BERSAMA LESTARIKAN For more information, visit www.belantara.or.id NUSANTARA or contact us at [email protected] TOGETHER WE PRESERVE THE ARCHIPELAGO P: +62 21 391 5434 F: +62 21 391 5434 Jl. Timor No. 6, Menteng Jakarta 10350 Indonesia Belantara Foundation @Belantara Belantara_Found ©SRI MARIATI BERSAMA LESTARIKAN NUSANTARA TOGETHER WE PRESERVE THE ARCHIPELAGO BELANTARA FOUNDATION | 1 ABOUTUS Yayasan Bersama Lestarikan Nusantara (“Yayasan Belantara”) is an Indonesian grant-making institution formed in 2014 with the goal of delivering wide- ranging community and conservation results. It takes its name from the Indonesian word ‘Belantara’ which means wilderness or pristine forest. Belantara primary focus is to allocate grants to support restoration, protection, conservation of endangered species specifcally Sumatran Tiger, Sumatran Elephant, as well as Sumatran and Bornean Orangutan), Institutional development, and community development and empowerment initiatives in Conservation Area, Production Forest, Protection Forest, and Social Forestry on the ten SRI MARIATI specifed grant distribution areas across fve provinces © on the islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). Working with local communities, governments, the private sector and NGOs, Belantara relies on a multi-stakeholder approach to better inform 2 | BELANTARA FOUNDATION decision-making when addressing resource Government of Indonesia. To be specifc, Belantara supports management problems. As the Essential the Development of Large-Scale Ecosystem Conservation in Ecosystem Areas (KEE) stretch across the Sumatra and Kalimantan. To do so, in 2014 Belantara initiated grant distribution areas, a coordinated a creation of Belantara’s Guideline document, which involved response between all stakeholders for the a consortium of private sector groups, government and NGO effective management and preservation of stakeholders during its development process. The main critical ecosystems is required. objective of the Belantara’s Guideline document is to align conservation activities carried out by multiple stakeholders. As an independent foundation, Belantara aims to work with all parties that shares its goals, The Belantara’s Guideline, which is a multi-stakeholder action coordinating and collaborating with partner plan serves as a supporting guideline for partner groups projects within each of its ten specifed grant implementing projects within the specifed grant distribution distribution areas. Belantara aims to ensure that areas, creates an enabling environment for building consensus existing initiatives are aligned, minimizing the risk of and capacity among stakeholders, and seeks to ensure projects overlapping while maximizing information and that the initiatives in the ecosystem collectively support data sharing. an environmentally, socially, culturally, and economically sustainable ecosystem. Co-founder Asia Pulp and Paper signifcantly contributed in getting the Foundation off the ground, providing substantial The Belantara’s Guideline document promotes the Multi- fnancing. Additional fnancial resources are being raised from stakeholders Approach for a Sustainable Ecosystem the public and private sectors, while investment de-risking Management, identifes ten specifed grant distribution areas initiatives will follow to achieve a more holistic scope of based on a defned set of criteria, and outlines a number of fnancing modalities. activities and programs in support of ecosystem strategies relevant to the ecosystems. Fundamentally, Belantara fully supports the focus and priority initiatives of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of BELANTARA FOUNDATION | 3 BELANTARA FOUNDATION BELANTARA © 4 | BELANTARA FOUNDATION MULTI-STAKEHOLDER APPROACH CONNECTING THE PIECES The Belantara foundation believes that conservation development. This realization calls for prioritizing must incorporate a harmony of principles that not larger-scale, multi-stakeholder approach instead of only protect the interests of the people, particularly sectoral silos and putting people on the same footing at the grass-roots level but also protect natural as environmental values, therefore, encouraging new resources and bio-diversity long into the future- on and innovative ways for the conservation of ecosystems. a large scale. Belantara believes all of the actors in a given ecosystem should communicate, collaborate Central to Belantara’s approach is facilitating multi- and coordinate to manage a sustainable ecosystem, stakeholder forum from the ground up. Through the since a result of balance condition between long-term forum, the stakeholders centered within the ecosystem economic development, sustainable livelihoods for are enabled to design a conservation plan that is local communities, and environmental conservation long-term and sustainable but also supports their will be benefcial for all of the stakeholders. economic needs. It put local communities, government authorities, Gs, and businesses as the key actors for In Indonesia like elsewhere, forests are part of a the change. mosaic that interconnects with other land uses such as agriculture and infrastructure - sometimes in a context of poverty, inequity and poorly planned economic BELANTARA FOUNDATION | 5 IN ORDER TO MANAGE A SUSTAINABLE ECOSYSTEM 6 | BELANTARA FOUNDATION When different interest groups collaborate, Management approach 01 09 ecosystem ecologial reflects adapting to functions are better changing circumstances managed SUSTAINABILITY Monitoring and analysis Balancing interests of 02 IMPACTS 08 to consistently inform parties that have ecosystem activities and competing priorities enforce accountability Shared learning that Ensuring communities 03 07 empowers and builds are involved and capacity of all empowered 05 stakeholders Coordination to scale up, Sustainable financing to prevent overlap and 04 06 restore and maintain the sustain collaboration health of critical ecosystems and Flexibility in finding conservation solutions that livelihoods improve capacity to resist to threats BELANTARA FOUNDATION | 7 THE GRANT DISTRIBUTION AREAS For the net fve years, Belantara has chosen to focus the Indicators for the identifcation of the priority grant distribution vast majority of its conservation supports on ten grant areas were based on distribution areas whose locations span fve provinces and two . Biogeography, hydrology, ecosystem biodiversity and islands Sumatra and alimantan. These ten specifed grant carbon characteristic. distribution areas cover ,,. hectares of land that 2. Uniqueness of the area including its social and cultural includes 4 national parks, 9 wildlife areas, 4 nature reserves, features. and 2 grand forest parks; as well as Biosphere Reserves. Just over , vertebrate species have been identifed within . Its function and spatial governance Belantara’s grant distribution areas, including species that . According to the legal regulations, such as natural are protected by the Government of Indonesia and species reserve area and natural conservation area, protection that are globally endangered according to IC’s ed ist. forest, peatland m depth, riparian, coastal areas, high biodiversity area, and so forth. 8 | BELANTARA FOUNDATION GRANT DISTRIBUTION MAP ACEH SENEPIS KUBU NORTH KALIMANTAN GIAM SIAK KECIL BUKIT BATU NORTH SUMATERA KUTAI KAMPAR PENINSULA EAST KALIMANTAN RIAU KERUMUTAN WEST KALIMANTAN BUKIT TIGAPULUH BERBAK SEMBILANG WEST SUMATERA JAMBI DANGKU - MERANTI CENTRAL KALIMANTAN PADANG SUGIHAN SOUTH KALIMANTAN SOUTH SUMATERA BENGKULU LAMPUNG CONSERVATION AREA PROTECTED FOREST PRODUCTION FOREST OTHER LAND USES BELANTARA FOUNDATION | 9 BELANTARA FOUNDATION BELANTARA © BELANTARA: TEN SPECIFIED GRANT DISTRIBUTION AREAS SENEPIS, RIAU Senepis is an ecosystem located in northern Riau province, Sumatra, Indonesia. It covers , hectares, and is dominated by peat swamp forests that make up of its area. It is also one of the important habitats of the Sumatran tiger Panthera tigris sumatrae, a globally-renowned endangered species. Other important species which make this ecosystem their home include the clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa, binturong or bear cat Arctictis binturong, Malayan sun bear elarctos malayanus, siamang gibbon ylobates syndactylus), pangolin (Manis javanica), tapir (Tapirus indicus) and various rare and endangered tree species. 10 | BELANTARA FOUNDATION © BELANTARA FOUNDATION © BELANTARA FOUNDATION GIAM SIAK KECIL-BUKIT BATU, RIAU resources. The biosphere reserve consists of three main ones a , hectare core area designated for conservation The Giam Siak Kecil-Bukit Batu (GSK-BB) ecosystem covers and research a , hectare buffer one for activities 941,200 hectares and is located in Riau province, Sumatra, compatible with sound forest management practices, including Indonesia, some 120 km north of the Equator and roughly APP pulpwood suppliers’ plantation forests and a , 200 km southwest of Singapore. Most of the area is part of hectare transition zone for cultivation or production activities. the Giam Siak Kecil-Bukit Batu (GSK-BB) Biosphere Reserve. The reserve is a contiguous ecosystem covering over , KAMPAR PENINSULA, RIAU hectares. It was established in during the st Session of the International Coordinating Council of the Man and The Kampar Peninsula ecosystem is a contiguous peat swamp the Biosphere Programme, UNESCO. The area is managed forest of , hectares, located within the Pelelawan and using the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere concept in which Siak Districts, Riau Province,