consistent with citizen input (Outcome)

3 0 1 1 67%

Minister Decree of adoption of METT for measuring effectiveness of conservation area. LESTARI involved in series of discussion, assessment processes, providing recommendation and dissemination of results as well as formulation of action plan to increase METT scores in all LESTARI Landscape.

#5 – Number of sub- Not measured Not measured Not measured Not measured -


Indicator Target of

Work Plan 2016


Actual (Q3)


Target)

Remarks

national government with improved licensing and permitting mechanism (Outcome)

#6 – Number of sub-national government incorporating high quality SEA-LEDS & LCPs into draft spatial plans, zonation regulation or draft mid-term development plan (Outcome)

2 0 0 0 0%

#7 – Number of Multi Stakeholder Forum (MSF) operational as citizen based mechanisms for public input on land use (Outcome)

2 0 0 0 0%

#8 – Number of community champions engaged in advocacy interventions (Output)

50 0 9 14 46%

14 people (13 male; 1 female) actively participate in advocacy intervention such as formulation of bupati regulation concerning allocation of village fund for forestry in South East Aceh. Some people also involved in advocacy for forest protection in Gayo Lues, recognition for Kemukiman Manggamat Forest in South Aceh. In addition, some champions from journalists have actively and continuously produce and disseminate articles, photos, and videos about Leuser in various local and international media as a result of LESTARI communication capacity building program.


Indicator Target of

Work Plan 2016


Actual (Q3)


Target)

Remarks

#9 – Number of people reached by LESTARI communication programs to improve awareness and understanding of LEDS and biodiversity conservation (Output)

1,000 0 313 3,062 338%

(2,090 male and 972 female) People exposed to LESTARI program through exhibitions in national and local level and social media (FB, twitter and youtube).

#10 – Number of Conservation Areas (CAs) with at least 70 point in METT scores across LESTARI landscapes (Outcome)


#11 – Number of co-management agreements signed that secure community rights and benefits (Output)

0 0 0 1 100%

Declaration of collaborative management of Cyclops and its buffer zone.

#12 – Number of people receiving USG supported training in natural resources management and/or biodiversity conservation (Output – FACTS 4.8.1-27)

1,000 20 77 668 77%

(531 male; 137 female)

#13 – Amount of investment mobilized (in USD) for climate change as supported by USG assistance (Output – FACTS 4.8.2-10)

2,000,000 0 22,722 66,737 5%

IDR 900.630.000

Fund leveraging from Central Kalimantan amounted IDR 836.880.000 and Aceh amounted IDR 63.750.000

#14 – Number of people receiving livelihood co-benefits (monetary or non monetary) (Outcome)

0 0 0 0 -


Indicator Target of

Work Plan 2016


Actual (Q3)


Target)

Remarks

#15 – Number of private sector firms that have improved management practices as a result of USG assistance (Outcome –FACTS 4.6.2-9)

2 0 0 0 0%

#16 - Number of new USG-supported public-private partnerships (PPPs) formed (Output – FACTS PPP 5)

3 0 0 1 33%

PPP signed between LESTARI and PT. Kampung Kearifan Lokal, the holder of JAVARA trademark. The common interest through this partnership is in improving the performance of cacao value chain and other value chains created in the cacao plantation area in Leuser Landscape.


APPENDIX 2: LESTARI RESULTS FRAMEWORK


APPENDIX 3: LESTARI LANDSCAPE INITIATIVES


APPENDIX 4: STAFFING PLAN

USAID LESTARI

Wisma GKBI, 12th Floor, #1210 Jl. Jend. Sudirman No. 28, Jakarta 10210, Indonesia

Phone: +62 21 574 0565 Fax: +62 21 574 0566

Email: [email protected]

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