Lowongan Kerja LSM | NGO

Fauna & Flora International promotes biodiversity conservation through mainstreaming environmental issues in agricultural practices in particular in oil palm sector and throughout selected supply chains. Fauna & Flora International works through private sector partnerships with selected companies which are committed to reduce their impact on biodiversity and improve their environmental management practices.

Scope of the Work:

The Biodiversity and Sustainable Oil Palm Officer will work closely with Kalimantan Conservation Program to oversee the assessment of high conservation value forest as well as areas suitable and not suitable for oil palm development at landscape level, socialize RSPO to stakeholders at the district level, facilitate the establishment of district and provincial roundtables, and the adoption of RSPO principles by private sector partners and local government planners. The specialist will also assist with environmental assessment of selected companies and verify the legality of current operations overlapping with critical biodiversity areas.

Detailed Description of Activities:

Under coordination of Biodiversity and Agricultural Commodity Specialist Coordinator, the BSPO Officer need to:

·         Identify and meet with key organizations who have undertaken work relating to palm oil mainly in (but not limited to) West Kalimantan (focused on Ketapang and Kapuas Hulu district) and Central Kalimantan (Murung Raya district). Conduct review of all existing materials and projects ongoing or planned relating to the sector.

·         Where information currently exists, review materials relating to land availability and land suitability for palm oil – create a map of potentially appropriate areas for new palm oil development. Document key peat land areas in project districts and document areas not suitable for palm oil production.

·         Meet with RSPO Indonesia Liaison office (Jakarta), understand RSPO initiatives in Indonesia and development strategies for Kalimantan fit into the overall RSPO initiative. Review RSPO guidelines and criteria and document key environmental and social consideration which should be considered

·         Liaise with GAPKI (the association of Indonesian oil palm producers) to develop RSPO membership in FFI project areas

·         Support facilitation of consultation workshops with private sector, government and civil society organizations companies to socialize and raise awareness  of the RSPO process and seek input on the feasibility of the proposed plan.

·         Facilitate the establishment of RSPO working groups at regional level (province/ district)

·         Undertake desk work to identify best practice models from elsewhere in Indonesia or Malaysia

·         Participate in regional RSPO meetings and present FFI’s partnership projects

·         Identify potential new private sector partners

·         To regularly document all findings in a report in addition to making presentations to the FFI team and partners on findings

Please send CV and Application letter to info@ffi.or.id before 8 April 2010

The Fauna and Flora International' s Indonesia Programme (FFI-IP) and PT Holcim Tbk. has been developed the conservation strategy in Nusa Kambangan Island, Central Java through the High Conservation Value Forest (HCVF) assessment in this island as well as to develop a conservation approach to local government of Cilacap. The ultimate goal of the conservation work between FFI-IP and PT Holcim is to improve protection of limestone and lowland forest in Nusa Kambangan with two stake objectives of (i) develop a conservation plan for Nusa Kambangan; and (ii) develop a management plan for the Conservation Zone/ Green Belt in the Holcim Contract of Work Area.To achieve the conservation goal for Nusa Kambangan Island, a rapid and comprehensive biodiversity inventory need to undertake through the HCVF approach. Holcim has designated a conservation area in the form of a coastal green belt (forest covered limestone hills between the quarry and the coast) no conservation management plan for the green belt has been defined yet. The current biological monitoring system based on the initial environmental impact assessment does currently not provide sufficient information to monitor biodiversity (e.g. monitoring for bats and cave invertebrates does not identify species) of improve biodiversity management for the forests in the designated conservation zone. As the quarry is legally converting remaning intact limestone forests. Holcim's committment to conservation at the landscape level is off-setting the direct impacts of it's operation as well as mitigating any potential indirect impacts of it's operation in the surrounding landscape.

The overall goal is the conservation of priority orangutan and primate populations and their habitat in Kalimantan, specifically in the districts of Ketapang,Kapuas Hulu West Kalimantan and Murung Raya Central Kalimantan The project purpose is a conservation status review of the orangutan population in West Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan to respond to immediate forest conservation plans and to secure critical orangutan habitat through integrating recommendations of this review into the district spatial plans and forest management plans.