Indonesia: Ongoing Initiatives
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WRI/GFW's goal in Indonesia is to support legal and sustainable
forest use through multi-stakeholder processes involving government,
timber producers, timber exporters, national and international NGOs
and the research community. Our databases and monitoring projects
support forest policies in the following areas:
Forestry Sector Database
Since 2002, GFW is partnering
with Forest Watch Indonesia (FWI) to compile data on forest
industries.
We have collected ownership and location data for all of
Indonesia's concessions, and have made it available in Bahasa
Indonesia (English version to come) in a web-based, interactive
database on the FWI website, http://www.fwi.or.id/.
The database
covers the entire archipelago and includes interactive maps, and
allows users to view lists all logging companies, plantation
companies and mills with their investors, owners, output volume,
annual management plans, allowable cut and other characteristics.
This project is supported by the U.S. Agency for International
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Monitoring Compliance in the forestry sector
Using
satellite images, we are detecting illegal activities carried out by
legal concessions. In a pilot area in the province of
Central-Kalimantan, we (in collaboration with FWI) are monitoring
concessionaire compliance with their annual management plans. This
type of work has been used successfully by GFW in Central
Africa. Funding has been provided by the U.S. Agency for
International Development. Funding permitting, this work will be
extended to other provinces in Indonesia and other countries in
Southeast Asia.
Monitoring Forest-cover Change in Indonesia
Figures on
forest extent and deforestation in Indonesia vary widely depending
on the year reported and the group reporting, and accurate
information that quantifies and locates deforestation is not
available. Several large scale mapping projects on forests have been
carried out in the last decade to fill this information gap.
Unfortunately, these were one time projects so results from
different projects and time periods, cannot be compared to develop
accurate analyses of actual forest change. Some small scale
deforestation figures (e.g. national parks) have been well
documented, but cannot be applied to the entire archipelago. GFW,
with World Bank support and in partnership with the Centre for
International Forestry Research (CIFOR), is setting up a system that
can detect forest-cover change over the entire archipelago of
Indonesia. GFW is partnering with several universities to compare
and work with different methods and satellite systems. We expect to
make a decision on appropriate methodologies by the end of 2004. We
envision updates in specific regions every six months to one year,
with results published in data briefs available in a variety of hard
copy and web-based formats.
Developing a Forest Information System for the Indonesian
forest sector
GFW will combine the forestry sector data,
compliance monitoring data, forest cover change data produced by the
three initiatives described above with additional environmental and
socio-economic data into a Forest Information System. The system
will be useful for guiding forest development and investment and
forest law enforcement and forest policy making. The World Bank will
use the system to inform the implementation of their strategy for
Indonesia, and has invited us to present it at their strategy
rollout meeting in the Fall of 2004, that will be attended by the
Ministry of Forestry and other important stakeholders. We hope to
build support for a multi-stakeholder process that will collaborate
to sustain the system and produce: 1) a yearly update of reliable
and spatially explicit de- and reforestation statistics with maps of
forest cover and forest cover change; 2) a yearly update of actual
forest land allocation with maps of logging concessions, mining
concessions and protected areas and maps of probable areas of
illegal logging; 3) analyses that identify good management practices
by verifying voluntarily provided information on forest operations.
Initiatives in Development
Oil palm
GFW, in collaboration with Conservation
International, would like to increase the ability of the oil palm
sector to contribute positively to regional development plans that
balance needs of the private sector, government, local communities,
and environmental interests. Land use decisions could be guided by
social, environmental and economic data that will help industry
members identify the true costs and benefits of plantation
development and facilitate participation in integrated regional
development plans led by government and non-governmental
organizations. GFW proposes to create an interactive online tool
that will enable users to access existing environmental, economic,
and social data for specific geographic areas, analyze the risks of
developing in these areas, and identify actions that should be
considered to generate the greatest environmental, economic and
social benefits. This project is not intended to be a substitute for
environmental or social impact assessments already in use, but will
provide maps and data that facilitate improved resource-use and
land-management decision making. GFW is exploring partnership and
funding opportunities to implement this work.
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Source :
(http://www.globalforestwatch.org/)
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