INDONESIAN RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECT

 

Explore the Indonesian community’s triple benefits of renewable energy, forest conservation, and development.

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  The project is conducted in a 54- household village called Nanga Jemah. It is located at the edge of a high conservation value forest, where a quid pro quomechanism will be put into place through which village households return part of the investment on renewable energy equipment to the village through (a) in-kind conservation outcomes (ie. via regular and documented forest and biodiversity patrolling and monitoring), and part of it through (b) village social entrepreneurships (ie. focusing on v
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  The in-kind conservation outcomes payment would correspond to between 40%-50% of the project’s equipment and installment costs. These costs would be reimbursed by the community in-kind via their time and labor inputs into periodic forest habitat monitoring and conservation, as well as forest restoration efforts. The other 50% to 60% cost would be reimbursed from the community into the Village Self-Help Group (VSHG) through two Village Social Entrepreneurship (small business) program.
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  The project funding provides capital investment for the two small businesses. Once ongoing, the small businesses would generate incomes to pay back for the 50% to 60% renewable equipment and maintenance costs and secure income to be able to gradually return to the invested capital funds. Repaid capital would thereafter be used by VSHG to fund other village social entrepreneurship programs, in the form of a village revolving funds mechanism, thus supporting long-term village socioeconomic develop
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  Besides, MFA also helped local communities to establish mangrove nurseries with over 10,000 seedlings nurtured in the area. The survival rate is 75% and those seedlings will be planted in the gaps during monsoon season