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Minggu, 29 Maret 2015

Will REDD+ still Have a Chance to be Implemented After Indonesian REDD+ Agency be Banned?

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From Annual Narrative Report to IUCN HQ - 2014

According to an article on 30 January 2015 in REDD-monitor.org, „Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo has closed down the country’s REDD+ Agency. The REDD+ Agency will now become part of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. Presidential Decree No. 16 of 2015 which came into effect on 23 January 2015, revokes and declares invalid Presidential Decree No. 62, 2013, which created the REDD+ Agency as the world’s first Cabinet level REDD institution. Indonesia’s National Council on Climate Change will also be closed down and absorbed by the Ministry for Environment and Forestry. Both the REDD+ Agency and the NCCC will become part of a Directorate General of Climate Change.“

The absorption of the REDD+ agency into the Ministry of Environment and Forestry may have positive and negative implications for ongoing REDD+ development in Indonesia. An optimistic perspective suggests that handling all forest and environmental issues including REDD+ under one roof will make coordination and implementation more effective. But if the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF) does not accommodate the REDD+ Agency’s previous progress, activities and momentum at the national and sub-national levels may stop and eventually have to rebuilt from the beginning stages. Some environmental and social NGOs in Indonesia are raising questions about Indonesia’s commitment to reducing emissions from forestry and land uses development in the future.

Since it was established in 2013, the REDD+ Agency has implemented two projects:, ‘cadastral maps development‘ and ‘the community rights protection and recognition‘. These projects were implemented in five provinces, including Papua and West Papua Provinces. These two projects in particular help to build early safeguards through a spatial information system and social tenurial rights for communities in the province/district. The Samdhana Institute, the IUCN Implementing partner for the Toward Pro-poor REDD+ Phase II project, won the bid for community rights protection and recognition. This has built a strong momentum for Samdhana and partners to bridge the Papuan customary rights issues into national forests and land uses development, particularly through the implementation of Constitutional Court decision MK35/2012 (‘MK 35’), which recognizes the rights of customary communities in the state forests. Now that the REDD+ agency has been absorbed into MOEF, the challenge is greater.

Currently the district and province stakeholders preparing for REDD+ implementation are uncertain about how to move forward with the current strategies and action plans. Some agreements initiated between province, district, and national REDD+ stakeholders have also stopped for the time being until the new climate change director at MOEF gives a clear direction.
On the upside, MOEF raised three points that it sees as evidence to continue the commitment of the REDD+ agency [1]:

  • FMU (forests management units) as an answer to REDD+ implementation sites. The ministry pointed out that about 600 units will be created and facilitated to manage about 137 million ha of forests. The FMUs are intended to increase good forest governance, create appropriate platforms for benefit sharing and solve the tenurial rights problems.
  • The Minister is also targeting to allocate 12 million ha to be managed by communities and indigenous people. Village forests, community forests and community plantation forests are the 3 policies they will push in the next 5 years.
  • According to an opinion piece in the Jakarta Post written by Pungky Widiaryanto on 31 Jan 2015: “The Minister just established a de-bottlenecking policy by delegating all forestry related businesses’ permits to the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM). In addition to one-stop licensing services, this new policy principally aims to prevent corrupt practices. Furthermore, the Minister also promises to continue the one map policy initiative for avoiding overlap land allocation in administering the forest areas.“

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