BY AGRICULTURE FACULTY PATTIMURA UNIVERSITY AMBON

YAYASAN HUALOPU

C. Strengthening the role of the community in the sustainable of forest management in Nusalaut Island by Yayasan Hualopu.

Kewang is group of indigenous community selected by their village communities or the prominent figures of the village. The main tasks of kewang are to control and protect environmental or forest from the over utilizations or destructions by human activities. Therefore Kewang is usually use of Sasi as type of regulation to forbid people in harvesting of crops or catching fish in a period time determined by kewang. Recently, kewang and sasi as local custom of Maluku people are gradually eroded and start to replace by modern cultures which not concern with environmental values. This project is started to motivate indigenous community of some village in Nusalaut island for sustaining again their local customs in protecting and control the environment from destructions. A workshop on the roles of kewang and sasi has established in March 2008 and 100 people are attended the workshop. Furthermore the workshop recommended several decisions for revitalization of kewang and sasi through a workshop in October 2008. The next project activity is focus on the mapping of the space borders between land use system of the communities. Four villages (Nalahia, Akoon, Ameth and Abubu) were determined and each village had 10 persons involved in project, and then they are trained on how to collect data, to measure border line between land use spaces and to design map. After doing a study, the results are presented to the village communities and local government for improving the draft of map. Based on the evaluation indicators showed that in the first three months of the project Yayasan Hualopu has finished 2 main activities with realization of 100 %. Furthermore in the second monitoring which done in September 2008 indicated in Table 6.

Table 5. Realization of the project activities based on the first monitoring.

Main activity	Sub activity	Schedule	Indicators	Realization (%)
Workshop on the roles of kewang and sasi	Identification of participants	March 2008	Interviewing the participant	100
	Materials and tools preparations	March 2008	Copy of workshop materials	100
	Workshop implementation	March 2008	Participants list	100
Data collection and design the land-use map	Area identification and orientation	April 2008	Interviewing the participant	100
	Land borders construction	April 2008	Interviewing the participant	100
	Design map	April 2008	Draft of map	100
A day meeting to present data and draft of land-use map	Identification of participants	-	Interviewing the participant	0
	Preparing meeting Materials and tools	-	Copy of workshop materials	0
	Implementation	-	Participants list	0
Workshop on revitalization of kewang and sasi roles.	Identification of participants	-	Interviewing the participant	0
	Materials and tools preparations	-	Copy of workshop materials	0
	Workshop implementation	-	Participants list	0

Table 6. Realization of the project activities based on the second monitoring.

Main activity	Sub activity	Schedule	Indicators	Realization (%)
Workshop on the roles of kewang and sasi	Identification of participants	March 2008	Interviewing the participant	100
	Materials and tools preparations	March 2008	Copy of workshop materials	100
	Workshop implementation	March 2008	Participants list	100
Data collection and design the land-use map	Area identification and orientation	April 2008	Interviewing the participant	100
	Land borders construction	April 2008	Interviewing the participant	100
	Design map	April 2008	Draft of map	100
A day meeting to present data and draft of land-use map	Identification of participants	August 2008	Interviewing the participant	100
	Preparing meeting Materials and tools	August 2008	Copy of workshop materials	100
	Implementation	August 2008	Participants list	100
Workshop on revitalization of kewang and sasi roles.	Identification of participants	September 2008	Interviewing the participant	100
	Materials and tools preparations	September 2008	Copy of workshop materials	100
	Workshop implementation	September 2008	Participants list	100

Based on the Table 6 indicated that all the project activities are finished. A day meeting to discuss the results of study have done in August 2008 and 100 people were attend to discuss the map of land use of every village. Then Hualopu has also determined 35 participants for attending the last workshop on revitalization of kewang and sasi roles in the last week of the September 2008.

 

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