Community-based Climate Action

through Peat Restoration:

Lesson learnt from Caring for Peat Village Program

Monica Tanuhandaru
Executive Director

Indonesia Pavilion Talkshow in COP-24,

Katowice, 6 December 2018

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 Working from within the government agencies/institutions that
need/promote reforms (working internal champions)
 Creating pressure from outside through supporting civil society
organizations.
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Instigate changes, build capacities

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champions
from within
Strengthen
pressure from
outside
Multistakeholder-partnerships
 How does Peat Restoration addressing Climate Change?

• Indonesia: 22 million ha of peatlands (ca. 5% of the

global peatland)
• Reduction of carbon emissions due to degradation
of forest & peatlands is among President Joko
Widodo’s commitment within NDC

• 2,945 villages on peatlands, home for millions of

people living in villages along rivers and coastal
areas.
• 1,000 targeted peat villages development
potentially located inside of 1.030.000 Ha areas

• Caring for Peat Village Project (DPG) promotes the

roles and functions of villages and local to
undertake communities-based peatland
restoration, including to prevent forest fires

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What roles communities play in peat restoration?

Communities possess the local knowledge

and wisdom in managing peatlands as
their source of livelihoods

The village policy and planning process

can provide the enabling environment for
the sustainability of peat restoration

Legal access and improved tenurial rights

for communities will promote a stronger
ownership & modality for peatlands
restoration

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Kemitraan’s intervention in Community-based Peat Restoration

10
Nov 2017- March 2020
8 16
DPGs
DPGs DPGs 47
47
109 Villages in 7 provinces DPGs
DPGs
14 16
State Budget DPGs DP
6
47
DPGs
Gs
(APBN) DP 6 8
GsDPG DPGs

Private Sectors s 8
DP
Gs

Donors & CSO

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DPG Main Approaches

Policy – Regulation - Law Enforcement

Participatory Village
Tenurial Certainty:
conflict resolution, participatory
Planning:
Village regulation & planning,
mapping
Village Budget

Restoration & Livelihood

Conservation: Development
Public-Private- (Economy):
Partnership, SMEs, Paludiculture,
Revegetation, Canal Agricultural Cultivation
Blocking Cultural
Revitalization:
Local Wisdom, Indigenous
People

Multi-stakeholders collaboration – Institutional Strengthening – Monitoring & Evaluation

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What are the result from Kemitraan’s DPG Project? (1)

140 villages have used participatory mapping (PRA) as

tools in identifying the state of their peatland areas
Land use & socio-economic data relevant to peat
management in 140 peat villages are mapped

140 peat village profiles are documented

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What are the result from Kemitraan’s DPG Project? (2)
280 village members’s capacity have improved in peat
responsive village planning
Approx. 67 village planning discussions (Musdes) that
address the agenda of peat restoration facilitated

38 draft annual village planning priorities (RKPDes) with

peat restoration activities have been prepared

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What are the result from Kemitraan’s DPG Project? (3)

Burnt and degraded peat areas identified by local

communities for rewetting infastructure in 58 villages
Deep wells infrastructure activities for 49 units &
sets of fires extinction tools for 12 DPG villages in
West Kalimantan procured

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 What are the gaps preventing communities’s
participation in peat restoration?
• Knowledge & resources
Lack of knowledge on peat restoration & the state of peatland
areas in their village hinder the communities action in peat

• Policy support & affirmative actions

Bottleneck in translating the affirmative policy/village fund for
peat restoration in subnational level

• Elite-centered planning process

Most of village planning process is still elite-centered &
represents the interest of governing authorities and thus
lacking in communities participation & environmental agenda

• Innovation & technology

Limited innovation and incentives on technology in addressing
the sustainable peatland management without burning
practices

• Access and tenurial rights

Lack of legal access and rights for communities in managing
peatlands and certainty in communities’s tenurial rights

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 Learning from Kemitraan’s experience:
Main Challenges

Adaptive Technology & Innovation

Regulation SUSTAINABLE PEAT Village & Communities

Framework & MANAGEMENT empowerment
Policy Support

Multi-stakeholders Collaboration

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 Thank You

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@kemitraan_pgr

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