Indonesian Forest GovernanceGFI Partner Day, May 25, 2011

Forest Governance in Indonesia & REDD+

Governance is: Transparency Inclusivity Accountability

Indonesia has been creating laws that reflect these qualities

Forest Governance in Indonesia

Inclusiveness The forestry act (No.41/1999) actually had openness,

social justice and an inclusive spirit Transparency

In 2008, government enacted the Freedom of Information Act (No.14/2008), which mandated that every public body (including NGO) should have an information system

Accountability In 2011, the ministry of forestry issue ministerial

decree (No. 7/2011) regarding the information system in the ministry of forestry.

Forest Governance in Indonesia & REDD+

The Government of Indonesia (GoI) became the first developing country that commit to reduce emission for 41%, and the emission reduction will come from LULUCF.

After that commitment, many developed countries start to give aid to Indonesia to prepare for REDD+ in Indonesia. e.g., Australia, Japan, UNDP, EU, UK, etc.

The most ambitious aid is the Letter of Intent (LoI) signed by Indonesia and Norway The Indonesian government commited to a two year suspension on

all new concessions for conversion of peat and natural forest. A new institution for REDD+ will be created (REDD+ agencies) Plans to improve forest governance and law enforcement

REDD+ and Carbon

Because of Indonesia’s carbon cutting commitment, emission reduction is suddenly a big issue

Tension between National Development Growth Targets and Emission Reduction Commitment

But before emissions can be cut, there are number of governance issues to be tackled

Restructuring the Forestry Sector

Deforestation is still “under siege” by expansive palm oil plantation and mining

Tenure conflict in many forest area in Indonesia

Unfinished planning that lead to deforestation by the unplanned utilization of forest

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REDD+ and Forest Governance

Without improving the governance, REDD+ is impossible REDD+ should be Reducing Deforestation/Degradation to

Reduce Emission, so it cannot just be business as usual

The steps that have been taken by the government are: Establishing the REDD+ Task Force Developing the National Strategy on REDD+ (Draft) Developing a multi stakeholders technical team that will be

helping the task force to perform their job Issuing the Presidential Decree on License Suspension on

Natural Primary Forest & Peatland for 2 Year (No. 10/2011)

Main Obstacles Politics are absorbing too much energy from civil society

movements without producing any significant results.

Policy change in the forestry context change is happening fast without any warning

Big gaps in capacity between central and local for both government and civil societies in relation to forest governance

Many government officials embrace a spirit of opennes, but there remain institutional barriers to openness

Same understanding for underlying forest problem, but using a different perspective/approach to answering the problem.

Major Opportunities Commitments to “fix” the problem both within the NGOs

and the government

Increased efforts to enforce the law

New laws that promote good governance (FoIA & Env Management Act)

International support for Indonesia to have a clear strategies to demonstrate good governance

REDD+ as an opportunities to promoting the needs of good forest governance