2. Governance is:
Transparency
Inclusivity
Accountability
Indonesia has been creating laws that
reflect these qualities
3. 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.
4. 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
5. vs. Restructuring the
REDD+ and Carbon
Forestry Sector
Because of Indonesia’s carbon Deforestation is still “under
cutting commitment, siege” by expansive palm
emission reduction is
suddenly a big issue oil plantation and mining
Tension between National Tenure conflict in many
Development Growth Targets forest area in Indonesia
and Emission Reduction
Commitment
Unfinished planning that
But before emissions can be lead to deforestation by the
cut, there are number of unplanned utilization of
governance issues to be forest
tackled
6. 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)
7. 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.
8. 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