Forest and Land Rehabilitation (RHL) carried out by Forest Farmer Groups (KTH) has a better level of effectiveness compared to RHL management carried out with contracted companies. KTH’s involvement starting from the planning process gave them a higher sense of ownership in looking after the plants because they were involved from the start. This emerged […]
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Women’s participation in decision making in Social Forestry is still symbolic, meaning that their presence is present but only limited to the attendance list. At almost every meeting for decision making at the site level, women only play a role in the consumption session and organize the meeting offerings. Meanwhile, men will focus on following
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Forest and Land Rehabilitation (RHL) will not be successful if there is no sustainability in it. The Social Forestry Scheme also supports the sustainability of RHL. Bambang Supriyanto as the Director General of Social Forestry and Environmental Partnerships at the Ministry of Environment and Forestry said that the RHL scheme can increase community participation and
Forestry Natural Resources Revenue Sharing Fund Reforestation Fund (DBH DR) is a regional right which came from the receipt of forestry natural resources reforestation fund. DBH DR was gave to regional government to full fill their needs in order to implemented decentralization. Since 2017, DBH DR was given to regional government to producing provinces as
Data from the Statistics Indonesia (BPS) shows that the Labor Force Participation Rate (TPAK) of women is still far below the men, where the TPAK for men is 83.2% and women is only 54.3% (BPS, 2022). As an effort to increase women’s TPAK, the government has issued a policy of managing forest areas by the
Indonesia still has homework to reduce the economic disparity between women and men. Based on Sakernas data (2018), women’s Labor Force Participation Rate (TPAK) is 51.88%. It is lower than men’s TPAK which reaches 82.69%. This condition became a serious concern of the government, where in the 2020-2024 National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN), the Government
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PATTIRO has developed Gender Assessment Tools (GAT) in Social Forestry. This tool aims to identify various gender issues in social forestry management starting from the pre- and post-approval stages of social forestry to social forestry policies and institutions in the regions. The assessment results are expected to be the starting material for developing more gender-responsive
PATTIRO supported by The Asia Foundation held a training on gender mainstreaming in Social Forestry on Monday-Tuesday (30-31/6). The training was held online and attended by around 40 people from 21 civil society organizations from various regions in Indonesia. This training aimed to improve participants’ understanding of gender concept in general and ability to identify
JAKARTA, KOMPAS — The revenue sharing funds for forestry resources from reforestation funds (DBH DR) have not been used optimally for social forestry management. The amount of reforestation funds that are unused at the regional level is also quite large. Yet, these funds can be used to expand access to forest land as well as
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“Various ideas and potentials from institutions in Indonesia that are concerned about climate change actions are important elements of Indonesia’s future. Therefore, it is necessary to align the ideals of the institutions”, said Dr Anindya Chatterjee, the Regional Director of IDRC at the Inception Workshop on the Think Climate Indonesia (TCI) Program on 21 July.
As of 2020, the area of forests managed through the social forestry (PS) scheme has reached 4.2 million hectares. Government of Indonesia is targeting to increase the area of social forestry to 8 million hectares by 2024 (RPJMN 2020-2024). This target is set to alleviate poverty, especially for communities around forest areas. Data from the Directorate General of Social Forestry and Environmental Partnerships (Ditjen PSKL), Ministry of Environment
PATTIRO held a Stakeholder Discussion on Gender Mainstreaming (PUG) in Social Forestry (PS), on February 23, 2021. This virtual discussion aimed to receive input from stakeholders related to the study being carried out by PATTIRO. Present as expert speakers were Suraya Afif (Researcher), Sulistiyono (Gender Working Group of NTB Province) and Yulius Hendra (PUG-PPRG National
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