A Green Prosperity win in Indonesia

In December 2015, LEI finalised contract negotiations to the value of USD4.2m for the second project in a series of sub-activities under the MCA-I Participatory Land Use Planning Activity (PLUP). The PLUP is one of four activities making up the Green Prosperity Project (see http://gp.mca-indonesia.go.id/en/). The PLUP activity focuses on investments in administrative boundary setting, updating and integrating land use inventories and enhancing spatial plans at the district and provincial levels.

The second participatory mapping and planning project (PMaP2) covers three (of a potential four) implementation tasks in nine districts across three provinces in Indonesia.

The three tasks are:
Task 2: Acquisition of geo-spatial data and preparation of GIS databases of land use/land cover.
Task 3: Compilation and geo-referencing of existing and pending licenses and permits for land and natural resource use.
Task 4: Enhance district spatial plans through capacity building in spatial planning, enforcement and management of land use information in spatially-enabled databases.

Key areas of focus for this project are: Kerinci and Tanjung Jabung Timur Districts in Jambi Province; Lombok Utara, Lombok Tengah and Lombok Timur Districts in Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB) Province; and Sumba Timur, Sumba Tengah, Sumba Barat and Sumba Barat Daya Districts in Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) Province.

The LEI-managed PMaP2 team was mobilised in early January, and commenced with a kick-off meeting in Sumba. All nine districts have been visited by the core team. Data acquisition, information management system design and regulatory reviews are underway.

This project will run for 12 months.