This document discusses Indonesia's fire season and efforts to address fires and land conversion. It provides an agenda for a webinar on Indonesia's 2019 fire season, then summarizes: - Indonesia's history of severe fire seasons in 2013 and 2015 during El Nino conditions. - Effects on Southeast Asia like toxic haze, health impacts, and economic costs. - The significance of Indonesia's peatlands and efforts to restore degraded peatlands. - Policy developments like a palm oil moratorium, One Map initiative, and increased transparency around company land holdings and fires. - Tools like GFW Fires for monitoring fires in near-real-time.

1. Photo: World Resources Institute
JOURNALIST WEBINAR | 27 March 2019
What to Expect from Indonesia’s 2019 Fire
Season

2. •Introduction
•Scene Setting
•What to Expect This
Year
•GFW Fires Demo
•Q&A
AGENDA
AGENDA

3. Hidayah Hamzah
Research Analyst
WRI Indonesia
Andika Putraditama
Sustainable Commodities Manager
WRI Indonesia
Thailynn Munroe
Research Analyst
Global Forest Watch
SPEAKER
S
SPEAKERS

4. Photo: World Resources Institute
INDONESIA’S FIRE
HISTORY
• Outbreaks in 2013 and 2015 due to
El Niño conditions
• 2.6M ha of land burned in 2015,
leaving toxic haze and tripling
greenhouse gas emissions
• Issue: The majority of fires in
forests and peatlands are human-
caused
• Clearing for agriculture and
commodity expansion
• Use of fire as a weapon in conflict
over land

5. EFFECT ON SE ASIA
• Exposure to smog and toxic haze
• Respiratory-related health concerns
• Closing of schools and harming tourism
and other businesses – economic impact
• Loss of habitat for wildlife
• Increase in Indonesia’s greenhouse gas
emissions
Photo: World Resources Institute

6. HISTORICAL MODIS FIRE ALERTS

7. Source: Reuters

11. • Significance
• Indonesia hosts largest tropical
peatlands
• Store carbon 20x more than
mineral soil, largely due to below
ground carbon
• Rich in biodiversity
• Large area of peatlands are
drained and converted into
plantations
Photo: CIFOR
PEATLANDS

13. • Efforts on peat
protection and restoration
• Moratorium on Forest and Peat
• Establish Peatland Restoration
Agency (BRG) to coordinate
restoration on degraded peat
• MoEF issued regulation
better water management in
plantation and appoint peat
protected area
Photo: CIFOR
PEATLANDS

14. • BRG targeted ~2.5 million hectares restored by 2020
• Restoration through peatland rewetting, revegetation, and revitalization of
revitalization of communities' livelihood
BRG PEATLAND RESTORATION
Source: Peat Restoration Agency 2016

15. POLICY
CONTEXT
PROGRESS &
CHANGES

16. TRANSPARENCY
CHANGING THE NORM
• In 2013, forest fires were largely
reported, but there was no
information on land owners
• Companies were adamant to share
information, government had no
public database to share data
2013

17. • Spatial transparency is now
becoming the norm
• Companies share thousands of
data voluntarily, government are
starting to open up their
database albeit slowly
TRANSPARENCY
CHANGING THE NORM
2019

18. REPUBLIK
INDONESIA
18
ONE MAP POLICY IN GENERAL
Regarding the acceleration of implementation of One
Map Policy on 1:50,000 scale map accuracy
Issued on 4 February 2016
PRESIDENTIA
L
REGULATION
NO. 9 YEAR 2016
1
ONE MAP POLICY GOALS
REFERENCE
STANDARD
DATA BASE
GEO-PORTAL
 Spatial Data
 Spatial Planning
 Policy and Decision Making
As Reference for Improving
the quality of :
ONE MAP POLICY UTILITY
ONE MAP POLICY MAIN PROGRAM
Compiling Integrating
Synchronizing
85THEMATIC MAPS
19MINISTRIES/
AGENCIES
34PROVINCES
ONE MAP
POLICY

19. • Presidential Instruction signed
by Jokowi in Q3 2018
• Moratorium of forest estate
relinquishment for palm oil
• Review existing license
• Alignment with One Map
initiative
• Yield intensification
PALM OIL MORATORIUM

20. Source: Wilmar

21. Source: IUCN

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23. GFW Fires is an online platform for
monitoring and responding to forest and
land fires using near-real-time
information.
• Access VIIRS and MODIS daily fire
alert data
• View NOAA Wind Direction data
• Add contextual layers including
plantations, primary forests, peatlands
and protected areas
• Create custom charts and graphics
using the “fire report” functionality
GFW FIRES

24. QUESTION
S?
Katie Fletcher
(Katie.Fletcher@wri.or
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Photo: CIFOR