1. GFI Partner Day, May 25, 2011

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