Forest Investment Programme

27/09/2012 12:36

Forest Investment Programme (FIP) is one of strategic funding programs on climate change under Climate Investment Funds (CIF). FIP supports the endeavour of developing countries to Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) and also to improve sustainable forest management (SFM) for reducing greenhouse gas emission as well as to protect and increase carbon stock.

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Statement by Minister of Forestry the Republic of Indonesia on REDD+ Partnership Meeting

21/04/2011 04:36

STATEMENT
BY
H.E. MR. ZULKIFLI HASAN, MINISTER OF FORESTRY OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
ON REDD+ PARTNERSHIP AT THE MINISTERIAL MEETING
26th  OKTOBER 2010, NAGOYA, JAPAN
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Progress Forest Management Unit (FMU) Area, Conservation FMU and Model FNU by October 2010

11/11/2010 01:50

Ministry of Forestry by October 2010 has issued:

  1. 22 (Twenty two) Ministerial Decrees concerning FMU Area Establishment in 22 (twenty two) provinces with total area 56.101.382 ha. The Ministry has issued the Decrees for the following provinces: North Sumatera, Lampung, DI Yogyakarta, Bali, West Kalimantan, Central Sulawesi, Maluku and Papua, etc. (please refer to annexes for more detail information).
  2. 10 (Ten) Ministerial Decrees concerning Conservation FMU Establishment of 10 (ten) National Parks (NPs) in 10 (ten) provinces with total area 1.163.499,89 ha. The Ministry has issued the Decrees for the following National Parks : Berbak NP (Jambi), Ujung Kulon NP (Banten), Gunung Rinjani NP (NTB) and Bunaken NP (North Sulawesi), etc. (please refer to annexes for more detail information).
  3. 23 (Twenty three) Ministerial Decrees concerning Model FMU Area Establishment in 22 (twenty three) provinces with total area of 2.332.480 ha. The Ministry has issued the Decrees for the following provinces : Riau, Bangka Belitung, NTT, East Kalimantan, Gorontalo, etc. (please refer to annexes for more detail information).
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THE SECRETARY GENERAL: "MESSAGE ON THE WORLD DAY TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION AND DROUGHT , 17 June 2010"

24/06/2010 09:15

More than one billion poor and vulnerable people living in the world's drylands, where efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals face particular challenges and thus have lagged behind.

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Press Release: "Reaffirm Commitment to Combating Desertification and Land Degradation"

24/06/2010 09:10

17 June 2010. Only six to ten inches of topsoil stands between us and extinction. But only now are we starting to comprehend how the tiny life forms in soil sustain productivity and the greater environmental balance, says Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification based in Bonn, Germany.

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Shipment Test to Export Certified Timber Product to EU

Ministry of Forestry and Ministry of Trade RI on Tuesday at Kendal, 23 October 2012 – witnessed the first official departure of Certified Legal Timber Products from in Kendal, Central Java under the export shipment test. The shipment test is a trial for exporting timber products that are accompanied by V-Legal Documents comes into force on 1 January 2013.

KOICA Planting Trees with Local Communities to Mitigate Global Warming in West Nusa Tenggara Province

KOICA (Korea International Cooperation Agency) in cooperation with KFS (Korea Forest Service), FORDA (Forest Research and Development Agency) and West Nusa Tenggara provincial government to start planting on 10th November 2010 in Lombok, one of the Indonesia islands, and plan to complete planting up to 300 ha at the end of 2011. It would be followed by the CDM registration under UNFCCC next year and the issuance of carbon credits later on. The activity is the first AR CDM project implemented in Indonesia under public sector cooperation between Indonesia and South Korea. On this year, Pilot plantation implemented in an area with large as 33 ha in order to assess tree growth environment.

Indonesia and Australia announce A$30 million Sumatra Forest Carbon Partnership

On March 1st, 2010, the Minister for Climate Change and Water of Australia, Senator the Hon Penny Wong, and the Minister of Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia, HE Mr. Zulkifli Hasan announced the establishment of the A$30 million Indonesia-Australia Sumatra Forest Carbon Partnership to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. The Sumatra Forest Carbon Partnership is a significant expansion of existing joint action by Australia and Indonesia on reducing emission from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD), within the framework of the Indonesia-Australia Forest Carbon Partnership agreed by Prime Minister Rudd and President Yudhoyono in June 2008.