LSM LKP

LSM Lembaga Konservasi dan Pembangunan (NGO Conservation and Development Institute)
conserving biodiversity while reducing poverty

WHAT IS LSM LKP?

LSM Lembaga Konservasi dan Pembangunan (NGO Conservation and Development Institute) abbreviated to LSM LKP was formerly known as Yayasan Lestari (Sustainability Foundation). It is an Indigenous Peoples NGO dedicated to promote biodiversity conservation while reducing poverty in Indonesia. It was formed in S.E. Sulawesi, eastern Indonesia, in 1984 by a group of people representing Indigenous Peoples, scientists, conservationists, and other civil society groups. LEGAL STATUS: LSM LKP is registered as a not-for-profit, tax-exempt organization at the Indonesian Ministry of Finance with the registration number: PEM-01442/WPJ.20/KP.0103/2010.

THE PROBLEM TREE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN INDONESIA

Indigenous Peoples, who play vital stewardship roles in biodiversity conservation, lost their strategic sources of food and medicines and consequently they get hungrier and sicker in many cases they also lost their sacred places and vital cultures conducive to biodiversity conservation.

The greatest number of rural people, especially women as the primary domestic managers of natural resources, lost their vital sources of income, food, and medicines and consequently they get poorer, hungrier and sicker.

STARTING PROBLEM: WILD ANIMAL AND PLANT SPECIES (MOST OF WHICH ARE GLOBALLY ENDANGERED AND/OR ENDEMIC) ARE SEVERELY DEGRADED.

WHY WAS LSM LKP FORMED?

LSM LKP was formed due to widespread concern about the deterioration of biodiversity degradation in all parts of Indonesia. This badly affects many vulnerable groups especially Indigenous Peoples and women in rural as well as urban areas, as described in the following problem tree:

Illegal, unsustainable exploitation of wild animals and plants (most of which are globally endangered and/or endemic) increases.

Man-made degradation of wildlife habitats, including protected areas, increases.

Global warming

Extreme poverty increases both at national and local levels.

Large mining companies severely destroy natural ecosystems and associated wild animals and plants (some of which are globally endangered and/or endemic).

Chemical pollutions increase and damage natural resources primarily wetlands.

Introduced predators as well as competitors increase.

Overgrazing increases and damages natural plants and soils and this badly contributes to hydrological changes as well as changes in fire regime detrimental to biodiversity.

Nutrient enrichment severely pollutes natural wetlands especially rivers, mangrove forests and coral reefs.

The environmental awareness and rule of law remain very weak; at the same time, the government and business are poorly concerned, and civil society remains powerless to enforce them.

The IBSAP (Indonesian Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans) remains ineffective.

In their effort to increase the agricultural productivity, the government and large businesses enormously promote intensive agriculture based on green revolution concept this leads to mass application of chemical fertilizers and pesticides as well as mass introduction of genetically modified crops, livestock and fishes. Effects

The capital outflows extremely exceed the capital inflows, making domestic economy even worse.

Economic crisis is protracted.

Bad environmental governance persists.

While the greatest majority of local people live on farming, farmlands are infertile due to natural factors and consequences (e.g. non-volcanic soils which are poor in nutrients, most good traditional systems have been unintentionally removed by adverse development policy, etc.)

Causes

STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK
VISION: We strive to contribute to a viable environment in which biodiversity is properly managed to meet the needs and aspirations of present and future generations. VALUES: We will dedicate our entire life to serve Papualah (the God of nature) in which all ata (human and non-human communities) and all patambanang (natural ecosystems) are an integral part of alah (the nature). We will fully take care of two main ecosystems created by Papualah namely tana (terrestrial ecosystems primarily natural forests) and boe (coastal ecosystems primarily mangrove forests) as the two ecosystems constitute our only pangintang Papualah (sacred place for worshiping the God of nature), ruma (home), anudinta (food and drink), tambar (medicines), sehe (best friends), lalang (main roads), and pamunang ala baka raha (source of benefits if you take care of them, but source of disasters if you harm them). We will maintain a mutual existence between all ata and all patambanang as our only way to worship Papualah. We will fully involve women, primarily the indigenous ones, in our policy-making and management processes. Due to persisting prejudices and stereotypes mostly in rural areas women badly suffer from gender inequality, disempowerment, and feminization of poverty. Women, for example, are ignored in biodiversity policy-making, whereas in fact they are the primary managers of biodiversity at domestic level. Obviously, women as mothers are the first to feel the effects of biodiversity degradation. So, it is very clear that unless women are fully involved, biodiversity conservation and any other development efforts would appear as gender terrorism! We will fully participate in achieving the objectives of international conventions relevant to biodiversity conservation such as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; the Ramsar Convention, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), etc.

OVERALL GOAL (2010-2020): Degradation rates of wild animals and plants (primarily those considered as globally endangered and/or endemic) and associated ecosystems around the most endangered bioregions of Indonesia decreased by at least 30% within 2006 through 2016. IMMEDIATE OBJECTIVES (2010-2015): Rates of illegal and unsustainable exploitation of wild animals and plants (primarily those considered as globally endangered and/or endemic) will decline significantly. Man-made degradation rates of wildlife habitats including protected areas will decline significantly. Indigenous Peoples and other local peoples adaptation and resilience to global warming will increase significantly PRIMARY PROGRAMS: 1. Fostering the rights of Indigenous Peoples as the natural guardians of biodiversity. 2. Facilitating local governments to prepare and implement Integrated Development and Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (IDBSAP). 3. Facilitating local governments, business, and civil society to develop and manage Community Based Sanctuaries (CBSs) to protect endangered biodiversity. 4. Facilitating Indigenous Peoples and other local communities living on endangered biodiversity to develop sustainable livelihoods. 5. Helping Indigenous Peoples and other local stakeholders to adapt to the adverse consequences of global warming. TARGET GROUPS: Our main beneficiaries are Indigenous Peoples and other local communities primarily those who are stuck in environmental poverty trap in which their poverty extremely leads to biodiversity degradation and vice versa.

We had facilitated over 1,500,000 Indigenous Peoples and other local stakeholders to well adapt to the adverse consequences of global warming primarily by planting over 11 million trees and by trying to live in less-carbon lifestyles; We had facilitated local communities of S.E. Sulawesi in developing 55 ha of jatropha plantations for bio-fuel in order to reduce poverty while mitigating energy crisis; We had cooperated with Rufford Small Grants for Nature Conservation (England) in helping over 200,000 members of indigenous forest peoples and other forest-dependent communities around S.E. Sulawesi in reducing their poverty while conserving natural forests, in building their capacity to prevent, control, and mitigate forest fires, and in increasing their capacity to establish participatory forest management between 2005 and 2010; We had cooperated with the Ministry of Forestry GOI in establishing forest management units in S.E. Sulawesi.

SUMMARY FINANCING STRATEGY

We secure the funding for our projects primarily by selling professional services and by publishing various books relating to biodiversity conservation and community development. We also sell other books, stationery, postcards, and handicrafts to ecotourists and the public. In addition, we obtained funding support from various agencies primarily: The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Rufford Small Grants for Nature Conservation, England; Koningschool through BothEnds, Holland; and Ministry of Forestry, Government of Indonesia. (The complete financing strategy is available upon request).

WORK TO DATE (December 2011)

We had increased the capacity of 36 Indigenous Peoples around Indonesia to fight for their right to own, develop, control and use their lands and territories, including the total environment of the lands, air, waters, coastal seas, flora and fauna and other resources which they have traditionally owned or otherwise occupied or used; We had facilitated 126 rural governments existing around endangered biodiversity in preparing and implementing Integrated Development and Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (IDBSAP); We had influenced local governments, business, and civil society existing around endangered biodiversity in developing and subsequently managing 66 CBSs; We had trained and facilitated over 3,600 local people of 242 villages in developing sustainable livelihoods, such as ecotourism, aquarium fish collection, beekeeping, etc.;

GOVERNANCE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Syarifah Fauziah (Chairwoman); Lelly Kurniasari (Treasurer); Abdul Malik (Secretary); Sulastri, Neni Hafid, Syahrul Anam COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD: Siradjuddin Azier (Biodiversity Conservation); La Ode Rauf (Indigenous Knowledge); Haris Sultan (Environmental Law); Muhammad Ghalib (Environmental Education); Has Hafia (Sustainable Livelihoods); Mariana Salman (Global Warming) STAFF: Alimaturahim (Executive Director); Susana Muslim (Program Manager); Winda Hakim (Finance Manager); Rini Tatontos (Fundraising Coordinator); Rosa Linda (Administration Officer).

MISSION: We are an Indigenous Peoples NGO working in Indonesia. We aim to integrate biodiversity conservation and poverty eradication. We do this by empowering civil society (primarily Indigenous Peoples and other local communities) to influence the business and government (primarily the policy makers) to conserve biodiversity while using it in sustainable ways and sharing its benefits equitably within the framework of the ecosystem approach.

For more information contact: LSM Lembaga Konservasi dan Pembangunan (NGO Conservation and Development Institute) Head Office: Jl. Utan Kayu Utara 63 Jakarta 13120, Indonesia Tel. ++62 21 34188836 Fax. ++62 21 34188837 E-mail: lsmlkp.indonesia@gmail.com Blog: www.lsmlkp.blogspot.com Skype: ali_lkp Contact person: Alimaturahim (Executive Director)