Jakarta, Ekuatorial \u2013 South Barito of Central Kalimantan has been appointed as the first pilot project for forest recognition project by third party aimed to manage the province\u2019s overlapping permit issuance, said a member of government\u2019s office, in Jakarta, last month. <\/p>\n
The Third Party Recognition and Verification Program, locally shorten as PPH, is conducted by the President\u2019s Delivery Unit for Development Monitoring and Oversight (UKP4) in cooperation with Ministry of Forestry, National Land Agency, and Geospatial Information Agency. <\/p>\n
The program selected Central Kalimantan province after the socialization team had met villagers of Talio and Teluk Betung in February 2014 who reported their customary forests status which was overlapped with permits given to companies by local government. <\/p>\n
Giorgio Budi, a member of the socialization team of UKP4, said that the team started out to introduce the program to villages through preparation, socialization, mapping, and claim procedures. \u201cWe also cooperating with AMAN [Indigenous People\u2019s Alliance of the Archipelago] in the mapping process so there will be no loopholes for others to claim it as customary lands,\u201d said Budi adding that the map will refer to 1:50,000 scale. <\/p>\n
Furthermore, he said that the PPH mechanism will ensure consistency, transparency, and participation from public. In order to maintain transparency, he said that small teams, comprised of 30 people of which five were coming from civil societies concerned with forest issues, will be formed to tackle with boundaries issues. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Muhammad Said, Director of Forest Areas Stipulation, Management, and Tenure at the Ministry of Forestry, said that his office had the authority to declare forest areas under the agrarian law in relation to claims made by local people. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe law has already ordered strict ways to deal with land ownerships,\u201d he said adding that customary lands proofs did not have to be written. \u201cIt can come from people or elderly testimonies of the areas. It can be solid proof.\u201d
\nHe said that they have implemented PPH in Bintan district, in Riau, as there were not much claims from indigenous people. <\/p>\n
Myrna Safitri, Executive Director of Epistema Institute, said that PPH was not just about the maps. \u201cThere is an element of justice for people [being involved],\u201d said Safitri. \u201cIt is also about how social development has been implemented by people living near the forest areas.\u201d <\/p>\n
She underlined the importance of media and civil society to monitor the program to prevent on stowaways. Ekuatorial Team.<\/strong> [:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jakarta, Ekuatorial \u2013 South Barito of Central Kalimantan has been appointed as the first pilot project for forest recognition project by third party aimed to manage the province\u2019s overlapping permit issuance, said a member of government\u2019s office, in Jakarta, last month. The Third Party Recognition and Verification Program, locally shorten as PPH, is conducted by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2037,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3907,4053,4053,4003,4113],"tags":[],"partner":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-article","7":"category-forests","9":"category-kalimantan-en","10":"category-sumatera-en"},"yoast_head":"\n