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At A Glance

Dumaring Forest and River Collaborative Conservation Program1) is a collaboration initiative involving five institutions/organizations:

• KLK (Kuala Lumpur Kepong Bhd),

• Aksenta (PT Gagas Dinamiga Aksenta),

• Belantara (Yayasan Belantara Mandala Nusantara),

• Dumaring Village Government and

• KPH2) Berau Pantai.

The Collaborative Conservation is initiated and managed to achieve six objectives in order to realize six main outcomes (see objectives and main outcomes).

The Collaborative Conservation Program has been implemented since January 2020. Currently, the scope of Collaborative Conservation Program includes Dumaring Village Forest (5,083 ha)3), Tanah Patiraja (673 ha)4), and riparian buffer of five main rivers in Dumaring Village (614 ha)5).

In those areas, the Collaborative Conservation Program has been initiating and facilitating forest and river conservation (focusing on riparian buffer of five main rivers) and community enterprise development with community organizations that includes:

• LPHD Pangalima Jerrung with its seven business units6) (in Dumaring Village Forest),

• Kekal Patiraja7) (in Patiraja customary land) and

• KTH Bakil-Dumaring8) (in the riparian buffer of five main rivers).

The Collaborative Conservation Program has also been facilitating the three program partners of community groups to develop a long-term collaboration with relevant community groups/ institutions officially set up by the Village Government:

• BUMK Dumaring9),

• Pokdarwis Kampung Dumaring10) and

• Penggerak PKK Kampung Dumaring11).

Facilitating the establishment and development of a collaboration network between the community groups with legal or customary rights to lands and resources with the village government officially established community groups/institutions is consistently carried out by the Collaborative Conservation Program as it is a crucial part to the successful, long term forest and river conservation and sustainable use.

The Collaborative Conservation Program has also been initiating and maintaining government engagement through regular communication, coordination and visits, particularly with the Berau Regent, Berau Vice Regent and Berau Regency Government senior officials relevant to the mission of the Collaborative Conservation Program (e.g. Environment and Sanitary, Cultural and Tourism, Community Empowerment and Village Development, Education, Communication and Information).

Local government engagement is critical in attaining and maintaining their attention, support, involvement and concrete and consistent contribution to forest and river conservation and community enterprise development from forest and river sustainable use in Dumaring Village. The goal of this approach is to create a consistent and concrete contribution of the local government towards forest and river conservation and community development in their administrative territory and eventually adopt it as one of the development agenda of the Berau Regency Government with Dumaring as one of their priority villages.

1) The previous title of the conservation program was Forest and Biodiversity Collaborative Conservation Program for Dumaring and Biatan Ilir Village Forests. Since June 2022, the conservation program scope changed to only one village (Dumaring). It reduced the number of villages and village forest but added more locations with different legal/traditional status.

2) Forest Management Unit. The work unit under the Provincial Forestry Office with certain working areas covering one or more administrative boundaries in certain regency as a governing and managing authority in certain forestry related issues which is delegated from the Ministry of Forestry (MEF) to the Provincial Government.

3) State Forest Land with a land legal status of Protection Forest. The delineation and demarcation conducted in 2020 revealed that Dumaring Village Forest covered a total area of 5.141 ha.

4) A land legal status of customary land.

5) Includes Bakil, Dumaring, Sembeling, Semuluk dan Dougai Rivers. Covering various different land legal status.

6) LPHD: Lembaga Pengelolaan Hutan Desa; Community Institution for Village Forest Management. KUPS: Kelompok Usaha Perhutanan Sosial, Social Forestry Community Business Group.

7) Kekal Patiraja: Kerukunan Keluarga Patiraja. Official organization of the Patiraja Clan.

8) KTH: Kelompok Tani Hutan. Forest Farmer Group.

9) BUMK: Badan Usaha Milik Kampung. Dumaring Village-Owned Enterprise.

10) Pokdarwis: Kelompok Sadar Wisata. Dumaring Village Community Group for Tourism Awareness.

11) Penggerak PKK: Penggerak Pendidikan Kesejahteraan Keluarga. Family Welfare Education Mobilization Team.