Aceh Forest and Environment Programme DISAMPAIKAN PADA ACARA SEMINAR SEHARI AJRC DI BANDA ACEH, 17 N

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Aceh Forest and Environment ProgrammeDISAMPAIKAN
PADA ACARA SEMINAR SEHARI AJRC DI BANDA ACEH, 17
NOPEMBER 2008
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Managing illegal logging in Aceh

• A six pronged approach
• Secure regulatory and institutional platform
  agree on programme
• Training
• Monitoring
• Law enforcement
• Community outreach
• Alternative livelihood training and support

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Managing illegal logging in Aceh

• Training
• EU/IOM Police Training Programme (develop module
  for police training syllabus on forest and
  wildlife crime)
• EU/UNDP/UNSYIAH Justice Resource Centre (develop
  module for judiciary training syllabus on forest
  and wildlife crime)

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Managing illegal logging in Aceh

• Monitoring
• On the ground
• - Check points for monitoring timber flow and
  mapping timber
• networks from origin to destination and the
  different actors
• complicit
• - Local informants
• Aerial
• - Ultralight planes for regular surveys (lowland
  areas)
• - Twin engine plane for over-flights
  (hill-submontane areas) and
• for engaging further with project partners

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Managing illegal logging in Aceh

• Law enforcement
• Adaptive management - monitoring data guides LE
  operations and results feedback into system to
  enable ME of strategy impact
• Project database map illegal logging networks,
  arrests and prosecution outcomes
• Media and local NGOs - track the progress of
  court cases and confiscated items

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Managing illegal logging in Aceh

• Community outreach
• Advisory board (e.g. int. local NGOs, ex-GAM
  officials, politicians, religious leaders, Mukim
  leaders)
• Awareness forum (focussing on the socio-economic
  and environmental issues related to illegal
  logging, e.g. set-up flood watch in areas where
  watershed forest is being logged)
• Work through AFEP Ulama groups, media, EU/IOM
  Saling jabat, saling sayang project

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Managing illegal logging in Aceh

• Alternative livelihood training and support
• Work through AFEP Green Aceh livelihood centres
  that will be established across Aceh in 2009
• Identify partners organisations to work with

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Managing illegal logging in Aceh

• Next steps
• AFEP to analyse illegal logging data (Oct/Nov 08)
• AFEP to informally meet with potential partners
  and their programmes (e.g. Police, EU, IOM,
  UNSYIAH, ALGAPII, UNDP) - exchange knowledge,
  identify areas for collaboration, draft illegal
  logging mitigation strategy concept paper
  (Nov/Dec 08)
• AFEP to request EU to host an Aceh illegal
  logging meeting to formally meet potential
  partners (Jan 09)
• AFEP to work with partners to draft an Aceh
  Action Plan for wide circulation and further
  revisions (Jan/Feb 09)
• Implement the Action Plan (March 09)