Program Overview

WRI Indonesia seeks to support the government, private sector, and communities in Indonesia to reduce its GHG emission through better management of its forest and land use, business operation, and livelihoods. We utilize new technology, multi-stakeholder approach, and research to provide the most up-to-date, accurate, and reliable tools, methodology, and data so that key stakeholders can take part in sustainable development. To advance this cause, WRI Indonesia is championing an ambitious program to transform land use planning and management to be more inclusive and sustainable through several projects.

Within our Food, Land, and Water (FLW) Program, we envision critical ecosystem such as forest and peatland across Indonesia to be governed fairly and sustainability. We believe sustainable land use management is key for Indonesia to meet its climate goal, in line with keeping the goal climate target below the 1.5 degress celcius warming threshold, while providing sustainable livelihoods to forest-dependent communities and conserve biodiversity in the landscape. We intend to achieve this through safeguarding the remaining forest and peatland from deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation; maintaining forests and peatland quality through sound stewardship; and restoring degraded ecosystem to improve its productivity, conservation value, and ecosystem services.

To effectively eliminate deforestation from key commodities production and provide robust stewardship for the remaining forest and peatland, we work together with various level of government, private sector, and civil society to mainstream the ethical supply chain principles, and support forest-dependent communities to secure their land rights. We aims to achieve this through research, policy advocacy, and creation of a community of practice to mainstream sustainable land use management.

New Provinces Pathway

This program will focus on supporting the new provinces government in ensuring key objectives in the preparation of the regional spatial plan, which include: (a) provide a strong recommendation that the regional spatial plan is critical to adopting a commitment to maintain 80% forest cover in Tanah Papua; (b) ensure that mapped customary territories form the participatory mapping process are verified and adopted in the regional spatial plan; (c) support positive engagement and collective commitment from local government towards sustainable and low carbon development in every province in the Tanah Papua. Through these initiatives, we aimed to build movement government agencies, companies, NGOs, communities and society to enhance sustainable and equitable forest and land use management in Indonesian Papua.

Job Highlight

The GIS Research Assistant role will provide essential support for the team in delivering high-quality, impactful work in spatial analysis. The consultant will assist in advancing landscape research, development of regional spatial plan, conduct spatial and baseline research. Additionally, this position is expected to be actively involved in engagement efforts with diverse stakeholders and communities across provinces.

The GIS Research Assistant will report directly to the Research and GID Analyst while working closely and collaboratively with other Tanah Papua regional team. This position will be based in Manokwari, West Papua, with office-flex working arrangement and travel requirement as needed. In support of WRI's DEI commitment, you are responsible for actively participating in these collaborative efforts by integrating equity into your work, our workplace, and the organizational culture.

What You Will Do

Research (60%)

Research Framework and Baseline

• Support research and GIS analysis on Papua’s forest and land use, focusing on new provinces’ pathway (participatory mapping, Indigenous Territories, land suitability, supply chain, land use change model), natural resource management (spatial planning, environmental justices, conflict, water, biodiversity), and equitable society (indigenous people, local community, gender)
• Provide support to strengthen the quality of various mapping layout, data sharing mechanism, and integrated database across workstream (spatial, social, economy, and policy analysis) between WRI Indonesia research;
• Actively support the local development of dashboard of Regional Papua team;
• Support data acquisition and extraction, data analysis (quantitative and qualitative), data presentation, GIS mapping, reporting and presentations;
• Work with the other research team in authoring or co-authoring knowledge products and other communication documents (e.g., reports, briefs, data products, tools, blog).

  Data Collection and Analysis

  • Support in analyzing collected data by employing the agreed methods by referring to the research design, particularly for landscape analysis;
  • Manage data repository and archive system for the project and the Papua team.

    Stakeholder Engagement and Outreach (40%)

    • Build and maintain good relationships with various stakeholders such as universities, local governments, regional partner institutions, and local communities who work on issues of forestry, environment, and natural resources in West Papua and Southwest Papua Provinces.
    • Participate in discussions, meetings, and conferences;
    • Identify potential stakeholders to expand engagement work whenever necessary.