| Summary: | Empowerment of indigenous peoples in the implementation of REDD + is a form of
legal protection based on Paragraph 72 Decision 1/CP.16. This study aims to determine
whether the empowerment of communities of Kalumpang Kedamangan Mantangai
Village can support REDD + and to describe obstacles impeding the implementation of
community empowerment of Kalumpang Kedamangan Mantangai Village.
This is socio legal research. The data were analyzed using qualitative research
methods and were presented descriptively and analytically. The sampling technique used was Purposive Sampling. The respondents consisted of two analysis units. The
community analysis unit refers to Kerapatan Mantir Adat of Kalumpang Village while
the individual analysis unit refers to 25 people of Kalumpang Village who participated in
the activity of Entrepreneurial, Social and Economic Reinforcement and Reforestation.
Research showed that the activities of empowering community group in Kalumpang
Kedamangan Mantangai Village that had been conducted has not supported REDD+
because: 1) In The Recognizing and Strengthening the Status of Customary Lands
through SKT-Adat (Certificate of Customary Lands), there had not been any inventory, measurement, marking out using stakes and mapping of customary lands done by the Kerapatan Mantir Adat of Kalumpang Village and none of the SKT-Adat was owned by the community of Kalumpang Village. 2) In the Program of Social and Economic Reinforcement of Rural Communities and Entrepreneurial Development, the joint business group (KUB) that has been formed can not perform its function as a rubber gatherers as they should. 3) In the Reforestation Program, failures of FPIC contributed systemic impacts to the ineffectiveness of reforestation activities undertaken by the community of Kalumpang Village. Constraints in the implementation of the empowerment of rural communities of Kalumpang Village were resulted from the operational implementation of operational implementation of REDD + that did not run well, and this implementation was also not consistent with the operational rules and the concept of community empowerment. Solutions to these constraints are: 1) Financial support for the phase of empowerment for both customary institutions and individuals. 2) Making FPIC as a legislation nomenclature. 3) Accommodating the characteristics of community groups as religious/magical, communicative, cash and concrete indegenous peoples in order to minimize conflicts and sustainability as well as success of REDD +. 4) Intensive mentoring and monitoring from the event organizer so as to make the communities can truly be independent and empowered.
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