Bujang Raba – Indonesia

About the project

The Bujang Raba project conserves endangered primary rainforest in Sumatra’s Bukti Barisan forest working with five Indigenous communities.

By engaging local communities in protecting their local forest, the project actively plays a part in reducing forest fires, illegal poaching and unsustainable harvesting of timber. The project has also initiated a number of activities to diversify income for participating communities by introducing high value crops such as cardamom, cocoa, and other non-timber forest products that can be integrated into smallholder agroforestry plots. The project will also work with community members to build bamboo and rattan processing capacities to open up other income streams.

The Bujang Raba project site is rich in biodiversity and is home to threatened species and other species of high conservation value. These species include the Malayan Tapir (Tapirus indicus), Sun Bear (Helarctos malayanus), and the critically endangered Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae).