Sharing Knowledge and Experience on Landscape Approach

Sharing Knowledge and Experience on Landscape Approach

Jakarta, September 13, 2021—Cocoa Sustainability Partnership (CSP) is partnership forum whose members are the representatives of public and private stakeholders who are working collectively toward the establishment of sustainable cocoa sector in Indonesia. With jurisdictional or landscape approach, CSP Secretariat is working to accelerate various of multi-sectoral cooperation in certain areas. In doing so, CSP Secretariat wants to dive deep in expanding the staffs’ knowledge and to gain knowledge from organizations, or industries, who are working in cocoa sector and other sectors with different implementation activities.

CSP Secretariat, furthermore, invited some resource persons to present their experience and on landscape initiative programs which had been, or had being implemented. The workshop of Sustainable Landscape Approach was implemented by combining online and offline sessions. And during the workshop, implemented with fully respected the applied safety protocols during pandemic, the sessions were dedicated informal and interactively to maximize the discussion among participants and resource persons.

This internal workshop was conducted with the objectives that CSP’s staffs were able to understand the concept of landscape approach, to gain knowledge on landscape approach program which had been, or had being implemented, to be able to identify the collaboration opportunities in one jurisdictional area, to understand more the challenges and successes of applied landscape approach programs, to be able in designing the frameworks of landscape initiatives, and CSP Secretariat could facilitated landscape approach-related activities in Indonesian cocoa sector based on the programs of CSP’s members and donors. The activity was conducted on September 13, 2021, and actively facilitated by Jeremy Hicks as CSP consultant.


In the first session, Rifat Aldina, Program Manager of Proforest Indonesia, presented the concept, objectives, and scoping activities in landscape approach. Proforest had generated a guideline on the participation in landscape initiative where there were some steps such as understanding the supply processes, identify the priority and enabling environment, identify the existing initiative, and decide what initiative that could be implemented in the future. And in the more concrete level, preparing the resources and maintaining the activity scope that would be implemented, establishing trusts with some stakeholders, then planning and implementing the intervention, and communicating and coordinating the initiatives. Lastly, performing monitoring and evaluation. “Cocoa has been considered as one of contributing commodities to the development of economic in South Sulawesi. And the collaborated program with Mondelēz in four districts, i.e. Pinrang, Luwu, Enrekang, and Soppeng. As for cocoa as well, it has being identified the further cooperation with other industries such as Mars, Cargill, and Olam. It is identified also that in this province, there are approximately 31% of its total width as forest area. The assessment is also performed in identifying the potency of area with High Conservation Value (HCV), and High Carbon Stock (HCS),” Rifat Aldina said.

In order to see the challenges and successes of landscape initiative implementation, Jeni Pareira as Program Manager of Sustainable Landscape at Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Indonesia also participated actively as resource person. She stated that WCS applied some initiatives with National Park of Bukit Barisan Selatan in doing monitoring and patrol by applying SMART (Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tools), then periodically monitored the biodiversity and to assist the conflict resolution among human beings and wildlife. “WCS, moreover, also encourages the establishment of Roundtable on Sustainable Coffee in Bukit Barisan Selatan Landscape. So far, there are six offline and online roundtable discussions with multi stakeholders which are attended by the representatives of National Park of Bukit Barisan Selatan, local governments, NGOs, farmers groups, and coffee industries in Lampung,” she added.


This internal workshop was expected that it could be able to provide knowledge and experience for CSP Secretariat staffs. The learnings would be applied in form of activities and initiatives related to landscape and jurisdictional approaches that would be implemented by CSP in the future. (CSP/AH)

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