Category: Madani Updates

There is no viable pathway to securing a long-term goal of sustainable, low emission, and climate resilience development that does not involve multi-stakeholders and multi-layers of collaboration on climate actions, both state and non-state actors.

This is also aligned with the spirit of the Paris Agreement to ensure a transparent, fair, and collaborative framework of climate change. Changes to better and more sustainable practices shall be guided by cross-sectoral, interlinked, and holistic national policies that consistently bring in global and sub-national perspectives. Non-Party Stakeholders (including but not limited to: local governments, civil society organizations, adat, and local communities, private and academia) are partners of Party Stakeholders in achieving these commitments.

In August 2021, the Working Group I of IPCC AR 6 concluded its report that it is very likely that the world will warm up more than 1.5o C by the year of 2030 and could reach 4.4o C by the end of the century if no aggressive and comprehensive climate actions are taking place today.

Devastating consequences such as irreversible impacts, increasing disaster, and decreasing economic growth are the foreseen future for the next generations Indonesia has submitted two important documents, Updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) and Long Term Strategy on Low Carbon and Climate Resilience 2050 (LTS-LCCR 2050), emphasizing the country’s plans in sectoral emission reductions and actions to achieve Net Zero Emission by 2060 or sooner. 

These documents will guide the implementation of a low emission development in Indonesia. All stakeholders, state and non-state, need to work in partnerships to take forward actions that will lead the country to become a champion in the transition towards a sustainable, resilient, fair, and low-emission future.

Get the Inclusive And Collaborative Climate Action Under The Next Generation Leaderships: NPS Contributions to Long Term Development Strategy report in this link.

In April 23, the Government of Indonesia announced the country’s net deforestation rate in the period of 2018-2019, which is 462.4 thousand hectares – both inside and outside the forest zone.

According to the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF), the largest deforestation in Indonesia occurred in natural forests classified as “secondary forests” (162.8 thousand hectares), the majority of which (55.7 percent or 90.5 thousand hectares) occurred in forest zone, which falls under the auspices of the Ministry, while 44.3 percent or 72.2 thousand hectares occurred outside forest zone which falls under the auspices of the Ministry of Agraria and Spatial Planning or the regional government.

In Indonesia, secondary forests are not protected by the permanent forest moratorium policy from new large-scale permits, unless already existing in legally protected conservation and protection areas. According to Madani’s spatial analysis, in 2018 there are approximately 9.5 million hectares of natural forests outside five types of existing permits/concessions, and the indicative area for social forestry (PIAPS) that must immediately be protected by the permanent forest moratorium policy for Indonesia to reach its climate target.

However, most of them are classified as secondary forests. To reach the climate target, the government must broaden the scope of the permanent forest moratorium policy to cover all natural forests, especially those that are most threatened. The distribution of natural forests that still need to be protected by the permanent forest moratorium policy can be seen in Figure 1 below, the largest is in Papua, Maluku, East Nusa Tenggara, Central Kalimantan, Central Sulawesi, and East Kalimantan.

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Through Regulation No. 45 Year 2020, the Minister of Trade revoked the controversial Regulation No. 15 Year 2020 on Export Requirements for Forestry Industry Products that had removed the obligation to attach V-Legal, a document resulting from the Timber Legality Verification System (SVLK), for export of certain Indonesian timber products.

Cited as a measure to boost Indonesia’s export amidst economic slowdown due to COVID-19 pandemic, the previous regulation would have taken effect on May 27 2020 but is now countermanded. It means that all exports of forestry products still have to attach a V-Legal document.

Meanwhile, Omnibus Law/Job Creation Bill Discussion Continues. The Parliament will continue discussing one of the most controversial legislations in Indonesia, the Omnibus Law/Job Creation Bill despite heavy criticisms from labour organizations, academicians, and non-governmental organizations due to the Bill’s focus on boosting investment at the expense of labours and the environment, including forests. Civil society organizations have urged the Parliament to suspend the Bill’s discussion due to COVID-19 pandemic that hinders effective public participation.

Madani’s study found that if the Bill were enacted, which risks undermining forest protection, Indonesia would fall short of achieving the climate commitment in 2025.

Updates on Mineral and Coal Revision Bill. On May 12, 2020, the Parliament and the Government agreed to sign revisions of Mineral and Coal Act No. 4/2009 into law. In addition to the lack of public participation, civil society rejected the Bill because many articles were problematic. The Revised Law provide much privilege to 7 large mining companies which contracts (PKP2B) will have expired by 2025.

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Dinamika konstelasi politik merupakan salah satu hal yang patut ditinjau oleh para penggiat sosial lingkungan hidup mengingat politik merupakan alat konfigurasi distribusi sumber daya serta perilaku publik. Oleh karenanya, Madani secara berkala membuat update dan analisis terkait dinamika politik lingkungan dan pengelolaan sumber daya alam Indonesia yang diterbitkan setiap bulannya.

Dalam Monthly Political Updates edisi April – Mei 2020, terdapat beberapa peristiwa politik yang patut menjadi perhatian. Peristiwa politik yang dimaksud adalah sebagai berikut:

1. Perkembangan RUU Cipta Kerja. Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR) RI dipastikan tetap melanjutkan pembahasan RUU Cipta Kerja. Pembahasan Rancangan Undang-Undang Cipta Kerja sendiri akan berlanjut pada masa sidang DPR berikutnya yaitu masa sidang keempat karena pada 12 Mei 2020 DPR akan kembali memasuki masa Reses hingga pertengahan Juni 2020 mendatang.

2. RUU Minerba Disahkan. Komisi VII DPR RI dan pemerintah sepakat untuk mengesahkan Revisi Undang-Undang Mineral dan Batu Bara Nomor 4 Tahun 2009 pada Sidang Paripurna 12 Mei 2020. Sementara itu, koalisi masyarakat sipil yang tergabung dalam koalisi Bersihkan Indonesia akan mengajukan judicial review terhadap RUU Minerba yang sudah disahkan ini. Hal ini merupakan jawaban dari tantangan yang diajukan oleh Ketua Panja RUU Minerba Bambang Wuryanto kepada masyarakat sipil untuk melakukan judicial review.

3. WHO Publikasikan Minyak Sawit Tidak Sehat. World Health Organization (WHO) mempublikasikan dua artikel terkait dengan informasi kesehatan dan dan tips mengonsumsi makanan selama pandemi Covid-19 yang membuat Indonesia serta Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries (CPOPC) melayangkan protes. Namun, setelah protes dari berbagai pihak, akhirnya WHO merevisi salah satu artikelnya yang berjudul “Nutrition Advice for Adults During Covid19” dimana informasi yang mencantumkan “do not eat saturated fats” atau tidak mengonsumsi makanan dari minyak diganti dengan kata “eat less saturated fats” serta tidak lagi mencantumkan kata minyak sawit dalam artikel tersebut.

4. Permendag No. 15 Tahun 2020 yang Menghapus Kewajiban V-Legal Dicabut, Permen PHPL dan SLK akan Direvisi. Kementerian Perdagangan menyatakan telah membatalkan Peraturan Menteri Perdagangan Nomor 15 Tahun 2020 tentang Ketentuan Ekspor Produk Industri Kehutanan. Aturan tersebut dicabut lantaran menuai kritik dari aktivis lingkungan dan Uni Eropa akibat menghilangkan syarat dokumen V-Legal atau tanda legalitas produk kehutanan di Indonesia. Namun, kebijakan ini menuai protes pengusaha industri mebel karena dirasa memberatkan pengembangan industri tersebut.

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