Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago – Participatory Mapping Network – Indonesian Forum for the Environment – Greenpeace Indonesia – HuMA Association – Indigenous Territory Registration Agency

THE GOVERNMENT MUST OPEN ACCESS AND INVOLVE THE PEOPLE IN THE ONE MAP POLICY

Jakarta, September 2, 2020. In today’s closed meeting, I want to emphasize several things; 1. Requesting geospatial information generated from this one map policy to be accessible in one geoportal so that each Ministry/Agency and Regional Government obtains a single spatial data source, 2. Ministries/Agencies and Regional Governments to immediately utilize this single spatial data, 3. Ministries/Agencies and Regional Governments to collaborate and work together to resolve overlapping land issues in the field, both in forest and non-forest areas, and if necessary, a legal umbrella for the resolution of this thematic geospatial overlap should be prepared promptly. President Jokowi – One Map Policy Ratas, February 6, 2020.

In the 3 years since the issuance of Presidential Regulation 9/2016, the implementation of the accelerated one map policy activities still has not fully met public expectations. This can be seen from the aspects of compilation, integration, synchronization, and resolution of IGT issues, where the government’s bias towards the recognition and protection of community living spaces seems to be very neglected, for example, geospatial data products and information made by indigenous communities and local communities related to their territorial and living spaces still do not receive a place in policies solely because of issues such as who the data owner is from the Ministry/Agency and other technical details. On the other hand, in terms of sharing closed data access, both for utilization and monitoring of the existing one map policy activities.

111 days (08/21/2018) before the launch of the one map policy geoportal on December 11, 2018, President Jokowi consciously restricted public access to geospatial data and information of the one map policy by issuing Presidential Regulation 20/2018 Jo. Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs decree 6/2018 concerning the classification of access authority for sharing geospatial data and information through the national geospatial information network in accelerating the implementation of the one map policy, which in this decision has determined who has access and the type of access (download, view, and closed) to the one map policy results contained in the one map policy geoportal specifically. Access authorization to download, view, and/or closed can only be done by government actors such as the President, Vice President, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Minister of National Development Planning/Head of Bappenas, Head of BIG Ministry or agency leaders, Governors and Regents/Mayors and whereas the public cannot have direct access to the IGT, so the One Map Policy runs without public oversight and control, which has actually reduced the credibility, accountability, and transparency of this policy product and is a structural hindrance to the community’s right to access accurate and proper data and information.

In another situation, the government’s plan to enact the omnibus law Job Creation Bill with 11 main discussion clusters, one of which is the simplification of permits (location and spatial permits, Environmental Permits, and Building Permits), will certainly worsen the spatial utilization conditions and exacerbate conflicts. This is a regulatory impact that disregards the fact of spatial management and utilization by the people over their living and life spaces and closes off people’s initiatives to contribute to geospatial data and information.

The community’s contribution efforts to government policies are actually aimed at conveying the field conditions and realities to the development plans and implementations, preventing forest and peatland degradation, licensing violations, and preventing corruption of natural resources, as well as supporting the current state conditions for Indonesia’s progress.

Nur Hidayati from WALHI said, “Indigenous territories and local community areas have not yet received legality from the state, resulting in conflicts with a wide range of spectrums. In the discourse of changing the one map policy in the future, it is very important to integrate geospatial data and information from participatory community maps that have been made. Equally important, the government must also be willing to open up the existing one map policy geoportal so that the public can access and utilize it. Restricting community access to