Breaking Information Asymmetry to Save the Remaining Natural Forests in West Papua Province. The State of Papua Bioregion Forest The Papua bioregion is a biogeographical imaginary line for the eastern region of Indonesia which lies in Sahul plain (Sahul land). This bioregion home to various unique flora and noteworthy fauna, including marsupial mammals such as kangaroos and birds endemic to…
The island of Papua (which includes the provinces of Papua and West Papua) has an area of 41.38 million hectares. Based on FWI analysis in 2018, the land area of Papua has a natural forest cover area of 33.4 million hectares, or about 80.71% of the total land area. Approximately 6.4 million hectares of land on the island of Papua…
Indigenous peoples of the Papua region have been experiencing a lot of injustice for a long time. This is including injustice to access truthful information, especially about the condition of the forests, land, and development programs. This injustice of information brings indigenous peoples into situations where they suffer losses and caught in a weak position in the conflicts of natural…
Until now, there is no comprehensive legal umbrella to ensure that the rights of indigenous peoples are fulfilled. The Draft Bill on Indigenous Peoples is expected to protect the existence and the rights of indigenous peoples, which has been discussed since 2009 and has not yet been passed. In 2020, the People’s Representative Council (DPR) re-submit the draft…
Many people might think that there is a great mistake since the beginning of this Republic on what Central Government has ever done to Papua and its peoples. Something like stereotyping Papuans as a “primitive” society, over-reducing the problem of the Papuan people always on just economic matters only (ahistorical approach), and overgeneralizing problems in Papua with just one treatment…
Forests in Papua’s Bioregion are one of the last tropical rainforests in Eastern Indonesia. The Papua Bioregion region consists of Papua, West Papua and the Aru Islands. In fact, forests in the Papua Bioregion region have very high biodiversity. In fact, it is a habitat of typical Australian fauna species such as marsupial mammals and several bird species. The results…
Portraits of Deforestation in North Sumatra, East Kalimantan and North Maluku The President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, admitted that Indonesia is the sixth largest global carbon emitter (Kompas, 2015). WRI’s 2012 data shows that 1.98 billion tons CO2 is emitted annually. The forestry sector is the greatest contributor of carbon emitted from deforestation and forest degradation (UNDP, 2007 ). In…
