By Sri Jimmy Kustini

Sendawar (09/08)-As an effort to encourage the governance of geospatial information among Regional Work Units (SKPD) in West Kutai, WWF in collaboration with the Regional Development Planning Agency (Bappeda) of West Kutai organized a workshop, Thursday (09/08) at the Bappeda Office. A total of 25 participants from Bappeda, Distamben, Dishut, DPU, Disbuntanakan, BP2T, BLH, BPS, Government Section of Cabinet Secretariat and WWF attended the workshop which presented resource person Antonius Wijanarto from the National Geospatial Information Agency.

In his speech when opening the workshop, the Head of Bappeda Kutai Barat Finsen Allotodang said that the management of geospatial information that is still not well coordinated, structured and integrated between SKPD in Kutai Barat is one of the obstacles in the implementation of integrated regional planning at the regency level. .

"We hope that this workshop will be the first step in capacity building and better and integrated geospatial information management in West Kutai," she added.

Meanwhile, Arif Data, Project Leader of WWF Indonesia West Kutai Program stated that WWF facilitated the implementation of the workshop to build understanding and mutual agreement between parties on the importance of structured, transparent and integrated geospatial information management between SKPD and other parties in West Kutai Regency.

"This is a good cooperation as well as the first step in the district government's commitment to capacity building and better and integrated geospatial information management in West Kutai," he said. Furthermore, he stated, WWF will build partnerships with Bappeda and other SKPDs to achieve common goals for human resource capacity building and integrated district geospatial information management mechanisms. The information is expected to be used by various parties in the process of planning and regional development in West Kutai district.