WORKSHOP  REPORT

 

Gunung Palung National Park Conservation Through

Orangutan Protection Approach

 

Merpati Hotel, Pontianak June 5-6th 2000

 

By

Yayasan LSM Cassia Lestari

 

 

Visions

·        Aplicative formulation, conflict handling

·        Actual information of Gunung Palung National Park, especially: conflict handling

·        Supports are needed from all outsiders, especially conflict handling through species conservation

·        Actual recomendation of conservation, actual contribution of society and domestic income bruto

·        Regional government must be pro-active in conservation affords

·        Networking, strategy of Gunung Palung National Park conservation

·        Stern action to GPNP destruction action, creation society understanding around the Gunung Palung

·        Collective decission in handling GPNP, actual action  of competence institution

·        Recomendation to make revision in regional regulation about Orangutan, actual follow-up (according to theme of National Milenia Day 2000 :”It’s time to act actually”) 

·        No time for more discussion, be this moment as the last discussion

·        Stop being concerned with individual/group interest, be concerned with all of living creatures on the earth

 

 

Plenary Session I

Meta Plan Concept “Orangutan=Umbrella”

Ø      By protecting a species, it is expected to be able to conserve the area entirely

Ø     Protecting Orangutan means ptotecting Gunung Palung National Park (GPNP)

Ø     The picture can be used as GPNP conservation trademark (logogram)

Ø     As one of rare species which is protected, Orangutans are expected to be able to be umbrella species for GPNP area

Ø     Rescuring efforts are done as early as possible to prevent the extinction of species in GPNP 

Ø     Optimizing Orangutans issue in GPNP conservation

Ø     Conserving is needed for all of ecosytems which are in the umbrella ptotection  (GPNP area)

Ø     Orangutan as one of important protection  in Gunung Palung can be used as conservation mode i.c. the GPNP conservation itself

Ø     Behind the umbrella, there are Orangutans as key species of other species

 

Plenary Session II

Problems Formulation, Strategies, and Solutions (Action Plan) of Gunung Palung National Park  Conservation Handling

 

The Problems, Strategies, and Solutions in Making Efforts of Conservation of GPNP Area From Social, Economic, and Cultural Aspects

 

The Problems:

Ø      There are shifting cultivation/swidden agriculture actions

Ø      There are society conviction about zone authority in connection with shifting cultivation/swidden agriculture action tradition/culture

Ø      The culture of society which is attached by the forest

Ø      High economic pressures make the cut down of trees illegally action be the only alternative job for the people around it

Ø      There is no initiative from regional government to find an effort which is able to increase the people’s income

Ø      Low ability of analysis  of society so that it’s difficult to make new innovation from outside

Ø      The level of education really influences in choosing/determining the steps or action which are going to be done

 

 

The Problem Crystallization:

1.      The role of the society promoter/local institution is not optimum yet in increasing society resources (village intelectual promoter, religions officials, and customary officials)

2.   Low ability to analyze (unadeguated formal/informal education)

3.      The policy of regional developing which is centralistic, project oriented, not efficient (not suitable with the condition of surrondings potention) and not be supported by a policy in order the program can be done condusively

4.      Minimum access of information about the business oppurtunity from and for the society

 

The Solution:

1.      - optimize the role of local institution

- give any chances and beliefs

- facilities in digging traditional wisdom

2.      - facilitate the activity of awareness about the situation and potention to face future challange

-         give training and assistancing

-         apprentice or comperative study

3.      – giving facilities in order the people’s needs can be shared until distribute them to connected outsider

-          whatever the activites development are done, it must be based on the surroundings potention

4.      Conecting the people with market

 

The Concrete Steps:

  1. Do observation in connected village

-          support society participation in determining future priority activities

-          collective planning until monitoring and valuating

 

  1. Forming a place which is able to follow up the result of workshop

3.      There is follow up of information after workshop

 

 

The Problems, Strategies, and Solutions in Making Efforts of Conservation of GPNP Area From Policy Aspect

 

The Problems

  1. Minimum policy socialization and GPNP condition
  2. The regulation realization can’t run smootly
  3. Revitalization of customarylaw
  4. Village convention for heterogeneous society
  5. Customary convention for homogeneous society
  6. Policy invitation
  7. Forming MOU between education mistance and local university
  8. Spread up/accelerated the realization of regional autonomy

 

The Problem Crystalization

  1. Socialization
  2. Law conduction
  3. Law maintenance
  4. Revitalization of customarylaw
  5. Monitoring and Coordinating

 

The Strategic Steps

  1. Extension (environment education) through press media
  2. Regular dialogue
  3. Society deliberation
  4. Forming MOU reseach (Regional Government + university + researcher)
  5. Policy advocation

 

 

 

 

The Problems, Strategies, and Solutions In Making Efforts of 

GPNP Conservation From Networking and Fundrising Aspect

 

1). Networking

    1. The Problems

Ø      Institution/Student’s Institution/NGO run by theirown (unintegrated)

Ø      Clarify and reinforce the role and responsibility

Ø      Cofusion of information about program in GPNP

 

    1. The Networking Fuction

Ø      Involve all stakeholders who are concerned with GPNP

Ø      Fuction as pressure group

Ø      Fuction as mode of information

Ø      Policy consilidation from stakeholders

Ø      Accommodating work programmes in GPNP

Ø      Facilitating funrising

 

    1. The Opportunities

Ø      There is the same perception/goal from involved stakeholders

Ø      Nerworking of GPNP conservation area

Ø      Forming consortium

 

2). Fundrising

    1. The Problem

Ø      Limited fund

Ø      Lack of information about fund sources

Ø      Less pro-active

 

    1. The Opportunities

Ø      The existance of fund for conservation

Ø      The existance of fund sources for conservation

Ø      The existance of Harvard and LTFE

Ø      The existance of an international NGO  in Indonesia

Ø      The existance of some firms around the GPNP

 

    1. The Programmes

Ø      Identity and invent benefactors/investors

Ø      Open networking to the benefactors

Ø      Make extension of making proposals which are worth to be sold and procedures in fund rising

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forming Special Divisions of Fundrising

The Problem, Strategies, and Solutions from Reseach Aspect

 

The Problems

The Alternative Solution

The Strategies

1.      The unbalanced of foreign researcher and local researcher

 

 

Increase the portion of local researcher

 

 

Networking/Consortium

 

 

2. There is no yet socialization in research

Identification of problems and research

-          Consortium

-          Listing priority

of research

3. Socialization of research findings which are not optimum

Make arrangement of socialization mechanism of research findings

Exposure via mass media

4. The unclearity of fuction and system which manage the counterpart

Predefinition of function and counterpart management

Make the formulation of the counterpart concept with reference from LIPI

 

 

The Benefit of Research

Ø      For science

Ø      Give information to the outsiders who have interest in research

Ø      As the base frame of policy and the aplication

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Problems, Strategies, and Solutions In Making Efforts of 

GPNP Conservation From Awareness and Education Aspect

 

 

Output

  1. Banner
  2. Dialogue/forum
  3. Newsletter
  4. Event
  5. Attribute
  6. Internet information
  7. Rehabilitation

 

 

Indicator
  1. Management Plan Radio Broadcast
  2. Leafleat, Baliho, Spanduk
  3. Informal meeting

 

Activities
  1. Advertising
  2. Film
  3. Environment education broadcasting

 

Notes

-          ativities continuities

 

 

Table of The Alternative  Solution, Strategy/Action Programme

 

No.

Alternative Solution

Group

1.

Observation, identification, socialization

social

2.

Intitution after workshop

social

3.

Follow up information after workshop

social

4.

Environment education, information distribution

policy

5.

Regular dialogue

policy

6.

Society deliberation

policy

7.

Conservation movement

policy

8.

Policy advocation

policy

9.

Forming consortium

networking and fungrising

10.

Fundrising division

networking and fundrising

11.

Consortium (workshop)

research

12.

Media exposure

research

13.

Formulation of counterpart concept

research

14.

Radio broadcasting

awareness education

15.

Banner

awareness education

16.

Dialogue/Forum

awareness education

17.

Event

awareness education

18.

Attribute

awareness education

19.

Internet information

awareness education

20.

Newsletter

awareness education

21.

Rehabilitation

awareness education

 

 

The Matric of Relation Sinergivities Betwen Issues

 

Issues

 

Social

 

Policy

 

Networking/

Fundrising

 

Research

 

Awareness

education

Social

 

 

 

 

 

Policy

 

 

 

x

 

Networking/

Fundrising

 

 

 

 

 

Research

 

 

x

 

 

Awareness education