He is being recognized for "his sustained advocacy for community-based natural resource management in Indonesia, leading bold campaigns to stop illegal forest exploitation, as well as fresh social enterprise initiatives that engage the forest communities as their full partner"
"the Ramon Magsaysay Award is Asia's highest honor and is widely regarded as the region's equivalent of the Nobel Prize"
Mr. Ambrosius Ruwindrijarto
President Director
Telapak
and
Mr. Silverius Oscar Unggul
Jauh & Telapak
Congratulations! You have been selected as a finalist in the 2008 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards program.
The program is now well underway and promises to be a huge success. Our selection committee has developed a group of finalists whose achievements will be evaluated by our distinguished Panel of Judges. The Judges will choose the award recipients when they convene together prior to the awards banquet.
The final judge evaluation of nominees will be based on the data already provided together with the inputs from the site visits. The finalists and award recipients will be announced at the awards banquet on 19 November 2008.
As a finalist, we will be honored for you to attend the following events:
· Judges Reception
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
7pm-9pm
Venue: The Financial Club Jakarta
Graha Niaga 27th Floor
Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav. 58 Jakarta
· The Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Banquet
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
6.30pm-10.30pm
Venue: Grand Ballroom
Hotel Mulia Jakarta
Jl. Asia Afrika, Senayan
Please note these events in your diary! We will shortly send you an invitation and additional details.
Thank you again for your participation in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards program. Your involvement is critical to the program’s success. If you have any questions, please feel free to call the EOY Committee at (021) 5289 5050.
Yours sincerely,
Giuseppe Nicolosi
Chief Executive Officer
CONSERVATION IS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
by:
A. Ruwindrijarto
President of Telapak (www.telapak.org), based in Bogor-Indonesia. Telapak’s vision is that all of Indonesia’s territory is conservation area.
This is responding to Jean-Michel Severino and Peter Seligmann’s opinion “Conservation with a Human Face” (Jakarta Post, August 8, 2008). In it the authors argue that conservation-based development projects, in this case the 9 million hectares of new protected areas created with the help of the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), prove that economic growth and environmental protection are not incompatible.
Several issues regarding the notion of compatibility between the economy and environmental protection or conservation need to be highlighted. What’s wrong with the economy that it usually is not compatible with conservation agenda? And what’s wrong with environmental protection or conservation that so often it hinders economic growth?
The ultimate argument is that the drastic decline of the world’s natural capital, the unprecedented pace of species extinction, the destruction of forest and coral reef, and eventually climate change are the direct result of the wrong economy. To put it bluntly, as a plesetan (wordplay) of a phrase in American politics widely used during Bill Clinton's successful 1992 presidential campaign against George H.W. Bush, “It’s the wrong economy, stupid!”.
Fossil fuel economy is the wrong economy. For a century now the growth of the world’s economy is fuelled by fossil fuel, literally taking out into the air billions of tons of carbon deposited through million years of biological and geological processes. Growth-oriented economy is the wrong economy. It’s behind previously developed and currently developing countries’ rush to development by capitalizing on natural resources. Even these sources of life, forest-ocean-water-mineral, is now called “natural capital”. Market and capital-accumulation economy is the wrong economy. It pushes aside social and environmental concerns. On this the almost biblical Stern Review (2007) even concluded that “climate change is the greatest market failure the world has ever seen”. Yes indeed, these wrong economies are incompatible with environmental protection.
What is the right economy then?
The right economy is the one that also means conservation. The definition of conservation is the protection, improvement and wise use of natural resources to provide the greatest social and economic value for the present and future. Furthermore, conservation implies active management of human-nature interactions, as compared to “preservation,” which usually involves setting aside scenic or fragile areas to minimize human impact or for amenity or existence values (Carol D. Saunders in Human Ecology Review, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2003). It happens too often: conservation turns into wrong conservation, when environmental groups or government agencies narrow it down into just protection and preservation of certain species or ecosystem. That’s when conservation collides with economic development. In the case of Indonesia, the national parks system, marine protected areas, and protected forests are examples of wrong conservation. Protected areas are almost always the least economically developed area. Managing a conservation area almost always involves marginalizing local indigenous people, evicting them from their ancestral lands, and denying people’s access to their forests or seas.
Therefore, there is no need to converge economic development and conservation priorities as advocated by Messrs. Severino and Seligmann in their article. The right economic development and the right conservation are one and the same thing. The right economic development is actually conservation, and conservation means economic development.
At a micro level Indonesia has actually many models of this “right economy/conservation”. Take the case of South Konaweha in Southeast Sulawesi where thousands of illegal loggers have transformed themselves and operate a successful FSC certified community logging. Here, community logging is defined as community-based and sustainable timber, non-timber, and ecological services forestry. They are now enjoying prosperity and healthy forest. Another example is in Bali where hundreds of fishers from several villages have stop destructive fishing and coral mining, and joined arms to become currently the first and only exclusively non-cyanide ornamental fish and cultured corals exporters in Indonesia. They are now enjoying better income and healthier coastal ecosystem. All these economic development/conservation requires that forests and seas be protected, the integrity of natural resources and ecosystems be improved, and local community and indigenous people use the natural resources wisely, producing greatest social and economic return for the community and for their future generation.
These are indeed examples of “economy/conservation” the world needs to address poverty and environmental destruction.
Gambar Bill Clinton di atas bukanlah gambar asli, namun hasil rekayasa. Gambar aslinya diambil dari sini.
"Berdaulat secara Politik, Mandiri secara Ekonomi, dan Bermartabat secara Budaya"
Itu mauku. Setelah 5 kali pergi ke Palu sejak yang pertama dulu, tahun 1999. Kunjungan terakhir yang hampir sepuluh hari menegaskan kecurigaanku bahwa memang Palu harus didaftarkan ke dalam buku rekor dunia itu. Rekor apa? Rekor nongkrong… Menurut penelitianku, rata-rata orang Palu, khususnya para aktivis dan LSM nya, rata-rata nongkrong-ngobrol-ngopi selama 18,74 jam per hari. Angka ini jauh di atas angka rata-rata nasional, yang menurut BPS adalah 3,64 jam per hari, dan angka rata-rata dunia 0,32 jam per hari.
Akibatnya bagi Kedai Telapak di Palu, yang baru saja dibuka, adalah harus punya banyak karyawan yang kuat melek. Paling cepat tutup kedai adalah jam 04.00. Agus Kedai, yang dikirim dari Bogor khusus untuk menyajikan kopi, yang menjadi pioneer di Kedai Telapak-Palu mengatakan, “Saya akan mengajak Serikat Pekerja Kedai Seluruh Indonesia (SPKSI) untuk berunjuk rasa meminta perbaikan fasilitas kerja. Kami minta para pengusaha Kedai menyediakan batang korek api dan selotip agar kami para pekerja Kedai bisa menyangga mata kami saat lewat tengah malam dan masih harus melayani para penongkrong-pengobrol-pengopi!”
Kedai Telapak di Palu sendiri juga mungkin bisa masuk ke Buku Rekor Dunia itu. Yaitu untuk kecepatan buka usaha. Waktu pertama datang, Wisnu, Eki dan Agus F (d/h Agus Marxist) langsung bekerja seperti setan. Beli cat warna hijau yang terkenal itu. (Satu kaleng cat 5 kg yang dibawa wisnu dari bogor ternyata ditahan petugas pemeriksaan di Bandara Soekarno-Hatta. Nampaknya para petugas bandara sedang punya proyek pengecatan rumah masing-masing dengan berbagai macam warna cat sitaan dari para calon penumpang). Kemudian mengecat-mengecat-mengecat. Para seniman cat lokal di antara nya adalah Joko Gimbal, Farid Krempeng, Fahmi Dukun, Sumadi Direktur, DikDik Kopyah, dll. Terus panggil tukang kayu dan membuat meja bar dengan bahan lokal, kerapian lokal, dan kecepatan lokal. Persis 5 hari kemudian meja bar sudah selesai, beserta bangku panjang, kursi-kursi, meja-meja, dan neon sign. Ini mungkin juga baru pertama di dunia, neon sign dengan kerangka bahan dari kayu kamper.
Jadi ternyata, Kedai Telapak di Palu adalah contoh co-investment: tabung gas dan sebagian piring-sendok adalah investasi Ibunya Wisnu, sebagian meja adalah investasinya Yayasan Rosontapura, istrinya Pak Sumadi menyediakan jajanan pasar dan berbagai ube rampe keperluan selamatan pembukaan, tenaga kerja adalah investasi dari banyak teman penongkrong-pengobrol-pengopi, wisnu menginvestasikan sebagian tabungannya untuk modal belanja, dan Telapak/PT PNU berinvestasi lain-lainnya. Rupanya model investasi ini juga dicontoh oleh rekan-rekan yang sedang bekerja bersama masyarakat nelayan dan membangun usaha perikanan di sana. Ferdie, Nael, Mas’ud dan Agus Faisal berhasil menggalang investasi dari Kakak Haji untuk modal usaha dan modal awal koperasi (kalau gak salah sampai Rp 50 juta), Pak Kepala Desa Pangalaseang mengalokasikan Rp 500 ribu untuk konsumsi dan akomodasi pertemuan-pertemuan dan pelatihan, dan Pak Tawakkal (Kepala Dinas Perikanan Kab. Donggala) berkomitmen menyumbangkan 2 buah ketinting dan satu buah kapal 15 ton, Yayasan Rosontapura sendiri sudah keluarkan sekitar Rp 15 juta untuk biaya-biaya transportasi dan akomodasi tim, juga untuk pembelian peralatan-peralatan pelatihan. Telapak dan PT PNU di Bogor sejauh ini hanya keluarkan dana untuk transportasi dari Bogor, Manado, dan Bali ke Palu.
Mari dukung Palu untuk masuk Guinness World of Record!
Tanpa bermaksud mencuri atau merampok, gambar di atas hanyalah untuk illustrasi saja, diambil aslinya dari sini.
"Berdaulat secara Politik, Mandiri secara Ekonomi, dan Bermartabat secara Budaya"
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