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Indonesia: Ongoing Initiatives
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,
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 Development.
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.
For more information on these projects, please
contact:
Dr. Fred Stolle
Global Forest Watch
10 G Street NE, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20002
USA
fstolle@wri.org
1-202-729-7694
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