Indonesian Environment and Forestry Minister Professor Siti Nurbaya remains very confident that the country’s populations of Sumatran, Tapanuli, and Bornean orangutans will continue to grow.

The Indonesian Environment and Forestry Ministry is continuing to make consistent and substantial efforts to ensure that forest carbon governance remains on a legal track following the issuance of the landmark presidential regulation on the country's economic value of carbon, which was signed by President Joko Widodo in October last year.