BAHAYA RENCANA PEMBUKAAN 20 JUTA HEKTAR HUTAN UNTUK PANGAN DAN ENERGI

The document critiques the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry's plan to allocate 20 million hectares of forest for 'food and energy estates'. It argues that this plan constitutes a 'legalization of deforestation' that contradicts Indonesia's global climate commitments (NDC, CBD) and its own FoLU Net Sink 2030 target. The brief highlights the risk of corporate capture, the displacement of Indigenous peoples, and the potential for severe human rights abuses, particularly if the projects are designated as National Strategic Projects (PSN). It emphasizes that food and energy should be treated as human rights rather than business commodities, advocating for local food sovereignty and community-led energy solutions over large-scale industrial estates.

• The plan to open 20 million hectares of forest for food and energy is described as the largest project for the legalization of deforestation in Indonesia's history, with the potential to release massive carbon emissions; for context, opening just 4.5 million hectares of natural forest would release 2.59 billion tons of carbon emissions.
• The proposed 20 million hectares are planned to be sourced from three main categories: 15.53 million hectares from protected and production forests not yet burdened by permits (including 2.29 million ha of protected forest and 13.24 million ha of production forest), 3.17 million hectares from inactive PBPH (Forest Utilization Business Permits) concessions, and 1.9 million hectares from Social Forestry lands.
• The policy is viewed as contradictory to Indonesia's international and domestic climate commitments, specifically the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and the Ministry of Environment and Forestry's own FoLU Net Sink 2030 policy.
• The plan risks severe human rights violations, including the forced eviction of local and Indigenous communities, especially if the projects are labeled as National Strategic Projects (PSN), which the document claims typically ignore community participation and information rights.
• The document estimates a potential economic loss of 3,000 trillion rupiah from the loss of standing trees across the 20 million hectares, assuming 20% is natural forest with a commercial wood value of 5 million rupiah per cubic meter.
• Past food estate projects in Central Kalimantan and North Sumatra are cited as failures; in Central Kalimantan, corporate lack of knowledge regarding peatland management led to failure and fires, while in North Sumatra, government-controlled crop selection displaced local varieties and reduced farmer income.
• The brief notes a significant gap in the recognition of Indigenous forests: while Indigenous peoples have mapped 30.1 million hectares, 23.8 million of those are claimed as state forest, and only 265,250 hectares have been officially recognized as Indigenous forests.
• The document reports that between 2015 and 2022, the state bore losses of 101.2 trillion rupiah due to hydrometeorological disasters caused by changes to critical ecosystem landscapes like forests.

APA

Trend Asia (n.d.). BAHAYA RENCANA PEMBUKAAN 20 JUTA HEKTAR HUTAN UNTUK PANGAN DAN ENERGI. https://trendasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Brief-Paper-Masyarakat-Sipil-20-Juta-Hektar-Hutan.pdf

Chicago

Trend Asia. BAHAYA RENCANA PEMBUKAAN 20 JUTA HEKTAR HUTAN UNTUK PANGAN DAN ENERGI. n.d. https://trendasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Brief-Paper-Masyarakat-Sipil-20-Juta-Hektar-Hutan.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{trendasiandbahaya, author = {{Trend Asia}}, title = {{BAHAYA RENCANA PEMBUKAAN 20 JUTA HEKTAR HUTAN UNTUK PANGAN DAN ENERGI}}, institution = {Trend Asia}, url = {https://trendasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Brief-Paper-Masyarakat-Sipil-20-Juta-Hektar-Hutan.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }