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SEMINAR ON ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION CONCESSIONS IN INDONESIAResearch Instute for Humanity and Nature (RHIN) & Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

Lobby meeting room - Embassy of Indonesia in Tokyo - 15 June 2017

CURRENT MANAGEMENT AND CHALLENGES OF ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION CONCESSION

RIMBA RAYA CONSERVATION – ERC

CENTRAL KALIMANTAN PROVINCE

INDONESIA

RRC

RIMBA RAYA BIODIVERSITY RESERVE PROJECT

Rimba Raya was the first validated REDD+ project – ever – under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) andhelped define the criteria by which all projects are measured. We were also the first REDD+ forest - carbonproject in the world to receive triple-gold validation under the Climate Community and Biodiversity AllianceStandard (CCBA).

The project correctly applies the approved VCS methodology element VM0004-Methodology forConservation Projects that Avoid Planned Land Use Conversion in Peat Swamp Forest, version 1.0. (VCS,2011)

LOCATION OF RIMBA RAYA

CONSERVATION IN CENTRAL

KALIMANTAN -INDONESIA

Rimba Raya Conservation is partnered with and assisted by Government agencies, NGOs and

other institutions to implement the peat restoration ecosystem in the fields.....

Tanjung Puting NP Seruyan District Central Kalimantan Province

Orangutan Foundation InternationalInfinite Earth World Education

“No president, not the smartest, best human being in the world can do it alone, You can not take on

this.......” (Bernie Sanders)

KOMPAS DAILY NEWS 28 OCT 2015: Kerusakan Gambut - Restorasi Puluhan Triliun

Disiapkan….(“PEATLAND DEGRADATION: Trillions rupiah prepared for restoration”)

Trillons Rp ............. Trillions Y.... (Japanese Yen)

1. Vice President Yusuf Kalla: ..“What we can

do” .. Peatland restoration is one solution to

mitigate forest & land fires…

2. “Clearly .. VP-Kalla stated that..’GOI made

double mistakes. Firstly, allowing to open

1million hectares peat-land as mega-rice

project, secondly, giving permit to cultivate

peatland areas as palm oil plantations ...”

3. “Repeated of peatland and forest fires in 18

years caused a heavy smoke haze... it

revealed that peatlands is not suitable for dry

crop cultivations. Restoration ecosystem and

re-wetting of peatlands shold be done to ensure

the peat does not turn into fuel when the

drought arrives”.

4. GoI pronounced Regulation No 57 year 2016 on

‘Protection and Management of Peatland

Ecosystem’ followed by MoEF decree no. 16

year 2017 on ‘Peatland Ecosystem Restoration’

(Pedoman Teknis Pemulihan Fungi Ekosistem

Gambut).

PEATLAND DEGRADATION

MONGABAY 11 February 2015

Indonesia kills first-of-its-kind REDD+

Agency

Indonesia dissolves agency

charged with forestry reform

11 February 2015 / Loren Bell

The world’s first cabinet-level ministry dedicated

implementing REDD+ has been dissolved

Indonesian Presidential Decree No. 16/2015 the

known as BP REDD+, along with the National

Climate Change (DNPI), has been absorbed into

merged Ministry of the Environment and Forestry

as part of a massive government restructuring.

MOF Reg. No. 48/2014:

Ecosystem restoration is an act to restore

ecosystems that have been degraded in the

form of reduced land cover, ..disruption of

wildlife status, .. through the act of planting,

rehabilitation of water bodies .., habitat and

population restoration for the purpose of

achieving equilibrium of biological natural

resources and its ecosystem near its

original condition.

What are peatlands? 泥炭地

(Wetlands International, 2006): Peat is undecomposed

plant material that acuumulated over thousands of year.

Due to absence of oxygen in water-saturated

environments, the decomposition of this material has

been halted.

Sources : blogs.helsinki.fi/jyjauhia (2012) Story of permanently drained tropical peatland

Major peat areas in Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo and Papua

https://news.mongabay.com/by/loren-bell

Rimba Raya Conservation peat distribution and carbon survey transects map (2009)

Figure of peat map for Rimba

Raya and Tanjung Puting

National Park from Wetlands

International (2004) with

ground survey measurements

in 2009 recorded on carbon

assessment survey transects.

Unexpectedly, peats were

moderately deep across all

survey transects. 67% of peat

depth measurements

exceeded the reach of the peat

probe at circa 5 meters and

average depth overall was 4.5

meters in peat areas (PDD The

Rimba Raya Biodiversity

Reserve Project, 2011).Tanjung

Puting

National

Park

Rimba

Raya

Conser

-vation

Project

Rimba Raya Conservation: Vision and Mission (in line with and based on the decrees given by the Ministry of Forestry, 2013)

VISION

To maintain and deliver sustainable function of forest resources as mitigation against Climate Change and to create a balance beneficial to the ecosystem of biodiversity and a more prosperous society.

MISSION

To maintain, protect and build forest that serves as lungs of the world, with trees and protected peat lands as a source of carbon absorption and carbon storage, as well as ensuring the balance of forest ecosystem as a better source of life for the entire forest biodiversity and society.

FOCUSED ACTIVITIES

PT. Rimba Raya Conservation is a leading private company on forest ecosystem restoration concession (ERC) in Indonesia that committed and focused on three activities related to:

• Climate Change

• Community Development

• Biodiversity Conservation

This is to fulfill its main task to restore and conserve the degraded peatforest areas in Seruyan District, Central Kalimantan Province.

In general, the activities of PT. Rimba Raya Conservation in accordance with its ERC licenses (Decree No. SK.146 and 735 year 2013) obtained from the Ministry of Forestry is to conduct activities related to conservation and restoration programs (peatland forests),in a form of protection and rehabilitation activities to forest areas that experiencing deforestation and degradation, including carrying out replanting as well as to gain financial benefit in restoring its ERC based on the sustainable forest management while empowering the local community.

ERC EXPERIENCES AND CHALLENGES IN PEATLAND ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION

FOREST MORATORIUM (Temporary prohibition of forest concession permits) maps against SERUYAN DISTRICT Spatial Planning Map 2013

Tanjung

Puting

National

Park

MORATORIUM map of the year 2013(sheet no. 1512 Central Kalimantan)

MORATORIUM map of the year 2012(sheet no. 1512 Central Kalimantan)

Tanjung

Puting

National

Park

Tanjung

Puting

National

Park

Rimba

Raya

Conser

-vation

Project

Landsat Image Working Area of ERC - PT. Rimba Raya Conservation (2015)

Rimba

Raya

Conser-

vation

Project

64.000 Ha

Tanjung Puting

National Park

415.040 Ha

Tanjung

Puting

National

Park

Rimba

Raya

Conser

-vation

Project

Palm oil plantations Palm oil plantations

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Tanjung Puting National Park and ERC- PT Rimba Raya Conservation location is used to be abandoned timber logging concessions (HPH-logging concessions PT. Hesubazah and PT. Mulung Bas Sidi) and is ‘SURROUNDED” by palm oil plantations (either from forest land conversion and community palm oils)

VILLAGES :

1. Ulak Batu - 235 peoples, 72 HH2. Palingkau - 225 peoples, 64 HH3. Telaga Pulang – 1876 peoples, 455 HH4. Cempaka Baru - 562 peoples, 152 HH5. Baung - 1735 peoples, 347 HH6. Muara Dua - 533 peoples, 140 HH7. Jahitan - 693 peoples, 293 HH8. Tanjung Rengas - 1154 peoples, 280 HH9. Sungai Perlu – 112 peoples, 31 HH10. Pematang Limau – 2269 peoples, 632 HHAll the 10 villages are located by the Seruyanriver banks. Most of local peoples working aspalm oil workers (21%), fishermen (12%), farmers(3%), government official/village administrators(2%) and other seasonal occupations such ascollector of non-forest timber products,midwifes, seasonal workers, carpenters, drivers,mechanics, traders, teachers, cattle raisers. Morethan 40% of the HH (household) categorized as‘poor’ and 15% of them catergorized as ‘average’conditions (World Education, 2014)

Social Base line of 10 villages that live at surrounding the

working area of ERC-Rimba Raya Conservation

(compiled by World Education, 2013&2014)

Rimba Raya Conservation Organization Chart

PRESIDENT DIRECTOR

VP FOR GOVERNMENT &

PUBLIC RELATIONS

ADMINISTRATION

DIRECTOR

PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

DIRECTORTECHNICAL DIRECTOR

CONCESSION MANAGER

SERUYAN

BIODIVERSITY COORDINATORCLIMATE COORDINATORCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

COORDINATOR

NORTH UNIT MANAGER

(Ulak Batu, Telaga Pulang, Palingkau,

Cempaka Baru) = 4 Desa

CENTRAL UNIT MANAGER

(Muara Dua, Jahitan, Baung, Tanjung

Rengas) = 4 Desa

SOUTH UNIT MANAGER

(Sungai Perlu, Pematang Limau, Kuala

Pembuang I, Kuala Pembuang II, Sungai

Undang dan Persil Raya)= 6 Desa

GENERAL MANAGER

PROJECT DEVELOPER

INFINITE EARTHRUPS (SHARE HOLDERS)

Total manpower in 2016 = 79 (Jakarta 7 personil, 72 field staf in 3 management units

Ministry of Environmental and ForestryMANDATORY DOCUMENTATIONS:EIA-Environmental Impact Assessment, Forest Inventory, Forest Boundary Report, 10 Year Management Plan and Yearly Management Plan

Presentation on ‘ERC Management Plan” in the MoEF Central

offices – DG of Sustainable Forest Management, Jakarta

Support form H.E. Governor of Central Kalimantan Province on the proposal of GCF forest ecosystems program - 31 January 2017, Palangka Raya – Central Kalimantan

PDD and Project Verification Reports and MRV Reports

Action Plan Based on Project Design Document

1. PT. Rimba Raya Conservation (RRC) is to comprehend its commitment for

villages development and improvement for 14 villages; Ulak Batu,

Palingkau, Cempaka Baru, Telaga Pulang, Baung, Jahitan, Muara Dua,

Tanjung Rengas, Sungai Perlu, Pematang Limau, Kuala P. 1, Kuala P.2,

Sungai Undang and Persil Raya in Seruyan District;

2. Pilot Project of Green Stove. 100 unit cook stoves has been distributed to

obtain the response;

3. Distribution of Water Filter. Over 1400 unit has been distributed to the

villages;

4. Local tree replanting (Jelutung, Gembor, Rubber, Blangeran and Agarwood

and others). Up to 2016, RRC has planted over than 250.000 trees from

various types;

5. The closure of former canal from surrounding palm oil activities (canal

blocking);

6. Boundary Demarcation for the entire working area;

7. Disburse contribution and donation to 10 villages and 2 Sub-Districts in

Seruyan;

8. Forest Monitoring System development;

9. Local Forest Patrol establishment;

10. Conduct field staf Forest Fire Training;

11. Biodiversity Monitoring and peatland water depth controls;

12. Climate Change and REDD+ Socialization;

13. Survey for Release Orangutan;

14. Build a Release Camp for Orangutan;

15. Release 300 Orangutan in the period of ERC licences (60 years).

16. Release more than 10 orangutan in 2017 with OFI cooperation;

17. Build Tower Monitoring & Forest Fire Posts;

18. Coordinate and obtain early feedback from local community of the 14villages on the ecosystem restoration programs;

19. Employ local community;

20. Employ technical forestry field staff (GANIS tenaga teknis kehutanan as compulsary by MoEF);

21. Periodical report to the MoEF, Provincial Forestry Agency;

22. Stakeholders meeting and cooperation among ERC holders;

23. Forest carbon marketing and monitoring by Infinite Earth partner;

Action Plan Based on Project Design Document

Supports and Challenges (1)

• Up to now the head of Seruyan Distict – Bapak Sudarsono is 100% support RRC. He mentioned that RRC has shown good record so far and that he has doubt that no reason for local government not to support RRC.

• That almost all the villages have been giving full support to RRC. Up to 2016 we have 9 villages signed the Village Agreement (VA) with RRC. One of the content mentions that they agree to maintain sustainable forestand collaboration in ecosystem restoration.

Supports and Challenges (2)• The climate change effect as “El Nino” that may cause

very long drought of the area, we need an ‘extra efforts’ to minimize the thread of forest fires happening in our working area.

• While in the field we may find illegal loggers that are still around. We try to minimize the illegal action by strict patrol system and establishing a guard post to prone areas and having close coordination with local authorities.

SOCIALIZATION IN SERUYAN DISTRICT - FEB 2014

Village Fund DisbursementWe have disbursed each Rp. 40mill (@ Y 350,000.-) for 10 villages around our project area as “stimulus fund” for village development with the consent from and disposal of community members.

BOUNDARY DEMARCATION MEETING PALANGKARAYA, AUGUST

2014 AND FEBRUARY 2015 (SIGNING)

MEETING WITH BUPATI SERUYAN (Head of District)NOV 2014 CONCERNING THE ‘ILLEGAL LOGGING” SOUTH UNIT

BILL CLINTON VISIT - JULY 2014

Water Filter Distribution for communityover than 1400 unit has been distributed for community members

Community Development plan to develop ‘floating clinic’ and water filter distribution

Solar power panels and lamps distributed to the villages

MoEF-Min.of Environment & Forestry Audits ( 2014 and 2015)

VCS & CCB AUDIT (2014 & 2015)

Orangutan releases in February & May 2017

TRANSECTS

T – 01PALINGKAU

T – 02CEMPAKA BARU

T – 07S. BAUNG

T – 08BAUNG-JAHITAN

T – 03SUNGAISIGINTUNG

T – 04TATAH DIDI

T – 05BATU HIRANG

T – 06BENGALUN

Biodiversity & peats monitoring transects

ACHIEVEMENT IN THE FIELDS 2014-2015

Success Activities for Community Development - Nursery and replanting in UlakBatu and Muara Dua villages.

Sekolah lapang siswa (Student Field Schools) activities

Community Development – GARBAGE BANKSParticipated by community members and school childrens in collecting used

plastic materials and metal garbages to be recycled

Student support program for the village schools by Rimba Raya Conservation

Community village co-operative establishment in MUARA DUA village,visited by IFC-World Bank appraisal team in 2015

Success activities for community development-Empowering village women communites

Garbage Bank Consultant’s workshop on developing a small business from repurposing trash.


Success Activities for Community Development Terasi Zuper (shrimp paste products in Sungai Perlu village)


Fish pond activity in PALINGKAU village

Community fish pond establishment in Palingkau village


The succes of Village Fund development at Tanjung Rengas, the fund allocation is used to develop cattle breedings

Forest Fire Danger level, mobile forest-fire equipments

and mini-weather stations

MONITORING and FIELD PATROLLING in COLLABORATION with TANJUNG PUTING NATIONAL PARK

Overview taken by DRONE in ERC area that shows the ‘illegal logging’ found in the South Unit Management working area

(close to Port Sigintung)

The Challenges of ERC in ecosystem restoration in the fields:

1. Permanent Working Areas: this is the important in implementing the peatlandsrestoration in relation to REDD+ programs;

2. Full supports from Local Governments (Provincial & Districts authorities) aswell as the communities surrounding ERC areas is a “a must” to implementERC programs in the fields;

3. Protection of the working areas and do local tree-species replanting in order torestore degraded forest peatlands as well as do continous field monitoringwith stake holders collaborations;

4. Empower local communities (within target villages) with ‘mutual collaboration’(i.e. Nursery establishment, tree-seedlings productions, and replanting in thefields) with combination of “livelihood programs”;

5. Suggestion on alternative productive activities such as ‘communitydevelopment program” for local communities to avoid forest landencroachments and to support local economy improvements without degradingthe forest land and the environments;

6. To restore degraded peatlands will takes time and big efforts;

7. Stable funding constraint, this must be carefully studied and prepared as therestoration of degraded forest peatlands need careful investments.

BARRIERS/DRAWBACKS1. The mind-sets on ERC activities from some local stake holders are varies,

some consider it as pursuing the timber production activities as all ERC are

working and establishing in the “production forest areas”, while some

others will consider ERC as pursuing “environmental services” without

cutting the trees.

2. Acceptability of ERC actitivies at the local sites some times affected by local

policies. In some districts, there is no guarantee in the long-run, that the local

policy on ERC will alter as impact on ‘local head of district’ attitude changes

by local elections.

3. Inferior local accessibility and capacity, as a result of low accessibility of

the ERC areas that mostly located at the remote areas far away from the

economy activities. This will affect the quality of life of local communities to be

empowered to enhance their local economy.

4. Extreme weather conditions such ‘El Nino”, this a temporary change in the

climate conditions, the weather warms up resulting a significant impact on

worst drought on peatlands and forest areas.

5. Unstable carbon market, as a result of over-supply of carbon credits as well

as lack of incentives by the Government to support ERC policies such as ‘dis-

insentive on land tax-regimes’ for the ERC holders.

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