EcoNusa Foundation

Our vision is championing community’s independence in sustainable and impartial natural resources management. In the past 6 years, EcoNusa has worked together with 13 local partners and collaborators, including religious-based organizations, Catholic (Caritas) and Christian (Klasis GPI), in 4 provinces (Papua, West Papua, Maluku, and North Maluku), 24 districts, 172 villages, with a total of 34,000 direct beneficiaries to save the last frontier of intact forest in Papua and Maluku regions.

With a holistic and comprehensive approach from grassroots to national level intervention, we have become a strategic hub for social and environmental transformation in Eastern Indonesia. Our focuses include building community resilience in the natural resource management, supporting Indigenous rights through policy advocacy, contributing to low carbon development, mobilizing youth and public movements, promoting sustainable local economy, supporting indigenous community livelihoods and organizational capacity development, and creating positive narratives on forest, climate, ocean, biodiversity, and local indigenous community best practices.

From 2017 to 2022, EcoNusa supported local governments in Papua by reviewing and revoking palm oil concession areas, equivalent to 2.5 times the size of Los Angeles, containing approximately 70 million tons of carbon. EcoNusa also facilitated customary land mapping for nearly half a million hectares of forests. Through its socio-economic enterprise, KOBUMI Enterprise, EcoNusa Foundation promotes models of sustainable local economic development based on environmental stewardship and the values of indigenous peoples. These models include local commodity trading, eco-tourism businesses owned by indigenous youth, and revolving fund programs for nature-based Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the Papua and Maluku regions.

What's next? Your support matters! Help us reach our fundraising goal to:

1. Map 500,000 hectares of indigenous community lands in Papua and Maluku Islands to get indigenous rights’ recognition, including coastal and marine area management using the Other effective area-based conservation measure (OECMs) model.
2. Support 500 local economic development and livelihood initiatives for indigenous communities entrepreneurship. This support includes the sustainable utilization of forest and marine resources, promoting sustainable land use in areas where palm oil concessions have been revoked, expanding social forestry areas, and establishing village-scale processing industries to enhance the value of commodities in Papua.
3. Together with local and Indigenous community, protect at least 2.5 million hectares of key areas in Papua and Maluku region, encompassing biodiversity, mangrove forests, and critically endangered coastal ecosystems.
4. Support the provision of volunteers, healthcare workers, teachers, and food self-sufficiency programs in 250 villages, 15 districts, and 6 provinces in Eastern Indonesia.
5. Promote self-sufficiency in renewable energy (solar, micro-hydro, or wind) in 250 villages located in forested, coastal, and small island areas across 15 districts and 6 provinces in Eastern Indonesia.

Join us in making a positive impact: Donate today!