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[On Going] Expanding Community Rights, Livelihoods Innovation and REDD+ in Indonesia (PERMATA)

Project site/ area of implementation

PERMATA works in 6 regencies located in Papua Province (Jayapura regency and Merauke regency), West Papua Province (Tambrauw regency and Teluk Bintuni regency), North Kalimantan Province (Malinau regency) and West Kalimantan Province (Kapuas Hulu regency). 

Project period

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Project objectives

The overall objectives of the project is to support the recognition of the rights of Indigenous People and Local Communities (IPLC) who live in and around forest areas to obtain sustainable livelihoods and improve sustainable forest and land sector management in overcoming the problem of deforestation and forest degradation in Indonesia. In particular, the purpose of the project is to achieve: 

  • Supporting the certainty of tenure rights of the Indigenous People and Local Communities (IPLC) through participatory assistance in mapping, documentation, conflict resolution, registration and verification of evidence-based certainty, and submission of certainty to local governments to obtain recognition of tenure rights from the state
  • Consolidation of community-owned tenure rights documents as a database for policy advocacy 
  • Supporting IPLC in building institutions and mechanisms for improving livelihoods and promoting sustainable development through a participatory approach 
  • Provides assistance to local governments at the regency level in preparing the legal and institutional basis for recognizing community rights 
  • Supporting IPLC to have a continuously developing capacity in managing tenure rights and developing sustainable livelihoods 

Project components/ target outputs

  • Communities in high-forest regency have more secure rights over land and natural resource
  • Community livelihoods in high forest regency enhanced
  • Enabling policies and institutions actively promote and support rights-based community development
  • IPLC communities have the capacity to sustain, protect and manage their forest resources as part of resilient and self-reliant livelihoods

Implementation Partners

PERMATA is run through a consortium consisting of the Samdhana Institute, the Customary Territory Registration Agency (BRWA), the Urban and Regional Development Institute (URDI), the Kitong Bisa Foundation, the Kaoem Telapak Association, PEREMPUAN AMAN, and the Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN).

PERMATA is run through a consortium consisting of the Samdhana Institute, the Customary Territory Registration Agency (BRWA), the Urban and Regional Development Institute (URDI), the Kitong Bisa Foundation, the Kaoem Telapak Association, PEREMPUAN AMAN, and the Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN).