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Abstrak
REDD is said to rely on a single valuation language, sustained on a ‘multiple-win’ discourse that in practice lacks procedural legitimacy, impacts the agency of FDCs
and reproduces existing inequities and forms of social exclusion. This paper applies Amartya Sens capability approach, as well as complimentary approaches from
the critical geography literature, to understand the agency of Forest Dependent Community FDC actors within a REDD project site in Indonesia. For Sen, agency
is important in evaluating what a person is free to do and achieve in pursuit of whatever goals or values he or she regards as important Sen, 1985.
The research uses ethnographic interviews and participant observations, social network analysis, and cultural domain analysis, including visual ethnography, to
consider the impacts of REDD project implementation beyond that related to income or consumption. This includes assessing the conlicts and power relations
within and between heterogeneous groups, participation in and modes of resistance to the REDD project, and FDC actors changing connectedness to and
perceptions of the forest landscape.
This approach aims to beneit hard to reach actors, uncovering potential axes of marginalisation between and within sub groups. Poorly represented actors
rarely form a homogenous mass, and their views are often more diicult to access without long term, in depth analysis. Such social structural diferences often
coincide with difering long term goals and uses of the forest. Understanding the needs and dreams of these FDC actors will have signiicant implications for policy
makers in terms of enabling contextually sensitive REDD monitoring and beneit sharing regimes.
23.1 Mr. Peter James Howson
Warga Negara : Inggris
Jabatan : Ph.D. Student
Institusi : Victoria University of Wellington
No. SIP : 146SIPFRPSMV2013
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24. The Water Monitor Lizard Varanus salvator in Banten, Indonesia: Behavior and Human Perspectives in Human-Developed Areas
Tujuan Penelitian : Menyediakan pengetahuan yang memadai terhadap sikap dan perspektif masyarakat tentang kadal air
yang habitatnya bersinggungan dengan pemukiman penduduk
Bidang Penelitian : Antropologi Lingkungan
Daerah Penelitian : Banten P. Tinjil, Muarabinuangeun, Cisiih; Kab Serang
Lama Penelitian : 12 dua belas bulan mulai 12 Agustus 2013
Mitra Kerja : Pusat Studi Satwa Primata - IPB Entang Iskandar
Abstrak
The water monitor lizard, Varanus salvator, is a large ~2 m in total length carnivorous lizard considered common throughout its range in SE Asia. V. salvator
has demonstrated a capacity to adapt to human-disturbed areas, and may come in to conlict with humans if overly habituated to the presence of humans in
areas where common resources such as food and water are present. Increased knowledge and understanding of human perspectives and V. salvator behavior
in areas where human and V. salvator activities overlap can aid in assessing the potential for future conlict. Through the use of interviews and surveys this study
aims to provide greater knowledge about attitudes and perspectives on Varanus salvator in Banten Province, Indonesia, where V. salvator activity spaces overlap
with areas of human activity. Observations of V. salvator will also contribute to the understanding of the behavior, distribution, and resource use of this species in
human-disturbed areas.
24.1 Ms. Linda Therese Uyeda
Warga Negara : Amerika Serikat
Jabatan : Ph.D. Student
Institusi : University of Washington School of Environmental and
Forest No. SIP
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25. Societal relations of Nature in Indonesia. Ecological crises in the context of implementation of technical-economic reason, alternative
modernity and indigenous concepts of nature
Tujuan Penelitian : Mengkaji konsep nature dari persepsi penduduk pribumi
Native People Bidang Penelitian
: Antropologi Lingkungan Daerah Penelitian : Kalbar Sajen, and Batang Tarang, Kabuaten Sanggau;
Tanjung, Kabupaten Ketapang; Sahan, Dusun Melayang Panjak near Saggauledo, Kabupaten Bengkayang; Kapuas
Hulu
Lama Penelitian : 5 lima bulan mulai 11 November 2013
Mitra Kerja : Universitas Tanjungpura Ir. Abu Bakar, M.T., Ph.D.
Abstrak
The research was carried out in cooperation with Instiut Dayakologi and TanjungpuraUniversity, both located in Pontianak. Particularly the Institut
Dayakologi itself became an object of my research, because I was able to interview the activists and took part in a ield trip of the Institut.
I was able to records about 15 interviews with local people in the villages as well with Dayak activists. In these interviews I jut asked about the people’s perception
of environment and about the meaning of “nature” for the local culture. The Interviews are not all yet transcribed and are not yet evaluated. These will be done
later on in Germany. Therefore, I am just able to write about my activities and some preliminary results.
During my stay in Kalimantan Barat, I have been able to visit some villages in Bengkayang and in Sanggau, as I stated in my proposal. Unfortunately, it was
not possible to go to Kapuas Hulu and Ketapang, because there was no visit to the projects of Institut Dayakologi during my stay to those places. I also had the
possibility to interview some stuf and the head of Institut Dayakologi, and some organizations who are concerned about environmental issues and Dayak Culture,
that are WALHI, WWF and AMAN.
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In the villages, I interviewed mostly adat-experts about their perception of environment. I observed farmers and talked top them a lot, also about their
perception of nature and environment, but mostly I did not record the interviews. Important information are noted down. I visited villages in Bengkayang regency
three times during my stay and I went once to Sanggau regency with the stuf of Institut Dayakologi. During my stay in Sanggau regency, I was able to observe the
preparation of the project if the institute. Often we could discuss topic concerted about environment. In Sanggau, the situation is quite diferent to those in
Bengkayang: Many villages are dependent on palm oil and surrounded by palm oil plantations. I could discuss the efects of this environmental transformation
with the local people and the stuf of Institut Dayakologi.
In Bengkayang regency, I could learn about traditional ways of farming and about the meaning of Dayak culture and environment. Both locals and activists often
stress the connection between “nature” and “Dayak culture”. On mayor aim will be to analyze how the construction of Dayak culture and its revitalization depends
on speciic concepts about “nature”, because these term, as I assumed before the research, seems to play an important role for the perception of the own culture.
In areas with many palm oil plantations, of instance, it was often empathized that it is important to save the environment, in particular the forest, as a base and
important site for Dayak culture.
In Sanggau regency as well as in Bengkayang regency, it was possible for me to visit community forests and to participate in rituals which are linked to nature.
These gave me insight about the perception of the local people about nature; about the meaning of trees, animals and non-visible entities for them. With this
information, I also will be able to analyze the diferences between local perceptions of natures and those western ones which also provide the base for the ecological
transformation of West Kalimantan.
25.1 Mr.Timo Markus Duile
