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Mrs. Siti Nurbaya Bakar, Minister of Environment and Forestry

Green industry corporations, social forestry, carbon trading, fireforest

are within her scope of duty

<i>Carbon Trading</i>

Do you know what Carbon Trading is?

Not yet.

Nope.

I don't know what that is.

Never heard of that.

President Jokowi is now glancing up to the potential of carbon trading.

When the cabinet inauguration happened, he even gave

Mrs. Siti Nurbaya Bakar specific instruction

Carbon trading is a compensation for industries in the developed countries

that produce carbon dioxide causing environmental damages

Compensation is given to the countries with carbon-absorbing forest.

Quietly, as a tropical country, Indonesia holds the biggest carbon-forestry conservation area in the world.

And this is Katingan Mentaya Project.

Indonesian Forest Entrepreneurs Association estimates that our forest could absorb 5,5 giga tones of carbon dioxide

Almost 10 percent of carbon credit in the world is from Indonesia

With 36,5 million hectares of our forest,

if it’s sold on the carbon market,

the number will reach 1400-1600 trillions rupiahs.

What an irresistable amount of money that is!

It all started in 1997 when the Kyoto Protocol was established

Prior to the Protocol, the rights to pollute was all free,

yet after that it became exclusive and limited

That right is converted into a form a secure certificate

then be evenly distributed to all corporations.

But this set of rule gave corporations the opportunity

to dispose emission exceeds the barrier

For instance, there are two factories;

Factory A and factory B

Both of them have the same carbon limit

But, factory A is succeed to reduce emission with an environment-friendly technology

But, on the other hand, factory B has to increase the emission limit

because of its additional burden of production

This action of surpassing the limit is called offset

Because of that, factory B has to add more the certificate to pollute

The solution is to buy some from factory A that doesn't use theirs

This trading system between two factories is called Cap and Trade

However, there's another way out for factory B

It's through a system called <b>Clean Development Mechanism</b>

It's a method of making environment-friendly project in the developing countries

For example, building a wind power generation in India

or solar power plant in Tiongkok

As the outcome of this help, corporations will receive certificate to cover the offset

Besides CDM, there's another trading scheme called REDD+

So, corporations invest funds which will be used

to prevent deforestation in a carbon-producing countries

Just like CDM, corporations that are succeed in protecting the forests

will receive additional carbon credit.

Quietly, as a tropical country, Indonesia holds the biggest carbon-forestry conservation area in the world.

And this is Katingan Mentaya Project.

Katingan Mentaya Project is the biggest ecology restoration project

in the world using the carbon trading scheme

It's twice of the size of Singapore

They're just making sure that forests stays pure.

This carbon trading business appeals well-known corporations who wants to redeem their actions.

Shell, as an instance

This Dutch oil and gas company has a campaign, in every 1 cent of customer's fuel purchase

will be donated to Katingan Project

Besides that, there's also an automotive company, like Volkswagen

and a banking agency, BNP Paribas that's also PT RMU's client

The cycle of forest-fire happened again in Indonesia

Unfortunately, it spread to the conservation area of Katingan Mentaya Project

We have been processing the data of hotspot points of forest-fire since last January

We also downloaded tens of satelite imageries in the last 6 months

Then, we overlayed the data with the conservation map that we got

The result is there are few hotspot points in the carbon forest

The burnt areas is approximately 1.900 hectares

Narasi and Tempo visited them directly

The remains of the fire still could be seen when we went along the canal on the south part

The passengers even cried to see how the forest was burnt

... kalau gak api tambah kesini terus.

Nekat sekitar ngelewatin 1 KM itu Pak

Malam itu udah nekat aja pokoknya

On the west part, fire also spread to the forest area

These are the representatives of Permian Global, the marketer of PT RMU's carbon trading in the Europe

Were you guys aware of the fire

in Katingan Project in Central Kalimantan?

If yes, how did you respond to that?

I wouldn’t necessarily as fire disaster.

Certainly, fires did occur.

And the project staffs did everything to prevent them.

What is your opinion about the fact that there is a forestfire?

Actually, we did pay attention, and we analyzed that this year's summer

from June until October, the fire was actually way better than what happened in 2015

More terrible impact occured in 2015

We can see that through these satelite imageries More terrible impact occured in 2015

We can see that through these satelite imageries

The company's audit report even mentioned

that the impact of the fire reached 9.000 hectares

Carbon trading business in Indonesia is not as easy as how it's imagined

Ada masalah laten yang banyak dialami pengusaha perhutanan There's latent issue experienced by forest entrepreneurs

which is, a land dispute with the locals

When we went to the west part of the burnt site

We saw hundreds of hectares of PT RMU-owned lands have been taken illegally by the local people

This is a banner that belongs to Dayak Misik

When we inserted the coordinate of the banner,

we'll see it's in the area of PT RMU

So is this one, we'll see it's in the area of PT RMU

So is this one,

this one,

and this one

PT RMU have not pointed out the precise border

dividing the locals' area and PT RMU itself

The locals claimed that the land they occupied is customary lands dividing the locals' area and PT RMU itself

The locals claimed that the land they occupied is customary lands

It has been two years The locals claimed that the land they occupied is customary lands

It has been two years

that every Mondays, they organize an activity

to blocks the forest, to make a farm

This land annexation was only based on a piece of paper

from local community called "<i>Forum Tani Dayak Misik" in Palangkaraya</i>

Yes, the other day we came from Palangkaraya

given a decree untuk Dayak Misik

It's to maintain our power

Sir, another issue is about the annexation of the land

How do you see this?

Is that an impact from unclear socialization?

We just knew about this

So what you said earlier about annexation took place in 2019 We just knew about this

So what you said earlier about annexation took place in 2019

For me, it's fine

It's just,

when the locals want to claim a land, there has to be a verification process, right?

So, later on, we will check that with the district officials

Well, we cannot say "oh, it's my land," and just like that

This is a collaborative and transparent process

One cannot arbitrarily claim a land

'Cause the reality is, there's cause-and-effect

So, for example,

there are people who feel like,

"yeah, it's okay to claim and to buy the land" there are people who feel like,

"yeah, it's okay to claim and to buy the land"

Well, we transparently state that

RMU will not buy lands. Period.

Also, there's onother problem

The east side of the conservation area was directly adjacent Also, there's onother problem

The east side of the conservation area was directly adjacent

with palm oil area owned by PT Persada Era Agro Kencana

or PT PEAK

PT PEAK will make canal networks

to purposely drain the water in the area

These canals will effect in making the peatlands dry

So then, when long summer came in 2015 and 2019,

fire happened

Almost more than 7.000 hectares of the forest we burnt in 2015 fire happened

Almost more than 7.000 hectares of the forest we burnt in 2015

beginning in the fire that initially spread from the palm oil area of PT PEAK Almost more than 7.000 hectares of the forest we burnt in 2015

beginning in the fire that initially spread from the palm oil area of PT PEAK

The question is,

How come PT PEAK could've gotten a permission from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry?

In 2008, the permission of ecosystem restoration that was proposed by Dharsono

was hardly approved by the government

Up until a video of Harisson Ford scolding

the Minister of Forestry, Zulkifli Hasan, went viral

the Minister of Forestry, Zulkifli Hasan, went viral

On September 2013, he came to Indonesia

to shoot for a documentary "Years of Living Dangerously"

He raised this question to Zulkifli

A month after Ford's visit to Indonesia,

quickly the permission was approved by Zulkifli

Yet, a gaffe emerged

The permission of the land restoration that was initally proposed

200 thousand hectares, was being cut a half

We found out, some parts that were besought by PT RMU

had already been given to PT PEAK for the palm oil business

Since the mid of 2012,

the Ministry of Environment and Forestry has opened the door for PT PEAK

On December 2013, Zulkifli Hasan also signed the permission

to release the forest to PT PEAK

We contacted PT PEAK high-level official,

Kevin Wusman

He didn't respond and only read our messages

My question is, He didn't respond and only read our messages

My question is,

How come PT PEAK be side by side with the conservation area?

If the process has been taken rightly, we'll give permission

unless it's illegal

Mighty Earth report said,

the production of PT PEAK is consumed by multinational companies

such as Unilever, Kraft, Nestle, and Pepsi

Of course, it's a paradox

When Shell and Volkswagen tried to redeem their actions

by restoring the peatlands in Katingan

But, in the other hand, Unilever, Kraft, Nestle, and Pepsi

became the consumers of a company who terribly hurts the environment

Climate justice is all about developed countries and transnational corporations

drastically reducing their emissions

not the developing countries

Why? Because they were the ones who started

the industrialization process earlier

The external problem afflicting PT RMU will have implications

on the decreasing of trust of the carbon buyers with Indonesia

However, Katingan Mentaya Project won't give up

Although there are many people who are cynical towards carbon trading industry

This thing with carbon has to be further examined

When President Jokowi gave the mandate,

for me, it's wrong

That environmental preservation is also part of human rights

Now, everything's being measured by "wallet"

or economically about invest

By doing this carbon transaction, or economically about invest

By doing this carbon transaction,

then as if billions of dollars will be present By doing this carbon transaction,

then as if billions of dollars will be present

even the trees look like draping dollars

Who can guarantee that at least 100 years,

the area will remain safe?

Because they need that

We can see now, for example,

a forest was initially 83 thousand hectares, now it's only tens of hectares

The question now is,

how are we going to convince the foreigners, that it will not happen?

At the end of the day, carbon trading won't be able

to prevent forest deforestation that goes increasingly massive in Indonesia