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Warief Djajanto Basorie, Jakarta | Thu, 10/13/2011 8:13 AM
Indonesia announced three policy moves in September to buttress its
wavering REDD+ initiative to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and
forest degradation and enhance accountable forest governance.
First, on Sept. 13, Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam made public a presidential
decision (keputusan presiden), signed on Sept. 8, to extend to Dec. 31, 2012,
the working of a task force to set up a REDD+ agency.
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Nani Afrida, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sat, 10/01/2011 8:00 AM
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Friday that Indonesia was still
facing many hurdles in carrying out its climate change agenda, including what
he said was “poor coordination” among government officials, businessmen and
civil society.
“The [climate change] program is not only a national agenda, but an
international one as well. We should be able to address the problem with a
better solution. We don’t want to lose this because [to do so would mean] we
cannot achieve the higher agenda,” the President said during a meeting with
representatives from the National Council of Climate Change (DNPI) and several
ministers at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta.
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The Jakarta Post | Sat, 08/06/2011 8:00 AM
A moratorium on forest clearing prohibiting the issuance of new permits to
exploit primary forests and peatland areas has not affected the industry, a
senior official says.
Forestry Ministry secretary-general Hadi Daryanto said the moratorium would not
affect investment in the forestry sector because it only regulated the way
industrial forestry players conducted their businesses.
In the first half of 2011, realized investment in industrial plantation forests
(HTI) reached Rp 23.95 trillion (US$2.81 billion), which covered 373,308
hectares of degraded land, an increase from Rp 2.63 trillion in the same period
last year.
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Adianto P. Simamora, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sat, 09/17/2011 10:39 PM
President Susilo Bambang Yu-dhoyono has issued a decree providing
additional time for a presidential task force to establish a long-awaited
agency to implement a two-year forest moratorium. The project has been funded
by the Norwegian government to reduce forest loss in Indonesia.
The so-called REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation)
Plus task force was assigned with setting up the REDD agency in December 2012
at the latest. “There are many improvements in the new decree, including the
involvement of officials from the Agriculture and Energy and Mineral Resources
Ministries in the task force,” Presidential special staffer on climate change
Agus Purnomo told The Jakarta Post on Friday.
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Graham Usher and Gunung Gea, Medan | Sun, 07/10/2011 8:00 AM The Jakarta
Post
In May of this year, New York extended its ban on public smoking to include
outdoor spaces. How ironic that every year millions of Indonesians are forced
to breathe air thick with the smoke from fires set to clear peatland for
plantations. The current victims are people living along the west coast of
Aceh, from Aceh Jaya to Aceh Barat Daya districts, where numerous fires have
been raging on peatland during the last week; and not only on land being
cleared for planting but also spreading onto existing plantations.
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