Climate Lab Lembata: Studi Rantai Pasok Pongamia Berbasis Komunitas dan Arsitektur Bukti

Abstrak

Developing Pongamia (Pongamia pinnata; locally known as Malapari) in dry-island settings
requires more than trees, seedlings, and processing technology. It requires institutions that connect
community rights, feedstock quality, local enterprise, credible evidence, and market access. This
article examines Climate Lab Lembata, an internal platform concept and programme instrument
developed by PT Lembata Hira Sejahtera (BATARA), which integrates wild mother-tree
stewardship, seed-source development, an LPHD-managed (Village Forest Managing Agency/LPHD) oil enterprise, and an Output–Outcome–Evidence (OOE) framework. The study
applies a document-based qualitative case study and a structured integrative synthesis. Evidence is
classified into peer-reviewed literature, Lembata publications, BATARA internal documents, and
internal measurements to make claim boundaries explicit; CLL documents are used to reconstruct
the case design rather than as independent evaluation. The findings indicate that a Pongamia supply
chain requires a hybrid architecture: LPHD and communities retain resource rights; nurseries
connect mother trees with expansion; the oil enterprise retains local value addition; and CLL
provides coordination, evidence, learning, and partnership functions. Early evidence includes more
than 1,000 identified mother trees, two Seed Production Areas and one candidate Seed Orchard, a
community oil enterprise in Imulolong, and 209 directly and indirectly connected households.
Scaling nevertheless requires formal community and customary consent, governance of geneticresource
data, an auditable benefit-sharing formula, elite-capture controls, PCO quality gates,
market contracts, and independent verification. The article contributes by showing that the central
innovation is not the tree alone, but the platform architecture and evidence discipline through which
productive restoration can be assessed before replication.