The Head of West Kalimantan Provincial Forestry Service, Untad Dharmawan, commenced a training for communication facilitators to prevent forest and land fires (Karhutla) in Kubu Raya District, West Kalimantan. The training participants were members of the Karhutla Brigade of the Kubu Raya Forest Management Unit (KPH Kubu Raya). Through this training, participants gained knowledge about Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) as a provision to become a facilitator of the village model for implementing forest and land fire prevention activities. The four selected model villages are: Desa Limbung; Desa Teluk Bakung; Desa Rasau Jaya Umum, and Desa Lingga. The training was conducted on 8-9 and 11 July 2019 in Pontianak, it was supported by GIZ and collaboratively implemented by the KPH Kubu Raya, the Forest Service of West Kalimantan Province; the Ministry of Development of Less Developed Villages and Transmigration; the Directorate of Forest and Land Fire Control and the Ministry of Environment and Forestry.

For more information, please contact:
Ponty Wijaya, the Head of KPH Kubu Raya
Gatot Moeryanto, Forest fire management expert