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JAKARTA (FORESTHINTS.NEWS) - According to a new update from Indonesian Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya based on data from September this year, an area larger than the UK in Indonesia's Papua and West Papua provinces remains protected by the country's permanent moratorium on the conversion of primary forests and peatlands, which was signed by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo in early August 2019.
"The permanent moratorium map on the island of Papua, home to both Papua and West Papua provinces, spans over 26.47 million hectares, or 65.1% of the island's total land area," Minister Nurbaya explained (Nov 9).
Providing greater detail, the minister said that the permanent moratorium map covers more than 21.52 million hectares of Papua Province and 4.95 million hectares of West Papua Province, around 70% and 51.5% of their total respective land areas.
She also referred to President Jokowi's speech at COP26 Glasgow in which he emphasized that, with or without international support, Indonesia is continuing to move forward with its climate targets, including maintaining the country's permanent moratorium map which covers a total area exceeding 66 million hectares, bigger than France.
The following chart shows the extent of the permanent moratorium map in Papua and West Papua, two provinces which comprise around 40% of the Indonesia’s total moratorium map.
Minister Nurbaya also showed the latest version of the permanent moratorium map for the island of Papua. The first and second maps depict the distribution of permanent moratorium areas in West Papua and Papua respectively, demonstrating that Papua island is still dominated by permanent moratorium areas as indicated in green (primary forests) and red-brown (peatlands) in the third map.
Almost entirely state forest areas
The data presented by Minister Nurbaya indicates that 26.15 million hectares, or 98.77% of the permanent moratorium map in Papua and West Papua, consist of state forest areas, with 21.36 million hectares (81.68%) in Papua and 4.79 million hectares (18.32%) in West Papua.
"Virtually the entire permanent moratorium map in Papua and West Papua is legally composed of conservation areas, protection forests and production forests, all of which constitute state forest areas," she said.
Meanwhile, non-state forest areas within the permanent moratorium map in the two provinces, she continued, account for just 325 thousand hectares, with 164 thousand hectares in Papua (50.42%) and 161 thousand hectares in West Papua (49.58%).
The chart below shows the composition of the distribution of permanent moratorium areas in Papua and West Papua, both for state and non-state forest areas.
Minister Nurbaya also pointed out that up to 8.33 million hectares of production forests which constitute state forest areas -14 times the size of Bali - fall under the permanent moratorium in Papua and West Papua.
The minister broke this down further, explaining that of the total production forest area, 6.88 million hectares lie in Papua and 1.45 million hectares in West Papua.
Despite terminating its Letter of Intent with Norway in September this year, Indonesia, as reaffirmed by Minister Nurbaya, continues to enforce its permanent moratorium which covers an area bigger than Norway and the UK combined and is a powerful tool for the country to achieve a net carbon sink in its forestry and land use sector (FoLU) by 2030.
Indonesia's objective of reaching 2030 FoLU net carbon sink is not merely a pledge, but one of the country's legally binding climate targets, as underlined by President Jokowi in a speech at COP26 and previously reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS (Nov 4).
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JAKARTA (FORESTHINTS.NEWS) - According to a new update from Indonesian Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya based on data from September this year, an area larger than the UK in Indonesia's Papua and West Papua provinces remains protected by the country's permanent moratorium on the conversion of primary forests and peatlands, which was signed by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo in early August 2019.
"The permanent moratorium map on the island of Papua, home to both Papua and West Papua provinces, spans over 26.47 million hectares, or 65.1% of the island's total land area," Minister Nurbaya explained (Nov 9).
Providing greater detail, the minister said that the permanent moratorium map covers more than 21.5 million hectares of Papua Province and 4.95 million hectares of West Papua Province, around 70% and 51.5% of their total respective land areas.
She also referred to President Jokowi's speech at COP26 Glasgow in which he emphasized that, with or without international support, Indonesia is continuing to move forward with its climate targets, including maintaining the country's permanent moratorium map which covers a total area exceeding 66 million hectares, bigger than France.
The following chart shows the extent of the permanent moratorium map in Papua and West Papua, two provinces which comprise around 40% of the Indonesia’s total moratorium map.
Minister Nurbaya also showed the latest version of the permanent moratorium map for the island of Papua. The first and second maps depict the distribution of permanent moratorium areas in West Papua and Papua respectively, demonstrating that Papua island is still dominated by permanent moratorium areas as indicated in green (primary forests) and red-brown (peatlands) in the third map.
Almost entirely state forest areas
The data presented by Minister Nurbaya indicates that 26.15 million hectares, or 98.77% of the permanent moratorium map in Papua and West Papua, consist of state forest areas, with 21.36 million hectares (81.68%) in Papua and 4.79 million hectares (18.32%) in West Papua.
"Virtually the entire permanent moratorium map in Papua and West Papua is legally composed of conservation areas, protection forests and production forests, all of which constitute state forest areas," she said.
Meanwhile, non-state forest areas within the permanent moratorium map in the two provinces, she continued, account for just 325 thousand hectares, with 164 thousand hectares in Papua (50.42%) and 161 thousand hectares in West Papua (49.58%).
The chart below shows the composition of the distribution of permanent moratorium areas in Papua and West Papua, both for state and non-state forest areas.
Minister Nurbaya also pointed out that up to 8.33 million hectares of production forests which constitute state forest areas -14 times the size of Bali - fall under the permanent moratorium in Papua and West Papua.
The minister broke this down further, explaining that of the total production forest area, 6.88 million hectares lie in Papua and 1.45 million hectares in West Papua.
Despite terminating its Letter of Intent with Norway in September this year, Indonesia, as reaffirmed by Minister Nurbaya, continues to enforce its permanent moratorium which covers an area bigger than Norway and the UK combined and is a powerful tool for the country to achieve a net carbon sink in its forestry and land use sector (FoLU) by 2030.
Indonesia's objective of reaching 2030 FoLU net carbon sink is not merely a pledge, but one of the country's legally binding climate targets, as underlined by President Jokowi in a speech at COP26 and previously reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS (Nov 4).
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