This document summarizes participatory action research conducted on community-based peatland restoration in Dompas Village, Bengkalis, Riau, Indonesia. The research developed 4 community-based business models for peatland restoration, including timber and ecotourism, pineapple agroforestry, coffee agroforestry, and home garden agroforestry. Through a participatory process using Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development framework and Osterwalder's business model canvas, the models were co-designed and implemented by community groups. The research found that community-based approaches that connect restoration to livelihoods can help reduce fires and improve livelihoods in peatland areas of Indonesia.

1. Photo
by
Faizal
Abdul
Aziz/CIFOR
Community
management of
Peatland
Participatory action research
for community-based
peatland restoration
Herry Purnomo,
Sonya D. Kusumadewi
Beni Okarda
Dyah Puspitaloka

2. Peatland restoration in Indonesia
Peatland distribution map in Indonesia
Source: Government of Indonesia 2019 (https://en.prims.brg.go.id/)
• Peatland area is 13.43 million hectare.
• Peatland and Mangrove Restoration Agency (BRGM) identifies 1,205 villages for peatland restoration
and fire prevention.
• Our work: Improving livelihood through community-based business model for peatland restoration.

3. Framework and
methods
Ostrom’s IAD combined with:
• Participatory Action Research (loop of
Reflection, Planning, Action, and Monitoring)
• Osterwalder’s Canvas business model
development

4. Dompas Village, Bengkalis, Riau

5. Results
Canvas business model

6. Reflection Co-Design/Planning Action Monitoring

7. Community-based business models
Model Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4
Land ownership Public (2.2 ha) Communal (3.3 & 3.7 ha) Private (1, 0.6, & 0.3 ha) Private homegarden
Land manager
Masyarakat Peduli Api
(Fire care community
group)
Farmer groups including woman
group
Group of farmer households Farmer household
Business model Timber and ecotourism Pineapple agroforestry Coffee agroforestry Home garden agroforestry
Restoration
treatment
Rewetting, revegetation,
revitalization
Rewetting, revegetation,
revitalization
Rewetting, revegetation,
revitalization
Revegetation &
revitalization

8. Pineapple harvesting, post-harvesting,
and selling, and….Fire reduced.

9. Lesson Learned and connecting the dots
• Complexity on the ground is
beyond your imaginantion.
• Trans-disciplinary is a must.
• Clear and adaptive
mechanism for cost-benefit
sharing and institutional
development.
• Connecting the Dompas PAR
dot with the rest of the world
produces reinforcement.

10. Related Publications
We are inside the system (constructivism)
• Purnomo and Puspitaloka, 2020 ➔
• Jalil et al. 2021. The role of social capital of Riau women
farmer groups in building collective action for tropical
peatland restoration. Forest and Society 5(2): 341-351
We observe the system (positive realism)
• Nigussie et al. 2018. Applying Ostrom’s institutional
analysis and development framework to soil and water
conservation activities in north-western Ethiopia. Land
Use Policy 71:1-10
• Purnomo et al. 2021. A political-economy model to reduce
fire and improve livelihoods in Indonesia’s lowlands.
Forest Policy and Economics 130:1-26.
Thank You!
https://www.cifor.org/publications/pdf_files/Books/BPurnomo-SCE_20-01.pdf