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Partnersin ConservationANNUAL REPORT 2007

The Nature Conservancy Indonesia ProgramGraha Iskandarsyah 3rd FloorJl. Iskandarsyah Raya No. 66CKebayoran Baru, Jakarta �2�60IndonesiaTel 02� 72792043Fax 02� 72792044

The Nature Conservancy Coral Triangle CenterJl. Pengembak No. 2 SanurDenpasar, Bali 80228IndonesiaTel 036� 287272Fax 036� 270737

The Nature ConservancyTropical Forest InitiativeJl. Polantas No. 5 Markoni Balikpapan, Kalimantan Timur 76��3IndonesiaTel 0542 442896Fax 0542 745730

Table of ContentsThe Year in Conservation: 2007 Highlights 2

Where We Work 5

A Message from the Country Director 6

A Message from the Board of Advisors Co-Chairs 7

The Nature Conservancy in Indonesia 8

Marine Program: Our Waters �0

Forest Program: Our Lands 22

How We Work 34

Financial Summary 40

Glossary & Acronyms 42

Board of Advisors & Leadership Team 43

Our Supporters 44

Cover imagesTop: Raja Ampat Islands, West PapuaBottom: Tropical rainforest in East Kalimantan, Borneo

Photography CreditsAll Illustrations by Don Bason. Cover: (top) Muhammad Barmawi/TNC, (bottom) Ahmad Fuadi/TNC, pg 2: (LtoR) Jones/Shimlock-Secret Sea, Don Bason/TNC, pg 3: (LtoR) Moray McLeish, Jones/Shimlock-Secret Sea, Marthen Welly/TNC, Ahmad Fuadi/TNC, pg 4: (LtoR) Jack Wyllie, Elis Nurhayati/TNC, Ratna Yulia Hadi/TNC, pg 6: Peter Tjahjadi, pg 9: (top left) Marthen Welly/TNC, (top right) TNC Raja Ampat staff, (top middle) Riza Marlon, (bottom right) Fitria Rinawati, (bottom left) Christoforus Terry/TNC, (bottom middle) TNC Raja Ampat staff, Pg �0: (top) Ahmad Fuadi/TNC, (bottom) Jones/Shimlock-Secret, pg �2: Ahmad Fuadi/TNC, pg �3: (all top photos) Ahmad Fuadi/TNC, (bottom) Hirmen Sofyanto, pg �4: Jones/Shimlock-Secret Sea, pg �5: (top) Veda Santiadji, (left) TNC-SEACMPA, (right) Anton Wijonarno/TNC, pg �6: Marthen Welly/TNC, pg �7: (all top photos) Ahmad Fuadi/TNC, (bottom) Mimi Mawawi, pg �8: Jones/Shimlock-Secret Sea, pg �9: (top) Lukas Rumetna/TNC, (bottom) M. Korebima/TNC, pg 20: Jones/Shimlock-Secret Sea, pg 2�: (left & top right) Ahmad Fuadi/TNC, (bottom right) Rili Djohani/TNC, pg 22: (top) Ahmad Fuadi/TNC, (bottom) Christoforus Terry/TNC, pg 24: Ahmad Fuadi/TNC, pg 25: (left & right) Riza Marlon/TNC, (bottom) Fitria Rinawati/TNC, pg 26: Fitria Rinawati/TNC, pg 27: (top left) Don Bason/TNC, (top right) Riza Marlon/TNC, (bottom) Nikmah U. Dewi, pg 28: Fitria Rinawati/TNC, pg 29: (top) Ahmad Fuadi/TNC, (botttom right) Djeri Kaesang/TNC, (bottom left) Moray McLeish, pg 30: (top left) Ahmad Fuadi/TNC, (top right) Fitria Rinawati/TNC, (bottom) TNC, pg 3�: (top) Ahmad Fuadi/TNC, (bottom) Don Bason/TNC, pg 32: (top) Ismet Khaeruddin/TNC, (bottom) Gunawan Wicaksono/TNC, pg 34: (all photos) Ahmad Fuadi/TNC, 35: (top) Ahmad Fuadi/TNC, (bottom) Abdul Hadi/TNC, pg 36: Ahmad Fuadi/TNC, pg 37: TNC, pg 38: (all photos) Elis Nurhayati/TNC, pg 39: Ahmad Fuadi/TNC, pg 44: Fitria Rinawati/TNC, inside back cover: TNC

Orangutan Action Plan: Saving Endangered Great Apes by Protecting Forests

At the UN climate change conference in December 2007, TNC supported Indonesia’s President Yudhoyono in advancing the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs Fisheries and Food Security, a sweeping intergovernmental agreement to protect the marine region known as the “Amazon of the Seas.” Spanning the waters of six countries in Southeast Asia, the initiative seeks to collaboratively protect 2 percent of the world’s oceans that harbors 33 percent of all reefs and sustains the lives of 126 million people.

2007 HIGHLIGHTSIn a year when the environment was on the minds of many in Indonesia—in Bali with the UN-led conference on climate change, in Kalimantan with timber companies pursuing forest management certification, and in the far west and the far east where village communities declared their own locally protected areas—The Nature Conservancy (TNC) linked arms with partners across the country to expand its programs. Here are a few of the year’s highlights that illustrate the scope of our most recent work in the world’s largest archipelago.

Launched by the Indonesian president in 2007, the National Action Plan for the Conservation of Orangutans presents the first specific, enforceable agenda to protect the world’s last wild orangutans. TNC pledged US$1 million to support the plan, which targets the survival of 10 percent of orangutans currently threatened by habitat conversion in Borneo and Sumatra. By protecting forest habitat from conversion and harvesting, the plan also hopes to prevent 700 million tons of carbon from entering the atmosphere.

Wakatobi National Park Joint Planning: A Mapping and Zoning First

Outreach in the Raja Ampat Islands: Education under Sail

Community Patrols in Derawan: Protecting Sea Turtle Nesting Sites

The TNC-WWF Joint Program helped revise Wakatobi National Park’s zoning system to make it the first in Indonesia jointly developed by the central and local governments in partnership with local communities. The new plan protects Wakatobi district’s fisheries and reef life by designating major critical habitats as “no-take areas,” enabling areas of high productivity to aid in the replenishment of connected ecosystems. The plan allows 80.000 villagers—all of whom live within park boundaries—to use the waters for their livelihoods while reducing the destructive fishing practices that threaten the remarkable diversity of the area’s coral reefs.

In late 2007, TNC and Conservation International jointly launched an innovative conservation education program in the Raja Ampat islands of West Papua. Teams of six facilitators sail through the remote region to meet with residents and present three-day marine education programs in villages that are part of seven connected Marine Protected Areas. Activities take place on a 100-foot wooden sailing ship, the Kalabia (the local name for the Epaulette or walking shark) to make educational outings to coral reefs, sea grass beds and mangrove forests.

The TNC-WWF Joint Program in Derawan, teamed with the Berau Natural Resources Conservation Agency and the Turtle Foundation to begin regular, community boat patrols of the largest green turtle nesting grounds in Southeast Asia. The patrols support the enforcement of a 3 million acre Marine Protected Area that includes numerous turtle nesting beaches, all of which have been declared legally protected.

Coral Triangle Initiative: Linking the Amazon of the SeasThe Year

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Reef in Indonesian waters of the Coral Triangle Orangutan in East Kalimantan Wakatobi National Park, Southeast Sulawesi Children of Misool Island, West Papua Newly hatched green turtle in Derawan Islands, East Kalimantan

Greener Timber Blocks: Certified Concessionaries in Borneo

TNC led efforts in the lowland tropical rainforests of eastern Borneo to prepare two commercial timber blocks for certification by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), a worldwide accreditation organization that identifies companies that harvest timber legally and sustainably. If successful, this will increase Indonesia’s FSC-certified forestland by as much as 25 percent, contributing market-led solutions to the country’s widespread problem of illegal logging.

Timber labeling in East Kalimantan

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Honey at Home: Cultivating Alternative Livelihoods in Sulawesi

Wehea Forests Community Protection

Locally Funded Conservation: Budgeting for Forests in East Kalimantan

In 2007, TNC introduced beekeeping in two villages with community conservation agreements outside Lore Lindu National Park. Using the easily bred Apis cerena

honeybee, TNC provided training and supporting facilities to 70 subsistence farmers who now market the honey in the provincial capital of Palu. The project’s goal is to reduce encroachment on protected park land, and, if successful, to serve as a model for similar communities living in or near forests throughout Indonesia.

In a community-led initiative to restore cleared or converted areas of local forests, villagers in East Kalimantan unilaterally declared an ex-timber concession a locally protected forest. TNC helped facilitate a community monitoring system whereby four groups of 10 members each take month-long turns patrolling the 100,000-acre Wehea Forest, recording forest health indicators such as forest cover, animal and plant distribution and water levels while also reporting signs and incidents of illegal logging.

Matching the most money ever allocated for conservation by a provincial budget in Indonesia, the local government of East Kalimantan, with TNC technical assistance, earmarked $200,000 to support the protection of orangutan habitat in two forest districts. The money is being used to build guesthouses, management offices, paved roads, a research station and a monitoring station to support the habitat of 10 percent of the world’s remaining orangutans.

Wherewe workWorld-Class Ecotourism Arrives in Komodo National ParkIn 2007, through its joint venture Putri Naga Komodo (PNK), TNC built new ecofriendly facilities in Komodo National Park, site of our longest-running marine program and home to the world’s remaining Komodo dragons. With a visitor’s building, restaurant, markets and interpretation pavilions, the new facilities are designed to increase funds for conservation by promoting responsible tourism among the tens of thousands of visitors who come to see the world’s largest living lizard each year. With 49 representatives of community groups and institutions, PNK also inaugurated the Forum for Community Communications to provide local communities with a formal opportunity to assist in the park’s management.

New tourist pavilion at Komodo National Park Beekeeping in Bobo, Central Sulawesi Community forest patrol in East Kalimantan, Borneo Orangutan nest in East Kalimantan, BorneoEast Kalimantan

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One Planet — Connecting PeopleSo many things have changed in the last two decades. On the most remote islands we now find houses with satellite dishes and villagers using cell phones. With the Internet, millions of people now have much greater access to information. The growing notion that we are all living on one planet, depending on the same natural resources, air, timber, water and oil, has led to some spectacular initiatives in the field of climate change and ocean conservation. Indonesia, at the heart of reef and forest systems that effect the environment far beyond its borders, has a major role to play in safeguarding its natural assets as a global refuge of diversity. The value of seeing these connections, and using them to unite people and ecosystems for their common good, is tremendous.

With globalization, there is also the widespread decentralization of governments and an increased spirit of collaboration across sectors and organizations. In Indonesia, many opportunities exist to develop innovative approaches and partnerships that can make a difference both in the country and across its borders. Where TNC used to work with one government department on a single project in 1991, today we are engaged in 10 initiatives with five departments and a host of private sector, nongovernmental and academic partners across 10 districts. In the past five years our annual budget has increased more than 100 percent, and with close to 200 staff today we are the largest of all TNC international programs.

At the UN climate change conference in Bali last year, the president of Indonesia launched two major programs: the Orangutan Action Plan and the Coral Triangle Initiative. TNC has been instrumental in catalyzing these programs, building upon our 16 years of work in forest and coral reef conservation in Indonesia. We have also pushed ahead in our site-based Marine and Forest programs, finding innovative ways to protect our oceans from overfishing and our forests from land conversion in partnership with all stakeholders dependent on Indonesia’s natural resources.

The challenges and constraints to our further progress are numerous, but so are the opportunities. This is now my 5th year as country director, and I believe we are poised to go to scale to support marine and forest ecosystems across the archipelago.

I am an optimist. Having lived in Indonesia since 1989, I have witnessed and engaged in changes in this country in the field, in the cities and in interacting with people who both destroy and depend on these natural resources, the people who can make a difference. I’ve seen, too, the growing awareness and dedication among the younger generations and the rallying behind an issue that affects us all: the conservation of our planet. We have to act fast. Time is not on our side but together we are making a difference by connecting people and resources in Indonesia and around the globe.

To all of our donors and partners across the world who continue to support TNC in Indonesia, we thank you for your spirit in believing and sharing in our mission. This is a bond that connects us, and drives us, as we work to protect our diverse lands and waters for the benefit of all.

Rili Djohani | Country Director

A MESSAGE FROM THE COUNTRY DIRECTORThe Good NewsAs board members of one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, we’re often asked how we view reports of all the bad news. The messages we hear in Indonesia, especially, are ones of a deforested Sumatra, of forest fires blowing smoke from Borneo into the Malay Peninsula, of bleaching coral reefs and district-wide floods caused by sprawl, logging and land conversion. Where’s the good news?

Our answer: There’s good news all around. Not every day, and not often enough to relax for long, but enough that we see hope in the future. Since 1991, TNC has worked in Indonesia to develop partnerships to conserve the livelihoods and natural wonders of the world’s largest archipelagic nation. With a population only slightly less than that of the United States, this is no small task; everywhere you turn there are people with generational ties to the reefs and forests and streams, culling their livelihoods from the great wealth of natural resources. Balance is the key, of course, and though in many places the balance was lost years ago, attaining it again increasingly seems more than a distant dream.

More than a dream because TNC isn’t alone. In 16 years you meet some people, and learn to work with them, and learn to believe in a better future together. In Indonesia we’ve met local communities and learned how to restore fisheries and forests without leaving people out of the picture. We’ve met with the central government and helped launch plans for new protected areas, enabling regulations to save a host of Indonesia’s treasures— from the wild interior of Borneo to the fish of the world’s most abundant and productive reefs. And in the wide world of well-intentioned but often competing environmental and foreign aid groups, in the last year we’ve partnered with a dozens or such groups to make conservation a shared reality. We applaud all our partners, and offer our heartfelt thanks to all local and overseas donors, without whose help it would be impossible to move forward.

Perhaps the greatest source of hope and new partnerships in conservation lies in our future generations. At the heart of nature conservation is education, and with more than 60 million children in Indonesia under the age of 15, the potential to teach our youth to love and care for their natural environments is a source of both challenge and inspiration. Another key, looking forward, is the involvement of the Indonesian private sector. We encourage boards of directors of major corporations to take an interest in the activities of TNC in Indonesia, to share their experience, to make constructive suggestions and to explore the possibilities for partnership and collaboration wherever they exist.

In 16 years, we’ve partnered with quite a few people. And if we can maintain these connections, and press ahead with more, in another 16 we’ll see our hope manifest in a greener, bluer, healthier and more prosperous Indonesia. That’s hope, and that’s the best news.

A MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD OF ADVISORS CO-CHAIRS

Leonard van HienBoard of Advisors Co-Chair

Shanti Poesposoetjipto Board of Advisors Co-Chair

The Nature Conservancy in IndonesiaCentered on the island of Bali, some 600 miles east of Jakarta, is our Marine Program headquarters, the Coral Triangle Center. Here we oversee all the TNC ocean-related projects across the country, protecting the life and livelihoods at the very heart of the greatest store of reefs and marine life in the world.

Nearly 800 miles northeast of Jakarta, straddling the equator and looking out over the Makassar Strait, the lowland tropical rainforest of the world’s third-largest island is home to our Forest Program. From our head office in the East Kalimantan provincial capital of Balikpapan to our project sites in inner Borneo, Sulawesi and beyond, it’s here we focus our efforts on the sustainable use and management of the world’s third-largest store of tropical forests.

The three offices together act as the gateways to all TNC work in Indonesia, each governed by the distinct challenges of their respective programs but united in efforts to safeguard the lives, wildlife and natural resources of the country’s marine and forest ecosystems.

Some 6,000 of Indonesia’s approximately 17,000 islands are inhabited, with

more than 50 percent of the population concentrated on Java.

FACT

There’s no place on Earth quite like Indonesia. No other archipelago is so large, so diverse or so filled with the treasures of the natural world. Spanning the Indomalayan and the Australasian biogeographic regions, the world’s largest island nation supports more than 225 million lives and enough plants and animals that even in its underexplored state it’s known as one of the five most species-abundant places on the planet. At least 75 percent of the world’s coral species, 18 percent of the world’s coral reef, more than 2,000 fish species, 3,300 amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles and nearly 30,000 kinds of vascular plants are only found here, amid 17,000 islands that span an ocean area nearly the size of the United States.

That’s a lot of ground—and water—to cover. It means our orangutan monitoring huts in Borneo are more than a thousand miles from the workshops we hold in West Papua villages. Travel to some of our project sites is a days-long venture of small planes, small boats and trekking through roadless wilderness. Nothing is easy when the distances are this great, but despite this our programs and scope continue to expand.

Holding together our far-flung projects is our National Program headquarters in Jakarta. From the urban metropolis of Indonesia’s capital city, we’re ideally positioned to meet with government bodies and national and international nongovernmental and multilateral organizations. Here we work closely with the Ministry of Forestry and the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, and just up the road are some of our regular partners. It’s also here that TNC does much of its policy work, coordinates with TNC worldwide and compiles the bulk of TNC publications in Indonesia.

Komodo Islands

Kingfisher in Sulawesi

Reef monitoring in Raja Ampat

Members of a Dayak community in Lesan, East Kalimantan

Lowland tropical rainforest in Sulawesi

Marine protected area community training in Raja Ampat

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Indonesia is blessed with more species of marine fish and hard coral than any other country in the world. From 75 percent of the world’s coral species to a productivity that influences ecosystems far beyond its borders, the marine world here offers unparalleled opportunities for resource use and conservation.

TNC’s Marine Program has worked in close partnership with the Indonesian government, local communities and other nongovernmental organizations to protect the country’s marine resources since 1995. Our Bali-based Coral Triangle Center (CTC), established in 2000, acts as a unique resource to link partners and transfer knowledge of marine conservation and management to practitioners, policymakers and the public. It also facilitates the use of proven resource conservation tools such as sustainable financing and ecosystem-based management to sustain coastal fisheries. The CTC works to implement field-based programs across four long-established protected areas—Komodo National Park, Wakatobi National Park, the Derawan islands and the Raja Ampat islands—and several more just recently created.

The CTC is uniquely positioned to address threats to the world’s most species-abundant seas while also helping resource users sustain their livelihoods. The Coral Triangle—a marine area spanning eastern Indonesia and parts of Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste and the Solomon Islands—comprises just 2 percent of the world’s seas but is home to a third of its life-sustaining reefs. Our on-site work focuses on priority ecoregions—areas especially prone to environmental degradation or important for their roles in region-wide replenishment—and serves as a learning

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platform for marine conservation in the Coral Triangle. Further afield, we leverage our experience to influence policy across Indonesia and Southeast Asia while also serving as an international training, outreach and networking center.

To protect Indonesia’s most biologically rich seascapes, the CTC is establishing and supporting networks of resilient Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) connected by ocean currents. MPAs protect areas rich in marine life to ensure that human use, such as fishing, is restricted to safeguard their function as a source of replenishment for the wider marine ecoregion. In this way, MPAs also help increase regional fish populations by protecting fish spawning areas from unsustainable harvesting techniques.

In the last year, the CTC provided technical support to the central and local governments in designing MPAs and MPA networks, specifically in the Papua Bird’s Head and Lesser Sunda Seascapes, as well as in providing training workshops on MPA design and management to more than 100 conservation practitioners, resource managers, academics and local communities.

In all these efforts, TNC engages local communities, governments, and a variety of other stakeholders to ensure conservation efforts are balanced, understood and enforceable, made to last the rigors of time and politics.

DERAWAN

RAJA AMPAT

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KOMODOOur Waters CORAL TRIANGLE

Jetty off Kakaban Island, Derawan.

Healthy reef of the Coral Triangle ecoregion

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Nestled atop the coastal shelf of East Kalimantan, the 3� islands of Derawan make up one of the most biologically rich areas in Indonesia. The area is home to more than 460 different species of coral, giving it the world’s second-highest level of hard coral diversity, and the white sand shores of Sangalaki Island hold Southeast Asia’s largest nesting grounds for endangered green and hawksbill turtles. The other islands in the chain include Semama, an important bird sanctuary, and Kakaban Island, where a single lake is home to four endemic species of stingless jellyfish.

The richness of Derawan is threatened, however, by overfishing, turtle poaching and destructive fishing practices, with the livelihoods of 120,000 coastal

inhabitants in the balance. To address these threats, this past year the TNC-WWF Joint Program partnered with the Berau Natural Resources Conservation Agency and the Turtle Foundation to build guard posts and begin patrols along several islands. With these additions, one of our new goals is to end illegal turtle egg harvesting in the entire district of Berau.

The patrols monitor fishing and poaching in parts of an MPA that encompasses 9,300 square miles of land and 4,900 square miles of sea. Supporting the effort, the local district head issued a decree on an integrated surveillance team consisting of the Fisheries Agency, the district police, the Navy, the Army and the Berau Court. Targeting

Derawan

DERAWAN

“By mapping out and defining fishing areas and no-take zones, we will be able to adjust our activities, limiting them in spawning areas, areas that are important for migration and areas that are already depleted of their resources and trying to recover. This way our catches won’t continue to decrease but will, in the long run, grow. We are constantly telling people that the MPA is developed to protect fishermen, not

restrict them.”

ANDI ERSONBerau Fishermen’s Community Network chairman

25 area villages, the program has seen success, with one patrol intercepting a foreign fishing vessel carrying several hundred sea turtles.

In cooperation with the local community and government, the TNC-WWF Joint Program also mapped out ecologically vital areas to lay the groundwork for the creation of an MPA zoning system that protects spawning grounds, controls marine pollution and increases energy efficiency in fisheries. To spread local awareness of the zoning system, the program hosted a camp for area youth, and led community forums and MPA workshops for government officials and local leaders. To foster awareness of alternative livelihoods, in 2007 the program also introduced seaweed cultivation, nature-based tourism, fish packaging and virgin coconut oil processing while also aiding area residents in obtaining micro-business loans from small cooperatives. We also continued our community empowernment program through MPA training for teachers and the Navy, police and fisheries extension officers, as well as in community forum presentations on village mapping.

Our 2003 Rapid Ecological Assessment of the Derawan Islands revealed a

coral diversity second only to Raja Ampat, with 460 species, as well as 870

species of fish ranging from tiny pygmy seahorses to giant manta rays.

FACTS

Lake Kakaban, Derawan, home to a unique species of stingless jellyfish

A fisherman maintains his lift net cage in Derawan

Stingless jellyfish of Derawa

Marine surveillance station off the coast of Derawan

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World-renowned for its spectacular coral gardens off the coast of the octopus-shaped Sulawesi Island, Indonesia’s second-largest MPA holds one of the largest reef complexes in Southeast Asia. Cool upwelling currents make the coral resistant to bleaching, and no one less than Jacques Cousteau called Wakatobi “probably the finest diving in the world.” Today some 80,000 people make their livings from the natural bounty of the area’s 3.4 million acres of land and sea, including thousands of Bajau, the traditionally nomadic seafaring people who today trade and fish along the southern coast of Sulawesi.

Like many of Indonesia’s marine areas, Wakatobi’s diverse coral habitats are threatened by overfishing and destructive fishing involving the use of bombs and cyanide. This past

year TNC partnered with the WWF and park authorities to revise the park’s 25-year management plan and zoning system, designing both to allow for continued livelihoods while easing pressure on areas most important for the replenishment of resources. To do this, we consulted a broad range of stakeholders, including the Ministry of Forestry, the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, the district government, communities and resource users to develop a formal Wakatobi Stakeholders Consultation Forum for discussing resource management among all parties.

In the next year, we will work with the park authority to conduct surveys of the area’s natural resources, raise awareness of the

Wakatobiimportance of MPAs for sustainable development, and develop community support for collaborative MPA management. At the same time, we will take action to reduce destructive fishing practices by training park rangers and local nongovernmental organizations to begin regular patrolling throughout the park. Our ultimate goal is to protect Wakatobi’s coral reef resources by building a network of regional MPAs that are linked by ocean currents. This will also support the livelihoods of local people by replenishing fish stocks, as will new employment opportunities made possible by sustainable tourism development. By involving communities, focusing on collaborative management and building a firm legal foundation for park zoning and enforcement, we hope to ensure that conservation in Wakatobi is made environmentally, socially and economically sustainable.

Wakatobi, SE Sulawesi, Indonesia.

“The stakeholders forum has given me and other fishermen the chance to be involved in the planning and managing of Binongko’s coastal area. It was a long time in the making, but we’ve all seen now how useful it can be in settling disputes and keeping the fish stocks healthy.

“For example, we now have a fishermen’s group in my village, called Posaiendu. This group has given us more leverage to negotiate with fishermen from outside the park. We now use a kind of profit-sharing system for fish caught in our waters, and fishermen from outside Binongko provide a fish aggregating device in return for fishing in Wakatobi. One-third of their catch is given to the Posaiendu group.

“The forum has also given us some power to help prevent destructive fishing practices in our area. Fishermen who were using bombs to catch fish near Makaro-Taipabu have been prosecuted thanks to cooperation between the fishermen’s group in that village and the rangers in Wakatobi National Park.”

LA ISAI A fisherman from Taipabu village, Binongko Island, and a member of the Wakatobi Stakeholders Consultation Forum

• Wakatobi consists of 39 islands and is named for its four largest: Wangi-

Wangi, Kaledupa, Tomia and Binongko.

• The national park comprises the entire regency of Wakatobi, Southeast

Sulawesi.

• The area is home to the largest single coral reef system in the world after

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

FACTS

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A TNC resource management workshop on maintaining healthy fisheries

Coral gardens of Wakatobi National Park

Grouper in WakatobiCORAL TRIANGLE


Nestled in a volcanic chain known as the Lesser Sundas, Komodo National Park is the site of TNC’s longest-running marine project in Indonesia. Famous for harboring the world’s last remaining Komodo dragons and a terrain that falls from mountains to open grassland and woodland savanna on its way to white sand beaches, the park’s half million acres also provide habitat for the endangered hawksbill turtle and humpback, sperm and killer whales.

In 2007, TNC helped open new tourist facilities at Komodo through its joint venture Putri Naga Komodo (or PNK, an enterprise partnership between TNC, the Global Evironment

Facility and the International Finance Corporation). The facilities include a low-impact, environmentally friendly visitor’s center with trails and information panels, trained natural history guides, a restaurant and markets for local handicrafts. The facilities were designed to improve visitor experience in Komodo and generate revenue to help make the park financially self-sufficient. So far the park has seen a rise in tourism-based revenue, in part reflecting a recent trend of 10 percent of all visitors staying three days or longer.

Equally important in the last year, PNK worked with 49 representatives of community groups and institutions to inaugurate the Forum for Community Communications to provide the

Komodo

local community with a formal opportunity to assist in the park’s management, serving as a model for community stewardship programs elsewhere in Indonesia. The forum came by decree of the West Manggarai district head, cementing the local government’s commitment to transparent and accountable conservation in Komodo.

Other new initiatives include an ecotourism venture and support for patrols led by park rangers, the Indonesian Navy, the local police and the water police. Under this program, speedboat teams patrol the park weekly, with larger “floating ranger station” boats providing a more permanent presence at vulnerable sites. These efforts uncovered 59 cases of illegal fishing and poaching last year, and continued monitoring shows live coral cover has increased since the ban on destructive fishing.

To support around 3,000 people in four villages within the park and a greater population of some 20,000 people outside and on the mainland of Flores, PNK is working with local communities to develop alternative livelihoods, add income and develop micro-financing schemes to substitute for destructive fishing practices. One successful example on Komodo and Rinca Islands is the establishment of cooperatives for souvenir carving, weaving and tourism guide training.

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• There are currently around 3,000 Komodo dragons on the islands of Komodo,

Rinca and Gili Motang, or more than half of all remaining Komodo dragons in

the wild. The dragon’s staple diet, the Timor deer, is endemic to the area.

• The park was established in 1980 initially to protect half of the world’s

remaining Komodo dragons, but since 1995 protection has been expanded to

cover its marine waters. The park was also named a World Heritage Site and

a Man and Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1986.

• Komodo features one of the world’s richest marine environments, with coral

reefs, mangroves, and sea grass beds that harbor more than 1,000 species of

fish, 260 species of reef-building corals and 70 species of sponges.

FACTS

MOBILE DOCTOR PROGRAMMost of the island communities of Komodo are supplied with a basic health clinic intermittently staffed by a government health worker to distribute basic vitamins and painkillers. Their most common function is to conduct maternal and prenatal health checks and midwifery services. For more complex services, residents usually need to travel by speedboat to the provincial capital of Perabun Baju, a journey both expensive and physically taxing.

In early 2007, PNK, the Komodo National Park Authority, the West Manggarai District Health Office and subdistrict government initiated a free medical service for villagers living in and around the park. Approved by the park authority and the local mayor, the program today serves the four villages in the park and another five outside, with teams of one doctor and two nurses visiting each village at least once a month. Thus far, more than �000 people have seen doctors during a total of 26 visits.

Seraya Island in Komodo, East Nusa Tenggara

Komodo DragonKomodo wood carving

CORAL TRIANGLE


The seas around the remote Raja Ampat (“Four Kings”) archipelago are possibly the richest in the world. The area’s massive reefs contain 75 percent of all known coral species and more than �,000 fish species, receiving strong currents that may help sweep coral larvae across the Indian and Pacific Oceans to replenish reef ecosystems throughout Southeast Asia. A part of the Bird’s Head Seascape that contains the largest marine national park in Indonesia, Raja Ampat’s coral diversity, resilience and ability to replenish reefs led locals to establish seven connected MPAs throughout the region in 2006.

Though human impacts here are less severe than elsewhere in Indonesia, Raja Ampat faces increasing risks in the form of overfishing, destructive fishing, turtle poaching, shark

finning and unsustainable logging. To address these issues, TNC recently launched a new project to protect nearly 10 million acres of land and sea off the northwestern tip of West Papua.

We work alongside Conservation International to support the new Marine Protected Areas, which cover 50 percent of Raja Ampat’s marine ecosystem. Together we provide training, workshops and technical support for sustainable management, environmentally friendly tourism and patrolling. One way we help spread the word about the MPAs is by sending outreach teams on a 100-foot wooden sailing vessel, the Kalabia, to present three-day programs on

Raja AmpatZet Watem, 55, is a lifelong fisherman and father of �0 in Balal village of Kofiau

Island, Raja Ampat. Each day he uses a hook and line to catch grouper and red

snapper in the waters near his house, selling to buyers who visit the village.

“My elders used to say there were a lot of fish in Kofiau, but today that’s getting

harder and harder to see,” he says. His earnings scarcely cover his children’s

school needs, a fact he attributes to the “bomb fishing” of some villagers. “We

are dependent on the sea; why would we destroy it? I think about the lives of my

children—and their children, my grandchildren—and I wonder what will happen if

we keep using bombs to get our catch. But if we destroy the fisheries, what are

people going to eat? Where would I get money for their education? That’s what I

ask people.”

A couple days each week, Watem visits public gathering places to talk informally

with others about the link between the reefs and livelihoods. “I try to make a

connection between the waters in front of their homes and the classrooms of

their youngest children.” People listen to his message, he says, but they need to

hear it more. “That’s why I say that anyone who wants to promote a sustainable

future in Kofiau is welcome. TNC has helped spread the awareness, and that’s a

first step.”

• In 2002, a survey by TNC and partners recorded 535 species of coral—75 percent of

all known coral species—and 1,071 species of fish in Raja Ampat. On land, the survey

team found lush forests, rare plants, limestone outcroppings and nesting beaches for

hundreds of sea turtles.

• Raja Ampat means “four kings,” a reference to the archipelago’s four largest islands:

Waigeo, Batanta, Salawati and Misool.

• Raja Ampat is home to over 67,000 people, the majority of whom obtain their

livelihoods directly from the sea. Due to the archipelago’s crossroads location at the far

western tip of Papua, the population comprises people from Papua, South Sulawesi and

Maluku.

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conservation in villages throughout the islands. The trips also include taking residents on short trips to visit reef, sea grass and mangrove habitats. TNC is also supporting the local government in developing a joint patrol system to decrease illegal fishing. A technical workshop resulted in a draft standard operating procedure, with TNC helping to secure a community patrol boat, the Imbekwan. The boat is manned by a six-member crew, and patrol activities are carried out by a joint enforcement team made up of the Raja Ampat Fisheries Agency, the police and community representatives.

With the increased awareness of Raja Ampat as a tourist destination, the region’s tourism agency developed a tourism entrance fee system

RAJA AMPAT

with the consultation help of CI and TNC. The proceeds from the entrance fee are channeled to the Raja Ampat Treasury, welfare programs and conservation activities, with community consultations deciding some of the revenue would go toward health and nutrition projects for pregnant women and children.

TNC is also helping local communities in Kofiau Island work with nonprofit organization Seacology to receive funding for various projects in recognition of the area’s conservation efforts. Seacology provides textbooks, sports equipment and teaching materials for the village’s elementary school, as well as a solar-powered refrigerator and basic medical equipment for their healthcare centers.

Building upon the MPA training provided to local elementary teachers, TNC and an international network of locally managed marine areas have also carried out a series of environmental education workshops with teachers from six elementary schools in Kofiau and Misool. Through this, we hope to develop local conservation content for incorporation into the elementary school curriculum.

Coral off the coast of Raja Ampat, West Papua

CORAL TRIANGLE

Community members declare an area temporarily off limits to fishing to allow the marine life time for replenishment


New InitiativesCoral Triangle InitiativeThe Coral Triangle contains 30 percent of the world’s coral reefs and supports the livelihoods of 126 million people. Spanning all of Indonesia and touching the shorelines of five other countries, the “Amazon of the Seas” is thought to be the most biologically diverse marine region on Earth.

In August 2007, Indonesia President Yudhoyono proposed the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security, a multilateral partnership among six countries to protect the region’s extraordinary marine and coastal biological resources. The initiative was subsequently endorsed by heads of state at the APEC Summit and by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and followed by a first CTI Senior Officials Meeting during the 2007 climate change conference in Bali. In Bali, country representatives agreed to develop a comprehensive CTI Plan of Action, one that would include targets and timetables to be adopted at the highest political levels.

Over the past year, TNC has provided significant technical and scientific support to the CTI process, particularly to the Indonesian government. Looking ahead, we plan to continue providing this support as Indonesia and the Coral Triangle governments progress toward a truly visionary initiative to safeguard the region’s unparalleled marine and coastal resources.

The Coral Triangle covers an area of 2.3 million square miles—three-quarters

the size of Australia—across the waters of Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New

Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands and Timor Leste.

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Nusa Penida, BaliThe three islands of Nusa Penida, off the southeast coast of Indonesia’s international tourist haven of Bali, have gradually been transformed into tourism resorts over the last 10 years, leaving their reefs vulnerable to degradation. Starting in 2008, TNC will work with Conservation International, the local government and nongovernmental organizations to expand its marine conservation activities in the Penida area to establish a co-managed and multipurpose MPA. Designed for sustainable use by the tourism and fisheries industries, the new MPA will become a footprint for establishing networks of MPAs within the country’s Lesser Sunda Seascape and the regional Coral Triangle, contributing to the government’s goal of establishing 25 million acres of new MPAs by 2010.

Banda Island, MalukuAlso in 2008, the CTC will expand its field presence to the volcanic Banda Islands of Maluku. Our initial surveys indicate the coral reefs of the Bandas still retain the near pristine qualities reported by German botanist Rumphius during his stay in the seventeenth century, while the reef fish population reflects relatively low exploitation pressure. We hope to design and establish a multipurpose MPA to become part of the wider networks of MPAs within the Banda Sea Seascape and the broader Coral Triangle, contributing, as with Nusa Penida, to the government’s goal of establishing 25 million acres of new MPAs by 2010.

Underwater life in Indonesia

Until the mid-nineteenth century, the Banda Islands were the world’s only

source of the spices nutmeg and mace.

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Seaweed farming in Nusa Penida, Bali Mount Api on Banda Island in Maluku

Mangrove forest, Nusa Penida, Bali

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From the volcano-fed forests of Sumatra and the underexplored interior of Borneo to the mountainous terrain of immense Papua, Indonesia’s forests hold stores of natural wealth as remarkable as the number of human communities they support. Javanese teak and oak tower over eucalyptus, flowering ferns, coastal peat swamps, acacia and grasslands that are unlike those found anywhere else in the world. Indonesia’s forests, the world’s largest after Brazil and Congo, are one of the world’s most important stores of biodiversity. They’re also among the world’s fastest-disappearing forests, under threat due to both population growth and market pressures. In 20 years the country has seen the loss of forests to logging, land conversion and fires at the rate of 4 to 8 million acres per year—the low-end equivalent of some five soccer fields cleared or burned every minute. TNC’s Forest Program in Indonesia has been working to change this. In Borneo and Sulawesi, TNC is safeguarding areas of ecological importance by engaging the private sector and local communities to improve forest management practices and develop equitable distribution mechanisms. Key to these efforts is supporting communities—through technical assistance, alternative livelihood education—to manage protected forests and protect the habitats of forest species through balanced management. TNC’s approach of involving government, local communities and industry is leading to success at a community level, but in the face of ongoing forest destruction our present challenge is to scale up our

approaches to the giant islands of Borneo and Papua. We’ve set a goal of effectively managing 13,500 square miles of Borneo forests, or about one third of the world’s third-largest island, by 2015. We’re also increasing efforts in Sulawesi, aiming to effectively manage 8,000 square miles of forests by the same year. An exciting and ambitious forest program is currently being developed in Papua that will build on our experiences of working with local communities in Kalimantan and Sulawesi, and other initiatives continue to aid timber concessionaries in pursuing sustainable management.

At the heart of all the Forest Program’s work is our goal to move ahead in partnership with the people who depend on forest resources for their livelihoods, helping local communities come into stewardship of their environments.

Our LandsEAST KALIMANTAN

CENTRAL SULAWESI

Lowland rainforest in East Kalimantan, Borneo

Dayak women in East Kalimantan

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Borneo. A few acres of the storied island can contain four times as many tree species as are found in all of North America, and Indonesia’s portion of it—Kalimantan—is home to one of the last large, intact wilderness areas in the entire region. The interior of the world’s third-largest island stores untold treasures—360 new species have been discovered here in the last decade—and its lowland rainforests give rise to a population of 2.5 million people and one of the highest counts of endemic flora and fauna in the world. Running from the Sulawesi Sea up to some of the highest mountains in Southeast Asia, the verdant tapestry of East Kalimantan courses through primal rain forests, limestone karst spires and huge tracts of undisturbed mangroves to provide the habitat for �� different primate species, including proboscis monkeys, gibbons, macaques and many of the world’s last wild orangutans.

Despite the vast amounts of distinctive biological wealth in East Kalimantan forests, very few have protection status under Indonesian law, leading to increasing threats from

land conversion, logging and fires. To meet these challenges, TNC runs four sites in East Kalimantan that comprise a total area of nearly 400 square miles. Under our long-range Tropical Forest Initiative, we hope to bring about the effective management of an area 250 times this size—a third of all Borneo.

In 2007, TNC worked with the government, locals and the private sector in two districts of East Kalimantan to protect large areas of forest against deforestation by implementing conservation management in tracts outside government-protected areas. One approach is to promote legally and ecologically sustainable timber harvesting to area concessionaries by facilitating “forest management certification” from the international accreditation body, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). In 2007, TNC started three new

East Kalimantan

concessionaries on the road to FSC certification by creating assessment maps of their forest resources, and also continued our support for the largest FSC-certified timber concession in all Southeast Asia. If the new concessionaries successfully attain certification, they’ll bring the country’s total number of FSC-certified concessionaries to 10, increasing such managed forest area by as much as 25 percent.

In community-based programs, we helped developed a watershed management program along the Kelay River. We also worked with the Lesan Dayak people of Kelay subdistrict to integrate local customs into a five-year conservation plan, leading villagers to create a community conservation network and participate in a Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) task force in Berau. In the future, our sites in East Kalimantan may provide the ground for some of Indonesia’s first REDD pilot projects.

In a community-led initiative, villagers of Wehea unilaterally declared an ex-timber concession locally protected forest. TNC helped facilitate a community monitoring system under which four groups of 10 members now take month-long turns patrolling a 100,000-acre forest area, recording ecological health indicators such as forest cover, animal and plant distribution and water levels while also reporting signs and incidents of illegal logging.

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“After a timber company moved out the forests around Wehea (when its concession contract expired), I started to think about protecting Wehea from industries and all the temptation of financial offers. The forest is the source of our livelihoods, where we get food and medicinal plants, so when TNC came in to talk about community conservation, we welcomed them. A year later, the East Kutai government and its people initiated the change of Wehea’s status to a protected forest, which was facilitated by TNC. I was overjoyed. The proposed status gives the Dayak people of Wehea the right to protect and manage our forests, and we set our own customary laws. For example, it’s now prohibited for people to cut trees or clear land for their personal needs. On a couple occasions, the local legal council has been able to apply sanctions.

“The new arrangement also helps us maintain our own tradition, our own values. With TNC’s support, our Wehea Dayak Society has been holding regular cultural festivals, and this has been a way to preserve our culture for our next generation. Just like the forests, we hope.”

LEDJIE TAQWehea Dayak tribe leader

• More than 80 tree species in Berau district are listed as threatened by the

World Conservation Union.

• The forests of East Kalimantan are home to hundreds of commercial timber

species, as well as Borneo’s earliest known indigenous inhabitants, the

traditionally nomadic Dayak.

• Just a step off the equator, TNC’s East Kalimantan working areas are home

to rare, threatened and endangered species including clouded leopards,

Storm’s storks, sun bears, mouse deer and wild cattle.

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Lowland rainforest of East Kalimantan

Mushrooms in East Kalimantan BorneoDayak women in East Kalimantan


The mountainous heart of Sulawesi Island, the biggest island in Wallacea Bioregion, gives rise to the rich biodiversity and endemism of Lore Lindu National Park. TNC’s very first project site in Indonesia in �99�, the park protects an area roughly twice the size of Rhode Island and preserves habitat for 73 percent of Sulawesi’s endemic land birds and most of its endangered mammals. With some of the largest unbroken tracts of forest on the island, the area also provides water resources for more than 300,000 people inside and outside the park.

With 90 percent of its canopy still intact, Lore Lindu has not suffered from the same levels of illegal logging and exploitation as other Indonesian parks. However, Lore

Lindu is surrounded by villages whose inhabitants have made use of the park over generations, and its forests and wildlife are increasingly threatened by agricultural conversion and illegal harvesting of forest resources, both of which are driven by severe poverty and increasing populations.

TNC works in Lore Lindu through partnerships with various villages, government, nongovernmental organizations and academics to balance local economic needs with the park’s ecological health. We support local conservation councils and in 2007 we signed

Community Conservation Agreements (CCAs) with 26 villages to monitor forest health and begin educational programs to raise conservation awareness.

Integral to our mission is improving the economic lives of the subsistence farmers in 60 villages that surround the park. In 2007, TNC helped a village conservation council plant a locally funded “living border” of more than 35,000 trees along Lore Lindu’s perimeter. Comprising mainly commercial trees like candlenut and agathi, the border provides locals with timber and other forest resources for both consumption and commercial purposes. Our early observations indicate the border is sustainable, with a high survival rate of boundary trees and an estimated 88 percent decrease in illegal logging within the park in villages with CCAs.

To develop alternative sources of income for area residents, in 2007 TNC also worked in villages to introduce honeybee and mushroom farming, and to lay the groundwork for fair trade initiatives in coffee and cocoa cultivation. We also supported the Palu Poso Watersheds Bureau in securing a five-year grant from UNDP-GEF to plan and manage the area of Miu Watershed.

Central Sulawesi

CENTRAL SULAWESI

“The Community Conservation Agreement (CCA) has been a positive step in recognizing our rights and traditional beliefs about land use in Lore Lindu National Park. Before the establishment of the CCA, it was very difficult for us to inform the government and visitors of our traditional law, even when it was perfectly in line with the conservation principles promoted by the CCA. For instance, our laws have always called for the special protection of the Wana Ngkiki area, which is included in the CCA coverage. With the CCA in place, our laws have been significantly strengthened, and everyone’s happier that the government recognizes the right for us to use our traditional lands passed down by our ancestors.”

NURDIN YABUHead of the village conservation community in Anca, Central Sulawesi

• Sitting at the crossroads of Asian and Australian bioregions, Lore Lindu is

home to 227 bird species, 77 of which are found nowhere else on Earth.

• Ecosystems in Lore Lindu include montane, cloud and monsoon forests.

• Lore Lindu is recognized as a UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve and has

been nominated as a World Heritage site for its ancient stone megaliths.

• The park provides habitat for almost all of Sulawesi’s endangered mammal

species, including the mountain anoa, a dwarf buffalo; the babirusa, an animal

resembling both pig and hippopotamus; three species of tarsier, the world’s

smallest primate; the Tonkean macaque; and the marsupial cuscus.

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The rainforest of Lore Lindu National Park, South Sulawesi

A community discussion on forest health and conservation in Lore Lindu

A spectral tarsier, the smallest primate in the world and endemic to Sulawesi Island


Indonesia is one of the world’s largest producers of tropical timber in the $�50 billion global forest products industry. While the need for timber is increasing and the government has taken steps to ban illegally sourced wood, forests continue to be lost or degraded due to conversion of natural forests, fire and weak law enforcement. It is estimated that illegal logging costs the country some $3.7 billion a year in lost revenue.

In 2007, TNC and USAID’s Regional Development Mission, together with key implementation partners including the WWF, the Tropical Forest Trust, the Tropical Forest Foundation

and the Regional Community Forestry Training Center, laid the groundwork for regional forest management cooperation under the Responsible Asia Forestry and Trade (RAFT) program. RAFT focuses on promoting responsible timber trade and the sustainable management of forest resources by bringing together private sector, public, nongovernmental and multilateral stakeholders from six target countries in the Asia Pacific—Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Papua New Guinea—all with the goal of increasing regional timber trade from legal sources.

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In Indonesia, RAFT works closely with the government and forest concessionaries and has helped secure commitment from 20 timber enterprises in Indonesia to improve forest management on more than 7.5 million acres of land—an area three-quarters the size of Switzerland. TNC signed agreements with the Indonesian National Forestry Council to support the development of enabling conditions, including the revision of forest laws and regulations, with the Indonesian Association of Forestry Entrepreneurs to strengthen the ability of TNC to engage with forest concessionaries on forest management and trade issues, and with the Indonesia Ecolabeling Institute, Indonesia’s constituent-based forest certification body, to support auditing training, forestry training and capacity building on implementing Indonesian timber legality standards.

How do you ensure forestry concessions are well managed, sustainable and consistently legal? One way is to encourage forest certification that can prove timber is legally and sustainably harvested. Some five natural forest concessions and two community plantations in Indonesia have obtained forest management certificates from the internationally recognized Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). TNC is uniquely positioned to advance these measures, having already facilitated, in East Kalimantan, the certification of the largest FSC-approved concession in Southeast Asia. In 2007, TNC used this experience to support the recertification of two concessions while laying the groundwork for the certification of another 200,000 acre concession. With additional FSC certifications due in the coming years, TNC and its partners hope to reach the tipping point where legal and sustainable forest practices become the norm rather than the exception, and where international markets may play a new role in protecting Indonesian forests.

“In Indonesia, it is said that logging equals illegal. But Sumalindo is legal. All members of Sumalindo, management and employees alike, are proud that we are already certified. Receiving certification—the actual handover of certificates—was an emotional moment.

“People can still say logging is bad, but certification goes a long way to making it just the opposite. TNC’s approach recognizes that: Business and local communities can both benefit from forests as long as they’re well managed. So far, we’re proof of that.”

AMIR SUNARKODirector and president of East Kalimantan’s PT Sumalindo Lestari Jaya, Southeast Asia’s largest timber concessionary and the first to obtain

Forest Stewardship Council certification with TNC assistance.

Sustainably harvested timber is checked and tagged before shipping

TNC signs an agreement with the National Forestry Council and the Indonesian Association of Forest Concessionaries to manage forests sustainably

Certified wood of Lestari Jaya timber company in East Kalimantan

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New InitiativesReducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)Over the past two decades, Indonesia has lost millions acres of forests per year, with devastating impacts on biodiversity, well being of local communities and the long-term economic potential of the forest sector. This land use change has resulted in billions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to approximately 80 percent of all Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions and making the country one of the top five emitters worldwide.

TNC believes one answer to the problem of emissions lies in the idea of “carbon markets” that create financial incentives for communities to maintain the healthy forests. Assigning an economic value to the carbon stored in tropical forests would effectively convert “carbon sinks” into tangible income for the stakeholders that decide the forests’ fate. Future forest carbon markets have the potential to generate tens of billions of dollars each year globally and provide forest-rich nations access to financial resources that help protect and sustainably manage their forests, reduce carbon emissions and contribute to long-term economic growth and sustainable rural development.

To help catalyze a global market for conserving forests, TNC in Indonesia is working with partners to demonstrate that incentive-based programs can be implemented successfully to mitigate climate change, conserve forests and improve livelihoods. This past year TNC worked with the government—district, provincial and national—to

“REDD has the potential to reduce emissions by creating incentives and programs to help communities living near forests make their lives more prosperous. Up to now, communities haven’t been included in these kinds of programs; they’re usually just accused of slash-and-burn practices, leaving the woods worse off. But it’s not fair to blame them entirely when they’re just trying to fulfill their families’ needs.

“The conditions of our forests should be the concern of citizens all over the world, be they in Berau or Belarus. If there were an innovative mechanism to both save tropical forests and allow some prosperity to communities, we should welcome it. REDD has that potential, so now we’re waiting to see.”

Drs. H. Makmur HAPK, MM

Berau District Head

build support for a large-scale REDD program. Next year, TNC will work on negotiations between governments, the private sector, communities and nongovernmental organizations to initiate a REDD pilot program in East Kalimantan.

To support these efforts, at the 2007 UN climate change conference in Bali, TNC announced a commitment of $5 million to the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, a new carbon fund developed by the World Bank. There is also a plan to raise and deploy an additional $12 million for modeling activities in 3-5 countries, with Indonesia a likely choice for the first programs.

Orangutan Action PlanLaunched by President Yudhoyono at the UN conference on climate change and authored by the Directorate General of Forest Conservation and Nature Protection, the National Action Plan for the Conservation of Orangutans presents the first specific, enforceable agenda to protect the world’s disappearing orangutans.

The result of three years of collaboration between TNC, the Ministry of Forestry, USAID and national and international nongovernmental organizations, a core target of the plan is to stabilize orangutan populations and habitat by 2017, reversing the deforestation trend that has led to an estimated 3,000 orangutan deaths per year since the 1970s. Conservation efforts to date have lacked the legal teeth and financial backing to compete with incentives for forest exploitation, conditions the action plan is designed to counter.

“To save Orangutans, we must save the forests. And by saving, regenerating and sustainably managing forests, we are also doing our part in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, while contributing to the sustainable economic development of Indonesia.”

President Susilo Bambang

Yudhoyono at the launch of

the National Action Plan for the

Conservation of Orangutans in Bali

on Dec. 10, 2007.

Valuing the carbon stored in forests can create more incentive for sustainable forest management like one in East Kalimantan

TNC is pledging US$1 million to support the plan, which aims to save 10 percent of orangutans now threatened by habitat conversion plans in Borneo and Sumatra Islands. If successful, the preservation of forests will additionally keep 700 million tons of carbon from entering the atmosphere. Other goals of the plan are to return orangutans currently housed in rehabilitation centers to the wild by 2015 and to ensure the government and businesses follow established and developing guidelines on orangutan conservation.

The world’s last wild orangutans are found in Borneo and Sumatra Islands

President Yudhoyono at the UN climate change conference in Bali

Traditional dance in East Kalimantan


Morowali Nature Reserve, Central SulawesiMorowali Nature Reserve is one of the most important refuges for many of Sulawesi’s rare and endemic species. Established in 1980, the mountainous reserve protects a half million acres of complex and uniquely wide-ranging habitats, including coral reefs, mangroves, rainforests, grasslands, swamps, lakes and mountainous tropical forest of an ecological integrity found in few other places. The array of ecosystems provide the habitat for such animals as the Sulawesi rousette and the giant civet, one of the world’s least known carnivores.

The reserve is surrounded by 26 villages and also inhabited by the indigenous Wana people, the majority of whom still practice their ancestral tradition of moving every few years to clear new forest for cultivation. Because of high population level and the reserve’s natural abundance, Morowali faces a number of human pressures that jeopardize its continued health, including illegal logging and hunting, agricultural encroachment and road development.

To address these threats, TNC has taken on the reserve as a new conservation site. Our 2008 goal is to institute a scientific basis for the reserve management plan that accommodates the interests of various stakeholders while upholding the reserve’s ecological health, with a longer-range plan of potentially connecting the park with neighboring Lore Lindu National Park through a protected corridor. The central government has expressed a willingness to convert the reserve into a national park, and to this end TNC has begun surveys of the area’s species and forest interactions in relation to the area’s Wana people, resulting in 11 new scientific records of vascular plant

species for Sulawesi as well as knowledge on how to best coordinate with the 5,000 people living inside the reserve.

Papua Forest ProgramAt the far eastern edge of Indonesia rises the mountainous wonderland of New Guinea Island, possibly the world’s greatest single store of terrestrial biodiversity. It is estimated that Papua, the Indonesian half of the island, holds over 5 percent of the world’s 270,000 described flowering plant species, with up to 90 percent of the world’s flowering vascular plants found only here. The island provides the habitat for the bird of paradise and the world’s largest butterfly and biggest tree frog, and perhaps a number of other superlatives not yet described. Of 227 new mammal species found worldwide in recent years, 164 have been in Papua. Increasing human population, much of it from people migrating from more heavily populated islands, is putting heavy pressure on many of Papua’s ecosystems. Land conversion for farming, urban areas, palm oil plantations, logging and, to a lesser extent, mining, all pose threats to the island’s plant and animal abundance. While adequate laws protecting nature exist in Papua, they are seldom enforced. On both sides of the border, conservation officials cite political pressures and a lack of funding as the main detriments to upholding the law.

The opportunity for Papua lies within its strong tribal communities that depend on these forest and marine resources. TNC’s objectives are to develop ways to communicate the benefits of reduced deforestation, to integrate conservation into the Papuan government

and to assist the province in generating capital by participating in emerging forest carbon markets.

TNC has already established partnerships with key stakeholders in Papua including the forestry department, while also finalizing plans for a Tropical Forest Initiative presence in the province’s capital. Our next tasks are to compile data on logging concessions and engage with concessionaries while generating project visibility and strategy through an action plan.

The significance of Papua as one of the most biologically astonishing regions on Earth ascribes it a special importance for TNC—so important that we aim to make our initial working areas cover a minimum area of 10 million acres, or 10 percent of all Papua.

• Almost 2,400 species of fungi have been described in Papua, and estimates

of the island’s total fungi species range from 15,000 to 90,000.

• New Guinea Island covers 306,000 square miles, and stretches more than

900 miles in length. It is almost evenly divided by a north-south frontier

between the country of Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian province of

Papua. A long mountain cordillera stretches from almost one end of the island

to the other, with peaks reaching 13,000 feet.

• While there are no endemic plant families on New Guinea Island, some 124

genera grow nowhere else, and at least 30 percent of the island’s plant

species have yet to be described.

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Increasing human populations, land conversion and mining all put pressure on Papua’s diverse ecosystems

Mangroves in Morowali Nature Reserve



HowWe Work

Communications & Outreach

Tourists on Rinca Island, Komodo

A villager shores his fishing boat near a mangrove forest in Nusa Penida, Bali

With a growing program and the separate but related programs from our National, Marine and Forest offices, one of our first goals is communicating our achievements and our vision to a number of stakeholders, including the government, partner organizations and the public. To keep all parties up to date on our work, we publish a number of magazines and newsletters, including the National Program’s quarterly AlamLestari (Lasting Nature), the Forest Program’s monthly Forest Science News and on-line @ForestFlash, our Marine Program’s quarterly Splash, and the on-site community newsletters Kadera, Suara Raja Ampat and Editor. We also publish news of activities and maintain event blogs under the Indonesian webpage at nature.org, and contribute to the worldwide office’s quarterly magazine, Nature Conservancy.

In 2007, TNC-authored articles appeared in Indonesia’s largest English and Bahasa Indonesia newspapers, The Jakarta Post and Kompas, as well as in the influential magazines Tempo and Gatra. Internationally, our activities were featured or discussed in the pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, International Herald Tribune, Associated Press, and National Geographic. Our programs were featured on the Indonesian primetime TV programs Expedition and Archipelago (MetroTV), Horison and Teropong (Indosiar), Potret (SCTV), Gapura (RCTI), Cita Citaku (TransTV) and Khatulistiwa (TVOne), and on international programs such as CNN, BBC, Reuters, NHK, Al Jazeera and Bloomberg. Additionally, we regularly contributed counsel on national radio stations RRI, KBR 68H and Green Radio.

With conservation organization Rare, TNC in 2007 began three Pride Campaigns in Papua, Sulawesi and Kalimantan, following the successful completion of three others dating back to 2003. Designed to bring local communities into stewardship of their natural resources and directed especially at fishermen, women and children, the 18-month campaigns use modern social marketing methods and media—plays, radio, comics, music and community forums—to increase both knowledge of and pride in area ecosystems. Each campaign uses a charismatic locally known animal as a symbol of local pride, and gauges progress by polling area residents at regular intervals to assess their awareness of conservation values and methods. To facilitate the campaigns, since 2003 six TNC campaign managers have completed a 10-week Rare training course at universities in Canterbury, England, and West Java, Indonesia.

2007 also saw the completion of the 18-month Raja Ampat Pride Campaign. Targeting nearly 40,000 people on the islands of Kofiau and Misool, the campaign boosted local knowledge of the relationship between reefs and fisheries and helped build support for the establishment of five village marine reserves. The three new campaigns began in Wakatobi, Morowali and East Kalimantan with the octopus, Maleo bird and orangutan as their respective campaign mascots. The Wakatobi campaign is working to link the area’s traditional law forest protection with reef conservation, the Morowali campaign outlined goals to plant cash crops and agathi trees outside the protected nature reserve and the East Kalimantan campaign developed a community radio station, a mobile cinema show, plans for improved water sanitation, student field trips to turtle habitat and reefs, and, with a local nongovernmental organization, a community tabloid.

TNC-Indonesia program newsletters

A Pride Campaign puppet show in Raja Ampat


TNC conducts on-site surveys and monitoring in Indonesia with the permission of the Ministry of Forestry’s Directorate General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation (PHKA). We actively work with staff from the PHKA, national park authorities, the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Affairs, local governments, universities and local branches of the Natural Resources Conservation Agency and distribute results and findings to the PHKA and relevant government agencies.

• Storm’s Stork Expedition TNC conducted a 15-day expedition in East Kalimantan forests to

search for Storm’s storks and assess the in-stream health and habitat of two rivers in a conservation area. We spotted three storks of an estimated 250-500 remaining worldwide, and tentatively concluded that TNC’s sites were doing well in maintaining stork habitat. We expect 2008 survey data from satellite tracking to help determine to what extent this is due specifically to TNC activities in habitat conservation.

• Orangutan Nest Survey In 2007, we completed the most extensive study of orangutan

nest decay ever undertaken. Based on four years of study in East Kalimantan, we identified 45 types of food supply and nesting trees for primates, particularly orangutan, while recording a host of animal and plant species findings that help us to gauge the area’s changing biodiversity. A scientific review in January 2004 showed that total orangutan populations were actually higher than previously thought—about 6,650 Sumatran orangutans and 55,000 Borneo orangutans—but that most local populations were small, isolated and vulnerable.

TNC also had a significant presence at several exhibitions and events throughout the year, including the Java Jazz festival in Jakarta, the UN climate change conference in Bali, the Coral Reef National Symposium in Jakarta and North Sulawesi.

To empower local communities and advance the skills of TNC employees in the field, in 2007 our National Program communications team conducted two capacity building workshops in writing, photography, media relations and communications workplanning and budgeting at TNC work sites. In the future, we plan to expand these workshops to include employees and stakeholders of partner nongovernmental organizations, as well as local media representatives.

Finally, in 2007 TNC began fundraising activities in Indonesia for the first time, assembling donor lists and corporate social responsibility portfolios.

Beyond the woods and the reefs, a significant amount of our work in Indonesia is concentrated in the halls of government and the front rooms of villagers’ homes. Our policy work—advanced nationally and internationally by our Country Director and Policy Director and locally by our Marine and Forest Policy Coordinators—is designed with the overarching goal to ensure the sustainability and long-term economic benefits from forest and marine ecosystems for the welfare of future generations. Our work includes lobbying, coordinating with national and international government agencies and offering counsel to develop strategies to create and maintain healthy ecosystems.

We do this by facilitating and attending public hearings, informal gatherings and formal meetings, traveling to the far reaches of our project sites as well as to international conventions. We view our contributions as those of a troubleshooter—not an activist or advocate, but as a facilitator that can offer a store of experience and knowledge of science-based efforts at developing sustainable management practices.

In the last year, our policy efforts have aided the development of the Coral Triangle Initiative, the Tropical Forest Initiative, a national plan to save orangutans and forests, private sector attempts to attain environmental certifications and village-level plans to create zoning plans that protect vital and damaged habitat. In 2007 we also saw the establishment of Community Conservation Agreements, Marine Protected Areas, joint ventures, sustainable management practices and village financial management units to help support alternative livelihoods. The many community agreements and newly declared managed areas in these pages are testament to these policy efforts, as was the Indonesian government’s invitation to join its delegation at the UN-sponsored Convention on Biological Diversity in Bonn, Germany, in 2008.

Policy & Partnership

TNC-IP Country Director Rili Djohani meets President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the 2007 UN climate change conference in Bali

“Overall, I was very impressed by the sense of empowerment that the TNC staff members felt as several of them spoke openly (in one of our meetings) about their ambition to be TNC Country Director in the future. It is great succession planning!”

CHEW-MEE KIRTLAND Administrator of the Rainbow Foundation. In late 2005, the Foundation pledged a multi-year grant to support TNC-Indonesia in developing skills and capacity through its Staff Leadership Development Program.

Science

Born and raised in Central Java, Nardiyono was lured to East Kalimantan after high school by the opportunities of a vast, resource-rich and underpopulated Borneo. In the provincial capital Balikpapan, he took a job at an animal rehabilitation center, looking after orangutans �6 hours a day, until four years later he came to TNC, where he found his calling conducting monitoring studies for the Forest Program.

In five years of field-based work with TNC, he’s had his shared of adventures. Traveling upstream in a single-engine wooden boat on one expedition, the engine cut and left the boat capsized, sweeping Nardiyono and three others nearly a half mile downstream. “Everyone ended up safe, but all our equipment and supplies was gone. The boat too. We never saw it again.”

Another time he and his group ran out of food while traveling by foot to survey inland forests. “We didn’t worry, though. Being in the forest is like being in a supermarket: durian, mangos, roots full of clean water. We’ll never starve in the forest.”

NARDIYONOTNC Forest Survey Coordinator

Excellence in managing partnerships with disparate partner organizations is essential work for TNC, allowing us to leverage our goal of creating conservation impacts far beyond what we could accomplish alone. We do this through a wide range of strategies and activities, from facilitating technical and organizational strengthening training sessions, institutional self-assessments and community organizing to establishing joint programs to better utilize resources and expertise. In the last year, we have established new partnerships with the Indonesian National Forestry Council, the Indonesian Association of Forestry Entrepreneurs and the Indonesia Ecolabeling Institute in our efforts to advance sustainable forestry management.



“I really wasn’t aware of conservation before I went to college. I used to go diving to get giant clams and turtles for the meat, or sometimes to make rings and bracelets. But I was young. I thought was going to grow up to be a fighter pilot.

“When I began my research on turtles, that’s when I started thinking more about whether these things would still be around after I was gone. Now I’ve been with TNC for �0 years, working on answering that question.

“My motivation comes from thinking about my children. I saw an Orca once at arm’s length, and it was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen; something that immense, just gliding along beneath us. I don’t want my children to only listen to stories or see pictures in their books about the life in the oceans, the life that I’ve grown up with. I want them to see turtles laying their eggs on beaches and dolphins jumping beside boats when we cross the sea. I work for these kinds of things, so they’ll be part of my children’s world.”

ANDREAS MULJADITNC Monitoring and Surveillance Coordinator in Raja Ampat

MissionThe mission of The Nature Conservancy is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.

• Wana Kayupoli and Posangke Ethno-Ecology Survey TNC conducted a 26-day ethno-ecology survey of the Wana

Kayupoli and Posangke tribes in Morowali Nature Reserve to learn about local communities’ dependence on the reserve for subsistence purposes. The survey included community agricultural systems, natural resources use, nomadic farming and regular migration. The findings are expected to be integral to creating forest management plans that benefit communities living within the reserve.

• Ecosystem Surveys in the Bird’s Head Seascape The tri-institutional partnership of TNC, CI and WWF completed

15 studies of the ecology, socioeconomics and governance in the Bird’s Head Seascape, including studies on grouper spawning, resource use in Raja Ampat, the genetic makeup of marine species, sea temperature and turtle migratory patterns using satellite tagging. A study of the surface current patterns in the Raja Ampat MPA network revealed highly complex currents including one that travels “against” the Indonesian Throughflow to Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, thus showing the importance of including coastal countercurrents in oceanographic models to predict patterns of dispersal in coral reef species. The results of studies have been incorporated into MPA network design and spatial plans for West Papua.

• Zoning Studies for the Berau MPA TNC and WWF jointly designed an MPA zoning plan for the

Berau MPA in East Kalimantan that incorporates principles of resilience and sustainable fisheries. The zoning plan includes protection for coral reefs, turtle nesting beaches and feeding grounds, sea grass, mangroves and large mammal corridors while allowing fishing, shipping and tourism in the region. The plan was also based on preliminary input from area residences and will be

widely socialized to local communities and local, provincial and national authorities for their input and comment in 2008-2009.

• Coral Reef Monitoring in Raja Ampat The coral reefs of Kofiau and Misool Islands are being surveyed

to map the distribution of habitats and identify unique features. A technique called “manta towing,” which involves observers being towed behind a speedboat, is used to cover the large area of these MPAs. In Kofiau, more than 125 miles of reef were surveyed, yielding important observations such as areas of extraordinarily high coral cover, a manta aggregation and the presence of hammerhead sharks. Surveys will continue around Misool Island in 2008 and the results will be used as the basis for developing zoning plans for each of these MPAs.

Researchers conduct an orangutan nest survey in East Kalimantan

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ACTUAL ACTUAL BUDGET FY06 FY07 FY08

GENERAL & ADMINISTRATION 1,171 1,470 1,978

CONSERVATION PROGRAMS 4,384 5,398 5,885 TOTAL 5,555 6,868 7,863

Fiscal Period: July to June

Fiscal Period: July to June


PERSONNEL 1,958 2,090 2,723 CONTRACTUAL 1,792 2,231 2,314

COMMUNICATIONS 248 285 352

TRAVEL 481 646 726 SUPPLIES & EQUIPMENT 506 920 801 OCCUPANCY 190 189 437

OTHER 1,707 1,202 1,206

TOTAL 5,555 6,868 7,863


DUES & CONTRIBUTIONS 2,530 2,653 3,662

GOVERNMENT GRANTS 2,215 2,007 1,540 PRIVATE GRANTS 698 1,358 1,300

OTHER SUPPORT 1,707 1,202 1,206

TOTAL 7,�50 7,220 7,708 Fiscal Period: July to June

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Total revenue increased moderately from $7.15 million in FY06 to $7.22 million in FY07 and is forecasted to further increase in FY08 to around $7.71 million.

FY08 dues and contributions increased 38 percent to $3.66 million, in line with our strategy to strengthen our donor base and lessen our dependence on government funding.

Total spending in FY07 rose 23 percent from FY06, to $6.87 million, and is forecasted to further increase to $7.86 million next year. In line with our mission, 79 percent of our spending was in support of conservation programs and related activities, with the balance for general and administration expenses.

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Biodiversity The number and variety of organisms found within a specified geographic region

Carbon markets A proposed international mechanism whereby forest-rich countries could use the carbon stored in their forests as “carbon credits” to be traded in an international market, thus mitigating the forces of climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions by creating financial incentives to preserve the integrity of the world’s forests

ConcessionaryA timber company with a permit to harvest in a particular forest area (a concession) for a contracted period of time

Endemic Occurring in a particular area and nowhere else

Marine Protected Area (MPA) A marine environment legally protected against exploitative practices such as overfishing and destructive fishing, designed with various zones of allowed use to safeguard areas of high biodiversity, spawning or ecosystem recovery

StakeholderAny party, such as the government, community member, private sector company, nongovernmental organization, bilateral or multilateral organization, with an interest in the condition and management of an area’s natural resources

ZoningThe process of spatial planning in MPAs that maps out and designates “no-take,” “limited-take” and other areas that dictate an MPA’s use for fishing and other activities

Glossary AcronymsASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations

BKSDA Natural Resources Conservation Agency

CCA Community Conservation Agreement

CI Conservation International

CT Coral Triangle

CTC Coral Triangle Center (Bali)

CTI Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs Fisheries and Food Security

FCC Forum for Community Communications

FSC Forest Stewardship Council

GEF Global Environment Facility

IUCN The World Conservation Union

MPA Marine Protected Area

PHKA The Directorate General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation

PNK PT Putri Naga Komodo

RAFT Responsible Asia Forestry and Trade

REDD Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation

TFI Tropical Forest Initiative

TNC The Nature Conservancy

UN The United Nations

UNDP United Nations Development Programme

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation

USAID The United States Agency for International Development

WWF World Wide Fund for Nature

Agustina Supriyani KardonoPartner, Soewito Suhardiman Eddymurthy Kardono law firm • Catholic University of Parahyangan; the Academy of

American and International Law, USA

Abdul Rachman RamlyFormer President Director, Tambang Timah and Pertamina; Diplomat• Padjadjaran University, Indonesia

Dr. David E. ParryPresident Director, PT Mott MacDonald Indonesia • University of Aston, Birmingham, UK

Frank B. MorganAttorney, Mochtar Karuwin Komar • Harvard Law School, USA

George TahijaPresident Director, Austindo Group, the holding company of the Tahija family• Trisakti University, Indonesia; University of Virginia, USA

Joe C. BartlettMarketing Manager, PT Citra Tubindo Tbk; President, AmCham Indonesia • Dartmouth College, Claremont College, USA

Board of Advisors of The Nature ConservancyDr. H.S. DillonSenior Governance Advisor; PT. Freeport Indonesia Member; International Agricultural and Food Trade Policy Council;Former Executive Director, Partnership for Governance Reform in Indonesia; Independent Commissioner, PT Sumalindo Lestari Indonesia• Cornell University, USA

Leonard van Hien (Co-Chair)Vice Chairman of the European Business Chamber of CommerceFormer Country Chairman of the Jardine Matheson Group of Companies in Indonesia; former Partner, Price Waterhouse.

Noke KiroyanPresident Director, PT Komunikasi Kinerja (Kiroyan Partners); former President Director, PT Rio Tinto Indonesia, PT Kaltim Prima Coal and PT Newmont Pacific Nusantara• Padjadjaran University, Indonesia; Syracuse University, USA;

Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

Sabam SiagianMember of Board of Directors & Senior Editor, The Jakarta PostFormer Ambassador to Australia• Nieman Fellow for Journalism, Harvard University

Shanti Poesposoetjipto (Co-Chair)Chairman, Samudera Indonesia Tbk.• Munich University of Technology, Germany

THE NATURE CONSERVANCYIndonesia Program Leadership Team

RILI DJOHANI. Country DirectorARWANDRIJA RUKMA. Deputy Country RepresentativeWIDODO RAMONO. Policy DirectorBACHRUN IDRIS. Finance DirectorAHMAD FUADI. Communications DirectorNIEL MAKINUDDIN. Forest Program Manager ABDUL HALIM. Marine Program ManagerYUSUF ARIANTO. Human Resource ManagerTRI SOEKIRMAN. Partnership ManagerFITRI LUBIS. Office Manager


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The Nature Conservancy - Indonesia Program thanks the Directorate General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation of the Ministry of Forestry and

the Ministry of Marine and Fisheries Affairs, the Republic of Indonesia and other partners for making our conservation results possible.

CONCEPT & EDITORIALAhmad FuadiElis NurhayatiRatna Yulia Hadi

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PRINTINGSurya Kencana

COPY EDITINGBen Otto

CONTRIBUTORSAchmad RizalAnton SuebuBen JarvisEdy SudionoErik MeijaardFakhrizal NashrGunawan WicaksonoHerastuti HaryogyoHirmen SofyantoIsmet KhaeruddinJoanne WilsonJohannes Soebijanto

ANNUAL REPORT PRODUCTION TEAM

Lenny ChristyLex HovaniMarthen WellyNawa IriantoSopialenaTomy Satria YuliantoTri SoekirmanYudi IskandarsyahAll Communications & Outreach Team

We proudly recognize the following individuals and organizations who generously supported our work in Indonesia. We thank them for their commitment to our mission.

Marine• Barbara J. Brummer

• Bishop Family Foundation

• Chevron

• Coleman

• David and Lucile Packard Foundation

• Douglas Hsu

• Early Action Grant

• Howard and Renee Fisher

• George Covington

• Global Environment Facility

• Greater Houston Community Foundation

• Helmut Sohmen

• Dr. and Nrs. Robert Jaeger

• Kingfisher Foundation

• MacArthur Foundation

• Mandala Bay

• Merle Heinrich

• Mickey Rosenau

• Wayne and Colleen Minami

• Don and Traute Moore

• Peierls

• Rainbow Foundation

• RNHP

• Sall Family Foundation

• Sally Bowles

• Stokes Foundation

• USAID

• Menezes Vanderwende

• Wallace Research Foundation

• Walton Family Foundation

• Wilson Challenge

• Yayasan Tahija

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Forest• AusAID

• Earth’s Birthday Foundation

• Edward Mother Earth

• Lowes Charitable & Educational Foundation

• Sall Family Foundation

• The Antinori Foundation

• The Home Depot

• Timken-Strugis Foundation

• USAID Indonesia Mission

• USAID Regional Development Mission Asia

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