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VISION:

We strive to contribute to a sustainable living environment in which biodiversity is properly managed to meet the needs and aspirations of present and future generations.

VALUES:

• We will fully involve civil society (primarily indigenous peoples and local communities), the business, and government (primarily the policy-makers) in all phases of our program development (problem identification/needs assessment, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation). We, therefore, will give top priority to the use of participatory development methods such as participatory rapid appraisal (PRA), goal oriented program planning (GOPP), etc.

• We will fully involve women (primarily indigenous women) in our policy-making and management processes. Due to persisting prejudices and stereotypes – primarily in rural areas – they suffer from gender inequality, disempowerment, and feminization of poverty. Women, for example, are ignored in biodiversity policy-making, whereas in fact they are the primary managers of biodiversity at domestic level. Obviously, women as mothers are the first to feel the effects of biodiversity degradation. So, it is very clear that unless women are fully involved, biodiversity conservation and any other development efforts would appear as gender terrorism!

• We will foster democracy and human rights. Without these, development and biodiversity conservation would lose their sole raison d’être. We, therefore, will promote good governance, and will fully support the elimination of poverty, terrorism, corruption and debts, and we will be non-denominational and non-discriminative.

• We will fully participate in achieving the objectives of international conventions relevant to biodiversity conservation such as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Ramsar Convention, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), etc. We also will join the campaign for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

MISSION:

We are a biodiversity conservation NGO working in Indonesia. We aim to integrate biodiversity conservation and poverty eradication. We do this by influencing civil society (primarily indigenous peoples and local communities), the business, and government (primarily the policy makers) to conserve biodiversity while using it in sustainable ways and sharing its benefits equitably within the framework of the ecosystem approach.

OVERALL GOAL (2006-2016):

Degradation rates of wild animals and plants (primarily those considered as globally endangered and/or endemic) and associated ecosystems in Indonesia’s bioregions, primarily on Sulawesi Island, decreased by 50% within 2006 through 2016.

IMMEDIATE OBJECTIVES (2006-2011):

• Rates of illegal and unsustainable exploitation of wild animals and plants (primarily those considered as globally endangered and/or endemic) will decline significantly by 2011.

• Man-made degradation rates of wildlife habitats including protected areas will decline significantly by 2011.

The LKP Director Mr. Alimaturahim (right) is discussing with an indigenous forest man who lives on making traditional roofs of palm leaves.

A rural woman in an Indonesian remote village is drying rattan stalks upon which her family vitally depends for survival.

The LKP Director Mr. Alimaturahim (two from right) is presenting a paper in an UNEP-sponsored regional workshop on coral conservation in Pattaya, Thailand, May 2006.

LKP - Lembaga Konservasi dan Pembangunan (Conservation and Development Institute)
Jl. Saranani 27 Kota Kendari 93111 Sulawesi Tenggara, Indonesia
Tel. +62 401 3012120 - Fax. +62 401 322683 - URL: www.lkpindonesia.net - E-mail: lkp@telkom.net

Last updated: July 27, 2007