Overiview The Exclusivity Of The Energy Transition Project From Forestry SectorSECTO stated in Government Regulation Number 79 of 2014 on National Energy Policy, to achieve their energy transition goals, Indonesia targets to increase their portion of new renewable energy mix to 23% by 2025 and at least 31% by 2050. To meet this goal, exploring resources of potential and/or proven…
OVERVIEW ACCESSIBILITY AND PROJECTION OF DEFORESTATION FROM ENERGY CROP FOREST DEVELOPMENT he chosen means to increase the new renewable energy mix to 23 percent in 2025 and 31 percent in 2050 have significant consequences for the forest and land sectors. The use of biomass from wood is claimed to be a breakthrough strategy to increase the share of new renewable…
Multi-business for Energy Security in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number 8 Year 2021 on Forest Administration and Preparation of Forest Management Plans, as well as Forest Utilization in Protected Forests and Production Forests Multi-business, the emerging new licensing term or scheme in the environment and forestry sector, is considered a breakthrough in optimizing the benefits…
Information asymmetry remains as a fundamental problem in the management of natural resources in Indonesia. Matters on capital (ibu kota negara, IKN) relocation to newly named city of Nusantara, East Kalimantan is no exception. Public should be able to check and balance the policy-making processes that accompany the relocation of IKN to Nusantara. Not all relevant matters of public interests…
National Statistics and Depiction of Wood Business in Several Provinces of Indonesia Policies in Social Forestry In general, the Social Forestry (SF) program aims to empower local people, socially and economically, by giving them the privilege to manage the forest sustainably. By doing so, local people are expected to make ends meet and diversify their income through marketing forest resources…
CBD-COP 15, MONTREAL, CANADA, 2022 COP 15 is a make-or-break moment for global biodiversity Indonesian NGOs are adding their voices to the call for COP 15 in Montreal to agree strict and binding targets to ensure the protection of at least 30% of land and ocean by 2030 (“thirty-bythirty”) along with explicit recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ rights…
The island of Papua (which includes the provinces of Papua and West Papua) has an area of 41.38 million hectares. Based on FWI analysis in 2018, the land area of Papua has a natural forest cover area of 33.4 million hectares, or about 80.71% of the total land area. Approximately 6.4 million hectares of land on the island of Papua…
22/06/2022, An open letter signed by at least 50 institutions was finally handed over to Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans, Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius, Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen, and some members of their respective cabinets. The letter aims to urge the commission to raise our great concern about the lack of consideration of the specific needs of smallholders and communities in the Global…
The word “deforestation” has become a word that is often discussed lately, along with what was conveyed by the President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo and the tweet of the Minister of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) Siti Nurbaya Bakar.
Indonesia is entering a political year. In just over a month, the regional elections, which were attended by 270 regions, were held on December 9, 2020. Total 229 of them are coastal areas and small islands, which are still shadowed by problems caused by extractive industries, including palm oil plantations, timber plantations, and mining, tourism industry, and reclamation that hit…
Indigenous peoples of the Papua region have been experiencing a lot of injustice for a long time. This is including injustice to access truthful information, especially about the condition of the forests, land, and development programs. This injustice of information brings indigenous peoples into situations where they suffer losses and caught in a weak position in the conflicts of natural…
In 2020, Indonesia, like other countries in the world, has suffered Covid-19 pandemic. The virus was first identified in Wuhan, China in late 2019. The coronavirus has remarkable high transmission between human which caused such aggressive spread of the virus. The virus is transmitted through droplets during cough and sneeze (Susilo et al. 2020). In March 2nd 2020, Joko Widodo…
