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Village Development in the Buffer Zone Bukit-Baka

Nanga Juoi is a small, remote village surrounded by protected primary forests, logged-over forests, and degraded brush-lands. The village is located on the border of the Bukit Baka-Bukit Raya National Park and within a timber concession.

A long-term objective of the PRCF in Nanga Juoi is to help the community attain and maintain sustainable living conditions, while at the same time helping protect the natural resources that surround them. We have found that as the program advances in the village, it has helped create incentives for the community to link nature conservation to their own social and economic development.

For this program, we included technical and financial assistance for the village community as a whole. In addition, we helped villagers with economic options to improve their present livelihood conditions, and with incentives to support nature conservation efforts in the region.

Our ultimate purpose is to establish a Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods Program in the Mentatai Watershed, with the objective to integrate the conservation and wise use of natural resources with sound socioeconomic development of stakeholder communities. As proposed, we hope to attain this by supporting local villages in planning, development, and to carry out training and extension to local people through a Community-based Training Center.

Activities thus far implemented by the PRCF at Nanga Juoi include:

  • Rural Water System: Together with USAID and two individual donors, PRCF constructed a rural water system to improve the village’s sanitary conditions.
  • Fish Ponds: With PRCF support, the village community built ten community fish ponds with a combined total of approximately 800 square meters, and a water canal to constantly feed the fish ponds with fresh water.
  • Village-level Community Based Tourism: With villagers and the KOBUS Centre, the PRCF has helped the Nanga Juoi community to develop a village-level tourism program to help maintain the community’s cultural traditions, support its social evolvement, and improve its economic conditions.