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Office : Jl. Dr. Wahidin, Gg. Batas Pandang Komp Kelapa Hijau No 18 Pontianak, Phone / fax (0561) 586891 Kalimantan Barat

Website : www.gemawan.org email: [email protected]

“SEIZE THE RIGHTS, STRENGTHEN

THE ACCESS AND CONTROL, AND THE

ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY”

THE ANNUAL REPORT OF

LEMBAGA GEMAWAN

2010

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXTS ............................................................................................................................................................ 5

A. STRENGTHEN THE ACCESS AND CONTROL OF WOMEN IN THE POLITICAL ECONOMIC

EMPOWERMENT ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 4

B. VIABILITY OF WOMEN AND SOCIETY, AND THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE NATURAL RESOURCES

MANAGEMENT THROUGH THE VILLAGE FOREST. ......................................................................................................................... 6

C. SEIZE THE MANAGEMENT RIGHTS OF SOCIETY UPON THE NATURAL RESORCES. .................................................. 8

D. GOOD GOVERNANCE AND ANTI CORRUPTION ......................................................................................................................... 12

E. SPECIAL PROGRAM : ESTABLISH THE NETWORK AND INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN .......................................... 14

F. THE ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT SYSTEM: INTERNAL CAPACITY BUILDING AND WEBSITE .......................... 15

G.FINANCIAL STATEMENT ....................................................................................................................................................................... 16

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INTRODUCTION

THE ANNUAL REPORT OF LEMBAGA GEMAWAN

“Seize the Right, Strengthen the Access and Participation, and

Ensure the Sustainability of Natural Resources Management”

The role of an organization in the social and humanitarian missions is highly

determined on the effectiveness of the vision achievement strategy, and the extent of public

legitimacy level which feels the impact. Therefore, the reflection on the works which have

been carried out, as well as the tools modification and the approaches become the necessity to

maintain the existence of the organization in order to be always ‘up to date’ along with the

dynamics of shift in space, time, issues, and needs.

2010 was a first year of Lembaga Gemawan in conducting the recommendation of

Strategic Planning which have formulated the strategic issues as the standard guide to plan

the program and activity. As an organization which is driven by the activist passion who has

big dreams to build changes, many issues need to be handled as the consequence on the

people issues. However, Lembaga Gemawan naturally has limitations that are incapable to

reach all issues faced by people. Therefor, the program and activity which were held in 2010

based on the philosophy: ‘the small work with the large impact, or act in local but impact on

global’.

Besides the programmatic works which attach to the work area division of Lembaga

Gemawan, such as the organizing of community base, the women and economic

empowerment, the local governance reform. Throughout 2010, Lembaga Gemawan also

encouraged some breakthrough programs, including the Village Forest in North Kayong

regency, Integrity Pacts in Pontianak City, and strengthen the networks for international

campaign in the advocacy framework. The mediation experience of land disputes settlement

between the oil palm company and the local society of Sambas Regency, for example now

becomes the reference for the indigenous and local society in Indonesia and even South East

Asia, when dealing with the oil palm plantation which is the fund borrower of IFC-World

Bank and a member of RSPO. Starting from the international advocacy works, Lembaga

Gemawan was once invited to convey the testimony related to the investment of IFC-World

Bank in the Global Consultation Framework Strategy on Palm Oil Sector in Frankfurt

German.

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As an organization which always keeps learning and improving in order to fix the

strategy, consolidate the strength, read the opportunity and the changes momentum, Lembaga

Gemawan is certainly not spared from the shortcomings and limitations. Therefore, Lembaga

Gemawan is willing to accept any criticism, suggestion, and input for the improvement to

optimalize the thrust of changes ahead. Amen.

Pontianak, 23 June 2010

The Executive Board

Lembaga Gemawan

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INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXTS

On the one hand, the annual report of Lembaga Gemawan in 2010 is a beginning journey of

the organization after conducting the Strategic Planning in March – April 2010. But on the

other hand, it formally concluded the previous Five Years Strategic Planning of the

organization. Evaluate the long journey of organization which has been worked for eleven

years. Like the journey of human being, it could be categorized into children age, but it is

different with the measurement of organization. According to the measurement of the

organization’s journey, eleven years is the growth age with young blood and the process

toward the full-grown development. In this process, the new creativity, previous years’

experiences and future prediction become references to formulate the organization’s future

strategy. Based on the organizational mandate which is carried, that is to create a strong

coastal community who is politically sovereign, economically independence, culturally

dignified, and gender justice, so that the Strategic Planning (SP) of Lembaga Gemawan in

2010 provides new direction in implementing the programs and achieving the mission goals

in the next five years, 2010 - 2015. The Strategic Planning in the next five years focuses on

the development of the Training Centre, strengthen the advocacy and assistance, it pays

attention to the special program, raise and maintain the network, and it always improves the

management for being an accountable and reliable support system.

In 2010, the partiality of Lembaga Gemawan on Women’s issues is an integral and sinergic

perspective compare to other issues. Womes are vulnerable group toward injustice, poverty,

and violence. The marginalzation that we obviously face is the economic marginalization of

women with the lack of woman’s access and control to the economic resources such as land,

credit, and market. Whereas in the daily life, we see most women work in the garden, field,

and market where they are the sellers of micro business in the informal sector. Women are

less prioritized to be given the additional knowledge to enhance their economic life, and lack

of support from the local authorities to the women’s economic development. So that, the

efforts of women group in both political and economic they conduct is seemed difficult to

develop. The women still just become political commodity for the Local Authority and far

from the expectation to be an independent and sovereign political community.

Nowadays, the global attention focuses on the issue of climate change impacts which have

shown its signal. Climate can not be predicted, the impacts on the life of human being and

earth cause apprehension to many parties. Therefore, many parties need to rethink about the

way of human manage and arrange the world with its available natural resources. The

expectation is several parties are able to use the limited resources with due regard to the

capability of social, economic, and enviromental carrying capacity.

In 2010, the dynamics have been occured amid the society in maintaining and managing the

natural resources which is currently managed, either directly as private property or communal

area which is maintained jointly by the local community. The dynamics are public’s

response toward the perspective of country in managing the available natural resources. The

country that is represented by the Government Officials seems lost the footing on how to

prioritize the natural resources management principle which is clean and proper for the

nation. The issuance of industrial permits in the large scale for the third parties is occured

blindly to exploit the available natural resources without regard to the principles of social,

economic, enviromental and proper management for the viability of Indonesian people in the

future.

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The poor governance with its full corruption, collution and manipulation practices are not

only occured in the natural resources management, but it is also happened in the public

service management. It can be seen from the use of the state budget which is not maximum

for the public interest. We still view the budget leaks that occured mainly in the procurement

of goods and services, the programs are not well targeted, the management of construction

project is not transparent so that people rights to attain the best should succumb to the “illegal

quota” of political elites, bureaucracy, and entrepreneurs. Viewing the condition, then the anti

corruption programs and good governance will be a priority of Lembaga Gemawan in its

organizational history.

All effort will be achieved if all people’s power could be well organized. Thus, the

democracy that begins and ends with people sovereignty can be implemented, not like today

where the democracy is merely presented the procedural democracy, and not the substantial

democracy as it is expected.

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STRENGTHEN THE WOMEN ACCESS IN THE ECONOMIC – POLITICAL

EMPOWERMENT

- Organizing and Capacity Building

The strengthening of

women access as a

perspective in all program

implementation and

strategies is strengthened by

the activity implementation

which reaches the women

group and the members

directly. The series of

activities are commenced

by the regular meeting

which is held once a month

in the villages and wards in

Sambas and Singkawang as

a part of women organizing

in the basic level. In

addition, the improvement

activity of women capacity

through the technical and strategic training also must be conducted along 2010, that is the

entrepreneurship and management training,marketing strategy, and the improvement of

product quality for the assistance group and the series of exhibitions attended by the women

group which directly contributed to the group and members. The process of consciousness

transformation is also being performed by the cadres of group, it is proven by the work which

brings good news to the empowerment process, the members by itself have established two

new groups, that is a group in Singkawang, especially in Semelagi Hilir Kecil which

established by the group of Semelagi Kecil, and a group in Sambas, in which a women group

in Sebayan established by the women group Asoka from Tanjung Mekar Village.

The further effort to strengthen the organization of Serikat Perempuan Pantai Utara

(Serumpun) is by conducting the Meeting of Serumpun to reflect a year of Serumpun and the

program evaluation. The consolidation is expected to be able to develop and strengthen the

organizing of Serumpun, to build communication and cooperation between the management

of Serumpun and Women Group in order to achieve vision and mission of Serumpun, and to

improve the strategy in order to strengthen Serumpun, which is expected to be able to fight

for the women’s interest, or at least to bring peace, justice and gender equality for the

member of Serumpun which aggregates approximately 1000 people .

Participative advocacy

Throughout 2010, the Women Group along with the members through the advocacy was

success in encouraging 40 cadres of groups who are able to be the activator in their villages

in the matters of the women’s interests advocacy and to occupy the strategic position of their

village institution. The synergy between the leadership and economic activity also becomes a

tremendous opportunity to increase their revenue, through the indication of an increase in

revenue approximately 10 % from the business of women group assisted by Lembaga

Gemawan, as the form of their advocacy toward the increase of members’ revenue. Besides,

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every groups also have at least one

health cadre who related to the

improvement of women groups’

access on the health access.

Exclusively for the women group

which is able to advocate itself in

accessing the funding and aids to

the Government. In advocating,

they are able to cooperate with

other parties, for example with the

manager group of agricultural

products. The group in

Singkawang is able to advocate

itself to achieve their rights related

to their business improvement in

order to obtain the product support

tools, and one other group has been succeed achieving the certificate of Food and Drug

Administration and another group has achieved training about the household industry from

the Health Agency of Singkawang City.

Establish Networking and Market Access

As a member of the Association for Support for Female Entrepreneur (ASPPUK), Lembaga

Gemawan along with the other members of ASPPUK conduct the network expansion to assist

the Network of Women Entrepreneurs (Jarpuk) in the area of Sambas, Kalimantan by

involving the representative of the assistance group which has business to join the

consolidation activity and the Annual Meeting of Jarpuk which is expected to be able to pry

and establish the joint

commitment for the PUK

community in establishing

the women movement

through the economic

activity. The effort to fix

the women group business

is also performed by

having cooperation with

Packaging Port Pontianak

for the training. Business

Development Service

(BDS) through Jarpuk is

supported by and

synergized with the other

programs of women

empowerment which

cooperated with Cordaid and Tsadik Foundation. The activity is a business assistance activity

and the development support of women business product. The future expectation is the

companion is able to be the professional consultant for whom she assists. The women are

able to be businesswomen on account of the consultant’s services.

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Several activities significantly are succeeded in encouraging the increase of product variation

which produce five new food product and one new for the weaving business. Furthermore,

the incease also occurs on the number of new members who begin new business, there are 10

people who do it. It continuously impacts on “Women Shop” in Sambas which has regularly

sold the product of women group and given savings to the Gemawan’s works and Serumpun

which is saved in the account of Ponjen the special CUSI. It is interesting about how the

increase of promotion and socilitation campaign about the existance of Women Entrepreneurs

is conducted by other parties, one of them is Ruai TV. It significantly impacts on the product

promotion conducted by the organization’s networks. Several exhibitions which are attended

to promote the products of the assistance group in Sambas for ten times independently by

women group with the networks they have and two times in Pontianak cooperated with Ruai

TV, and the products of the assistance group were also brought to join exhibitions in the other

cities, including through The 12th

Jakarta International Handicraft Trade Fair 2010 (Inacraft).

Accumulate Joint Capital through Credit Union Sari Intugin and Credit Union Gemawan

The future goals for the women empowerment and community economy can not be separated

from the development and reinforcement of the women economic infrastructure in the basic

level, village, and community through the empowerment of Credit Union Sari Intugin (CUSI)

in Sambas dan Singkawang. Credit Union Sari Intugin in the end of 2010 has assets Rp

6.787.554.307 with 1.873 members. In 2010, in order to facilitate the members with services

and for the development, CUSI

opens Service Area in Sata

Village. Meanwhile, CU

Gemawan which its head office

located in Pontianak City has

assets Rp 3.684.268.651 with

876 members. CU Gemawan is

discharge from CU Muare

Pesisir which is now no longer

under the advisory of Lembaga

Gemawan. The loyalty to the

basic ideals, standard

mechanism, the management

integrity and the creativity in

the development of CU as the

financial cooperation activity

and synergized with all

programs of Lembaga

Gemawan, that is women program, Village Forest, and the people’s organization based

comodity which is being established are its own strength for the empowerment developmenet

conducted by Lembaga Gemawan.

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THE VIABILITY OF WOMEN AND SOCIETY, AND THE

SUSTAINABILITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES

MANAGEMENT THROUGH THE VILLAGE FOREST

The effort to Rescue the threatened area.

The Village Forest Program which is initiated by Lembaga Gemawan along with the society

in 5 villages in the Maya Karimata Island which entirely supported by the Local Government

of Kayong Utara is a part of effort to rescue the people indigenous area which is being

threatened. Kayong Utara Regency is a new regency, creation of new Ketapang district since

2007. Observing the

tendency of the expansion

of forest and land which is

conducted in Ketapangn

District, therefore the effort

to give mutual

understanding about the

importance of area rescue

to the society and the local

government is an urgent

thing that should be done.

The selection of proposed

people’s forest system

which is taken has been

passed the long analysis

process looking at the

situation of economic,

politic, the law opportunities and the impacts on the management rights of societys. If it is

related to the prespective of women viability to achieve the opportunities in managing the

natural resources of forest which is integral part of the alignment perspective toward the

women, the village forest program becomes the choice.

Through the activities of advocacy, both lobbying, hearing, intensive communication and

meetings either formal or informal with the parties who involved in the proposal. The Village

Forest program is commenced in 2009 and it has been entered the last stage of the first year

program and the beginning stage of the second year program which has supported by the

General Directorate of RLPS, the ministry of Forestry by accepting the proposal of area

52.000 hectares of village forest proposal from the Regent of Kayong Utara 2010 to be

presente in the Ministry of Forestry in November 2010. The support is also implemented

through the meetings which is conducted officially or via electronic mail by providing

feedback about how a village area which still has forest area can be created into the area of

Village Forest. The Local Government of Kayong Utara supports the effort to discuss the

area that can be created into the area of Village Forest. The Village Forest that will be applied

in the villages located in Maya Island, Kayong Utara District is going to provide big

opportunity for women in the villages to utilize the forest products.

The participative mapping is conducted for the area which becomes the submission of Village

Forest area. The method of participative mapping in the Village Forest planning is aimed to

involve the society directly in doing the availble potential mapping in their village because it

is appropriate for them to do it since they have and manage the area. Besides the data that has

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been obtained by the society, the secondary data supports for the mapping is also obtained

from the goverment which related to the data of area that can be created into the Village

Forest.

In order to complement the activity that has been enhanced by the team work in a complete

document of proposed Village Forest, to be forwarded for the Administrative Filing, lobbying

the stakeholder, negotiation,

proposal presentation, media

campaign, and informal meetings to

facilitate the submission of proposal

to accelerate the process of Village

Forest. Entering the second year of

program which is conducted, the

significant achievement is the

certainty to conduct the proposal

verification by the team established

by the Minister of Forestry.

The learning process to encourage

the verification process is also

conducted by following the

verification process of the Village

Forest in Merangin District, Jambi.

The activity is succeeded in supporting the learning process which conducted by the

verification team that performed the meetings with the related parties especially with the

Forestry Agency.

The meeting was also conducted in the Local Government, in the Forestry Agency of

Merangin District to discuss about the region map which is proposed, and to divide the team

work for the villages that will be verified. The meetings were also conducted in the sub

district with the Urban Village Head whose area is proposed to create the Village Forest.

After that, the taking of coordinates in the field which becomes the area of Village Forest.

Only some coordinates were taken, the coordinates which taken in the process whether in

accordance with the status of forest area based on the Law of Protection Forest and

Production Forest.

A balanced information in the society becomes very important to maintain the natural

resources in their residential areas. The map of 5 villages supported by the social economic

information from the society becomes current data in Maya Island. Through the initiation

from the society and the Village Government, and facilitated by Lembaga Gemawan, the

initiation waits for the Ministry of Forestry decree. But the process must through a long

struggle particularly the affinity of national’s interest about the existance of forest in

Indonesia including in Maya Karimata island

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SEIZE THE MANAGEMENT RIGHTS OF SOCIETY UPON

THE NATURAL RESOURCES The Advocacy of District Lay Out

The position of strategic advocacy about the management rights of society eventually will

discuss about the lay out. The advocacy of lay out should be synergized between the dstrict,

province, region and national level. Because the details of duty that must be done make the

advocacy of lay out can not

optimal, plus lack

participation of multi-

stakeholder which

conducted by the Country.

In this case, Lembaga

Gemawan only works in the

district level by actively

involving in supervising the

Local Government of

Kayong Utara to subsume

the proposal of Village

forest in RTRK that they

made. And along with the

society in Sejangkung sub district and Sajingan Besar conduct the participative mapping and

the planning of area which is proposed to the City's Development Planning Board of Sambas

District. But for the Provincial level, Lembaga Gemawan tries to involve in the discussion

occured in the provincial level on the forum of the advocacy of lay out in national and island

in January 2010 which implemented with Jaringan Kerja Pemetaan Partisipatif (JKPP) and

National Family Planning Board,

Department of Public Works which

followed by the networks NGOs of

Kalimantan, Sumatera, Java island, and

the representative of Papua to conduct the

discussion about data and the potency of

area. The activities include the meeting of

NGOs’ networks which have role in

observing the process of lay out

arrangement, cooperating with several

NGOs that concerned on the lay out

changes in the West Kalimantan

Province, such as Walhi Kalbar, Titian,

Sawit Watch, Diantama, WWF Kalbar,

AMAN Kalbar, and several other NGOs.

The activity changes indicate that the social development occurs in the dynamic society, thus

the field strategy which was applied also develops in accordance with the dynamicization of

the social condition on the society. The capacity improvement of society impacts on the

needs of different strategies in accordance with the indentification of the related stakeholder,

therefore the capacity improvement of staff becomes things that should be done continuosly,

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so it can immediately adjust to the social condition and the needs of strategic change which

will be done quickly and accurately.

The strengthening of area which has threatened by the expansion of large scale

plantations

The oil palm plantation is a mainstay sector in West Kalimantan if it is viewed from the

development of licensing given by the Local Government to the plantation company,

especially after the price increase of the Crude Oil palm (CPO) in the world market in 2005.

Until 2010, there were more than 4,9 million hectares of land are given to 326 oil palm

plantation companies. Compared to the extensive land tenure by the oil palm plantation in

2004, it can be concluded that the expansion level of the oil palm plantation in West

Kalimantan reached 400,000 hectares per year.

With a monoculture system of the oil palm plantation, “justifies” clear cut and potentially

dominate the land more than 160 years, it is no wonder that since the beginning of 2005,

great concern occured in the civil society group for the negative impact of the the oil palm

plantation expansion toward the sustainability of forest and local society in West

Kalimantan. The concerns were later proven by the emergence of 120 new conflicts between

the local society and the oil palm plantation in 8 districts in West Kalimantan. While the

international organization WWF-Sarvision recorded “anomaly” deforestation in West

Kalimantan as much as 916,492 hectares for the period of 2004-2008 which the the oil palm

plantation as the main contributor.

Some researchs of NGOs, such as Greenpeace in the case of Golden Agro Resource/Sinar

Mas in Ketapang and Kapuas Hulu, and the research of VMD, Lembaga Gemawan and KRB

on Wilmar International in smbas and VMD-Walhi Kalbar on IOI in Ketapang reaffirm that

the disloyalty of the oil palm plantation toward the legislation rules as if the iceberg peak of

the illegal activities conducted by the company with the approval of Local Government and

indifference of Central Government.

The disloyalty is commenced from the illegal logging as the process of land clearing, illegal

occupation of forest area, activities without the approval of EIA, to the theft of local society

land.

The impacts of the oil palm plantation development on the local society are:

1. The development pattern of the oil palm plantation has destructed the economic

resources of the society.

2. Led to the dependency and control of the society by the businessman, which

obviously also caused the destruction of the life and socio-cultural regulation of local

communities.

3. The process of land disposal often emerged prolonged conflict, either vertical or

horizontal conflict.

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Legal Assistance

As a result of the expansion of oil palm plantation which violates the rules, it does not respect

the rights of society and

enviroment. Lembaga Gemawan

has got many complaints from

the society in several districts

ranging from Sintang, Sambas,

Bengkayang and Singkawang.

The case that surfaced in 2010

was the case of PT. PATIWARE

I which the advocacy was

implemented with the society of

Semayong village and

surrounding based on the demand

of society upon the investment in

the location of plantation land

and society agriculture. The

society has attempted to conduct the defense of their land, by several times coming to the

Sambas Regent Office to file their claims. Because of the public pressure in Mei 2010, the

Regent has issued a decree number 582/016/BPMPPT-4/210 to PT. Patiware I for the

temporary termination of the company activities. But the company disregarded the decree and

kept open the society land. The

chaos caused the occurence of

protests of Semayong’s people

which led to the litigation which

was experienced by 2 people, that

is Sarimi and Ramadi. In the

litigation, Gemawan provided the

lawyer to defend the society.

In 2010, the legal education related

to the people’right in the land right

issue also became activity that was

conducted from a village to other

village. All the time, people do not

know their rights, so when the land

conflict occured, the society was

faced the choice between

surrender or fight back with violence. With the legal knowledge they have, then there are

some alternative ways which recognized by law that they can use.

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Moreover, together with the

society keep on organizing to

achieve the land rights by

continuing to assist the society

in preparing the MOU draft

between the society of

Sajingan Kecil Village through

the Coorperate Cempaka Biru

with PT ANI (Wilmar Group),

in which the process of conflict

resolution has been conducted since 2008 facilitated by Compliance, Advisor, and

Ombudsman – International Finance Corporation (CAO-IFC). The new case which jointly

handled by the organization of society and students is the land conflict resolution between the

society of Mekar Jaya village and PT. Agrowiratama (Musimas Group). The society refused

the presence of oil palm plantation

in their area because they believe

that rubber plantation, fruit, and

forest plants are enough to support

them, and they also believe that

with the management they have,

the natural resources will remain

sustainable.

Organizing to seize people’s right

Lembaga Gemawan worked in the

grassroot and cooperated with the

grassroot organization through

people’s organization. Throughout

2010, viewing the struggle of people’s organization and at once viewing the complexity in

establishing people’s organization through the challenges and success, then it begins to

establish the farm group and the preparatory committee of farmer organization. The advocacy

is also actively involved the infraction related to the environmental aspects.

The advocacy works and assistance to the society which was conducted become people’s

need currently especially in the work site in Sambas, Kayong Utara District, Kubu Raya

District, Ketapang, Singkawang city, and Pontianak city. The current issue is the plantation

license always on behalf of the investment for the development, which turns out to be

boomerang for the society because the society whose have the land become worker in his

own land.

The awareness of struggle is inseparable from the effort that has done in the capacity

improvements in the village level, because village is the main subject in conducting changes,

all natural resources in the villages are available and located in the area of village. The

changes that was occured in the natural resources management in the village area affect to the

economic and political aspects in the village government.

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Organizing is very important to strengthen the society in extending the understanding to the

society about the duty

and rights. Through the

organization with Serikat

Tani Serumpun Damai

(STSD) in conducting the

advocacy, STSD was

really intense in

supporting the society

whose land taken by the

company, for example PT

PATIWARE I took

people’s land in

Semayong Village, Teluk

Keramat sub district for

the reason of the

development investment,

but people’s land that

have farm on it such as

rubber and rice was exposed by the company heavy equipment, then the society get angry and

consistently maintain their land that was taken by the company, the society have also reported

the incident to the Local Government and the police sector, but they did not get any response

from both, so that the society did protests in the Regent office to ask the Regent to revoke the

license of PT. PATIWARE I.

Several activities that were conducted, such as education, FGD, Seminar, Workshop,

Training, and Political actions in a certain sense have given changes to the ways of society

views especially in seeing the problems and solving the problem they face. The society are

able to do lobbying and hearing toward the policies that they considered inappropriate or

detrimental for them, they also begin to understand the impact of the environmental damage,

the disadvantage of make demands with violence, the need to build a broad network and

actively involve the women in every activities, either in small group (Farm group) or

activities conducted by the organization, such as Tani Serumpun Damai (STSD)

Campaign seeking for the Public Support

The campaign was conducted by some media, in accordance with the strategic choice for the

current activity. Mass media becomes one of alternatives that is always being used for the

inexpensive campaign which affects to the stakeholder. The media campaign is aimed to

conduct issues deployment, indirect pressure on the current issues, and propaganda to public

related to the activities which are conducted. Besides mass media, campaign was also

conducted by mass action due to the pressure effort to the Local Government to give greater

concerns. Mass action was conducted on 20 May 2010, it was a joint action with some

elements of students, along with NGO who was also involved giving significant impact on

the sustainability of advcacy and assistance of the cases.

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The network meetings is implemented based on the strategic development in the networking,

some activities which conducted in the network meetings in accordance with the current

issues, such as the advocacy of lay out, the case of society criminalization, and other

meetings. The network meetings either implemented directly by Lembaga Gemawan or the

local or national partner. The network meetings are implemented to strengthen the network

action in accordance with the current issue and the joint planning in the activities that are

conducted.

The control of the strategic policies in the enviromental license which were issued in the

great scale investment either plantation, mine, HTI, and other investments is conducted by the

entrance of Lembaga Gemawan in the EIA commision of West Kalimantan Province that was

implemented in the Agency of Environment in West Kalimantan Province. All the time, the

discussion of EIA only in some districts, because the districts have their own commision of

EIA in the district level, all the time the discussion is about the district of Ketapang, Sintang,

Landak, and some other districts which become the EIA commision authory in the provincial

level. The investment which was discussed including the oil palm plantation and industry,

mine, other great scale investments which will come to the certain area.

GOOD GOVERNANCE AND ANTI CORRUPTION

Integrity Pacts

As has been described

previously that Lembaga

Gemawan concerns on the

good governance and anti

corruption since it was

established. Since October

2010, Lembaga Gemawan

implements the program of

integrity fact, that is the

assistance of Integrity

Pacts implementation in

the Pontianak City

Government. The program

is implemented as the

effort to suppress the

occurance of corruption

cases in terms of

Procurement of Goods and

Services.

The program of Integrity Pacts (Good Governance and Anti Corruption) is a cooperation

program between Transparency International Indoesia ( TI-I) with Lembaga Gemawan

Pontianak. In the process, Lembaga Gemawan takes 3 other NGOs to join in a team, they are

LPS-AIR, UP-LINK dan JARI Borneo Barat.

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The activity that has been undertaken during October until December 2010 was the workshop

to prepare the work plan for the implementation of the Integrity Pacts. The workshop was

held on 3 and 4 November 2010 in Hotel Santika Pontianak. The participant was consisted of

the official of Pontianak City Government, the representatives of entrepreneur, the society

and NGOs. Other activity which has been conducted to support the publication of Integrity

Pacts program was roadshow to the local media for the socialization of Integrity Pacts

program implementation. There were six local media that have been visited, such as The

Daily Pontianak Post, The Daily Equator Pontianak, Borneo Tribun Pontianak, Tribun

Pontianak, RRI Pontianak and Mujahidin FM Pontianak. The topic or the matters that were

discussed in the invitation to the Local Media were the brief introduction about the assistance

program of the Integrity Pacts in Pontianak City Government, in order to establish joint

commitment with the media to campaign the program to the society through media reporting.

The activity with the media was followed up by the journalism workshop for the Corruption

Issue Investigation which held on 28-29 December 2010 in Hotel Santika Pontianak. About

the refreshment of journalism work, the reflection of participants experience in covering the

corruption issue, the deepening of insight and investigation techique of corruption case, and

the protection and safety in covering the corruption case.

The identification of a number of problem that was faced in the effort to prevent the

occurance of corrupt practice in the procurement of goods and services in the Pontianak City

Government. The parties who are involved in the workshop activity and media roadshow

realize about the importance of Integrity Pacts implementation as a prevention instrument of

corrupt practice in the procurement of Goods and Services. The publication of activity /

program of Integrity Pacts assistance in the Pontianak City Government by the daily

Pontianak Post and the daily Equator Pontianak. The future expectation is the increasing of

desire and / or commitment of Pontianak City Government and entrepreneurs to perform

Integrity Pacts in Pontianak City Government particularly in the Procurement of Public

Goods and Services. The increasing of local media effort to campaign the implementation of

Integrity Pacts to the society through its on media. The establishment of Independent

Monitoring Agency which is expected to be able to monitor the implementation of Integrity

Pacts. The implementation of e-procurement which was held by LPSE the Pontianak City

Government in accordance with the applicable regulation particularly The Decree number 54

Year 2010.

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Strategic Communication with the Policy Maker in KKU. Lembaga Gemawan is always trying to be the strategic partner of the Local Government of

Kayong Utara for the strategic policy issues that they conduct. It is because the Local

Government of Kayong Utara from the beginning has declared to establish good governance

and to use the district budget allocation for the fulfillment of people’s right particularly basic

right. Besides the cooperation for the Village Forest program, other partnerships between

Lembaga Gemawan and the Local Government of Kayong Utara is in the terms of village

funds allocation, in which Gemawan published a book entitled “ Tanya Jawab Seputar ADD”

in order to provide insight to the government officials about the Article of Association in the

village that becomes the program of the Local Government of Kayong Utara. It is important

to ensure that the

village is the spearhead

of empowerment for

the society directly, so

the village government

officials realize the true

functions of their funds

management and it will

be used entirely for the

interests of rural

communities. Kayong

Utara is the only

district in West

Kalimantan that

provides its society

with free health and

education. The populist

policy of the Regent

becomes the inspiration for other districts. In addition, the Regent also has commitment to

fight the corruption, although it is still gradual. It is because of the Government’s limited

resources.

In addition, in order to anticipate the slow bureauractic in the reign of Regent North Kayong,

Hildi Hamid prepares the companion of village who will back up the duty of the Urban

Village Head and Sub District Head in responding the matters that need to communicate

immediately between the district, sub district, and village. Lembaga Gemawan which

provides assistance and the improvement of capacity for the village companion.

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THE SPECIAL PROGRAM : ESTABLISH NETWORKS AND

INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN

Lembaga Gemawan believes that the works of empowerment and advocacy which are

conducted have relation with the global struggle for the justice and peace of the world. So the

works that are conducted in the village in West Kalimantan will contribute to the struggle for

the better changes in all over

the world. This belief makes

Lembaga Gemawan is always

connected with other struggles

of civil society in the world.

In March – April 2010,

Lembaga Gemawan is actively

involved in the Asian Women

Human Right Defender

Meeting which was held in

Nepal. The activity was the

experience sharing activity of

the Women Human Rights

Defenders in Asia. The activity

was attended by the partner of

Cordaid in Asia. The program

of Linking and Learning became a place to share the experience and to establish the joint

strategy in the struggle for the justice and peace conducted by the women in Asia. Many

successful experiences were shared by the representative of Indonesia including the field

experience of Lembaga Gemawan in the works of advocacy and empowerment which also

conducted by participants from other countries especially the Countries in Asia Pasific.

Besides the women issue above, Lembaga Gemawan is also actively involved with other

networks, such as Forest People Program and Sawit Watch in an effort to provide input

toward the changes of Performance and Strandart IFC in their investment strategy in the oil

palm plantation sector through

public consultation which

conducted in some places, such

as Pontianak dan Frankfurt,

Jerman in 2010. IFC conducts

several public consultation in

order to receive input about

draft they set. The change of

investment strategy in the oil

palm plantation sector is

commenced from the

investment case of IFC to

Wilmar Internation which in

practice caught doing some

violation of law, social and

enviromental in some regions

including Sambas district. Due to the complain sent by the society and several NGOs to the

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IFC insisted IFC to conduct some changes of their strategy that in accordance with the goal of

IFC-WB.

Besides using legal

mechanism in Indonesia, we

also try to find a way of

conflict resolution which the

society faces with the oil palm

plantation company through

the RSPO Grievance Panel for

the company or the RSPO

member of International

Financial Institution. Some

cases which we try to solve

through Grievance Panel of

RSPO are the case of the

society in Sajingan Kecil –

Senujuh with Wilmar, the

society in some villages in

Sajingan Besar – Semunying with Duta Palma. In addition, the case of the society in Kuayan

(Mekar Jaya) with PT. Agroinvestama – Musim Mas is also solved through the procedur of

New Planting Procedure RSPO. Some cases above have been solved by the return of people’s

land who refused the oil palm plantation, and for those who have no choices except to accept

the land because the land has planted by palm, then the solution gets the benefits of

smallholders practice.

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THE ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT SYSTEM : INTERNAL CAPACITY

BUILDING DAN WEBSITE

As an organization which

runs dynamically,

Lembaga Gemawan

realizes that the capacity

improvement for the

activator is really needed.

It is because of the job is

getting bigger, and the

world challenges is also

increasingly complex, so

it requires activists who

have sufficient capacity in

implementing the works

of empowerment,

advocacy, and the

organizational activity.

Therefor, Lembaga

Gemawan has special

program of capacity

development for its activists. The program in the form of training, course, internship, or even

learn self-taught on each field works. In addition, Lembaga Gemawan also has training

program and discussion for the volunteer. The program shall be held through the workshop or

directly in the field in the practice the acquired knowledge and science.

Lembaga Gemawan is internally trying to establish the system of internal and external

communication based the performed activity database. The database program is useful for

facilitating to access and publish the information, because it affects to the future program and

the achievements that have been and have not been conducted. The cooperation of all

organization elements is needed to establish the database because all output is used as the

future research material. Basically, two important components are included in the database,

namely data and information.

Lembaga Gemawan applies the performed activities are expected to be able to provide a

broad impact not only to the beneficiaries of the program, but it is expected to be able to be a

snowball that can be rolled to another party. Therefor, Lembaga Gemawan always tries to

convey the information about activies that are being conducted through the website. The

media also becomes the media of communication with public who would like to ask,

complain, and support the works that are conducted. Lembaga Gemawan can be accessed

through www.gemawan.org

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT Who is contributing?

Lembaga Gemawan in 2010 was supported by several parties either in the form of financial

support, information, network, or other things that are in kind. Lembaga Gemawan in 2010

received the financial support from several donors and NGOs who have attention on the

works that have been done by Lembaga Gemawan in fighting for justice and the better

changes for the world. The supports are from Cordaid, TI-Indonesia-Danida, Tsadik

Foundation, Forest People Program, Aidenvironment, ASPPUK and Demos. We are very

grateful for the trust from the donors. In addition, we also expect the public support either

personal or group that want to help our works in the future.

In 2010, Lembaga Gemawan received financial support from the parties mentioned above as

much as IDR 2.214.633.190 which we use for the funding of program and operational in

Lembaga Gemawan. We extracted the figure from the Financial Statement Audit of Lembaga

Gemawan that conducted by the Public Accounting Firm Angka Widjaja, Jakarta. For the

party who would like to observe the complete financial audit, please contact Lembaga

Gemawan’s office.

Documents

Lap Gemawan 2010-publish Eng2