Asmat is located in the delta area of Southern Papua, the easternmost part of Indonesia. The culture of the indigenous people of this area, the Asmat, is focused on sustaining balance in the universe: Asmat believe in a connection between humans, their environment and the spirit of the environment. This article aims to determine the feasibility of transferring a decision-making framework created specifically for the Aotearoa New Zealand context to the geographically, politically and culturally distant context of Asmat. The Māori concept of mauri is similar to the Asmat concept of ja asamanam apcamar (keep in balance). The Mauri Model Decision Making Framework is a unique sustainability decision-making model that was developed in New Zealand. The framework has been applied to engineering case studies to assess problem solving in complex systems. A comparison between Māori and Asmat tribes reveals similarities that support the use of the Mauri Model in the Asmat context to assess the equitable distribution of infrastructure development in Asmat.

Today sustainable development is a concern around the globe. Sustainable development should include improving well-being, equitable distribution, and the integration of ecological concepts which pass from generation to generation and across time. Sustainable ways of life have actually been practised by indigenous peoples inter-generationally. The Indigenous Peoples have similarities around the world in that they are inseparable from nature, and use their knowledge to maintain their ecosystems of origin. This attribute reflects the potential for traditional ecological knowledge to sustain the environment and help people survive. This increases the motivation for considering including traditional ecological knowledge when making decisions and assessing the environment and development, including development in the agricultural sectors. One of the environmental assessments which integrates traditional values is the Mauri Model Decision Making Framework (MMDMF) which was developed in and for Aotearoa New Zealand. This assessment approach uses the concept of 'mauri'. Mauri is an important element in Mā ori culture. It is the essence or life force, the spark of life and a central concept that informs sustainability. The framework measures four dimensions of wellbeing as the basis of the sustainability assessment: the mauri of community (social), the mauri of the family unit (economic), the mauri of the ecosystem (environment), and the mauri of the tribe (culture). Merauke regency is the location of a new agricultural development scheme, called the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE). MIFEE is a national programme to develop the regency as a national and local granary. The purposes of this paper are to examine the feasibility to transfer this assessment in the context of Merauke and to assess the sustainability of 1.2 Million Ha Merauke Integrated Food and energy Estate. The results show that the MMDMF is transferable and that although the assessment shows the project benefits the economic and social dimensions, the cultural and environmental dimensions are diminished.

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The occurrence of flash floods in Sentani claimed many victims, some suffered minor and serious injuries that could not be counted, as well as many people's houses that were washed away and damaged so that the community was placed in refugee camps prepared by the government. To deal with the people affected by the flash floods that occurred in Sentani, the government could not reach out to the entirety to evacuate the evacuation sites that had been prepared. Some of the refugee campsprepared by the government do not have facilities for the community's necessities of life, namely MCK. Through this service, we are moving to conduct a field survey to see which locations can be helped to cope with life in refugee camps. The purpose of this service is to help small asey communities living in refugee camps who do not have MCK, so we encourage final semester Planology students to do KKN in that place to build environmentally friendly MCK. The materials used to build MCK houses are light steel, the process is easy to do. simple and practical. In this service, we provide training to students and the community how to cut canal C or mild steel using a hand grinder. Likewise in the assembly of bolts to the frame using a hand drill for both installation and removal if there is an error. This training is easily accepted and carried out by KKN students and the community, so that the making of MCK can be completed properly and used by the community of Kampung Asei Kecil Telaga Maya. In this service, together with KKN students, it really helps the government to overcome the lives of the people in refugee campus. Keywords: Mild steel; environmentally friendly MCK; Sentani

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