Presidential Regulation No.88 2017: Encouraging Prosperous Societies Sustainable

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Thursday,2018/6/7. Indonesian,Jakarta
Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK), Wednesday, June 6, 2018 Agrarian Reform, which is one of the programs in Nawacita which is accelerated its implementation of Land Tenure Completion in Forest Areas (PPTKH).

The President has issued Presidential Regulation No. 88 of 2017 on PPTKH, to accelerate agrarian reform through legalization of agrarian objects in forest areas. The Presidential Regulation is reaffirmed that the Government shall immediately resolve and provide legal protection for the rights of the people who control and utilize the land in the forest area.

The reason that the people who control the land in the forest area will be given the right of ownership, if they meet the criteria with the first three things the Land has been well utilized, and secondly, the land is not the object of the lawsuit / dispute, and thirdly, the recognition by the custom or the village head with reliable witnesses.

"PPTKH is one of the efforts to realize the first pillar of land ownership in terms of economic equity policy which was launched in April 2017," said Darmin Nasution, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs in Rakernas, on PPTKH at Hotel Bidakara, Jakarta (5/6 / 2018) as released Join News Network (JNN) Wednesday (6/6/2018) from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK).

According to Coordinating Minister, Darmin Nasution, further said, economic equity policy there are three major pillars namely 1. Land Ownership 2. Provision of employment and effort opportunities, 3 human resource capacity improvement.

Forest area covering 63% in Indonesia is an object of agrarian reform targeted by the government. Land tenure within the forest area has experienced high inequality between private sector control and community control.

Only 4.14% of forest area owned by community management access, the rest is controlled by private sector. "Agrarian reform and social forestry imbalances will be improved.

"Up to the end of 2017 the release of forest areas for communities through the Land Reform Object Land (TORA) program increased from 12% to 38-41%, while the granting of social forestry access to the community increased from only 2% to 28 - 31% .

The agrarian reforms of forest areas and social forestry programs encourage prosperous communities to be sustainable, without conflict, environmentally friendly and have economic independence, "added LHK Minister Siti Nurbaya.

Siti added that the agrarian reform program and social forestry must be accompanied by continuous assistance from the government, based on six strategies, 1. Strengthening the village community empowerment program (forest), 2. Development with cluster system, 3. Community institution building and strengthening , 4. Increasing the capacity of community business management, 5. Land bussines technology and production processing, and 6. Building connections between farmers, SMEs and industries for economic growth.

Medium Term Development Plan (RPJM) 2015-2019, the granting of community access to forest resources is carried out by two mechanisms, namely the issuance of rights / rights of social forestry and the issuance of TORA rights proof. The difference is that with forest forestry social permit is accessible but forest function is maintained, whereas with TORA forest land is released its function becomes non forest and can be given the right of ownership. To that end, the Ministry of LHK has established an indicative area of TORA covering an area of ± 4,853,549 ha through the stipulation of the Minister of LHK No.180 / MENLHK / SETJEN / KUM.1 / 4/2017.

For social forestry through the issuance of PIAPS (Indicative Map of Social Forestry Area), there has been defined a social forestry indicative area of ± 13,462,101 ha through the determination of Minister of LHK No.22 / MENLHK / SETJEN / PLA.0 / 1/2017. Social forestry schemes can take the form of village forests, community forests, community plantations, forestry partnerships, and customary forests.

Minister of ATR BPN, Sofyan Djalil stated that, "PPTKH is very important because if the Minister of LHK has set clear limits on forest area, then the task of the Ministry of ATR BPN to issue land certificate will be easier And also the release of forest areas becomes very important as it concerns the people who live in the forest who will lose their rights to the facilities of the state such as subsidies and others ".

Meanwhile, the Chief of Staff of the President, General (Ret.) Moeldoko appreciated the provision of PPTKH. "More than 25,000 villages in Indonesia are located within the forest area, but it is difficult to obtain state facilities because of their legal status as forest areas, PPTKH should be a super scheme to resolve land conflicts in Indonesia," he said.

Also attending the event was Deputy Secretary of the Cabinet, Ratih Nurdiati, Director General of Area Administration of Interior Ministry, Eko Subowo. On that occasion, Minister Siti also gave an opportunity to the Governor / Vice Governor or representing from 26 Provinces to convey the problem and plan the steps of acceleration of PPTKH implementation in their respective region (BKnews/JNN).

TWG Asean results in 3 decisions: Indonesia's Success Prevents Karhutla

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Tuesday, 5/6/2018. Bknews-Jakarta JAKARTA - Asean countries appreciate the success of Indoneia in this case the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) in thecontrol of forest and land fires (karhutla).

Indonesia is considered successful in the prevention, upgrading, preparedness and mitigation of karhutla which is reflected in the declining number of hotspots since two years ago.

The recognition of these ASEAN countries in the Technical Working Group meeting (TWG) on Transboundary Haze Pollution followed by The Sub-Regional Ministerial Steering Committee (MSC) Meeting on Transboundary Haze Pollution in Bangkok, Thailand from 31 May to 1 June 2018.

This success can not be separated from the results of joint efforts, according to the special directives of President Joko Widodo in the forum of coordination meeting prevention of karhutla which is held annually. Source Join News Network (JNN) obtained from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK), Monday, June 4, 2018, That Indonesia received appreciation from participants of ASEAN countries, in Bangkok, Thailand.

According to the Director of Forest and Land Fire Control (PKHL) as well as Chairman of the Indonesian Delegation in TWG, Raffles B. Panjaitan, This year's meeting is the 20th meeting attended by environmentally responsible ministers / representatives for forest fi res and haze, namely from Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, and the ASEAN Secretariat.

During the meeting, there was a change of paradigm for the handling of karhutla in Indonesia, which was originally with priority on the blackout during the crisis phase, but post 2015 prioritize prevention aspects.

"The incident of the Fire of the Year 2015 becomes a learning for the Indonesian nation, that the prevention effort is very important in the control of karhutla," said PKHL President Director, Raffles, saying after the incident we emphasize to prevent karhutla early to minimize the occurrence of a large karhutla impact on the fog smoke.

The Indonesian delegation was also represented by the Head of the BMKG Public Meteorological Center, and Director of ASEAN Social and Cultural Cooperation Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During the meeting, each delegate presented the development of karhutla condition and the smoke condition as the impact of karhutla.

The results of this TWG meeting are material in the MSC Meeting which is the ministerial meeting of each country. In the MSC meeting, present representing the Minister of Environment and Forestry, Plt. Director General of Climate Change Control who also acts as Chairman of the RI Delegation, I.B. Son of Parthama.

Putera said that Indonesia continues to invite ASEAN member countries to continuously improve the ability of each country's National Monitoring Center to contribute and carry out its central role in monitoring and assessment of cross-border smoke. Three Decisions.

From the meeting of the Technical Working Group / Sub-Regional Ministerial Steering Committee resulted in three important decisions,
first; Agree to continue supporting Indonesia in the establishment of the ASEAN Coordinating Center for Transboundary Hazard Pollution Control (ACCTHPC) which is currently in the process of finalizing the establishment agreement.

Second; Agreeing to Indonesia's proposal that mid-term review of ASEAN HazeFree Roadmap 2020 be conducted by using Haze Fund which requires the approval of ASEAN member countries to ensure the objectivity and neutrality of implementing consultants. 

And third; Agree on Indonesia's proposal to wait for input by the end of June 2018 from AMS not present in TWG / MSC 20 of the Streamlining of Haze Related Meetings paper before being reported to COM / COP-14.

Even at the Forest and Land Fire Control Command on Sunday, at 20.00 Western Indonesia Time (03/06/2018), based on NOAA satellite monitoring observed five points, four points in Aceh and one point in South Sumatra. While based on TERRA AQUA satellite (NASA) monitored one hostpot in West Kalimantan. (BKnews / JNN).