
Before a single tree is planted, the community decides. In Latimojong Village, Enrekang, we ran a Free, Prior and Informed Consent process so local people shaped a 250-hectare forest rehabilitation effort from the very start.
With Indonesia’s national social-forestry target rising from 12.7 to 15.8 million hectares, South Sulawesi’s stakeholders met to turn ambition into a concrete roadmap.
West Sulawesi has nearly 145,000 sugar palm trees — but only a third are actively tapped. A business meeting in Polewali Mandar set out to connect the farmers who manage them with the industry that needs them.
Producing organic fertiliser is one skill; selling it is another. In Taora Village, Mamasa, we worked with forest farmers to turn their field-school products into a real, market-ready business.

