Empowering communities to improve livelihoods, influence decisions on land use and management, and preserve cultural heritage

Community development in general is an effort to strengthen people’s access to better socio-economic, cultural and environmental conditions.

To achieve this goal, the BNF Community Development Team has implemented a community assistance program to help improve the quality of their lives and welfare by prioritizing sustainable optimization of local resources (local resource based). This approach is an effort to improve community welfare whilst maintaining harmony with the environment, particularly focussing on the role of humans as part of the ecosystem.

Active Projects

Social Forestry

Social forestry is a sustainable forest management system used in state forest areas or private/customary forests. It is implemented by local communities to improve their welfare, maintain environmental balance, as well as maintain local socio-cultural dynamics. The social forestry program provides opportunities for local community...
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Ecotourism

With 20 years of experience carrying out research, conservation and community empowerment in the Sebangau area, BNF has taken the initiative to develop wildlife observation ecotourism in Sebangau National Park landscape. The aim of developing ecotourism is to raise awareness of the importance of biodiversity...
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Sebangau Community Development

BNF’s peat-swamp forest protection program aims to empower community groups around the Sebangau National Park area to actively participate in reforestation activities, through Community Seedling Nurseries. The aim of this program is to support an increase in the number of seedlings planted in Sebangau National...
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Rungan Community Development

After 20 years of experience in research, conservation and community empowerment in the Sebangau Landscape, BNF is now developing community empowerment programs in the Rungan Landscape. The goal is to protect natural resources from degradation and deforestation, while at the same time encouraging people to...
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Help us to strengthen people’s access to better socio-economic, cultural and environmental conditions in Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo.

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Forest conservation without the welfare of the community around the forest is impossible. The two sides must go together. Supported by the Borneo Nature Foundation, and driven by the hope of living more prosperously in a sustainable manner, a number of residents living at the...
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Empowering Communities, Raising Fish in Peatlands

On Tuesday 20th October 2020, Borneo Nature Foundation (BNF) Indonesia held a Basic Training session on Freshwater Fish Cultivation Techniques in Peatlands. The training session is an addition to the Community Nursery program held for the community groups in Kereng Bangkirai and Sabaru villages as...
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Prosperity without Burning the Land

The dry season has arrived. As in previous years, forest and land fire disasters begin in the dry season, threatening Central Kalimantan. In addition to flooding, forest and land fires are major disasters for the province. According to data from SiPongi (Forest and Land Fire...
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