Participatory Land Use Planning in Riau
Participatory Land Governance and Spatial Evidence
Participatory Land Use Planning in Riau
Bringing community knowledge, spatial evidence, conservation priorities, and local development needs into a shared land-use planning process.
Project overview
The RIMBA programme supported six villages and nagari to analyse land-use issues, document local priorities, and develop more inclusive spatial planning proposals.
Documented reach
At a glance
Why this work mattered
Project context
Land-use decisions are often shaped by overlapping claims, development priorities, conservation concerns, and incomplete spatial information. Communities need a credible process for bringing their knowledge and priorities into planning discussions.
Participatory land-use planning provided a structured space to combine local knowledge with maps, data, field evidence, and dialogue. The process helped participants identify issues, discuss competing interests, and formulate proposals that could be understood by communities and institutions alike.
Delivery
Objectives and implementation
Objectives
- Strengthen local capacity to understand and participate in land-use planning.
- Bring community knowledge and spatial evidence into a shared planning framework.
- Document land-use issues, conservation priorities, development needs, and potential conflicts.
- Support locally grounded land-use proposals and draft agreements.
What we did
- Facilitated participatory mapping and spatial analysis.
- Built local capacity for participatory land-use planning.
- Supported land-use issue and conflict analysis.
- Helped identify critical wildlife routes and conservation priorities.
- Facilitated proposed land-use plans and draft agreements.
Results and learning
Good spatial planning begins with a shared understanding of the landscape
The process demonstrated that maps become more useful when communities can question them, add local knowledge, and connect spatial information to everyday land-use realities.
Combining technical analysis with facilitated dialogue made it possible to discuss competing interests without reducing planning to a purely technical exercise. The value of PLUP lies in both the resulting spatial products and the local capacity built through the process.
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Field documentation
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Work with us
Planning land use with communities, not only for them?
Hutanriau facilitates participatory mapping, spatial analysis, local capacity building, and land-use planning grounded in community knowledge.