Ernawati Apriani, Indonesia
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Ernawati 
Apriani, World Wildlife Fund Indonesia
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2019 Status:
LINKEDIN 2019 Conservation Science Specialist World Wildlife Fund Indonesia
2017-2019 Graduate Student in Forestry at Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, Arizona Area
2013-2017 GIS Officer WWF Indonesia
2015 International Conference Paper:
"Strengthening Forest and Ecosystem Connectivity in RIMBA Corridor Sumatera Indonesia" * Presenter: Ernawati Apriani, World Wildlife Fund - Indonesia
The Integrated Ecosystem Area RIMBA—the RIMBA Corridor is one of five ecosystem corridors that have been mentioned in President Decree No. 13/2012. This area covers 3,8 million hectares over 19 districts in parts of Riau, Jambi and West Sumatera province. The RIMBA Corridor contains Kerinci Seblat NP, Bukit Tiga Puluh NP and Berbak NP and other conservation areas. But fragmentation, fire and human encroachment has caused such a loss of natural capital that the future options for communities to sustain and grow their livelihoods throughout the corridor is seriously threatened. The GIS analysis has been done to collect information about the driver of forest lost and degradation and to collect information about the carbon benefit of the area. Due to the area of RIMBA Corridor being very large, the GIS analysis was also used to look for the priorities area for pilot location of project interventions.
2015 Scholar Profile *-Organization name: WWF Indonesia (World Wildlife Fund for Nature - Indonesia)
*-Organization full street address: Graha Simatupang, Tower 2 Unit C, 7th - 11th Floor Jalan Letjen T.B. Simatupang, Jakarta Selatan - 12540
*-Organization full mailing address, if different:
*-Country: Indonesia
*-Work phone with country and area code: +62 21-7829461
*-Work fax with country and area code: +62 21-7829462
*-Organization Web site URL if any: http://www.wwf.or.id/
email: ernawati.apriani@gmail.com
Describe your current GIS role: I am responsible for the management of Web GIS in my organization. I manage spatial data that has been used in analysis, both for our Forest and Marine teams on our webgis. To do this, I use Arcgis for Server to create and publish services. I also manage a collaborative mapping website called Sigaptaru, which is currently hosted on Google maps API, and uses tilemill MBTiles for the various layers. I hope to continually improve the design and functionality of Sigaptaru, which brings stakeholders together to discuss land use from a spatial perspective.
describe the work that your current organization does: WWF Indonesia is one of the biggest independent conservation organization (NGO) in Indonesia and has started their activities since 1962. In 1998, WWF Indonesia officially became a national institution incorporated Foundation. WWF-Indonesia’s ultimate goal is to stop and eventually reverse environmental degradation and to build a future where people live in harmony with nature. Our mission is to conserve biodiversity and reducing human impact through:
- Promoting strong conservation ethics, awareness and actions in Indonesia society.
- Facilitating multi-stakeholders efforts to preserve biodiversity & ecological processes on ecoregional scale.
- Advocating for policies, law and law enforcement that support conservation.
- Promoting conservation for the well-being of people, through sustainable use of natural resources.
WWF Indonesia is currently running conservation programs in 28 sites in 17 provinces throughout Indonesia in a number of marine, freshwater and forest ecosystem. WWF Indonesia strive to save the diversity of species by promoting sustainable conservation that can give continued social and economic benefits to local communities. WWF Indonesia also work with v
arious stakeholders to restore damaged ecosystems and mitigate various threats such as climate change and toxic chemicals. Some vital preconditions need to be in place for effective conservation to happen. These include empowered citizens, responsible governments and businesses and strong conservation policies.
history of your personal work in conservation and GIS: When I was student in my college, I was interested to use satellite data that can show us land use from above. Since that time, I really want to learn about how to manage that data to be something that can be understood by general people. And because my interest, I havechosen the lecturer of that class as my thesis adviser.. I was an assistant as well for the class satellite meteorology and had mutual learningwithothers student related managing raster data and vector data. I have also did internship in LAPAN (the Indonesian government space agency) to learn about the use of satellite data andspatial data for volcano hazards. I had no experience in conservation in the beginning of my career. But, after I joined as intern in my organization, I realized my strong interest in conservation. First, I had help my organization to manage the MODIS data to get the land cover information from year to year to monitor the conservation work. First, I think the GIS is sometimes thought of as a support tool for an organization. But I found this to be different in my organization. GIS not just a support for others, but also has a big contribution toward influencing for government to take decision on land. For example, in Indonesia-my organization work closely with the directorate general of spatial planning (recently the directorate has been moved as ministry and join with the agrarian ministry called ministry of agrarian and spatial planning), who give big impact on land planning decisions. And in the field, my organization alsoclosely work with the local government to give influence in their spatial plan. Given these opportunities to communicate the importance of land use with spatial information, I really would like to deepen my understanding of conservation andlearn how to optimize GIS to meet the needs of conservation in Indonesia. 
describe what is the most unique and the most challenging about the conservation/GISwork that you do: Conservation today is unlike that ofearlier times. In earlier times, conservation just speaks about the species, but now the conservation talks about home of the species that weneed to protect. Indonesia is one of country that has big population of flagship species such Sumatran tiger, Sumatran elephant, Javan Rhino, and Orangutan. But now, these species are endangered. In Sumatera there has been so much land use change to oil palm. We realize to protect the species, first we need to protect their home which is forest. And finally through President Decree No. 13/2012, the landscape approach that called corridor ecosystem to connect the fragment habitat has been approved. There are five corridors ecosystem in Sumatera. And now, I am working on a project to realize one of the corridor ecosystem that mentioned in the President Decree, called RIMBA corridor. Through RIMBA corridor, we hope we could connect fragmented habitat, so it could positively impact species habitat and movement potential to other resource patches through corridor passage. But to do this will need significant time and energy. We need to look for the critical fragment habitat to connect, and show what speciesthat will live there despite threats to the area. The threat can be from company in local operation, or the fire from year to year in the area, or it canbe also community that opens the conservation area for to smallholder plantations. Above that, we need to work with government to protect thisfragmented habitat, not just national government but also local government. Its not easy to gain trust from government, especially local government without increasing the economic potential of thelocal economy in the area of interest. Because of that, we are deploying a a green economic concept to run the implementation of RIMBA corridor. Creating green jobs, applying payment water services mechanism and applying the best management practices will be the way for running the green economy concept,beside the real action such restoration in the interest area.
Live Map Application created during the 2015 UC Davis-SCGIS Web GIS Training.
Ms Ernawati Apriani, WWF Indonesia
