Komunitas Konservasi Indonesia Warsi (KKI Warsi)

Warsi is a non-government organisation established in 1991 by a number of inter-disciplinary and inter-genre activists that share the same views in responding to facts in natural resource management. In the 1990s, forest management was centralised in Jakarta and under the control of only 20 conglomerates with 572 companies holding logging concessions of a total of 64 million hectares of forest in Indonesia. On the other hand, the number of the poor reached as many as 27.2 million people or 15.1 of the total population. Inequality existed in the concession, access, and management opportunity of forest areas.

Despite the government’s lack of recognition, the community living inside and around the forest areas have long perceived the forest as a valuable part their social, economic, cultural and even religious lives as what their ancestor have handed down through the generations. The model that the community has been using has proven to be capable of preserving natural resources and ensuring sustainable management.

Against this light, the founders of Warsi established a forum for the common struggle in ensuring sustainable development that can meet the need and welfare of the present generation without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs.