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JAKARTA (FORESTHINTS.NEWS) - President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has emphasized that actions taken to fight the climate crisis, including environmental recovery efforts, must continue to be clear, concrete, visible and measurable.
Among other initiatives, the President cited Indonesia's ongoing community-based mangrove rehabilitation program, which is targeting the completion of at least 600 thousand hectares by the end of 2024 - an area more than 8 times the size of Singapore, as one example of the country's numerous concrete climate actions.
President Jokowi highlighted once again the power of Indonesia's mangrove forests in absorbing carbon, which is at least 4 times greater than that of other types of tropical rainforests, such that the rehabilitation of mangroves and restoration of their ecosystems is one of the country’s top climate priorities.
These were among the key points mentioned by the President in his remarks at the inauguration of the Rumpin Nursery Center held at the nursery’s location in Bogor Regency, West Java (10 June 2022). The ceremony, part of a series of events to celebrate this year’s World Environment Day, also marked the launch of the Mangrove Rehabilitation Program and the World Mangrove Center.
The inauguration was attended by relevant ministers, ambassadors, multilateral institutions, local governments, environmental and youth activists, business leaders, as well as the head of Indonesia's peat and mangrove restoration agency.
The President also held a virtual dialogue with representatives from selected regions who had received seedlings produced by the Rumpin Nursery Center.
International & public-private climate partnerships
President Jokowi also took the opportunity to express his gratitude to the World Bank, German government and others for the international cooperation they have undertaken with various institutions as part of their climate partnership with Indonesia.
Nonetheless, at the same time, the President also stressed the need for climate actions to be further pursued through public-private partnerships to enhance the tackling of climate change and boost environmental recovery efforts.
President Jokowi singled out the Rumpin Nursery Center as an example of the great results that can be achieved through concrete public-private partnerships, in this case a joint undertaking by the country’s Environment and Forestry Ministry and Public Works Ministry alongside one of the world's largest pulp and paper producers, the APRIL group.
The President also said that the government aims to construct 30 nurseries similar to Rumpin's over the next three years in various provinces, including 8 this year, by means of partnerships between the government and international entities as well as public-private partnerships involving local community-based efforts.
Each of these modern nursery centers is expected to have an annual production capacity of 10-12 million seedlings, thus yielding up to 360 million ready-to-plant seedlings overall every year. These will be used for the recovery of degraded lands in areas of concern, including by restoring the functions of critical lands as well as by planting in areas prone to landslides and upstream of degraded watersheds.
Orders delivered
In her speech at the event, the country's Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya reported to the President on the many climate actions currently being carried out across Indonesia, as well as the targets that have been and will be achieved.
The minister pointed out that all the climate actions and environmental recovery efforts ordered by President Jokowi continue to be delivered and implemented effectively and are proving extremely beneficial.
Minister Nurbaya praised the President for his persistent encouragement of degraded land recovery efforts, and echoed his insightful words by urging that such efforts continue to take the form of clear, concrete, visible and measurable actions.
“Local community-based schemes constitute a really significant part of Indonesia's substantial environmental recovery efforts, and they also help enhance carbon stocks on degraded lands,” she explained.
According to the minister, given President Jokowi’s constant prioritizing of on-the-ground climate actions through community-based efforts, Indonesia's legally-binding climate targets will continue to be well met.
President Jokowi detailed these legally-binding climate targets in his COP26 address last November, emphasizing in particular the country's goal of achieving Forestry and Other Land Use (FOLU) NET SINK by 2030, an integral part of which involves the world's largest community-based mangrove rehabilitation program.
In March this year, several months after the President's speech at the Glasgow climate summit, Minister Nurbaya launched the operational plan of the country's FOLU NET SINK 2030 strategy, encompassing - among other things - an assurance that Indonesia will reach its target of net zero deforestation by 2030.
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JAKARTA (FORESTHINTS.NEWS) - President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has emphasized that actions taken to fight the climate crisis, including environmental recovery efforts, must continue to be clear, concrete, visible and measurable.
Among other initiatives, the President cited Indonesia's ongoing community-based mangrove rehabilitation program, which is targeting the completion of at least 600 thousand hectares by the end of 2024 - an area more than 8 times the size of Singapore, as one example of the country's numerous concrete climate actions.
President Jokowi highlighted once again the power of Indonesia's mangrove forests in absorbing carbon, which is at least 4 times greater than that of other types of tropical rainforests, such that the rehabilitation of mangroves and restoration of their ecosystems is one of the country’s top climate priorities.
These were among the key points mentioned by the President in his remarks at the inauguration of the Rumpin Nursery Center held at the nursery’s location in Bogor Regency, West Java (10 June 2022). The ceremony, part of a series of events to celebrate this year’s World Environment Day, also marked the launch of the Mangrove Rehabilitation Program and the World Mangrove Center.
The inauguration was attended by relevant ministers, ambassadors, multilateral institutions, local governments, environmental and youth activists, business leaders, as well as the head of Indonesia's peat and mangrove restoration agency.
The President also held a virtual dialogue with representatives from selected regions who had received seedlings produced by the Rumpin Nursery Center.
International & public-private climate partnerships
President Jokowi also took the opportunity to express his gratitude to the World Bank, German government and others for the international cooperation they have undertaken with various institutions as part of their climate partnership with Indonesia.
Nonetheless, at the same time, the President also stressed the need for climate actions to be further pursued through public-private partnerships to enhance the tackling of climate change and boost environmental recovery efforts.
President Jokowi singled out the Rumpin Nursery Center as an example of the great results that can be achieved through concrete public-private partnerships, in this case a joint undertaking by the country’s Environment and Forestry Ministry and Public Works Ministry alongside one of the world's largest pulp and paper producers, the APRIL group.
The President also said that the government aims to construct 30 nurseries similar to Rumpin's over the next three years in various provinces, including 8 this year, by means of partnerships between the government and international entities as well as public-private partnerships involving local community-based efforts.
Each of these modern nursery centers is expected to have an annual production capacity of 10-12 million seedlings, thus yielding up to 360 million ready-to-plant seedlings overall every year. These will be used for the recovery of degraded lands in areas of concern, including by restoring the functions of critical lands as well as by planting in areas prone to landslides and upstream of degraded watersheds.
Orders delivered
In her speech at the event, the country's Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya reported to the President on the many climate actions currently being carried out across Indonesia, as well as the targets that have been and will be achieved.
The minister pointed out that all the climate actions and environmental recovery efforts ordered by President Jokowi continue to be delivered and implemented effectively and are proving extremely beneficial.
Minister Nurbaya praised the President for his persistent encouragement of degraded land recovery efforts, and echoed his insightful words by urging that such efforts continue to take the form of clear, concrete, visible and measurable actions.
“Local community-based schemes constitute a really significant part of Indonesia's substantial environmental recovery efforts, and they also help enhance carbon stocks on degraded lands,” she explained.
According to the minister, given President Jokowi’s constant prioritizing of on-the-ground climate actions through community-based efforts, Indonesia's legally-binding climate targets will continue to be well met.
President Jokowi detailed these legally-binding climate targets in his COP26 address last November, emphasizing in particular the country's goal of achieving Forestry and Other Land Use (FOLU) NET SINK by 2030, an integral part of which involves the world's largest community-based mangrove rehabilitation program.
In March this year, several months after the President's speech at the Glasgow climate summit, Minister Nurbaya launched the operational plan of the country's FOLU NET SINK 2030 strategy, encompassing - among other things - an assurance that Indonesia will reach its target of net zero deforestation by 2030.
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