Investor Presentaiton
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.
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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)
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