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Education and Environment for Indigenous Communities

Poverty eradication by supporting indigenous communities in Indonesia through non-formal education and environmental management The key factor in securing successful socio-economic development and the survival of indigenous cultures lies in sustaining the specific relationship between indigenous people and their natural environment. This affects the sixty million people living in rain forests around the world who depend on forest resources for their livelihood. With our rapidly changing world, forest communities are shifting their economic strategies to accommodate new needs and thus are altering their livelihood patterns. Limited access to information means that communities generally take a ‘quick-fix’ approach to improving their economic situation, often using destructive economic development schemes, e.g. logging or mono-cultural plantations. These new development strategies not only fail to generate long-term benefits or welfare at community level but they also cause poverty.

This Project, managed by the UNESCO Jakarta Office, aims to empower local communities on Siberut Island – the largest island of the Mentawai Archipelago, approximately 150 km west of Sumatra – to achieve sustainable use of natural resources and environmental conservation in the context of rapid societal change, while maintaining the cultural values and integrity of the local population. By slowing down or halting environmental degradation, this will help prevent further erosion of indigenous cultural and social values.

Rights addressed by this project:

Safe Environment

Education and Training

Cultural Identity

Freedom of Expression and Participation

Region covered by this project:

Asia and the Pacific

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