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Drone Academy: Data, Drone, dan Village

Map is an important planning instrument in the development of villages and rural areas. The Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 6 of 2014 concerning Villages has mandated that the boundaries of the village area are stated in the form of a village map that has been stipulated in the Regent/Mayor regulation. In reality, village mapping has involved the community, especially in determining village boundaries. However, there are still many challenges related to village maps and mapping, (1) the large number of villages in Indonesia whose administrative boundary is not yet clear, (2) conflicts between villages related to boundaries that are still ongoing, and technical challenges (3) the satellite imagery used as a basis for village mapping has a low quality (cloud cover, irregular image capture time, low resolution). These three things are challenges that must be answered jointly by both the government and civil society to avoid prolonged conflicts related to the issue of space and its usage. 

To answer those challenges, KEMITRAAN has initiated the Drone Academy and Village Data on May 9-12th 2018 in Jambi. “The drone academy was held because we saw a very high need, not only for mapping the area, but also for monitoring activities, land use and landscapes, such as for example agriculture, forestry, and peat ecosystems. So drones are used as a monitoring tool for development at the village level. The output of this training is more structured drone training design, clear learning methods, and of course there are modules to guide the next training,” said Hasantoha Adnan as Project Manager of the Peat Care Village from KEMITRAAN. The method used in this training is a participatory training method in which participants and facilitators/resources share knowledge and experiences. 

The result of this activity is the design of a structured training process, clear learning methods and materials, simple way of learning, and also produces modules that will later be used as guidelines in the next training. “The Drone Academy module is expected to be reusable and replicated by the wider community,” Hasantoha continued. The aim of the drone academy itself is to train village activists or activists to use drone technology to produce accurate and high-precision spatial data.

“We train participants from flying drones, photographing land for participatory mapping, then the results are put together and analyzed. The data hopefully can later be used in various contexts, such as village planning, agriculture, and regional monitoring,” said Irendra Radjawali as the facilitator at the Drone Academy. On the third day, participants were invited to the field to learn more about the types of multirotor (copter) and fixed-wing drones to map forest areas and community land in Pandan Sejahtera Village, Tanjung Jabung Timur Regency, Jambi. Fixed-wing drones were used to see areas of former HTI land which turned out to be deep peat areas. 

Not only practicing flying and analyzing data, in the future, participants will also be taught to “repair” ordinary Red Green Blue (RGB) cameras into Near Infra Red (NIR) cameras so that they can produce Near Infra Red images that can be developed into Normalized Difference Vegetation Index images. (NDVI) which can identify the stress level of individual plants. “To do mapping on land, we used to have to go around or wait for the results from the satellite, now there are drones that can be operated on autopilot and make work in the field easier. We just need to sit back, we’ve got a picture of the land and we just need to analyze it,” said Anto, one of the participants from the Drone Academy from Bulukumba, South Sulawesi. He also hopes that in the future there will be training to “operate” drone cameras equipped with weather sensors so that people can monitor the weather in their respective areas. At the end of the training, Roem Topatimasang as a social activist from INSIST reminded that, “the use of drones is not only limited to utilizing technological sophistication but must also be accompanied by ethics and social responsibility in its use, because in the end the use of drones must support sovereignty over data and other’s living space.”

2016

Pada bulan Maret 2016, KEMITRAAN menerima akreditasi internasional dari Adaptation Fund. Dewan Adaptation Fund, dalam pertemuannya yang ke-27, memutuskan untuk mengakreditasi KEMITRAAN sebagai National Implementing Entity (NIE) dari Adaptation Fund. KEMITRAAN menjadi lembaga pertama dan satu-satunya lembaga Indonesia yang terakreditasi sebagai NIE Adaptation Fund di Indonesia.

2020

Perjanjian ini ditandatangani antara Green Climate Fund (GCF) dan KEMITRAAN. Perjanjian ini meresmikan akuntabilitas KEMITRAAN dalam melaksanakan proyek-proyek yang disetujui oleh GCF.

 

Untuk diketahui, GCF adalah dana khusus terbesar di dunia yang membantu negara-negara berkembang untuk mengurangi emisi gas rumah kaca dan meningkatkan kemampuan mereka dalam merespons perubahan iklim.

 

Dana ini dihimpun oleh Konvensi Kerangka Kerja PBB tentang Perubahan Iklim (UNFCCC) pada tahun 2010. GCF memiliki peran penting dalam mewujudkan Perjanjian Paris, yakni mendukung tujuan untuk menjaga kenaikan suhu global rata-rata di bawah 2 derajat celsius.

2000-2003

KEMITRAAN memainkan peran krusial dalam mendukung pengembangan undang-undang untuk membentuk KPK. Hal ini diikuti dengan langkah mendukung Pemerintah dan DPR dalam memilih calon komisioner yang kompeten dan juga mendukung kelompok masyarakat sipil untuk mengawasi secara kritis proses seleksinya. Setelah komisioner ditunjuk, mereka meminta KEMITRAAN untuk membantu mendesain kelembagaan dan rekrutmen awal KPK, serta memainkan peran sebagai koordinator donor. Sangat jelas bahwa KEMITRAAN memainkan peran kunci dalam mendukung KPK untuk mengembangkan kapasitas dan strategi yang diperlukan agar dapat bekerja seefektif mungkin.

2003

Pada tahun 2003, KEMITRAAN menjadi badan hukum yang independen yang terdaftar sebagai Persekutuan Perdata Nirlaba. Pada saat itu, KEMITRAAN masih menjadi program yang dikelola oleh UNDP hingga akhir tahun 2009. Sejak awal tahun 2010, KEMITRAAN mengambil alih tanggung jawab dan akuntabilitas penuh atas program-program dan perkembangannya.

1999-2000

Kemitraan bagi Pembaruan Tata Kelola Pemerintahan, atau KEMITRAAN, didirikan pada tahun 2000 setelah berlangsungnya pemilihan umum pertama di Indonesia yang bebas dan adil pada tahun 1999. Pemilu bersejarah ini merupakan langkah penting dalam upaya Indonesia keluar dari masa lalu yang otoriter menuju masa depan yang demokratis. KEMITRAAN didirikan dari dana perwalian multi-donor dan dikelola oleh United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) dengan mandat untuk memajukan reformasi tata kelola pemerintahan di Indonesia.

2020

This agreement was signed between Green Climate Fund (GCF) and PARTNERSHIP. This agreement formalizes KEMITRAAN’s accountability in implementing projects approved by the GCF.

For your information, the GCF is the world’s largest special fund that helps developing countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase their ability to respond to climate change.

These funds were collected by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2010. The GCF has an important role in realizing the Paris Agreement, namely supporting the goal of keeping the average global temperature increase below 2 degrees Celsius.

2020

This agreement was signed between Green Climate Fund (GCF) and PARTNERSHIP. This agreement formalizes KEMITRAAN’s accountability in implementing projects approved by the GCF.

For your information, the GCF is the world’s largest special fund that helps developing countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase their ability to respond to climate change.

These funds were collected by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2010. The GCF has an important role in realizing the Paris Agreement, namely supporting the goal of keeping the average global temperature increase below 2 degrees Celsius.

2016

In March 2016, KEMITRAAN received international accreditation from the Adaptation Fund. The Adaptation Fund Board, in its 27th meeting, decided to accredit KEMITRAAN as National Implementing Entity (NIE) from the Adaptation Fund. KEMITRAAN is the first and only Indonesian institution to be accredited as a NIE Adaptation Fund in Indonesia.

2003

In 2003, KEMITRAAN became an independent legal entity registered as a Non-Profit Civil Partnership. At that time, KEMITRAAN was still a program managed by UNDP until the end of 2009. Since the beginning of 2010, KEMITRAAN took over full responsibility and accountability for the programs and their development.

2000-2003

KEMITRAAN played a crucial role in supporting the development of legislation to establish the KPK. This was followed by steps to support the Government and DPR in selecting competent commissioner candidates and also supporting civil society groups to critically monitor the selection process. After the commissioners were appointed, they asked KEMITRAAN to help with the institutional design and initial recruitment of the KPK, as well as play the role of donor coordinator. It is clear that KEMITRAAN plays a key role in supporting the Corruption Eradication Commission to develop the capacity and strategies needed to work as effectively as possible.

1999-2000

The Partnership for Governance Reform, or KEMITRAAN, was founded in 2000 following Indonesia’s first free and fair general election in 1999. This historic election is an important step in Indonesia’s efforts to move away from an authoritarian past towards a democratic future. PARTNERSHIP was established from a multi-donor trust fund and is managed by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with a mandate to advance governance reform in Indonesia

1999-2000

Kemitraan bagi Pembaruan Tata Kelola Pemerintahan, atau KEMITRAAN, didirikan pada tahun 2000 setelah berlangsungnya pemilihan umum pertama di Indonesia yang bebas dan adil pada tahun 1999. Pemilu bersejarah ini merupakan langkah penting dalam upaya Indonesia keluar dari masa lalu yang otoriter menuju masa depan yang demokratis. KEMITRAAN didirikan dari dana perwalian multi-donor dan dikelola oleh United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) dengan mandat untuk memajukan reformasi tata kelola pemerintahan di Indonesia.