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Viewing cable 07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN228, HEART OF BORNEO TRILAT STARTS TO COORDINATE RAIN FOREST

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN228 2007-07-30 07:28 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan
VZCZCXRO5525
RR RUEHCHI RUEHDT RUEHHM
DE RUEHBD #0228/01 2110728
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 300728Z JUL 07
FM AMEMBASSY BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 3896
INFO RUEHZS/ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS
RUEHRL/AMEMBASSY BERLIN 0027
RUEHBY/AMEMBASSY CANBERRA 0426
RUEHLO/AMEMBASSY LONDON 0104
RUEHKO/AMEMBASSY TOKYO 0504
RUEHFR/AMEMBASSY PARIS 0036
RUEHBS/USEU BRUSSELS
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN 000228 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR EAP/MTS, EAP/RSP, EAP/PD, AND OES 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: SENV EAID PREL BX
SUBJECT: HEART OF BORNEO TRILAT STARTS TO COORDINATE RAIN FOREST 
ACTION PLANS 
 
REF: A) DYCAICO E-MAIL 7/20  B) BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN 206 (NOTAL) 
 
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SUMMARY 
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1. (SBU) The Government of Brunei hosted a trilateral Heart of 
Borneo (HoB) meeting at which Indonesian and Malaysian 
representatives agreed to an 11 point action plan (ref A) to begin 
stitching together national plans into a coherent strategy for 
conserving Borneo's remaining primary rain forest.  Brunei tabled an 
offer to host and fund an HOB Secretariat for the first three years 
but its HoB partners did not concur, and so further work defining 
coordination tasks will be needed for the three countries to reach 
consensus on establishing a central coordination point.  Brunei will 
seek a compromise way forward and continue to aggressively develop 
and implement its own HoB plans.  Corporate and institutional donors 
are beginning to join the USG and European governments in supporting 
the HoB Initiative.  The USG should consider how we can support next 
steps - including the concept of a matching fund to support recovery 
of degraded or destroyed rainforest - now that the HoB initiative is 
gaining momentum.  END SUMMARY. 
 
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Compromise Action Plan 
---------------------- 
 
2. (SBU) Brunei hosted a trilateral meeting on July 19 with Heart of 
Borneo (HoB) Initiative action officers from Malaysia and Indonesia. 
 The goal of the meeting, chaired by Brunei's Deputy Minister of 
Industry and Primary Resources Dato Hamdillah Wahab, was to follow 
up the political-level agreement among the three governments that 
exercise sovereignty on the island of Borneo by hammering out the 
framework of a strategic implementation plan for the HoB to 
coordinate national level strategic plans.  Brunei hoped to have an 
agreed document ready for approval at the next BIMP-EAGA 
(Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East-ASEAN Growth Area) 
Senior Officials meeting in November. 
 
3. (SBU) The delegates clearly had different expectations for this 
event.  The Indonesian delegation came with a proposed terms of 
reference document that was essentially a re-draft of the February 
HoB Declaration.  The Malaysian delegation, led by Sarawak state 
officials, was less interested in statements and strategic plans and 
more interested in discussing the specifics of proposed joint 
projects.  Representatives of ERE Consulting Group, the firm hired 
by Brunei to help develop its strategic plan, told DCM that the 
differing levels of preparation for this meeting were due partly to 
long-standing, historical preferences of Sarawak to seek its own 
path rather than to blindly follow program mandates from Kuala 
Lumpur.  They further explained that of the six political 
jurisdictions on Borneo covered by the HoB (Brunei, the Malaysian 
states of Sabah and Sarawak, and the three Indonesian states), 
Brunei was furthest along in developing its own strategic plan and 
thus more ready to talk about coordination.  Sarawak, they added, 
was the furthest behind in HoB planning. 
 
4. (SBU) The resulting concluding document from the meeting (ref A) 
- the work of ERE partner and retired WWF Malaysia Executive 
Director Datuk Mikaail Kavanagh - only calls for each country to 
develop National Project Documents as soon as possible, with a 
target date for completing individual National Plans to be set at 
the next BIMP-EAGA meeting.  The group did agree that future 
meetings and seminars would be held to focus on best forestry 
practices, tourism development, and understanding the scientific 
value of biodiversity. 
 
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HOB Secretariat - Brunei offers Cash & Space 
-------------------------------------------- 
 
5. (SBU) Brunei's signature initiative for the conference was an 
offer to provide office space and three years of funding for a 
Secretariat for the HoB.  That was a last-minute improvement on the 
 
SIPDIS 
offer of partial funding that Brunei had planned to make (ref B), 
probably in an attempt to sweeten the pot even further once 
Indonesian and Malaysian resistance to placing an HoB Secretariat in 
Brunei became evident.  In pitching the proposal, Dato Hamdillah 
explained that Brunei wanted the Secretariat to be self-funded - 
primarily through donations - but that the GoB would fund the start 
up and cover the bulk of any donation short falls for another two 
 
BANDAR SER 00000228  002 OF 003 
 
 
years after the initial three year period. 
 
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Indonesia & Malaysia have Different Visions 
------------------------------------------- 
 
6. (SBU) In response to the Bruneian proposal, Indonesia offered to 
host the first two years of a rotating secretariat.  Malaysia 
preferred not to have any permanent secretariat.  Malaysian head of 
delegation Dr. Penguang Manggil, Controller of Environmental Quality 
on the Sarawak Natural Resources and Environment Board, told us that 
there were already too many secretariats and meetings and that he 
preferred to just get on with the work that underlies the HoB 
initiative.  In that vein, Malaysia offered to organize a joint 
scientific expedition into the HoB region - to be held on June 2008 
in the Sarawak region.  Given the differing views, no agreement 
could be reached on establishing a secretariat and the trilateral 
meeting deferred consideration of the issue.  To help build a future 
consensus, Datuk Kavanagh offered to take the first step of drafting 
a document outlining what an HoB coordinating body would do. 
 
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Way Forward 
----------- 
 
7. (SBU) In a later conversation with Ambassador, Dato Hamdillah 
tried to put the best possible interpretation on the meeting, 
insisting that solid progress had been made and drawing a 
distinction between an "HOB Secretariat" and "HOB Center."  He said 
that there was agreement in principle that some form of secretariat 
had to be established, if only as a kind of central clearinghouse 
and repository for the plans and reports done by each of the three 
HOB partners.  However, no such agreement had been reached on an HOB 
Center, which is loosely conceived as a focal point for publicizing, 
monitoring, and researching progress on the HOB initiative. 
Hamdillah said Brunei still believed the establishment of an HOB 
Center was a worthwhile project, and saw two options for a way 
forward:  first, continue working on Malaysia and Indonesia to agree 
to establishment of such a center; or, as a second best solution, 
proceed to set up such a center as a unilateral undertaking and hope 
that the other two HOB partners would join in later.  He indicated 
that Brunei planned to pursue the first option over the next several 
months before moving onto the second if that proved necessary. 
 
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HoB Securing More Assistance 
---------------------------- 
 
8. (SBU) Hamdillah said Brunei would have its HOB implementation 
roadmap done by the end of 2007.  At the trilateral meeting, Brunei 
Shell Petroleum signed an agreement to provide B$ 204,000 (approx 
USDOLS 135,000) to help develop Brunei's plan.  In addition to the 
Brunei Shell donation to HOB, representatives of the French oil 
company Total told us that they too were looking at a donation to 
the HOB since the company was active in all three HOB countries. 
Donations to projects in Brunei would be made through Total's Brunei 
subsidiary, and in other parts of Borneo via the Total corporate 
foundation based in Paris. 
 
9. (SBU) As host of the trilateral meeting, Brunei took steps to 
signal that the HoB partners appreciated the support the HoB has 
received from donor governments to date and intended to provide them 
with transparency into HoB implementation.  The U.S. and French 
Ambassadors and British Charge d'Affaires all accepted Dato 
Hamdillah's invitation to sit with him at the Bruneian delegation's 
table during the trilateral's opening session, and their deputies 
were welcomed subsequent sessions (the USG and HMG have already 
donated to HoB, and the French Ambassador is encouraging the 
aforementioned donation from Total).  Also, the Asia Development 
Bank was invited to the meeting by Brunei, and committed to a 
fact-finding mission in support of possible technical assistance to 
the HoB area.  ADB regional specialist Jacques Ferreira told us that 
ADB was looking at an initial project of up to USD 500,000 depending 
on the findings of the mission. 
 
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Comment: Next USG Steps? 
------------------------ 
 
10. (SBU) Now that the USG seed funds have sprouted an increasingly 
viable project, we should begin to look at how we can move toward 
 
BANDAR SER 00000228  003 OF 003 
 
 
program support that yields tangible, measurable results on the 
ground.  Post is already working with Embassies Jakarta and Kuala 
Lumpur and the Department on a regional international visitor 
program in FY-08 to bring key HoB implementors to the U.S. to study 
how we manage cross-border national parks and environmental regions. 
 One possible further step would be to create a matching fund -- 
along the lines of matching funds used for humanitarian landmine 
removal -- to leverage private donations for rainforest 
rehabilitation.  In Brunei, private citizens, schools, and 
corporations have seized on an initiative organized by one of the 
international schools to plant one million trees in Borneo to help 
restore degraded rainforest areas.  Already funds have been raised 
to support initial plantings in the Sabah region of Malaysia.  A USG 
matching fund would be a high profile way to support the HoB while 
encouraging local ownership of a project with potentially global 
environmental impact. 
 
 
 
SKODON