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Founded in 1997 by Dr. Bayu Wirayudha, Friends of the National Parks Foundation (FNPF) is an Indonesian non-profit, grass-roots, conservation organization working to protect wildlife, restore habitat, and improve the well being of local communities. FNPF works closely with local communities, customary and cultural groups, government, researchers, volunteers, and the global conservation community. They employ, educate and improve the well being (social & economic) of the local communities in the vicinity of each project.
FNPF’s upcoming project is in the village of Besi Kalung (about 50km northwest of Denpasar), a group of local farming communities in the center of a UNESCO world cultural heritage site, famous for its rice-farming culture. FNPF aims to introduce sustainable, community-based eco-tourism into Besi Kalung so that farmers in the region can become beneficiaries of tourism in the area, as opposed to objects of tourism as they are now.
The challenges FNPF is facing:
Current challenges that FNPF faces with this project relate mainly to finding appropriate sustainable technology and infrastructure for the planned development. As well as this, critical funding is needed for the vision of Besi Kalung to become a reality, and funding ideas are greatly needed.
Main desired outcomes:
- feedback concerning sustainability
- thoughts/ideas for what sustainable technology could be implemented in this project, specifically with making the development in Besi Kalung, which will eventually be handed over to be operated by the Besi Kalung community, self-sustaining
- feedback or ideas for funding and finding investors