This presentation by Iman Santoso from Conservation International given during the Forests Asia Summit in the discussion forum "Climate change: Low-emissions development and societal welfare – trade offs, risks and power struggles in forest and climate change policy arenas" explains the current consensus about REDD+ and the map challenges.

1. Map Issues:
Big challenge in
planning and in REDD+
implementation
Iman Santoso

2. Forest Areas Allocation
• No comprehensive spatial
plan until 1980s
• Competing land uses:
transmigration, food and
estate crops, forestry, etc.
• A Consensus Forest
Allocation Plan: claim first
as mandated by Forestry
Act 5/1967

3. Consensus
• Protection forests and
Conservation forest in Dutch
Administration
• Map analysis for steep terrain
 additional Protection Forests
• Existing Logging concession as
Production Forest
• Other forest suitable for other
uses were allocated as
Convertible Production Forest

4. Macro and indicative
• Based on the best available
data and techniques
• Small scale of 1 : 500.000
• No preliminary field
assessment
• Not accurate but the best
solution in the absent of
spatial plan

5. Map Issues
• Wrongly classified as Forest Area, while those
that suitable were not included in the forest
• Abundant and more accurate data from
various imageries improve the quality of
information and scale of maps;
• On other hand, the up-dated information and
different scales had created different
interpretation (tradeoff);

6. Issues
• Community’s land are not depicted and their
rights is less appreciated
• Mining is not included in the spatial plan
• Debate and disputes over forest area
boundary : district and central government –
community and concession holder – among
adjacent local governments (risk)
• Need a protocol to reconsolidate

7. REDD+ Agency
• to broker and bridge
actors,
• developing new
schemes, framework
and paradigm

8. REDD+ Performance
Consensus on:
• Measurment techniques
• One Map to be used in all
jurisdictions for measuring
performance indicators of
green development?