Implementation of forest-land rehabilitation to support the enhancement of carbon stock on Indonesia’s FOLU net sink 2030 strategy

Abstract

Indonesia’s critical land area has a declining trend and in 2018 it was recorded that the critical land area was 14.01 million ha. Efforts to restore critical land through forest-land rehabilitation activities are very important strategy for Indonesia to achieve the FOLU net sink by 2030. This strategy contributes significantly as a sinker for CO2 emissions because it will increase carbon stocks. This study aims to review the implementation as well as contribution of forest-land rehabilitation to support the enhancement of carbon stock on Indonesia’s FOLU net sink 2030. The desk study focused on analyse and review the data on rehabilitation program realization and compare to the target of rehabilitation program achievement in the document of Indonesia’s FOLU net sink 2030. Nationally, the increasing carbon stocks by planting trees through forest-land rehabilitation activities during 2015-2019 has reached a total planting area of 1,183,581 ha or an average planting of 236.716 ha/year. Meanwhile, Indonesia’s FOLU net sink 2030 has a target of increasing carbon stocks of 8,255,323 ha during the 2022-2030 period or an average planting target of 917,258 ha/year. This shows that the contribution of increasing carbon stocks through forest and land rehabilitation is very important, but there is still a gap between the realization of planting for the 2015-2019 period compared to the planting target for 2022-2030 to achieve the FOLU net sink in 2030. This gap can be overcome through the following strategies: 1) selection of priority locations; 2) strong funding support from international and private sectors; 3) community involvement actively through appropriate social forestry mechanisms.