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6.5 Management of Peatland and Mangrove Ecosystems Storing a vast amount of carbon, peatlands and mangroves are critical to Indonesia's FOLU Net Sink 2030 agenda and becoming a vital nature- based solution to climate change. Moreover, vegetation in blue carbon ecosystems, including mangrove forests and seagrass meadows, can store 3 to 5 times more carbon than terrestrial vegetation. Mangrove store carbon in sediments and biomass (woods, leaf litters). Having huge capacity in carbon storage enables mangrove to become global climate regulator. Peatland restoration has been carried out in a more structured manner since the issuance of Government Regulation (PP) No. 71 of 2014, which was amended by PP No. 57 of 2016 on protection and management of peat ecosystems. The regulation is followed by a set of implementing environment and forestry ministerial regulations to guide the implementation on the ground. According to these regulations, degraded peatlands must be restored. The restoration is applied through various approaches, including construction of canal blocking to raise the peat water level, groundwater monitoring stations, and replanting of burnt areas. Implementing these approaches, the Country has hitherto succeeded in restoring 3.6 million ha of degraded peatlands. A thorough calculation proves that the peatland restoration that has been carried out in the forest concession area of 3.6 million ha and in 49,874 ha of community-owned land has resulted in a GHG emission reduction by 271 Mt CO₂e. Furthermore, Indonesia's mangrove forests cover around 3.4 million ha spread along the coastline and account for more than 20 percent of the mangrove forests in the world. This ecosystem is of concern for restoration measures. Considerable efforts to protect and rehabilitate the mangrove ecosystem have been taken by the Country. While the Country sets a target to rehabilitate 600 thousand ha of mangroves by 2024, the rehabilitated mangroves in 2021 had covered an area of 35,881 ha. To accelerate efforts to rehabilitate peatlands and mangroves, the Government has expanded the tasks and responsibility of the Peatland Restoration Agency to include Mangrove Co-chair of the second meeting of the 2022 G20 Environment Deputies Meeting and Climate Sustainability Working Group, Director General of Pollution and Environmental Degradation Control, Sigit Reliantoro, conveys that Indonesia is ready to share lesson learned and best practices in peatland restoration. (Jakarta, 21 June 2022) Indonesia aims to rehabilitate mangrove up to 600 thousand ha until 2024. In the implementation, mangrove rehabilitation involves local communities which will increase the communities income. Restoration. The Agency has transformed to be the Peatland and Mangrove Restoration Agency (BRGM), stipulated by the Presidential Decree no. 120 of 2020. Indonesia's FOLU Net Sink 2030 agenda also carries out rehabilitation of the degraded mangrove forests and restoration of peatland. CO-CHAIR 110 PETA MANGROVE NASIONAL 20215 Coordinating Minister of Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan with Minister of Environment and Forestry Siti Nurbaya, Head of Peatland and Mangrove Restoration Agency Hartono, and Head of Geospatial Information Agency Aris Marfai launch 2021 National Mangrove Map. The Map is a part of efforts to improve mangrove management and rehabilitation. (Angke Kapuk Nature Recreation Park, Jakarta, 13 October 2021) President Joko Widodo gives directives to Head of Peatland and Mangrove Restoration Agency (BRGM) Hartono to carry out mangrove rehabilitation in Indonesia. The Government adds duty of Peatland Restoration Agency to BRGM in accordance with Presidential Regulation No. 120 of 2020 to accelerate peatland ecosystems and mangrove rehabilitation efforts. (Cilacap, Central Java, 23 September 2021) 111
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