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KONAS VII Tahun 2010
PENGELOLAAN SUMBERDAYA PESISIR, LAUT DAN PULAU-PULAU KECIL
AMBON – PROVINSI MALUKU

1. Latar Belakang

KONAS Pengelolaan Sumberdaya Pesisir, Laut dan Pulau-Pulau Kecil merupakan ajang komunikasi dan pertukaran informasi untuk meningkatkan kesepahaman mengenai pengelolaan wilayah pesisir di Indonesia yang dilaksanakan secara rutin 2 tahun sekali oleh Pemerintah Daerah bersama-sama Perguruan Tinggi setempat secara bergiliran. Kesepakatan KONAS VI Tahun 2008 di Manado, tuan rumah penyelenggara dari KONAS VII tahun 2010 adalah Pemerintah Provinsi Maluku. Kegiatan KONAS ini didukung oleh Direktorat Jenderal Kelautan, Pesisir dan Pulau-pulau Kecil – Kementerian Kelautan dan Perikanan.

2. Tema dan Topik

Tema dari KONAS VI ini adalah :

“MERAJUT KETERPADUAN PENGELOLAAN SUMBERDAYA PESISIR, LAUT DAN PULAU-PULAU KECIL MENUJU KETAHANAN PANGAN DAN KESEJAHTERAAN MASYARAKAT”.

The Indonesian military is deeply involved in the trade in illegally felled timber that is destroying vast tracts of pristine forest near the Malaysian border, researchers said Friday. Their findings come days after the government revealed plans to ask foreign governments to contribute to a billion-dollar “green investment fund” to help it cut greenhouse gas emissions through sustainable infrastructure projects.

Environmentalists argue that the government could go a long way towards meeting its target of cutting emissions by 26 percent from 2005 levels by 2020 simply by stopping unchecked illegal logging. But the new study by the Center for East Asia Cooperation Studies (CEACoS) at the University of Indonesia has revealed how difficult this could be, given the military’s involvement in the illicit trade.

CEACoS executive director Tirta N. Mursitama, the head researcher in the project, said the military acted as a coordinator, investor, facilitator and middleman for the illegal loggers. “Military personnel from low ranked soldiers to territorial commanders were involved in the practice of illegal logging in the border areas,” he told AFP. “The military personnel acted as coordinators, investors and people who deliberately failed to monitor the flow of logging transport.”

Indonesia plans to set up a $1 billion green investment fund to reduce carbon emissions by at least 26 percent by 2020. Indonesia, the world’s third-largest greenhouse gas emitter, will invest in renewable energy projects and water treatment to address the effects of climate change as part of the project. The country relies on fossil fuels as its main source of energy.

Jakarta will contribute $100 million to the Indonesia Green Investment Fund, to be managed by the government, said Edward Gustely, a senior adviser to the Ministry of Finance, Bloomberg reports. Indonesia aims to raise the remaining $900 million from governments that have expressed interest in the fund as well as institutional investors, he said. So far the United States, Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Norway and other EU nations have indicated interest. Gustely said about 52 percent of Indonesia’s population of 248 million has access to electricity. About 30 percent of Indonesians have access to potable water. The country is turning to low-carbon strategies and tapping domestic resources to meet growing demand for energy, food and water.

Article by Fidelis E Satriastanti

Source: The Jakarta Globe – January 27, 2010

It’s the all too familiar good news-bad news story for the country’s environment. The good news is the law to take down those involved in the destruction of the environment is in place and ready for action. The bad news is that the government does not seem particularly eager to use it. “We don’t want the law to turn into another paper tiger,” said Asep Warlan Yusuf, an environmental law expert at Bandung’s Parahyangan University. “It’s high time the government took some real action against environment offenders.”

The State Ministry for the Environment, Asep said, “lacks the courage to fight the good fight by taking environmental cases to court.” The Environmental Protection and Management Law became effective on Oct. 3, 2009. Siti Maimunah, national coordinator of the Mining Advocacy Network (Jatam), said the government should immediately begin putting the law to work in Kalimantan, where the environment is in full retreat in the face of massive mining operations and the spread of palm oil plantations.

“You want this law to work, you start with Kalimantan,” she said. “This would be a real test because the Kalimantan case is very urgent.” Siti said Kalimantan for years had been the scene of unchecked exploitation, as large companies dug up its coal and minerals, cut down its forests and created massive palm oil plantations. Siti said local administrations in Kalimantan had tried to contain the destruction with spatial planning, which she described as little more than a “suicide plan.” “Kalimantan is staring at its own destruction because the development planning [of the various government departments] is a mess that concentrates on exploitation,” she said. Kalimantan, she said, seems to have implemented “mismanagement planning.”

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com

Pemerintah akan menyusun revisi terhadap Undang-undang Nomor 27 Tahun 2007 tentang Pengelolaan Wilayah Pesisir dan Pulau-pulau Kecil. Undang-undang itu ditolak sejumlah kalangan karena membuka peluang pengaplingan laut, dan lebih berpihak pada kepentingan pemodal.

Revisi terhadap UU No. 27/2007 dimulai pemerintah seiring adanya gugatan uji materi terhadap undang-undang tersebut oleh Koalisi Tolak Hak Pengusahaan Perairan Pesisir.

Sekretaris Direktorat Jenderal Kelautan, Pesisir, dan Pulau-pulau Kecil Sudirman Saad, di Jakarta, Rabu (3/2/2010), mengemukakan, revisi undang-undang itu telah masuk ke program legislasi nasional (prolegnas) tahun 2010. Revisi itu akan menekankan pada penguatan perlindungan terhadap masyarakat pesisir, dan pengakuan terhadap eksistensi sistem perikanan tradisional.

Adapun beberapa pasal yang kontroversial dalam UU 27/2007 diusulkan untuk dihapus, antara lain ketentuan bahwa hak pengusahaan perairan pesisir (HP3) bisa diagunkan dan dialihkan kepemilikannya.

Eco-tourism lovers now have a new location in which to enjoy nature and preserve it at the same time at the newly opened Angke Kapuk natural tourism park in North Jakarta. Inaugurated on Monday by Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan, the 99.8 hectare swampy park, set up help preserving millions of mangrove trees, dozens of rare birds, turtles, monitor lizards and sea animals, features a restaurant, bathrooms, playground and 38 wooden huts. Other facilities include canoes and rubber boats.

“The Angke Kapuk natural tourism park is the second of its kind in Indonesia after Ngurah Rai Forest Park. I hope this park, located near the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, can become a major foreign tourist destination,” Zulkifli said at the inauguration ceremony. Visitors to the site, located next to Muara Angke mangrove conservation forest and the upscale Pantai Indah Kapuk housing complex, can also see rare birds from all over the world, Bambang A. Putra, the marketing director of the park’s management firm PT Murindra Karya Lestari, said,

“Visitors can view the birds using binoculars in the watching tower,” Bambang said, adding that the park was a transit point for various species of birds. “Even the Sunda coucal *Centropus nigrorufus*, a vulnerable spe-cies, can be found in the park,” Bambang said. He added that he expected companies could make use of the park for gatherings or for corporate social responsibility activities.

Indonesia will host an international Moslem conference on climate change, which will be the first of its kind in Bogor, West Java, on March 1-2, 2010, a committee member said. Ismid Hadad, the head of the steering committee, said in a press conference at Kehati Foundation here on Tuesday that the conference is the following agenda of the Moslem Seven Year Action Plan for Climate Change (M7YAP) declared in Istambul, Turkey, early in June 2009.

Ismid, who is also the head of the advisory board of Kehati said the conference would discuss three issues, namely climate change and actions Moslems in the world could do and the establishment of Moslem Association for Climate Change Action (MACCA) which is aimed at becoming an umbrella organization to accommodate activities and the implementation of the seven year action plan in various countries and Moslem communities in the world.

The third issue is the planned declaration of four green cities in Moslem countries or the Al Khaer City, including Bogor in Indonesia, Madina in Saudi Arabia, Salleh in Morocco and Sanaa in Yemen. The four cities` development will be monitored for seven years by MACCA. Ismid said the committee would invite around 150 environment experts, academics and clerics from 30 countries with Moslem population, such as the United Arab Emirates, Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, India, Africa, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Egypt, Britain and Indonesia.

PhD in climate change on reefs – any nationality eligible

The University of Exeter has advertised a fully-funded PhD scholarship studying the impacts of climate change on coral reefs. The post will be based at Exeter though will likely include time at the University of Queensland. The project will focus on the application of global climate models to coral reefs and will involve collaboration with climate scientists at the UK Hadley Data Centre, which generate several of the models used by the IPCC. There may also be scope to study the impact of climate change on ecosystem services.

The PhD will be supervised by Profs Peter Mumby and Peter Cox. Candidates from any nationality can apply and further details can be found at:
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Artikel oleh William Chang

”Kamu akan kehilangan hakmu, yang akan dirampas oleh orang- orang asing dan para spekulan, yang pada gilirannya akan menjadi tuan dan pemilik; sedangkan kamu, hai anak-anak negeri, akan terusir dan tidak akan menjadi apa-apa, selain kuli dan sampah Pulau Kalimantan!” (Charles Brooke, 1915).

Tembang Raja Putih asal Sarawak di atas mulai terbukti. Banjir, pencemaran air, udara, dan penggundulan hutan termasuk buah perilaku spekulan yang rakus mengeruk pertambangan. Begitu pula dengan pemanasan global.

Hasil semaksimal mungkin dalam tempo sesingkat-singkatnya jadi target. Sementara itu, dampak negatif penambangan belum sungguh dikaji dan dievaluasi. Kerakusan ini tampak dalam keinginan manusia yang berlebihan dan tak terkontrol. Yang diingini bukan hanya harta benda, tetapi juga penaklukan sesama manusia (J Childress). Watak patologis ini, antara lain, berbentuk kecenderungan manusia makan sampai kekenyangan karena tertekan. Manusia berkeinginan besar dan berjuang meraih tujuannya dengan segenap tenaga (Erich Fromm).

Jika kerakusan ini dibiarkan, hutan (lindung) kita akan terus berkurang (RI kehilangan hutan 1,6-3,5 juta hektar per tahun). Tambang dikeruk sepuas-puasnya. Hasil tambang dikirim ke luar negeri, banyak warga sekitar daerah tambang jadi penonton pasif yang tak dilibatkan untuk mengolah tambang. Tak heran, ketegangan sosial mewarnai kawasan-kawasan tambang.

Kerusakan kawasan pesisir akibat perambahan dan konversi lahan menjadi perkebunan sawit membuat kawasan tutupan hutan bakau di Sumatera Utara tersisa 25 persen. Sebanyak 75 persen atau 62.800 hektar di antaranya sudah rusak.

Data Dinas Kelautan dan Perikanan Sumatera Utara menunjukkan, kerusakan terbesar terjadi di Kabupaten Langkat. Dari 35.500 hektar hutan bakau di daerah itu, sebanyak 25.300 hektar atau 71,6 persen di antaranya rusak. Di Tanjung Balai-Asahan, dari 14.400 hektar hutan bakau, sebanyak 12.900 hektar atau 89,5 persen di antaranya rusak. Sementara di Deli Serdang-Asahan, 12.900 hektar atau 64,5 persen dari total 20.000 hektar hutan bakau rusak.

Kerusakan juga terjadi pada hutan bakau di Nias, Labuhan Batu, Tapanuli Tengah, Mandailing Natal, dan Medan. Di Medan, dari 250 hektar hutan bakau, kerusakan terjadi pada 150 hektar. Sementara di Nias, kerusakan baru sekitar 6 persen atau 650 hektar dari 7.200 hektar yang dimiliki. Data didasarkan foto citra satelit yang dibuat Dinas Kelautan dan Perikanan Sumut.