Five years ago, before nickel mining in Indonesia was given the “red carpet”, Halmahera was a peaceful, cool place with good environmental quality to fulfill people’s basic right to live a better life. In contrast, at the end of September 2023, after the Weda Bay Industrial Park (IWIP) complex was built, which has cost at least 11 billion USD, various…

Precision mapping towards tropical forest cover data is critical to address the global climate crisis, such as land-based carbon measurement and potential conservation areas identification. In the recent decade, accessibility to open public datasets on forestry is rapidly increased. However, the availability of finer-resolution of forest cover data is still very limited. As a developing country with numerous rainforests, Indonesia…

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…