Investor Presentaiton
Advancing Environmental Sustainability
Policy Engagement on Environmental Issues
Advancing Environmental Sustainability
SAGU Project
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Arguably, the most significant piece
of legislation to impact the environmental
and forestry sectors in recent years has
been the omnibus Work Creation Law
(UUCK). This was Indonesia's first attempt
at passing a complex omnibus type law.
The UUCK impacts upon over 80 different
pieces of legislation from across all sectors
of the economy. The fundamental intent
of the law is to streamline administrative
processes and create a better regulatory
framework to encourage investment and
new sources of employment. In seeking
to create so many breakthroughs, and
in record time of deliberation together
with early progress in enacting dozens of
implementing regulations the UUCK has
been very controversial.
While the intensity of public
consultation on this important law was
compressed in terms of time, KEMITRAAN
collaborated closely with several other
civil society and community organizations
in order to ensure that the rights, interests
and concerns of forest dependent
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communities were not abrogated.
The focus of work following
the enactment has focused on the
complexities of implementing regulations,
including support for framing a Presidential
Regulation on the Acceleration of Social
Forestry.
Additional chances to focus on a
number of issues have arisen as a result
of the Constitutional Court's decision
to declare the UUCK "unconstitutional
conditionally" in November 2021. Especially
with regard to the subject of making sure
that communities are consulted over
potential investments in their areas and
that environmental protection rules are
upheld.
In the meantime, the UUCK Project has
continued to provide technical assistance
activities with Provincial Governments in
synchronizing national forest management
plans under UUCK into provincial
development programs and plans (RPJMD,
RPHJP).
A woman in Papua is making sago during the Care for Peat Village project
The SAGU, Sustainable Peatland
Management in Western Pacific Region,
Project is a regional project that in
Indonesia is focused especially in the
provinces of West Kalimantan, West
Papua and Papua. The project aims to
limit the degradation and loss of peatland
ecosystems in lowland and upland
landscapes of the big multi-nation islands
of Borneo and New Guinea. This work is
supported by Germany's Federal Ministry
for the Environment, Nature Conservation,
Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
(BMUV) and International Climate
Initiative (IKI). KEMITRAAN's role as a
SAGU Project implementing partner is to
bring its expertise on inclusive peatland
governance, sustainable peatland
management, and social and livelihood
development. The objective of this
partnership in the preparation phase is
to create a detailed agreement on the
full proposal package, and in particular
on KEMITRAAN's role and budget for
implementation of the SAGU project.
Work has focused thus far on
preparatory work including sub-national
consultations as well as regional
exchanges and coordination meetings
with teams from Malaysia and Papua
New Guinea. In addition, KEMITRAAN
has identified and collected preliminary
baseline information in West Kalimantan
and Papua on the conditions of
peatland ecosystems including peatland
degradation, barriers and challenges.
THE PARTNERSHIP
FOR GOVERNANCE REFORM
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