Knowledge Hub
Brings together national data, community knowledge, living archives, and field-research networks.
- IVB / BVI
- Living Archive — design stage
- Barefoot Researchers — design stage
Indonesian Biocultural Foundation
Care for nature. Keep culture alive.
We connect communities, researchers, government, and business to understand what is being lost, sustain living knowledge, and turn evidence into action.
Three work platforms
From knowledge to change people can feel.
Each platform shows its stage so partners can see what exists and what still needs to be built together.
Policy Lab
Helps local government and communities translate evidence into plans, regulations, and development priorities.
- RPJMD and spatial-planning clinics
- District policy briefs
- Actor and readiness mapping
Future Lab
Tests ideas with residents through Living Labs, then documents what works and what needs to change.
- Co-research and co-design
- Place-based pilots
- Learning for replication
Biocultural Vitality Index
How do we know what needs care first?
Explore national evidence, ten district examples, methods, data limits, and the research library.
Why this matters
The wealth that sustains life is also being eroded.
Indonesia holds extraordinary natural, cultural, linguistic, food, and knowledge diversity. Yet development often separates these systems and depletes the foundations it should sustain.
Nature and culture are read separately
Forest loss, language decline, changing food systems, and weakened community rights influence one another.
Knowledge remains fragmented
Scientific data, oral traditions, archives, and field experience rarely meet in policy and investment decisions.
Knowledge holders are not yet equal partners
Communities are often treated as program recipients when they should be authors of knowledge and designers of action.
The shift we are building
From subjects of study to authors of knowledge.
From receiving development models to creating pathways that restore nature, culture, and shared life.
What exists today
A national evidence base that can be examined.
IVB v0.5 connects evidence on nature, culture, rights, food systems, and wellbeing. The next step is to test the findings with communities and district partners.
514 districts and cities mapped
31 real indicators; 23 scored and 8 shown as context
4/5 analytical layers built
0 synthetic fills used to cover missing data
Some sources remain available only at provincial level. The safest reading is therefore as patterns and signals for follow-up—not verdicts or decimal precision.
National picture
Richness remains, but it is often uneven.
Places rich in nature and culture may still be weak in rights, food systems, or the ability to act. This is why the IVB does not stop at one ranking.
Foundations and grantmakers
Build durable systems for community rights, knowledge transmission, open evidence, and rapid response.
Local governments
Prepare for climate finance, restore peat and mangroves, strengthen commodities, or reactivate cultural districts.
Corporate partners
Connect supply chains and social investment to visible outcomes for communities and landscapes.
Universities and research institutes
Develop methods, researchers, curricula, and field stations with shared evidence and community relationships.