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 10^th 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.

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.

MoF’s hawk brigade in cooperation with Anti Wildlife Trade Forum and Directorate of Special Crime of the Polda Metro Jaya on 7 August 2009 caught and arrested WARDI IKHSAN SULUH, the owner and  wildlife stuff maker at his house in Lenteng Agung, South Jakarta.