Presented by Herry Purnomo of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) at the 3rd Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit, on 23–25 April 2018 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

1. Asia Pacific Rainforest Summit, Yogyakarta, 24 April 2018
PEATLAND POLICY
POLITICAL ECONOMY AND
COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS
FOR FIRE PREVENTION AND PEATLAND RESTORATION
Herry Purnomo

2. KEY MESSAGES
1. Politics and economical interests of actors (governments,
large private sectors, elites, migrants and communities)
highly affect fire prevention and peatland restoration.
2. Agriculture (e.g. oil palm and soybean) is a driver for
deforestation, but alleviating poverty.
3. Land use contestation is uncontrolled due to illegal land
transaction and corruption. Original communities and
migrants have different land title and size.
4. Business model i.e. organizational design and value
creation for community-based fire prevention and
restoration needs to invest and exist.

3. IN 2015

4. THE MINISTERS AND FIRE PREVENTION, 19 DECEMBER 2017
Agriculture, economy and environment trade offs

5. WHO CONTROL THE LANDSCAPE
TRANSFORMATION?
Fires

6. PROTECTED FOREST IN RIAU

7. INDONESIAN
PALM OIL
SIMULATION
Export, Gov ernment Incomes and CPO Fund (million USD)
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1:
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45000
90000
1: gov Income$m 2: cpoFund$m 3: v aluePOexport 4: v alu…derExport 5: v alueTotExport
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CO2e net emissions (million ton)
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22:17 17 Apr 2018
Cumulativ e def orestation and conv ersions (Mha)
ge 7
0 8 15 23 30
Years
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25
1: def orestation 2: shrubConv ersion 3: otherConv ersion
1
1
1
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2
2
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3
3
3
3

8. Who gets what:
Burning land
(ready to plant)
Village head & officers $88
(10%)
Land claimant,
$38 (4%)
Farmer group member, tree
cutting $77 (9%)
Farmer group member,
slashing $96 (11%)
Marketing team,
$54 (6%)
Total Benefit
$856/ha
Farmer group organizer $486 (57%)
Farmer group member,
burning $15 (2%)
Farmer group member, cheap/free
land $2 (0.2%)

9. BUSINESS MODEL FOR NOT USING FIRE – HOW?
19 April 2018

10. BUSINESS MODEL FOR
COMMUNITIES

11. KEY MESSAGES
1. Politics and economical interests of actors (governments,
large private sectors, elites, migrants and communities)
affect fire prevention and peat restoration agenda.
2. Agriculture (e.g. oil palm and soybean) is a driver for
deforestation, but alleviating poverty and providing incomes.
3. Land use contestation is uncontrolled due to illegal land
transaction and corruption. Original communities and
migrants have different land title and size.
4. Business model i.e. organizational design and value
creation for haze-free sustainable livelihoods needs to
invest and exist.