November 7, 2025

Pendi briefing the community members. https://www.un-redd.org/multi-media-stories/barren-bountiful-how-social-forestry-transforming-landscapes-indonesia Updated and Refined by Happy Tarumadevyanto – happy.devyanto@environmental.asia A critical challenge for the Social Forestry (Perhutanan Sosial) program is that it remains primarily focused on expanding land use permits to maximize community participation. While the distribution of land ownership is growing, the effort largely stops after the license is…

Image by freepik Achieving Climate Justice means ensuring that climate policy benefits and burdens are shared equitably. Through inclusive dialogue with key groups like farmers, Indigenous Peoples, and women, we can guarantee their rights are acknowledged and that solutions don’t cause harm, but instead empower them as effective forest stewards.

Reference of diagram https://dml.or.id/climate-change-adaptation-and-mitigation/ This is a central challenge in Indonesia’s climate policy. The relationship between Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) and the commitments to mitigation and adaptation is extremely close and inseparable. 🌳 The Link between Forests, Mitigation, and Adaptation 🗣️ The Importance of Dialogue and Inclusivity The greatest challenge lies in bridging the implementation…

Indonesia’s COP}30 preparation is undermined by consultations that are skewed toward technical and economic priorities. The dominance of government bodies, high-emission industries, and certain academics ensures that market and feasibility issues are addressed, but this narrow approach systematically excludes genuine learning about climate justice and essential social-ecological impacts.

Source https://www.teamwork.com/blog/consultation-fee/ Lacks wide public visibility? Perspective by Happy Tarumadevyanto happy.devyanto@environmental.asia Indonesia’s work on its position paper for climate change mitigation and adaptation lacks wide public visibility. The crucial public consultations, meant to gather input from all parts of society, are instead often restricted to a select few government-appointed experts and specific sectors. This narrow…