Presented by Kim Hyoung Gyun, Project Manager, Korea-Indonesia Forest Cooperation Center, on the ITPC side event “Peatland restoration in SE Asia: Challenges and opportunities” at the XV World Forestry Congress, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2 May 2022.
Green Partnership Peatland Restoration, Korea-Indonesia Joint Cooperation Project Restoration of Burnt Peatland in Jambi
1. Peatland restoration in SE Asia:
Challenges and opportunities
Green Partnership peatland restoration
Korea-Indonesia Joint Cooperation Project
Restoration of Burnt Peatland in Jambi
Korea-Indonesia Forest
Cooperation Center
PM Kim HyoungGyun
6. ProjectHistory
2016 2018 2021-2022
2017 2019-2020
• MoU between was signed • PCP was submitted by MoEF
• Approved by the Government of Korea
• Implementation of field activities
• Field Study with Seoul National
University and Jambi University
• Knowledge sharing workshop and meeting between stakeholders
• Letter of Arrangement was signed in September
7. Project
Activities
3R
Rewetting
Revegetation
Revitalization
Rewetting
Building Canal Block &
Deepwells in HLG
Londerang Area
Revegetation
Restoration of Peatlands
in HLG Londerang
Revitalization
Community-Based
Restoration of the Peat
Ecosystems in 10 Villages
Development of
Mini Education Center
Capacity Building
on Protection and
Management of
Peatland Ecosystems
Promotion of the Project
to International Forums.
8. FIELD SURVEY
• Conducted in May 2021 & Jan 2022.
• Observation of the current condition
of existing canals in 257 locations;
• Jambi University - main partner for
Field Survey
OBJECTIVE
Community
• Determination of priority locations to
build canal blocks in accordance
with technical, ecological, and
social aspects
Rewetting Infrastructures
•To repair and seal water leaks from
HLG Londerang and its surrounding area,
keeping the peat ecosystem wet and
reducing the risk of drought-caused fires
and land subsidence.
9. IMPLEMENTATION
PREPARATION
• Survey to find out the village's profile
and potential;
• Recruits 20 facilitators for 10
villages to provide assistance in
formulating Community Work Plan
(RKM) and identifying livelihood
options for rural communities.
OBJECTIVE
•To empower the local communities in
10 villages around HLG Londerang in
obtaining alternative source of
livelihoods while maintaining the peat
ecosystem.
• Training of village facilitators;
• Problem Identification and Situation
Analysis (IMAS);
• Formulation of RKM and Team
Works of Peat Ecosystem Protection
and Management (TK-PPEG).
Revitalizationin10Villages
14. Thanks to
Our Partners
• Directorate of Peatland Degradation Control
• Forestry Service of Jambi Province
• Tanjung Jabung Timur FMU
• Muaro Jambi FMU
• Balitbang LHK Palembang
• Jambi University
Good evening conference. My name is Kim Hyounggyun – Project Manager in Korea-Indonesia Forest Cooperation Center. Today I would like to share our experience during we are implementing peatland restoration project in Jambi, Indonesia.
I think some of you have not heard about the Jambi, Indonesia.
So first of all, let me show the location of Jambi and our project site./
West side of Indonesia, you can find Sumatera isIand.
And Jambi is the one of province is Sumatra and Kota Jambi it means / Jambi city is the capital city of Jambi Province. / /We have the project office there. There are around 4 flights per a day from Jakarta.
And the north of city, you can see the Batanghari river. This plays a very important role in our project for logistic and rewetting activities, also for our community partners.//
From Jambi city, around 50km to NorthEast, we can reach to our project site which is Londerang Peatland Protected Area or HLG Londerang./ You can see the yellow colored box.
In 2015, we had a forest fire here, and in 2019 we had another very big forest fire here again,/ we can see the satellite pictures. //
If we see this pictures closely, you can see villages by the Batanghari river.
/We can find this as a very Typical village in the peatland area.
Let’s see the history of our project,
We made MOU between Korea and Indonesia, 2 central government. In 2016.
And we have spent another 5 years to implement our project
We could start our project from end of 2021.
Yes we have met many stakeholder’s.
Even our goal is same to restore the peatland,
The details are quit different, because each one has their own conditions, ideas and viewpoints.
Our Management team realized that the goal of this project is not only to restore the peatland.
The goal of this project is working together to restore our peatland.
Maybe all the management teams in ODA projects,
they have strong intension to drive the project in their way efficiently.
But Actually Yes, we need to go together as a joint and cooperation project partner.
After that, the way of the approach to the project was totally changed.
Efficiency for project is important, but effectiveness is also critically important.
Need to consider booth of them very seriously with all of our stakeholders to implement project smoothly. Then our project could speed up.
Most of peatland restoration project has 3R activities as you might know.
Our project main activities are also same having 3R – Rewetting, Revegetation and Revitalization.
In rewetting section,
Yes we have many partners here also.
One of the most important partner is Jambi University,
And they are specialized to local peatland survey.//
Also we communicate with communities in out project area very closely to get full support to build canal blocks.
For revitalization activities, we have 20 facilitators.
We are doing these activities in 10 villages with 20 facilitators.
It means 2 facilitators in each village.
And they stay 24 hours a day with community people to check real issues in each villages also help the community to arrange their business plan. This business plan is aim to create alternatives source of livelihoods also, as community empowerment. In this activity, we make a collaboration between KIFC, community village, also local government to creates alignment with government program which can make village business plan run sustainably later.//
These are the 10 villages around HGL Londerang.
And our facilitators are working together at the field with community people for revitalization program.
For revegetation, we did many activities such as building bridges,/ access road,/ work lodge,/ nursery,/ planting path, and other facilities.
We share these works with the community and stakeholders, so that, they can participate also to build the community ownership in this project.
We try to find all the labor in local community near by our project site.
And these are the villages.
Every day we are working with 35-70 people from these villages.
To buy seedling, we have contract with nurseries base on communities around HLG Londerang./
So still can cooperate with our partners very closely.
Base on our experience, the Most import part in project is, cooperation with our partners.
If we want to do it all by ourselves, it’s not easy. Nothing going to be happen.
There are a lot of specialists at the field.
We need their advise and cooperation to see the real condition at the field.
And they are our partners to implement the successful project.
We should go together with mutual respect.
(additional): we believe only through cooperation, this project can be implemented and be useful to local community in Jambi
We would like to take this opportunity to express special thanks to our partners:
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And thank all of you too. Thank you.