This principle sits at the center of the Leuser Alas–Singkil River‑basin (LASR) landscape, where government institutions, development partners, civil society, and the private sector within the Multi-Stakeholder Platform (MSP) work together to address deforestation and land‑use challenges, while improving community livelihoods. From the outset, LASR has focused on strengthening locally driven processes, ensuring that decision-making and monitoring are shaped by the institutions and actors closest to the landscape itself. Yet one of the most persistent barriers to coordinated development is disconnected information. When different datasets and references exist, alignment becomes difficult, and progress is hard to measure.
The landscape improvement dashboard, Pantau Lanskap, responds to this challenge. Successfully launched two years ago to support initiatives in Subulussalam and Aceh Singkil, it serves as a centralized information hub, integrating data sources and milestones from multiple locally managed strategic initiatives, including grievance and deforestation response mechanisms. As a unified data management platform, it tracks progress and supports reporting to district leadership, communities, donors, and the public. Ricky Wiryadi, an MSP Coordinator from Aceh Singkil, echoes this stance.
By entering a new phase of development, the platform expands its geographic coverage to Aceh Selatan while integrating existing data collected over the past few years. This ensures continuity and consistent progress tracking across collective work plans in each district’s Regional Action Plan for Sustainable Palm Oil (RAD-SPO).
Implemented by Swisscontact and Earthworm Foundation, the LASR project is part of the Sustainable Landscape Program Indonesia (SLPI), a bilateral initiative between Switzerland and Indonesia. It aims to promote sustainable landscape governance by reducing deforestation and improving land use for better community livelihoods. Within this broader framework, Pantau Lanskap contributes to strengthening landscape governance and enabling stakeholders to address complex environmental and economic challenges together. By improving how activities are monitored and reported, local authorities can align initiatives more effectively and respond to on-the-ground challenges with greater precision. This allows stakeholders to measure growth over time, rather than resetting baselines with each new intervention.
Recognizing that digital systems are only as strong as the people who use them, the rollout is accompanied by a targeted training workshop for Multi‑Stakeholder Platform (MSP) members. Facilitated by the consultant who developed the system, the training provides hands-on guidance and practical use of workflows and data management. This capacity-building approach ensures that growth is not centralized in a single institution or expert but distributed across stakeholders. This is how collective local ownership strengthens and supports better coordination for more resilient governance structures.
Credible digital measurement ensures that records spark collaboration, and we are investing in systems that align data to support collective action, allowing LASR to lay the groundwork for lasting growth that creates opportunities.