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Equator Initiative Case StudiesLocal sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities
Malaysia
UMA BAWANG RESIDENTSASSOCIATION
Empowered live
Resilient nation
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UNDP EQUATOR INITIATIVE CASE STUDY SERIES
Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that wo
or people and or nature. Few publications or case studies tell the ull story o how such initiatives evolve, the breadth
their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practition
themselves guiding the narrative.
To mark its 10-year anniversary, the Equator Initiative aims to ll this gap. The ollowing case study is one in a growing ser
that details the work o Equator Prize winners vetted and peer-reviewed best practices in community-based environmenconservation and sustainable livelihoods. These cases are intended to inspire the policy dialogue needed to take local succ
to scale, to improve the global knowledge base on local environment and development solutions, and to serve as models
replication. Case studies are best viewed and understood with reerence to The Power of Local Action: Lessons from 10 Years
the Equator Prize, a compendium o lessons learned and policy guidance that draws rom the case material.
Click on the map to visit the Equator Initiatives searchable case study database.
EditorsEditor-in-Chief: Joseph Corcoran
Managing Editor: Oliver HughesContributing Editors: Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Erin Lewis, Whitney Wilding
Contributing WritersEdayatu Abieodun Lamptey, Erin Atwell, Toni Blackman, Jonathan Clay, Joseph Corcoran, Larissa Currado, Sarah Gordon, Oliver Hughe
Wen-Juan Jiang, Sonal Kanabar, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Rachael Lader, Patrick Lee, Erin Lewis, Jona Liebl, Mengning Ma,
Mary McGraw, Gabriele Orlandi, Brandon Payne, Juliana Quaresma, Peter Schecter, Martin Sommerschuh, Whitney Wilding, Luna Wu
DesignOliver Hughes, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Amy Korngiebel, Kimberly Koserowski, Erin Lewis, John Mulqueen, Lorena de la Pa
Brandon Payne, Mariajos Satizbal G.
AcknowledgementsThe Equator Initiative acknowledges with gratitude the Uma Bawang Residents Association (UBRA), and in particular the guidance a
inputs o Jok Jau Evong (Sahabat Alam Malaysia, Sarawak) and Evelyn Enna. All photo credits courtesy o UBRA. Maps courtesy o C
World Factbook and Wikipedia.
Suggested CitationUnited Nations Development Programme. 2012. Uma Bawang Residents Association, Malaysia. Equator Initiative Case Study Series. N
York, NY.
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PROJECT SUMMARYThis community-based organization operates in the orestso the Malaysian state o Sarawak. While the customary landrights o the associations indigenous Kayan people arerecognized by the Malaysian government, many lands havenot been ocially demarcated, making them vulnerable toconicting claims rom outside interests. Members o theassociation work with GIS survey and mapping technologyto compile land use maps o communally managed orests,providing a spatial basis or legally deending communityland claims in court.
Combined with active resistance to incursions by commerciallogging and palm oil interests, including road blockadesand political advocacy, and underpinned by two decades olivelihoods development, this association has been able toresist the destruction o the Kayans traditional orest lands,and instead demonstrate their sustainable management bythe local communities that directly depend on them.
KEY FACTS
EQUATOR PRIZE WINNER: 2002
FOUNDED: 1990
LOCATION: Northern Sarawak
BENEFICIARIES: Roughly 100 indigenous Kayan
BIODIVERSITY: Reforestation with native tree species
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UMA BAWANG RESIDENTS ASSOCIATIONMalaysia
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Background and Context 4
Key Activities and Innovations 6
Biodiversity Impacts 8
Socioeconomic Impacts 8
Policy Impacts 9
Sustainability 10
Replication 10
Partners 10
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n the 20 years between 1960 and 1980 alone, Asia lost almost a third
its tropical orest cover, the highest rate o orest conversion in
he world. Logging and unsustainable cultivation devastated tree
over, causing severe environmental degradation on many islands o
outh-east Asia. This loss o habitat poses a threat not only to species
urvival but also to indigenous communities and their ways o lie.
he Malaysian state o Sarawak, located in the north-west o the
sland o Borneo, is an example o such extensive deorestation - over
0 per cent o the states rainorest has been cleared. Sarawak is the
argest o the countrys 13 states, with a total land area o 124,449
q. km (12.4 million hectares). Located in the north-west o Borneo,
t borders its sister state, Sabah, the neighbouring country o Brunei
Darussalam, and Kalimantan, the Indonesian territory o Borneo. Thetate capital is Kuching, with Sibu, Miri and Bintulu being the major
ities and towns in the state.
arawaks population is estimated at around 2.4 million people,
pproximately hal o whom are indigenous Dayak people o various
thnic sub-groups. Other populations include Malays, Chinese,
nd a small number o Indians. Eighty per cent o the total Dayak
opulation o Sarawak live in rural areas and rely on agriculture,
unting and gathering or subsistence. The nature o the Dayak land
enure system is complex. Land has always been the most crucial
esource or the Dayak people: it provides them with their basic
ustenance, and is o major signicance to their spirituality. The right
the Dayaks to use the land is enshrined in an indigenous systemnown as the adat, a system o land tenure that also orms the basis
or their social, economic and cultural systems.
Dayak customary rights to land and its resources were recognized
uring the Brooke dynasty (1842-1946) and by the British Colonial
Administration, and continued to be recognized ater Sarawak
ained independence in 1963 and joined the Federation o Malaysia.
Although these customary land rights have not been abolished by
ny legislation and remain in orce, large portions o the customary
ands o the Dayaks are not ocially demarcated.
The Kayan people are an indigenous tribe o up to 27,000 pe
categorized as a sub-group o the Dayak people. Their culture
customs are similar to other Dayak peoples o Borneo. Traditio
they live in longhouses on river banks and their agriculture is b
upon shiting cultivation techniques and the cultivation o dry
rice. They also cultivate sago, a starch extracted rom the pith o
palm stems (Metroxylon sagu).
The remote Kayan community o Uma Bawang is located in
tropical rainorests o northern Sarawak, near the Keluan R
During the 1980s, this area was heavily deorested as land was m
available to logging companies. This imposed signicant hards
on the Uma Bawang community as orest resources were increasdepleted. Pollution and siltation o the rivers adversely afected
water supply and the sh catch, and irregular but requent
destroyed crops, discouraging the resumption o arming.
Background and Context
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hese developments led to tensions between community members
ving in the most powerul longhouse. Longhouses serve as the
raditional centers o governance in Dayak cultures, and each one
ouses several extended amilies. Some amilies benetted rom
ood relations with logging companies, gaining the chance to
arn income and achieve higher standards o living. However, this
ccurred at the expense o other amilies, and compensation rom
ogging companies or timber concessions was always insucient
nd inequitably distributed.
Establishing a new community
n April 1989, these tensions led to the ormation o a new community
hat opposed logging concessions. They based themselves in a
emporary longhouse at Sungai Keluan (Keluan River) about six miles
rom their original site. It became known as Uma Bawang Keluan,
or just Keluan. Its residents ormed and ormally registered
association, the Uma Bawang Residents Association (UBRA), in
to coordinate their practical interventions and lobbying activ
UBRA is open to any members o the longhouse. Its main object
to promote the rights and interests o the Sungai Keluan commu
and to deend their orest resources.
The group is led by a disciplinary board, with elder Kayans, wh
well versed in customary law, acting as advisers. The board is mup o people rom all social classes and several o the most a
and highest ranking UBRA members are women. The organiza
is run in a democratic ashion with board membership posit
voted upon in biennial elections. All decisions represent
collective interests o the longhouse members. Currently, UBRA
60 registered members, down rom an initial 80 ounding mem
in 1990.
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Key Activities and Innovations
ince its establishment, UBRA has worked to resist logging companies
nd restore degraded orests, and advocate or the protection o
heir 900 ha o land. Throughout the 1990s, UBRA set up blockades
o prevent logging companies rom entering orests, its members
acing arrests and jail terms, government oppression, law suits and
hreats. Alongside advocacy and protest activities, the Association
as employed innovative mapping eforts to deend customary land
ghts and access to orestlands. UBRA also supports communities in
eveloping diversied income generating opportunities that do not
ndanger orest ecosystems.
UBRAs campaigning and conservation work began in the late
980s, when the group attempted to stop the deorestation o theirand by blockading commercial logging vehicles. This attempt was
ltimately unsuccessul, with government soldiers arresting 42
ommunity members and imprisoning them or two weeks while
ogging continued. As a result, large areas o orest were degraded.
Undeterred, UBRA has continued to protest deorestation and
dvocate or the ormal protection o its own land, successully
chieving ormal recognition o the UBRA Communal Forest Reserve.
Participatory mapping to defend customary rights
Mapping has been central to UBRAs work, by helping them to legally
ene and deend their borders and thereore secure recognition oheir traditional lands. The group employs participatory mapping
echniques based on the practices o participatory rural appraisal
PRA) and rapid rural appraisal (RRA). Participatory rural appraisal
escribes a collection o methods that enable local people to share,
nhance, and analyse their knowledge o local conditions. In rapid
ural appraisals, inormation is largely elicited and extracted by
outsiders; in PRA it is largely shared and owned by local people.
Among many applications, PRA has been used in natural resources
management, agriculture, and programmes targeting health and
ood security. In the case o Uma Bawang, the aim has been to help
indigenous people communicate their traditional rights to
to government authorities through their spatial knowledge o
landscapes and o the ecosystems they inhabit.
Geographic Inormation Systems (GIS) have also been employe
convert the maps produced into computer ormat. This comp
based system enables people to capture, record, store and ana
data over time. It can be used to create land maps and
decision-makers manage natural resources over a large area
as a watershed. UBRA members have been trained in surveying
mapping techniques, which have been used to legally deend
communitys borders in court, ensuring a land base on which
can subsist without harming the orest.
Following an initial workshop in 1995, a large-scale land use
o the Keluan project area was successully produced by U
members. This proved to be a very useul document or reso
management, by enabling local people to regain control
reserved areas o communal orest. It has also been used to ide
the boundaries between diferent individual land lots and
thereby reduced disputes between land-owners. The land area
been designated the UBRA Communal Forest Reserve. In re
years, a partner organization, Sahabat Alam Malaysia, has used
technology to input this map into computers. The use o GIS la
combined with recent satellite imagery has greatly acilitated th
o the Keluan map or resource management purposes. Since UB
rst mapping workshop, its techniques have been used increas
by the Sungai Keluan community and others to legally deend
borders and secure ormal recognition o their traditional lands
Experimenting with new activities
Alongside the process o establishing their customary righ
orest resources, one o UBRAs major goals has been to esta
a constructive and sustainable approach to natural reso
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management, based on alternative livelihood projects that benet
veryone in the community. In communities whose traditional
conomies operated on barter systems, UBRA has introduced a wide
ariety o new skills and activities that provide cash income (which is
ow needed or taxes, school ees and medical costs) rom marketed
roducts. To date, these projects have included a communal rice
arm and rice bank, a communal rice mill, ree-range pig rearing,
sh ponds, a crats cooperative, cultivation o ruit trees, pepper and
ighly valuable teakwood, wet rice agriculture, rog rearing, andmall-scale jatropha plantations.
ince many o these projects were new ventures, there has been a
ertain amount o trial and error involved in their implementation.
he people o Keluan have been supported by various local and
verseas organizations, but apart rom some important seed unds,
he community has been nancially sel-sustaining. A portion o the
evenue rom successul projects has been reinvested by UBRA into
ew ventures, while the majority o the prots have gone directly to
ocal producers.
An ongoing struggle
Apart rom these alternative livelihood activities, UBRA has
engaged in a long-term programme o reorestation to
regenerate orest cover lost to logging. Since 1992, villagers
Uma Bawang and neighbouring villages have planted over 35
seedlings o diferent local wood species like meranti, kapur
engkabang on land degraded by commercial logging. Six
seedling nurseries have also been built to sustain reorestaeforts.
An important ongoing ocus o UBRAs work is that o protes
against orest concessions or logging or plantations. The i
success o the Associations reorestation eforts has act
increased the human pressures on the orest environment,
logging companies returning to the area and growing interest
companies looking to establish oil palm plantations.
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Impacts
BIODIVERSITY IMPACTS
UBRAs reorestation o lands degraded by commercial logging
began in 1992. Initially, 4,000 seedlings o native tree species were
planted in degraded areas, and UBRA unds also paid or Keluan
amilies to plant an average o 200 ruit trees in household gardens.
This project was scaled up in 2002, with a urther 9,000 seedlings
being planted in areas surrounding the UBRA Communal Forest
Reserve. One o the aims o this project was to rejuvenate the health
o a stream running through this area.
n 2006, a grant o USD 50,000 rom the UNDP GEF Small Grants
Programme allowed UBRA to plant another 10,000 seedlings withinheir reorestation area, bringing the total number o trees planted by
2007 to approximately 23,000. This has covered around 30 hectares
o land in Sungai Keluan, bringing the total orested area in Keluan to
over 1,500 ha. The reorested portions are used sustainably as open
ccess resource areas or Keluan community members, who are
permitted to hunt, gather non-timber orest products, and obtain
imber. A watershed area is protected rom timber harvesting.
The reorestation project includes the planting o native trees such
s kapur (Dryobalanops aromatica), meranti and engkabang (both
re native Shorea species). The trees that were chosen were nurtured
rom seeds that were picked rom other parts o the orests. Nurseries
were then set up to house seedlings beore they were transplantedo the orest.
The thick oliage currently visible in the orest bears no sign o
having been logged in the 1980s and reorestation eforts have
estored a number o wildlie species that were lost ater the logging,
ncluding wild boars, monkeys, deer, wildcats and many bird species.
The nursery remains stocked with seedlings to continue the work o
eoresting previously logged areas.
The success o reorestation efort has unortunately led to rene
attempts by logging companies to access the UBRA orest. UBRA
continued to protest such eforts and recent attempts to ha
timber on the borders o the orest were halted.
In January 2011, however, a private commercial palm oil com
claimed to have been awarded a provisional lease by the
government or an area o the orest, or the purpose o clearin
land or a plantation. The area covers part o the UBRA Comm
Forest Reserve area in Sungai Keluan. In February, UBRA respon
by sending a petition letter to the relevant local author
including the Ministry o Resource Planning, to state their oppos
to the project and request or the exclusion o their commorest reserve rom the concession area. To date, there has bee
encroachment on the orest reserve rom this project.
SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS
Since its ormation in 1989, Uma Bawang Residents Associatio
sought to bring about social, cultural, and economic benets o
Keluan community. That year, they instituted the rst Warriors
celebration, which has been ollowed by other communal, tradit
estivals celebrating the culture and history o the Kayan pe
This communality within the longhouse amilies runs through
approaches to conservation and poverty reduction, and has be
strong, binding actor in this groups struggle.
The various livelihood activities initiated by UBRA have attem
to conront the lack o local sources o cash income. The tradit
economy o the community operates along the lines o a b
economy, which can meet day-to-day needs but doesnt pro
cash or payment o taxes, school ees, and medical costs. A la
these income-generating livelihood options in the past orced s
members o the community to leave or coastal cities, or to w
or plantation or logging companies. UBRAs economic acti
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are geared towards remedying this situation. While not all o the
Associations alternative livelihood ventures have been successul,
he variety o activities introduced has ensured that benets have
eached many in the Keluan community.
Project challenges
Rice arming has been a productive, low-impact activity or
mallholder armers. Various initiatives have sought to minimize thecosts involved in growing, storing and milling rice. A communal rice
arming and rice bank project began in 1989, in which one plot o
each amilys rice eld was reserved as a communal arm.
Each resident spent six to eight days a year working on this arm.
The produce was collectively harvested and stored in a rice bank.
This aimed to supplement amilies individual harvests, ensuring
hat households would not sufer rom shortages rom poor
harvests. Loans taken rom the rice bank could be paid back rom the
ollowing harvest. However, the communal approach was ended in
2000, as individual commitments or amilies took precedence over
maintaining the communal plots.
A communal rice mill begun in 1990, however, continues to serve the
community. This mill guarantees a lower cost to armers, charging 60
per cent o the price o milling 100 kilograms o rice in neighbouring
villages. Farmers continue to use this communally-owned mill,
which has helped to improve local incomes by reducing the cost o
arming or UBRA members.
Another project that was eventually abandoned was ree-range
pig rearing. This was begun in response to the diculty o hunting
wild boar due to commercial logging. Community members began
earing domestic pigs in 1991 as a source o protein and income.
While this endeavour was ultimately unsustainable, more success
has been had with sh ponds.
UBRA supported Keluan residents to begin constructing sh ponds
n 1992. Diferent sh species were trialled until a suitable type was
dentied. These ponds have been maintained, and have proved
uccessul, inspiring replication in other villages. Less successul was
a rog-rearing project, begun in 2002, that sought to meet demand
rom restaurants in coastal cities or certain rog species. Although a
pen was built or housing the rogs, the project was abandoned due
o diculties sourcing suitable rog eed.
Other projects, too, had short-term benets, but were ultimately
ended. These include a 1996 project to plant pepper and ruit trees,and a 1997 project to plant kayu jati (teakwood trees), in 1997. 8,000
o the latter species were initially planted in household gardens or
heir high-value, ast-growing properties. These trees did not grow
well in the Keluan climate, however.
Wet rice agriculture was introduced as an alternative to grow
rice on hillsides. This was begun in some at, low-lying land a
in 2001, and was initially successul, proving ar more produ
than arming on poor hillside soils. Ultimately, however, the la
water sources or suciently irrigating the rice elds meant tha
project could not be sustained.
Two recent projects have been explored as alternative liveli
options. Growing jatropha in small-scale plantations prounprotable due to the low price o seeds and a lack o local dem
In 2008, UBRA introduced small-scale rubber cultivation in s
smallholdings. This project is ongoing and maximizing produ
and accessing suitable markets will be the principal challenge
establishing this activity as a viable source o income generatio
Gaining access to markets has proved a challenge or enter
development in Keluan, given its remote location, and compet
rom cheap, mass-produced goods imported rom Indonesia. In 1
demand rom oreign visitors to the area led to the establishme
a regional womens crats cooperative, encompassing Keluan an
neighbouring villages.
Women in this cooperative, called the Baram Indigenous Wom
Association (BIWA), made traditional artisanal handicrats or sa
tourists. The cooperative closed, however, due to competition
widely-sold, cheap crat items in local markets. This is indicativ
the challenges that UBRA aces in trying to develop sustain
income-generating activities or its members. Nonetheless, s
successes have been achieved in this area.
Other socioeconomic benets that have accrued to U
members include the construction o a new longhouse in 199
accommodate 40 amilies, and the continued maintenance o
single road that provides access to the Sungai Keluan commun
POLICY IMPACTS
UBRA has consistently challenged the government and comme
loggers by protesting and blockading access to nearby o
in attempts to prevent logging. Although the Association
unsuccessul in its protests in the 1980a and the communitys o
were largely cleared, they have continued to advocate or the o
recognition and protection o their land.
In 2002, UBRA requested that the State Government exclude
area rom the Long Lama Oil Palm plantation project. This req
was granted. Today UBRAs 900 hectares o land can no longedisturbed by Government or any project as it has been exclu
rom the States development plan, although UBRA continue
have to ght to ensure that this agreement is honoured.
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Sustainability and Replication
SUSTAINABILITYo date, UBRA has been sustained by the dedication o its members.
Although membership o the residents association is voluntary, ew
Keluan residents have not joined. Members pay a ee, which has
elped to cover the organizations administrative costs. Although
UBRAs projects have received initial external unding, the activities
hemselves oten predated these contributions and are essentially
el-nancing. Where projects have generated income, part o this
ccrues to UBRAs communal und. The communal rice arming and
milling project has been the most productive source o income,
while sale o handicrats also produced revenue. A book-keeping
ystem ensures accountability.
REPLICATION
As well as its local success, UBRA has transerred knowledge and
xpertise to neighbouring villages. Since 2006, knowledge exchange
as been one o the initiatives key activities. UBRA members have
rained three other Penan communities, and visited Long Belok and
ong Nen, two neighbouring villages, to share their experience with
etting up nurseries to support reorestation programmes.
he Long Belok initiative began in 2006, when the community cleared
and near their village to plant 200 sago plants (Cycas revoluta). In
007, 40 amilies planted 200 rubber seedlings in household gardens.y mid-2007, Long Belok had successully planted 3,000 native
ree species near their communal orest reserve area in Ulu Sungai
elok. About 1,000 tree seedlings and 300 young sago palms remain
n their nursery. In 2009, they planted an additional 1,000 kapur
Dryobalanops aromatica) seedlings. In Long Nen, the communitys
im was to restore local tree varieties, including native medicinal
lants. Established in 2008, their nursery stores seedlings o kapur,
meranti and sago trees. These collaborations were undertaken in
artnership with Sahabat Alam Malysia (SAM), an NGO based in
earby Marudi.
PARTNERSUBRA has been assisted in its work by various local and internat
partners. The partnership with SAM has helped to advance
and regional knowledge-sharing and collaboration with o
indigenous communities that have been also afected by log
and plantations. The chairman o UBRA has worked with SA
their Marudi oce since 1995, and currently serves as the N
coordinator in Sarawak. The use o this oce has allowed U
better access to communications technology, and has acilit
collaboration with other groups, with SAM requently co-ho
land rights awareness workshops at Uma Bawang Keluan.
communities that have beneted rom SAM and UBRAs wor
mainly located in the Miri, Bintulu and Kapit Divisions o Sara
The collaborative eforts UBRA has engaged in via SAM have he
to advance the cause o indigenous rights to orest resourc
Sarawak. However, there is still a long way to go in this regard.
On the international scale, UBRA has had a productive partne
a with US-based NGO, The Borneo Project, since 1991. This grew
o a relationship between the University o Caliornia, Berkeley
the community o Uma Bawang Keluan. The Borneo Project he
to provide coverage o UBRAs struggle to resist logging o
land, and has since broadened to cover many other commun
within Sarawak. The project assisted UBRA by providing tech
training, international publicity, and helping with undraisingorganizations no longer work as closely, since UBRA has been la
successul in resisting logging o their orest. The Borneo Project
partners with and supports other indigenous land rights initia
but the original inspiration or their work, however, remains the
o Uma Bawang.
More recently, UBRA has benetted rom unding rom the UNDP
Small Grants Programme. The organization received a grant o
50,000 grant in 2006 in partnership with WCS Malaysia. This g
was used to expand UBRAs reorestation project in Sungai Kelu
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