1. Experiences Using Indicator
Based Approaches to
Improving Environmental &
Forest Governance in
Indonesia, and Potential
Applications for REDD+
Indonesian Governance Forest Initiative Networks
2011

2. The Pressure on the
Indonesian Forest
Land/spatial/forest planning are not
moving in the same track. All of the Almost 98% of the
Tenurial conflict are forest are still
enormous, total of the forested area in Indonesia, doesn’t
had their spatial planning finnished consider as an open
conflict that had been access forest (not yet
identified until today.
being established as
independently by our a state forest).
networks (HuMA) Showing that the
shows that there are government don’t
2.455.539.31 Ha of have the “real”
forest area has a authority to manage
unresolved conflict the forest
Problem on
forest mostly
are lacking
of financial
support

3. Efforts to promoting Good
Governance
• Promoting good governance since 2000, and starting from
environmental governance, electricity governance, and now
moving into the forestry governance.
• We never work alone, sub national NGO and Academicians are
important key player in making a successful assessment.
• The latest assesment of Good Governance using an indicator based
approach, is 2008 (conducted in 5 region all over Indonesia)

4. The Results
The Result is going beyond “research report”, we get a strong argumentation of reforming
the policy advocacy in Indonesia, the most concrete thing are:
After a long wait, the government finally enacted the Public Information Disclosure Act No
14/2008. The good governance assessment that we made becoming one of the main
argument for pushing this act. And with this act also, all of the public body (including
ministry of forestry) are oblige to make an information system.
With also finding from our research, the supreme court enacted the supreme court Decree
No. 144/2009 Regarding Judiciary Transparency. After being years under the “secrecy”, the
court now become more accessible for the public to “watch”.
The research also gave us a strong argument to promote and pushing the revision of env
management act. Now, within our new environmental management act, the transparency,
participation, and justice becoming the main “soul” of the regulation.

5. Hurdle along The Process
Those result not coming instantly after
the research are being conducted. A
long process of ensuring government to
understand the fact and the solution for
improving governance.
Civil society “pressure” also coming
handy to let the government
understand the urgency. In the climate
change euphoria, the urgency of
improving governance becoming more
clear.

6. Efforts to Promote Forest
Governance
 As a follow up for the assessment in the other sector, we are now
moving forward to a forest governance assessment. At first, we
don’t really realize about other initiative. Because our interest is
only “reforming the forest sectors”, like we did in the
environmental governance (still need follow up, but already
opening the opportunity
 At first we want to conduct the assessment with the available
indicators from The Access Initiative™. Since we are one of the
partners, and the results is working to make change.
 But then, at the same time, the Governance Forest Initiatives
(GFI) raised by the WRI and Imazon-ICV, so we joining the
global team to develop the indicators.

7. Looking at the global indicators
Brazilian Global Indonesian
context indicators context
consist of
fundamental
values that
needed to
create a good
forest
governance Other
Cameroon country
context partners
context??
Terms, Language, definitions, specific characteristic, case
specification, etc. need to be contextualized

8. What is Needed to Address
Aspect Facts need to be Expected Outcome
delivered
Tenure Condition that shows the Government understanding
bad/good administration that the most important in
process in the context of tenure management is not
forest utilization, certainty or un certainty. But
cultivation, possession and the clarity.
ownership by the local
community
Land Use Plan Condition that shows the Recommendation for the
mis-coordination of land government regarding the
use planning process that critical and priority point to
lead to high rate improve on the context of
deforestation land use coordination

9. What is Needed to Address
Aspect Facts need to be Expected Outcome
delivered
Forest Empirical facts that Government understanding
Management government “don’t have of the importance to
the control over the forest develop a more effective
area”. And the urgency FMU’s as soon as possible.
not only establishing
FMU’s, but creating a
coherent and
comprehensive system for
the FMU’s.
Revenue Facts that government are More transparent and
lack of adequate forest progressive anti corruption
budget management and budget system being
causing Indonesia developed
“seems” like a poor
country – reversing the
“resources curse”

10. The importance of indicator
based approach on improving
good governance
 Developing a clear, measurable, verifiable, and reportable advocacy tools to
checking the fulfillment of basic human rights.
 Tools to identify the gap between the minimum requirement condition of
good forest governance and the implementation at field
 A tools that make advocacy (specially in a develop world / democratic
transition) “you can’t deny...but you should clarify..”
 A simple, effective and simple way to provide civil society a tools to conduct
natural resources advocacy and campaign. Especially in a society that
transforming from a “authoritarian regime” to a more democratic regime.

11. Strategy
Capacity from
within
Creating the
demand from
the public to
gaining
publics
fundamental
procedural
rights
Pressure from
without

12. Indicator Based Approach
in The Forestry Sector (REDD)
is crucial
• No measurement on forestry governance in Indonesia exists at the
moment.
• Indonesia government sets REDD+ as its priority
• Several project of REDD is on the phase of readiness, and now moving fast
• Large scale of donors are interested to support the Indonesian
Government to implement REDD+
• Without any governance improvement, it’s impossible to implement
REDD+..Why??

13. Governance is the Enabling
Conditions of REDD+
 Corruption index for Indonesia is still very high, and REDD+
offering big “$”
 Administration aspects is still weak and REDD+ need an
adequate MRV system to make a concrete
 The bureaucrats are still having the biggest power, leaving all
the professionalism behind, in this condition, REDD+ will only
becoming “project”
 Law guarantee the governance is still not changing the
condition, need more directive and detail system to create
change. REDD+ need more than just a legal basis
 Good governance will will become the basis that REDD+ will
benefited the local communities and creating justice

14. conclusion
 indicator based approach for forestry governance will
provide all stakeholders with the same data, identified gap,
and priorities to fulfill the gap
 with that, all stakeholders will have a common perspective
on what to do to overcome forestry governance problems
 Finally there are still hope to make a change