Thank you Mr. Ottow & Geisller

Today, 155 Years ago … this land has been touched by the gospel of salvation in mansinam island, papua today we feel have been set free by the gospel.

Hopefully we still want to keep this land full of peace and brotherhood in the fear of God.

Mansinam is a silent witness to the proof of papua civilization, starting from this land mansinam built, like the two apostles ottow & geisller today’s Papua Province is divided into two, but it remains a one in the Gospel.

Happy Celebrating Independence Day, the light of the gospel in papua, Our Lord Jesus Christ bless us all.

Greetings dear to the land of Papua

The story of the Village Tomage and Otoweri

Some time ago I was in the village Tomage  and Village Otoweri, these two villages of the districts that have Fakfak direct impact from the gas company operating in the Bay, I saw and recorded some fundamental issues, the question is how this village people, can survive for the time long, their forests and the potential of Natural Resources is under threat,

They depend only of the potential life of Nature, in Tomage, sago became the staple food, but there is no added value to this Sago, for example, if you can make flour as raw material, to create a variety of cakes, which became a source of income for them, then for labor, they are only a rough labor, it should get attention, they should be trained to become professionals.
In Otoweri, shrimp became the main potential, but there is no added value for the shrimp, shrimp heads to make chips or fish paste, they just become a supplier to several local companies, we hope all, they must be given the potential added value, in order to increase their income, and will help the cost of school children – their children.

end of year trip

Fakfak is the last city I visited at the end of this year, I arrived in town Fakfak with flight wings, at the Hotel Grand papua – Fakfak, I lived in room 216 with Luis Nando, we, as leaders Triton, Ronni Dimara, in room 212, we will conduct research on coastal Fakfak and villages – Fakfak border village and Bay.
Our travel plans, we had prepared before in Sorong, in our Fakfak travel plans, plans to use vehicles on land and sea travel.

This research is to identify forest products, and how the impact of forests to indigenous peoples, we all know, indigenous people in Papua are always benefits from the forests, they would sell the forest for the future of their children, they get to eat and live off the forest

When there is the issue of REDD, how their positions, what they know about REDD, and what there is benefit from REDD, this important question, which will be reported to them, we hope, they can see and understand what it REDD, whether it was important to them ,
We know that our nation has not admitted Rights of Indigenous Peoples, for that we need to tell to them, which is important for us is that indigenous peoples in the village knew, there was a price to pay dearly for their forest.

REDD Workshop

Climate Change is a serious threat to us on this planet, and some policies have been adopted by several countries in the world, they talk about forests, but forest owners have not been involved in the talks.

REDD is not the best, but not the worst of all, we must be able to explain the indigenous peoples in Papua, so that they know about REDD.

In understanding the community, Forest at guard and they will be paid, who pays and for how much, that we need to explain.

We hope that participants in the workshop of this village has a basic understanding of REDD, so they will not be deceived

I am involved in this research, joined Roni Dimara  from the Triton Institute , in collaboration with The Samdhana Institute

On-line language documentation for Biak (Austronesian)

On-line language documentation for Biak (Austronesian)
ESRC Project RES-000-22-3788
Principal investigator: Mary Dalrymple
Co-investigator: Suriel Mofu

This collaborative project involves the University of Oxford and two universities in Papua, Universitas Cenderawasih and Universitas Negeri Papua, in the creation of an on-line database of digital audio texts and their linguistically annotated transcriptions and translations for the Austronesian language Biak, a language with about 50,000-70,000 speakers in Papua. The annotated transcriptions will be produced using Toolbox, a freely-available data management and analysis tool for language documentation, which supports the creation of resources in various forms: transcribed texts with free translations (of most use to the Biak-speaking community and for pedagogical use in Papua) and linguistically annotated transcriptions in two forms: a standard human-readable form like the paper-based corpora familiar to linguists, and a translation of this form to XML via the utility tools for Toolbox, suitable for computer analysis and database search. These resources will provide a snapshot of audio and textual data on the language, and hence will be useful for language preservation efforts, for ongoing efforts to produce teaching materials in the indigenous languages of Papua, and as a basis for the creation of dictionaries and glossaries in the language. Since they will be linguistically annotated, they will also be invaluable for linguists conducting research on Biak and related Austronesian languages. The project will begin in October 2009, and will run for 1 year.

source ; http://users.ox.ac.uk/~cpgl0015/biak/index.html

For the Future of Papua

For the first time I’m  get a chance from the Director of Triton Sorong to attend the congress I Save the Humans and Forests of Papua. This is my first opportunity to Jayapura, after almost two months I was in Sorong for Training and Research activities are carried out Triton Sorong with partners from Jakarta and the Netherlands.
A major problem is threatening the future of Papua, some important issues have been politicized for the exploitation of natural resources illegally. government must be honest to people about the investment activities, but not like that.

Personally I am proud when people are given the space by Fokers NGOs to discuss the fate and future of ethnic papua in this Republic. We are aware for papua generation is threatened over his property, land and forests become an important issue, but the government is not honest to the people in Papua.
Suebu, the Governor of Papua, which made history as governor of two times in papua government, but Governor Suebu also for the first  papuan governor  capitalists in Papua, RESPEK programs hardly consistent with the policy end – the end of this, as an example, Palm Business and the opening of new land into space where the military entered the village area, and this is a serious threat, even the military acknowledged some forest and coastal areas be his, this shameful act of our nation.

Klayili, the beautiful village

Klayili beautiful village I think I’ve arrived in this village to spend my holiday weekend, the village valley quiet and calm, with panoramic mountain forests and still looks green … I also natural hot water bath, which is village klaili,. .. I talked with the village chief, head of primary school and village midwives,, for a basic service improvement programs and health education, and they agreed to ward them more attention.
I walked 35 km, to reach this village, this is a beautiful village

The following photos – my photos;

     Berjalan Kaki 32 KM

Menuju Kampung Klaili

Hutan Perawan Papua yang sedang di pertanyakan keperawananya

Menggunakan Payung Tradisional Malamoi  saat hujan  senja

Dikampung Klaili, Tanah Malamoi

Mereka mutiara – mutiara masa depan papua

Melakukan Survey

Sumber Air Panas , 60* CC di tanah malamoi

Catatan : Mengunjungi Sumber Air Panas, Wisata Keramat di tanah Malamoi, Fotografer : Agustinus Kalalu,

REDD Assessment

I had two days in the Teminabuan, sorong south district to conduct initial studies, this study aims to see the extent to which society is responding to climate change, indigenous people in this district has the potential of forests for carbon trading plan, I am with this program coordinator, Luis, We have visited several villages and a lot of feedback, this is the first study we did in Teminabuan , hopefully the results of this initial study, the workshop  date will be 30 this month.

Use GPS to take cordinat system

Sorong Selatan Map

Rute on the Map

This research on the financial support from The  samdhana institute, in cooperation with Triton foundation.

ICT for the future fishermen papua

Beautiful land of Papua, a rich country, but why do the poor, given Jakarta’s special autonomy, had too much money for development, that development must be for the people, we must build from the needs of society,
People in Papua still working on land and sea, as farmers and fishermen.

The vast sea from north to south, a lot of fish, to help our fishermen, we can create a system of satellite-based fisheries information to help our fishermen,
With this system, I think it will be useful for improving the quality of their lives, good health, education and other economic benefict

following an information technology scheme for fishermen

Let them think about their forests

A few days in this oil town,  I saw  improvement is shown by the children – young people who joined the association triton, they have been conducting a number of events and activities this time is the activity audio-visual basic training, the participants come from the villages in Malamoi

This is the role of the young children in this land, to provide basic knowledge about how to conduct investigations with camera equipment, to document the illegal activities or illegal logging  forests on their land.

An idea which I think is very good for the forest preserve them, as people who love this land, the land papua, I argue that if there are 100 children easily papua throughout this land, then the right – the basic rights of people will start guarded papua from village

This training can be implemented with the support of the Dutch partners, they’ve produced a film with the title “Mother of Tears Malamoi” a 10-minute length movies of course member of moral message for all of us, that would be where the future of our country.

What is our role to our nature, this land is our responsibility, children – young papua, this occasion I was asked to give some material about the use of GPS, to their later report from the villages location where timber harvesting or theft of their woods, I also introduced use google earth to view satellite maps, is an opportunity to introduce to them the benefits of information technology.

Ronni Dimara was a very instrumental in designing all of this, he has been doing a little of what he had, and very important for them to maintain their forests.

I also met a young Malamoi, a very talented  documenting the problem, some of his works was published in several countries, and I am sure this kid will be a professional photografer, if given more opportunities to learn outside the country and even out , This young man named Augustinus Kalalu