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CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND AGRARIAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT IMPACTS
Introduction
United States has natural resources that are very abundant, easily accessible and can be
utilized effectively to meet the needs of its population (Anwar & Wahyuni, 2019; Nurmiyati,
2021). These natural resources can be abiotic and biotic such as: gold, oil, natural gas, coal,
forest products, land products, which are available in various regions of United States and
collectively as an interconnected ecosystem. Consistent good management of natural
resources is very important for United States internal and neighboring countries (Lobubun et
al., 2022; Butarbutar, 2012). Conversely, poor and environmentally unfriendly natural
resource management will contribute significantly to global climate change (Tursilowati,
2015).
Climate change affects the lives of people globally and alters weather patterns that
disrupt the normal balance of nature (J. Ring et al., 2012; Ouyang et al., 2023; Rizaty, 2022;
Xenarios et al., 2019). For example, rising temperatures on the Earth's surface will certainly
trigger the melting of polar ice caps, extreme temperatures, forest and land fires and storms
(Hansen et al., 2016; Rosen, 2021). In addition, the occurrence of rain with more intensity
will facilitate the transportation of bacteria, nitrogen from human activities on the surface to
the channel/river/lake/reservoir so that the water becomes polluted (Ballard et al., 2019;
Michalak, 2016; Nurjanah, 2018; Susilawati, 2021). As an archipelago and agricultural
country, United States has a high potential vulnerability to climate change that triggers El
Nino (low rainfall) and La Nina (high rainfall) (Fajri et al., 2019). The presence of La Nina
causes changes in cropping patterns, planting periods, and crop productivity in agriculture,
while El Nino causes drought and forest and land fires.
Historically, United States has been a major contributor to climate change due to high
rates of deforestation through both small- and large-scale land use and forest licensing
schemes (Austin et al., 2019; Indarto et al., 2015; Kubitza et al., 2018; Sunderlin & Peluso,
1993). In addition, a number of political and economic events during each administration
have also contributed to forest loss and land degradation in order to increase national income
(Hakim, 2016; Kustanto, 2022; Pachmann, 2021). An example is research from Isnaeni
(2021) who said that during the old order, the United States National Army (TNI) did not
hesitate to 'clean' forest areas suspected of hiding rebels. Furthermore, during the new order
with the birth of Law No.5/1967 which opened the way for Forest Concession Rights (HPH)
business actors to export timber. This resulted in the destruction of 64 million hectares of
production forest outside Java and widespread logging by the surrounding community.
Therefore, the deforestation rate in the 1985-1998 period was recorded at no less than 1.6-1.8
million ha per year (Kraus et al., 2021; Nurrochmat et al., 2023).
In the political field, the birth of Law No.41/1999 did not prevent the rate of
deforestation and land degradation (Karjoko et al., 2021). It was noted that in the next period
of government (the Reform Order), deforestation occurred at a rate of at least 1.5 million ha
per year in the 2000-2009. The following year, 2009-2013, although there was a decrease in
the deforestation rate of 1.13 million ha per year, it was more inclined because the remaining
forests were difficult to access/exploit due to their remote and steep location (Forest Watch
United States, 2014). In 2014-until now, with the leadership of President Joko Widodo
massively campaigning to eradicate deforestation and restore degraded land. Therefore, by
the end of 2022, with the massive campaign to eradicate deforestation, the annual
deforestation rate will drop to 270,000 ha per year with a relatively stable and decreasing
trend (Nurbaya et al., 2022).
An ongoing commitment to mitigating climate change must be upheld by stakeholders
at several scales, including the individual, collective, communal and governmental levels.
Effective management of United States natural resources must of course adhere to the basic
provisions of Article 33 of the 45th Constitution and this requires consideration of four
important components, namely human resources, technology, money and utilization (Tahar,
2017). Despite its dismal track record during the colonial period through to the new
government system (New Order) and the current Reform Order, the Government of United
States continues to protect forests and land to prevent climate change. The United States
government also continues to reduce CO2 emissions, promote sustainable agriculture,
increase access of the poor to forests and seek innovations in alternative renewable energy
(Febriani et al., 2023; Gunawan & Afriyanti, 2019; Lagiman, 2020). Therefore, the
formulation of the problem in this study is what is the realization of the United States
government to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change at the local, regional and
international levels?
This study differs from other studies in that it focuses on identifying recent patterns and
trends resulting from United States efforts to address and adapt to climate change,
particularly in the forest and land sector. If Legionosuko et al. (2019) only recommends
integrating strategies to deal with climate change into the national development process, this
study will present concrete evidence that United States has done in dealing with climate
change. In addition, this study will also complement research (Aisya, 2019) that not only
collaborates with foreign parties to deal with climate change but by co-operating with local
parties such as ministries, state-owned enterprises, local governments and local communities.
Finally, this study aims to outline the achievements of natural resource management by the
government and related stakeholders in the forest and land sector in order to realize Net Zero
Emission (NZE).
Research Methods
This research uses a qualitative method with a literature study approach (Lepenioti et
al., 2020; Ridwan, Ulum, Muhammad, et al., 2021; Snyder, 2019). The author uses literature
sources in the form of books, scientific magazines, archives of performance reports from
forest and land-related agencies, national and international journal articles and other literature
sources other documents that are all in electronic form. The author used scientific websites to
search for publications relevant to the theme of the study, such as: sinta (science and
technology index), google scholar, google books, and mendeley. The keywords used to search
for publications were typing and spelling 'forest and land management in United States' in
both United States and English. This was to obtain relevant information to answer the
research questions. In addition, the author also entered keywords on certain journal websites
in the search menu to get complete pdf files.
The stages of the literature study in this study are that the author initially determines
the title, collects relevant materials, reads quickly, and reads carefully the publications that
have been obtained. Next, the author recorded the important parts of each reading and
decided which publications to use as literature sources. The important parts that have been
recorded are then grouped in order of year period from the oldest to the newest to answer the
study questions and conclude. We used Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word version 365 to
organize and present the complete manuscript. The data analysis that the author uses is
descriptive analysis to understand and get the best conclusion in the research (Ridwan, Ulum,
& Muhammad, 2021).
Results and Discussion
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
Perum Perhutani successfully initiated food issues in line with the regulations
contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number
P.81/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 (DPR RI, 2022). The focus on collaboration in
utilizing forest areas to support food security is that Perhutani actively contributes to food
security initiatives by providing land and establishing partnerships with seven strategic
entities, namely PTPN IX, PTPN X, PTPN XI, PT.WDM, PT.KTM, PT.GMM, and PT.URS.
These partnerships mainly focus on sugarcane cultivation. These partnerships mainly focus
on sugarcane cultivation, with a total license area of 24,813 hectares granted by the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry. The area is spread across 19 Forest Management Units
(FMUs).
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
United States Achievements in Forest and Land Management
To aid and enhance restoration efforts worldwide, the United Nations (UN) has
declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Restoration Agenda
offers prospects for United States to prevent, halt and restore previously degraded trees,
increase resilience and transition to renewable energy and productivity (Valkó et al., 2023).
Forest and land restoration that has been carried out by United States leads to an
activity carried out by a person or group of people to improve the condition of damaged
forests and land (Indrajaya et al., 2022). The way to restore forests and land can rely on
innate ecosystem resilience, natural restoration with locally suitable seeds, and post-planting
care (Astuti, 2020). In addition, forest and land restoration can be carried out through
agroforestry schemes, reforestation, and stopping forest conversion from mining, plantation
and agricultural businesses (Budiharta et al., 2016). These methods have the bargaining
power to restore some of the essential functions of forests and land that have been lost due to
increased deforestation and degradation (Rahmani et al., 2022).
In the forest and land sector, United States has made the following efforts:
Peatland control and governance
Since 2011, the MoEF has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses issued
to businesses (Agung et al., 2018; Pertasari, 2022). The permit review is an integral part of
the moratorium extension considering that there are 5.7 hectares of forests with overlapping
licenses (Farisi, 2023). Therefore, the central government through Presidential Instruction
(Inpres) Number 10 of 2011 concerning Postponement of Granting New Licenses and
Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands, within eight years since the
moratorium was enacted, the area of primary natural forests and peatlands protected by the
moratorium policy was reduced by 3 million hectares from a total of 66 million hectares.
Based on this, the central government finally made this policy permanent through
Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019 concerning the Termination of New Licenses and
Improvement of Primary Natural Forest and Peatland Governance.
In addition, policies on peat protection and management also rely on Government
Regulation (PP) No. 71/2014 jo PP. 57/2016, whose authority has been vested in the Peatland
Restoration Agency (BRG) since 2016. BRG has responsibilities, one of which is to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States (Yuliani,
2018). On the community and multi-stakeholder side, there are also several programs that
aim to protect peatlands such as: Independent Peat Protection Village and Independent Peat
Care Village (Fazriyas et al., 2018; Syarif et al., 2019). These programs reduce the burden of
restoring damaged peatland areas, which often cause forest fires and haze. On the private
sector. They are also involved in restoring damaged peatlands within their concession areas.
This is because there are 531 companies operating in restoration areas (Agung et al., 2018).
Therefore, the author argues that it is necessary to synergize PP and Inpres-level regulations
with Law Number 26 of 2007 concerning Spatial Planning and Law Number 27 of 2007 in
conjunction with Law Number 1 of 2014 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and
Small Islands regulating supervision and law enforcement related to violations of spatial
planning.
Rehabilitation and conservation of mangrove and seagrass areas
Rehabilitation of mangrove areas is related to the sustainability of blue carbon
ecosystems (BCE). BCE plays an important role in mitigating and adapting to climate
change. BCE consists of coastal areas with mangrove and seagrass vegetation that have the
ability to absorb and store carbon up to six times higher than ordinary forests (Khairunnisa et
al., 2018). BCE can also improve the socio-economic conditions of communities, especially
coastal communities, and serve as a natural buffer to protect against the risks of coastal areas
(Prayuda et al., 2019). Based on the 2021 National Mangrove Map, United States has
3,364,076 hectares of mangrove vegetated area, making it the country with the largest
mangrove area in the world (Putra et al., 2019). In addition, United States has 16 types of
seagrasses or 22 percent of the world's mangroves (Putra et al., 2019) all seagrass species in
the world with a validated seagrass area of 293,464 ha (Sulawesi et al., 2016).
United States commitment to rehabilitate 600,000 ha of mangrove forests is in line with
Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 120/2020 on Peat and Mangrove Restoration Agency.
In addition, the President of United States also issued Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021 on
the Economic Value of Carbon for Achieving Nationally Determined Contribution Targets
and Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions in National Development. This regulation
regulates the mechanism for implementing carbon economic valuation, including the marine
sector. Efforts to improve data on the potential and existence of United States mangrove
forests began with the launch of the National Mangrove Map in November 2021. Currently,
the authority to manage BCE lies with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. Based on a study (Septory, 2014), mangrove
vegetation is included in the definition of forest according to the Forestry Law, and is also
included in marine and coastal resources as stipulated in the Coastal Zone Management Law.
According to the author, this duplication of authority results in uncertainty and
ineffectiveness in the management of BCEs, which risks the protection of BCEs. Therefore,
the central government needs to resolve these issues by amending and synchronizing these
laws.
Providing access to forest management through social forestry schemes
Social forestry schemes offer potential legal protection for communities living around
forest areas to manage forests (Yuliana, 2022). This type of scheme can also improve
community welfare and environmental balance while maintaining the socio-cultural
dynamics of communities around the forest. In many parts of United States, social forestry
schemes are effective in protecting forests while reducing ecological and economic impacts
on local communities (Khanifa et al., 2021).
The government's limited capacity to protect the vast and scattered forests makes
community involvement essential to protect them. Therefore, economic incentives need to be
offered to communities that actively maintain the forest sector (Wirawan & Amrifo, 2020).
Such as when the community purchases seedlings, plants them and maintains them. In
addition, forest protection can be encouraged through its utilization and management
involving local communities. Local communities can utilize and manage the forest sector
through several activities, such as community-based ecotourism (Kamaluddin & Tamrin,
2019; Rohmayanto et al., 2019). Forest management and utilization by communities will run
optimally if there is strong legal protection for their access and assets in the forest. Until mid-
2023, the realization of social forestry was 5.3 million hectares from the target of 12.7
hectares or 41.7% (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023).
Forest area arrangement
As a follow-up to Law No. 11 of 2020 as revoked by PERPU No. 2 of 2022 concerning
Job Creation, and PP. No. 23 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Forestry, the MoEF
has a strategic role in realizing equitable and sustainable forest areas. There are three
indicators to assess that KLHK is trying to realize this, namely: the area of forest area
released for Land Object of Agrarian Reform (TORA), the area of forest area managed by the
community, and the area of forest area with the status of determination (Junarto & Djurjani,
2020).
It is known that forest areas that can be released into TORA are sourced from forest
areas that have a function as conversion production forests, 20% allocation from plantations
and PPTKH (Settlement of Land Tenure in Forest Areas or PPTPKH (Settlement of Land
Tenure in the Framework of Forest Area Arrangement) (Salim et al., 2021). The whole
scheme has a target of 4.1 million hectares based on the 2015-2019 and 2019-2024 RPJM. As
of 21 July 2023, KLHK was able to realize the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or
8.52% with various schemes (Ministry of ATR/BPN, 2023). In addition, based on the RPJM,
MoEF also has a social forestry target in order to realize forest management by communities
covering 12.7 hectares and as of December 2023, MoEF has realized social forestry covering
5.31 million hectares or 41.7% consisting of 8,041 decrees for communities totaling 1.14
million households (Amanda, 2023).
Then, based on the Report of the Director of Forest Area Stipulation and Management
in December 2023, the MoEF has realized the establishment of forest areas covering
99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree (Anugrah,
2023). Based on this realization, there was an acceleration of forest area determination of
10,006,045 hectares consisting of 179 decrees in 2022 and KLHK has also set a target of
determining forest areas reaching 15.9 million hectares with a boundary length of
approximately 44,739 Km in 2023. In this case, KLHK has the authority to manage forest
areas covering 125,795,306 hectares with a boundary length of 373,828.44 km consisting of
284,032.3 km of outer boundaries and 89,796.1 km of forest area function boundaries.
Therefore, KLHK has also carried out forest area boundary arrangement activities along
332,184 Km or approximately 88% consisting of 242,387.8 Km or 65% of forest area outer
boundary arrangement and 89,796 Km or 24% of forest area function boundary arrangement.
Optimizing the role of State-Owned Enterprises
In line with the times, United States has witnessed several advances, including the
increasingly complicated administration of government and the conduct of national and state
affairs in general. Currently, several government organizations or government agencies,
private agencies, state institutions and SOEs are undergoing a transformation process, giving
rise to entities that have been unfamiliar (Rachmadi, 2019). The main purpose of this change
is to optimize service delivery to stakeholders and the community.
State-owned enterprises play an important role in society as agents of development and
key participants in government initiatives (Ministry of SOEs, 2018). They have a sizable
impact on the national economy and contributing to state revenue. In this scenario, the
government has allocated specific tasks to several State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) with the
aim of providing services that meet the needs of society. In line with the five priorities of the
Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), efforts are made to improve value creation,
efficiency, supply chain strengthening and business model innovation. This is done through
institutional strengthening and working mechanisms, including the establishment of SOE
holdings based on certain clusters. These clusterings include holdings in fertilizer, cement,
plantations, forestry, energy, survey services, aviation, food, defense, and mutual funds. As
of June 2022, United States has a total of 91 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), consisting of
79 Persero and 12 Perum spread across 12 different industrial sectors. The cumulative value
of state assets invested in these SOEs amounted to IDR 2,469 trillion in 2021 (Forecast,
2023).
Since 2014, forestry holding companies and plantation holding companies have been
formed. This was marked by the signing of a 90% share transfer document from PTPN I-XIV
to the parent company PTPN III and the signing of a 100% share transfer document from PT
inhutani 1-V to Perum Perhutani (BPK RI, 2016). The purpose of the establishment of this
holding is to become an advanced state-owned company, one command and one management
based on the order of PP No. 73 Year 2014.
In addition, based on the 2020-2024 Regional Medium-Term Development Plan
(RJPP) of Perum Perhutani, there is a strategic initiative for independent sugarcane
cultivation through the Mandiri Sugar Cane Agroforestry program. This program is targeted
to cover an area of 18,256 hectares by 2024. As of 2021, the program has been implemented
on 574 hectares of land, the result of cooperation between Perum Perhutani, State-Owned
Enterprises, and PTPN. In addition, it is estimated that by 2022 1,758 hectares will be
developed through the Mandiri Tebu Agroforestry (ATM) plan, and an additional 3,122
hectares will be developed through SOE synergy projects in collaboration with PTPN
Holding. Perum Perhutani has been included in the Ministry of SOEs' Prosperous Project
Management Officer (PMO) together with other food SOEs to improve the efficiency of corn
cultivation on 8,755 hectares of land. Within the framework of this PMO, Perhutani's
responsibilities include facilitate the provision of land and provide guidance to farmers who
utilize forest land for maize cultivation.
On the other hand, Perum Perhutani has also partnered with institutions in villages related to
food security efforts (Masrurun & Nastiti, 2023). For example, Perum Perhutani in the
implementation of forest management activities cooperates with Forest Village Community
Institutions (LMDH) where each LMDH has members who are communities around the
forest, by the Forest Village Community by planting certain plant commodities with
agroforestry patterns. Currently there are as many as 5,395 LMDH have cooperated with
Perum Perhutani, with 62 types of commodities that have been developed including: land
utilization for planting food security commodities: rice, corn and soybeans; non-timber forest
products such as: coffee plants, mangoes, bananas (DPR RI, 2022). In addition, in Perum
Perhutani's RJPP 2020-2024, Perum Perhutani has developed a strategic project 'perhutani
subsidiaries reorganization' which is one part of 88 BUMN strategic projects. The strategic
project includes the reorganization of Perhutani subsidiaries through merger schemes, spin
off tourism businesses and liquidation. Perum Perhutani's contributions as a holding SOE in
the forestry sector in 2021 include: (1) every year has planted more than 50,000 hectares; (2)
increased forest land cover from 71% in 2016 to 73%; (3) since 2010 has consistently
increased the area of protected areas by 978,563 hectares or 40% of the total area of 2.4
million hectares.
Strategies to Achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE)
United States has made efforts to reduce to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by using
renewable energy. Renewable energy provides clean energy that can be recharged even
though its availability tends to be more limited than fossil energy. Examples include solar,
wind, water and biomass. New initiatives underway in United States make it a reference
point for developing countries in reducing deforestation and emissions including a possible
domestic carbon pricing mechanism.
United States regulatory history records that the country has a strong commitment to
realizing a sustainable economy (Hadmoko & Hizbaaron, 2022). In 1973, the State Policy
Guidelines (GBHN) integrated development with environmental protection. In 1978 United
States also established the State Ministry of Environmental Development Supervision, which
is now merged with the Ministry of Forestry under the name of the Ministry of Environment
and Forestry. Then in 1982 United States passed Law No.4/1982 concerning Basic
Provisions for Environmental Protection which prioritizes the role of the community. In 1987
United States became a member of the World Commission on Environment and
Development (WCED) which provided input to the Rio Declaration at the 1992 Rio
Conference.
Subsequently, United States adopted the Rio Declaration by issuing Law No.23/1997 to
respond to the concept of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In line with
the green economy concept codified in the Green Economy Initiative (GEI) in late 2008,
Bappenas launched the United States Climate Change Sectoral Roadmap (ICCSR) 2010-
2029 (Bappenas, 2011). This is useful for reducing pollution and the climate change potential
of unsustainable economic activities. United States commitment is also ratified through Law
No.16/2016 on the ratification of the Paris Agreement to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The law is then translated into one of the nawacita contained
in the 2020-2024 State Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) or Perpres 18/2020
related to environmentally friendly and sustainable development planning. One of the
strategies includes low-carbon development, Net Zero Emission (NZE) policy, and
incentivizing green economy realization.
Then, United States also issued Presidential Regulation 98/2021 on the implementation
of Carbon Economic Value to achieve nationally determined contribution targets and control
greenhouse gas emissions in national development. In line with the issuance of the Job
Creation Law, the Government agreed to create ease of doing business without reducing
standards, safety, security and environmental sustainability. Various policies that have been
issued by the government can be a benchmarking for United States to know where it is, how
the process is and what can be improved. Of course, it also requires a multi-stakeholder and
multi-sector approach for success. In addition, technology will also play an important role in
terms of electricity demand and consumption influenced by population growth, increased per
capita consumption, and commercial activities.
As a country with rich natural resources in nickel, United States has a driving force in
the NZE revolution and stimulates increased green investment and strengthens bilateral
relations and international trade. So far, stakeholders involved in the transformation of
climate-friendly and environmentally friendly development, ranging from the community at
the lowest level to the central government at the top level. At the community level, they are
consciously moved to create and promote a healthy, clean and cool climate for their lives.
Such as the emergence of communities that have actualized such as bike to work, back to
nature lifestyle, the tendency to eat organic food, the existence of climate-friendly villages,
weekend cycling activities. In the industrial sector, business entities are already involved in
production and there is a subsidy for one type of renewable energy, namely biodiesel
(Radhiana et al., 2023). In the banking sector, there are green financing incentive policies, the
imposition of carbon tax disincentives and the preparation of a green taxonomy (Purwanto,
2022). Business entities will receive support in the form of incentives by the central and local
governments. Fiscal authorities took a concrete step by establishing blended finance by PT
Sarana Multi Infrastruktur to fund activities related to the green economy. At least 15 banks
have joined the United States Sustainable Finance Initiative (IKBI) until 2021, with credit
realization of 882 T (Pratiwi, 2021). Sustainable finance is able to harmonize economic,
social and environmental interests by implementing the principles of profit, people and planet
and providing incentives for financing environmentally friendly motor vehicles.
Conclusion
The United States government's efforts to address climate change and make an energy
transition towards Net Zero Emission require extra effort at every level of government.
Therefore, cross-ministerial involvement across business entities is important in anticipating
the impacts of climate change. In the peatland area, the Ministry of Environment and
Forestry has extended the moratorium and reviewed the licenses that have been issued to
business actors. The legal basis for its implementation is Presidential Instruction Number 10
of 2021 and updated with Presidential Instruction Number 5 of 2019. The government also
established the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) in 2016 with the authority to restore
peatlands with a target of 1.2 million hectares in seven provinces in United States. In
addition, the government also cooperates with the private sector, namely 531 companies
operating in restoration areas and local communities through the Independent Peat Protection
Village and Independent Peat Care Village programs. In addition to peatlands, the United
States government also focuses on rehabilitating mangrove and seagrass areas with the legal
basis of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of
Carbon to achieve nationally set contribution targets and control greenhouse gas emissions in
national development.
In the forest area, the government through KLHK has launched a social forestry
program that provides access to communities around the forest to manage forest areas. The
management refers to a form of sustainable forest management carried out in state forest
areas and customary forests. In this system, local communities or customary law
communities play a central role as the main players, with the aim of improving their welfare,
promoting environmental balance, and encouraging socio-cultural dynamics. The realization
of social forestry schemes covered 5.3 million hectares, or 41.7% of the target of 12.7 million
hectares. In addition, KLHK also succeeded in realizing an equitable and sustainable forest
area by realizing the release of 349,154 hectares of forest area or 8.52% of the total 4.1
million hectares. Furthermore, KLHK was able to realize the determination of forest areas
covering 99,659,996 million hectares with 2,328 units of Forest Area Determination Decree.
On the institutional side, the United States government was able to synergize SOEs by
strengthening institutions, work mechanisms and the establishment of SOE holding. The
realization is that since 2014, a holding company of forestry and plantation holding
companies has been formed for the Public Company (Perum) Perhutani. Perum Perhutani
successfully initiated food issues by establishing seven partnership entities and community
institutions around the forest in 19 Forest Management Unit (KPH) areas. In addition, in the
framework of To achieve Net Zero Emission (NZE), United States is able to reduce the use
of fossil energy with renewable energy. The government is making this effort by issuing a
number of green financing policies and incentives.
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