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Participatory forest management

We design, we implement, we monitor, and we evaluate each project and activity with local users, ensuring knowledge is shared, lesson learned is well-captured, and growing together for advanced forest management experiences

Community-led conservation adopting local wisdom and characteristics

Prototyping business models with high financial returns

Working with multiple stakeholders to address complex sustainable forest management challenges

Our Work Combines

A “never stop learning” team with a track record of developing and operating projects

Integrity in monitoring, transparency, and reporting on our portfolio with international standards

An understanding of the real
problems on the ground

The Challenges

Forest ecosystems in the province are globally acknowledged as the Heart of Borneo (HoB), biodiversity-rich, home of astonishing and endangered wildlife species. For generations, they have been the culture and livelihood backbone of local and indigenous communities.

But these forest ecosystems are constantly declining, with a baseline rate of deforestation estimated at 69,000 hectares per year, which increases emissions exposure and directly contributes to climate change crisis and biodiversity loss. While forest degradation is estimated at 11,000 hectares per year. In other words, every year, the province loses a stretch of forest equivalent to the size of 98,000 football fields due to deforestation.

It should also be noted that the province is one of the largest CO2 emitters in Indonesia, with baseline of 22.1 mtCO2eq per year from deforestation and 1.2 mtCO2eq per year for degradation. Imagine: 15 to 83 trees are needed to capture 1 ton of CO2 per year, from seedling to adult trees.

Deforestation has increased the vulnerability of communities to climate disaster risks (fires, floods, prolonged droughts, landslides, rising sea levels, and extreme heat), threatening community water, health, food, as well as livelihood security.

While economic development still relies on exploitation-minded for developing provinces like West Kalimantan and multiple actors from the highest decision-maker level to local users. At local levels, capacity and resources are insufficient to add value, develop robust business models, access finance, access applied technology, and so on, faced directly by local and indigenous communities.

Participatory forest management

We design, we implement, we monitor, and we evaluate each project and activity with local users, ensuring knowledge is shared, lesson learned is well-captured, and growing together for advanced forest management experiences

Community-led conservation adopting local wisdom and characteristics

We promote community-led leadership in our field projects and activities. Local and indigenous communities have been globally recognized as the forest guardian. We believe that with the right approach, community leadership will flourish, ensuring achievement of projects and activities is maintained and preserved.

Prototyping business models with high financial returns

Developing robust business models with good financial returns is challenging and demanding for local users, primarily local and indigenous communities, and us as developers and operators. Our primary approach is improving the way of doing business based on the existing local resources, business models, and supply chains, with applied technology, knowledge intervention, creative marketing, etc.

Working with multiple stakeholders to address complex sustainable
forest management challenges

We just can not do it alone! Our goals are ambitious thus, we need support from everyone to help and work together with us to drive change at the local level. With strong collaboration and networking, we believe that change can be achieved.

Our Solutions

We conserve tropical forests through sustainable business models balancing conservation and economic development at local levels.

We believe tropical forests will always be at-risk for years to come, driven by social and economic development at local levels. We believe sustainable business models will sustainably remove the risks. Our business model stands on a balance principle, which means we are not only focusing on generating climate, community, and biodiversity benefits through the role of our projects, but we also address how the benefit is created, delivered, captured, maintained, and preserved.

Bentang Combines

A “never stop learning” team with a track record of developing and operating projects

Integrity in monitoring, transparency, and reporting on our portfolio with international standards

An understanding of the real
problems on the ground

We address climate change from its root causes for lasting climate, community, and biodiversity benefits

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