By Dr Herry Purnomo, Scientist, Smallholder and Community Forestry at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). Presented at the panel discussion organized by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) for the Jakarta Foreign Correspondents Club (JFCC) in Jakarta, Indonesia, on May 19, 2017. #peatlandsmatter

1. HERRY PURNOMO
JFCC, 18 May 2017
FIRES AND RESTORATION

3. LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION
Fires

4. FOREST, LAND AND PLANTATION FIRES

5. FIRE VICTIMS IN 2015
• Smoke haze
• Emitted 1.2 billion ton CO2 equivalent
• Dead19 orang; premature death 100,300 people
• Acute respiration infection: 450 thousand people
• Exposed to fires >43 million people
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6. COSTS AND BENEFITS OF 2015 FIRES

7. FIRES AND ECONOMIC LOST
Bappenas, 2016

8. FIRE ACTORS
Bappenas, 2016

9. UNDERLYING CAUSES
Bappenas, 2016

10. THINKING beyond the canopy
Who gets what?
Village head & officers
$88 (13%)
Land claimant
$29 (4%)
Group members, tree cutting
$77(12%)
Group members, slashing
$96 (14%)
Marketing team $38
(6%)
Total Benefit
Slash & cut
$665/ha
The group organizer $338 (51%)
Fire is an economic activity
Illegal land market

11. THINKING beyond the canopy
Fire provides benefits
to some people
Village head & officers $88
(10%)
Land claimant,
$38 (4%)
Group members, tree
cutting $77 (9%)
Group members, slashing
$96 (11%)
Marketing team,
$54 (6%)
Total Benefit
$856/ha
The group organizer $486 (57%)
Farmer group member,
burning $15 (2%)
Farmer group member, cheap/free
land $2 (0.2%)

12. Local elites/cukong who organize farmers are the most
influential actors in land transaction.
PATRONAGE NETWORK – ILLEGAL INSTITUTION

13. THINKING beyond the canopy
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HOTSPOTS AND
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14. TIME SERIES PROJECTION 2016-2020 BASED ON 2001-
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15. INTERVENTIONS OF BRG’S RESTORATION AND MOEF’S
FIRE-PRONE VILLAGES
Bappenas, 2016

16. PROJECTED IMPACTS (REDUCING FIRES 49,35% FROM BAU)
Bappenas, 2016

17. LEGAL DRAFTING AT SUB-NATIONAL LEVELS

20. • Fight ‘illegal institution’
• Win the politics
– Local and national level
• Influence mid-size investors and banks
• Incentivize non-fire agriculture for small-scale and
sustainable value chains
 Reforming land use policies and spatial planning.
 Engaging banks and financial institutions to curb
inappropriate investments
 Peat collaborative water management – upstream and
downstream
KEY MESSAGES

21. Prof Dr Herry Purnomo
• Scientist, Center for
International Forestry
Research (CIFOR)
• Professor, Bogor Agricultural
university
• Email:
h.purnomo@cgiar.org
• Skype: herry.purnomo77
• Cell: 62-811-9500641