Planet Indonesia
Scaling up community-led ecosystem-based adaptation
The Trafigura Foundation is supporting the conservation of at-risk ecosystems in West Kalimantan by assisting local communities to make their livelihoods more diverse, sustainable and resilient.
The challenge
Millions of people in Indonesia rely on the country’s biodiversity-rich ecosystems for their subsistence and livelihoods. But many of these land- and seascapes, and the people who live there, are threatened by environmental degradation driven by social and economic inequalities.
With limited access to basic services, rural communities often rely on overexploited natural resources, whose conservation becomes almost impossible in the face of poverty and marginalisation, trapping people in a cycle that reduces their resilience and capacity to adapt to the impacts of climate change and economic shocks.
The solution
In West Kalimantan Province, Planet Indonesia implements ecosystem-based adaptation solutions that protect nearly a million hectares of rainforest and coastal and marine ecosystems, benefitting about 17,000 families.
Its model aims to create a virtuous circle, whereby healthy ecosystems provide a steady stream of services to communities, and thriving communities have the capacity and incentive to conserve and further restore these ecosystems.
The model builds on four pillars:
- Securing land tenure and co-management rights for communities
- Supporting adaptive natural resource management that sustains ecosystem services for local livelihoods
- Promoting good governance by building the capacity of village-level institutions
- Supporting community resilience by improving access to financial, health and other services
Partnership impact
Through its partnership (2024-2027) with the Trafigura Foundation, Planet Indonesia will deepen its impacts in existing partner villages, expand to new sites in West Kalimantan, and work with local partner organisations to replicate its approach in other parts of Indonesia.
Planet Indonesia will increase the resilience of indigenous farming and fishing families by, for instance, leveraging social forestry schemes to secure tenure rights, developing natural resource management plans, providing training in sustainable fisheries and climate-smart agriculture, supporting access to finance via community-saving and loan groups, and providing support to partner organisations. This work is conducted in collaboration with local conservation authorities.
Specific targets include:
- Enabling 60 village-led governance institutions to manage 391,000 hectares of biodiversity-rich ecosystems
- Improving the climate resilience of 34,800 people
- Reducing deforestation rates by 30 percent and increasing yields for farmers and fishers by 15 percent
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