By Mardha Tillah

1. Just in time: Chances for a Holistic
Approach for Land and Water
Governance in Cisadane sub-
Watershed Area, Bogor District
Pretoria, June 2015
Mardha Tillah

2. Menu
• Introduction
• Cisadane Watershed
• Policies on watershed management
• RMI’s project on River and Biodiversity Conservation and the link to
Child’s Rights
• RMI’s involvement on the forum
• The MDM
• Scenarios
• Benefits of having the multistakeholder forum
• Benefits of conducting a holistic approach
• Before and After
• The latest situation
• Challenges to be further addressed
• Conclusion

3. HuMa, 2014

4. • RMI-the Indonesian Institute for Forest and
Environment
• Vision: Manifested people’s (women and
men) sovereignty over land and natural
resources
1. Introduction

5. Environmental
Education since
1992, including on
river’s health and
biodiversity since
2004
Peasants’ and
Indigenous
community’s
empowerment on
their rights over
land and natural
resources since
1998
Rural young
people’s
empowerment
through
environmental
education since
2009

6. 2. Cisadane Watershed

9. What’s on Upstream Area of Cisadane
Watershed?
Sand mining
Abandoned Land Bottled water
companies
Historical sites
Water-powered
Electricity
Generator
Domestic
needs
RMI (2010), Arifjaya (2012), Mukhlis (2015)

10. Forest
River
Land

11. 3. Policies on Watershed
Management
• Governmental Law on Watershed Forum (2012): Cisadane
Watershed Multistakeholders Forum
• Directorate General’s of Land Rehabilitation and Social
Forestry Law of Ministry of Forestry on Micro-scale
Watershed Management Model (2009): The MDM
– Consisted of 1-3 river orders, up to 5,000 hectares
– Complimented with the Multistakeholders Forum

12. Objectives of the MDM
1. To provide a media for holistic watershed development model in
micro level that involve various stakeholders in participatory
manner
2. To achieve a sustainable model of natural resources governance
based on local condition of various factors (i.e. biophysical,
social, economic, cultural)
3. To obtain data and information about watershed management that
are effective with tangible impacts on biophysical, social, economic
and institutional to be replicate in bigger scale
(Directorate General’s Land Rehabilitation and Social Forestry Law of
Ministry of Forestry on Micro-scale Watershed Management Model,
2009)

13. Supporting Policies
• On Social Forestry
• On Joint Regulation of 4 Ministries on
Conflict Resolution in Forest Area
• On Agrarian Reform—Land Redistribution
• On Collective land ownership certificate
• Etc
• Policies on Water Mgt?
Ministryof
Environment
andForestry
Ministry of Public
Works
Min. of Home
Affairs
Min.of
AgrarianIssues
andSpatial
Planning
Corruption
Eradication
Commission

14. 4. RMI’s Projects on River and biodiversity
conservation and the link to child’s rights
2009-2011
•Rural youth
empowerment on
biodiversity and river
conservation issues
•Rural youth is under-
researched (Valentine,
Skelton and Chambers
1998); Rural youth is
overlooked in the society
and in academic (Philo
1992)—Deskilled youth
(White, 2012, 2014, Katz,
2004)
2012-2015
•Our Rivers Our Life
(OROL) Campaign II
•Cisadane River
Expedition (Upstream
Area)
2014-2016
•Ecotourism-based
Kampung development
River is an
indicator of land
use—which
linked with land
ownership
status

15. 5. The Cisadane Hulu MDM
• 1,770 hectares: 1000 hectares inside the
claim of Gede Pangrango National Park
area
– Inhabited by about 1,000 people
– Immediate discussions on land ownership
status

16. The MDM Project’s Area

18. 6. RMI’s Involvement in the
Forum
2011
• Being the vice chief
of the MDM Forum
2014
• Being the facilitator
of the MDM Forum
• Leading the think
tanks of the forum

19. 7. Scenarios
Legend
X: Water Supply
Y: Land availability
for the community

20. 8. Benefits of having the
multistakeholders forum
• Each stakeholder acknowledges other
stakeholders’ needs and roles in the project
site
• Better coordination
• Marginalised people involved in the
decision-making processes.
• Obtaining more comprehensive data
– various perspectives
– “sensitive data”

21. 9. Benefits of Conducting a
Holistic Approach
(e.g. watershed management)
• More opportunities to design a holistic sub-
watershed management plan: e.g. land
rights issues, education issues
• More flexibilities in designing strategies to
attract stakeholders

22. 10. Before and…
• Data collecting carried out only by BPDAS
(and sometimes also involve academia)
- Reliability issues
- Absence of gender perspectives
- Absence of youth involvement
- Technocratic approach only; absence of the
humanist approach
- Elite captured

23. 9. …after

24. The Stakeholders
(Before and After)
Parties Current participation Identified
Governmental agencies 12 26
NGOs 1 3
Community groups 5 (3 peasants’ groups, 2
youth groups)
14
Private entities 2 9
Universities 2 5
Schools 0 5

25. Programmes (Before and After)
Current Situation Identified
Seedlings and sapling support, but
concentrated
Seedlings and sapling support
Cattle/sheep support, but concentrated Cattle/sheep support
None Education
None Waste Management
None Improvement of infrastructure (e.g. road)
None Community’s empowerment institution that
also targeted to the marginalised ones (e.g.
economic supports for women, establishing
women groups, schools, empowerment of
farmers’ groups about rights, technical
support on agriculture)

26. 10. The latest situation
Monitoring and Evaluation
Implementation – Monitoring plan
• Current position
Planning – Monitoring plan
• Current position
Revising the baseline data

27. 11. Challenges to be further
addressed
• The advancement of common vision
• Pseudo-representation of community
groups in the forum
• The liaison function to coordinate the
forum
• How do we implement the plans after this?

28. 12. Conclusion
• Personal relationship is a catalisator for
multistakeholders processes
• It should be prepared for a long-term
process by people who have long-term
vision
• It is more than agriculture, water and land

29. Thank you!