Since the completion of COP13 in Bali, the government of Indonesia in particular the Ministry of Forestry has been vigorously developing legal system or regulation in relation to the implementation of REDD in Indonesia. The regulations, amongst other, are three officially announced Ministerial Decrees in recent years which include:

1. Minister of Forestry Decree (Permenhut) No. P.68/Menhut-II/2008, issued on December 11, 2008 concerning the implementation of demonstration activities on Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD);
2. Minister of Forestry Decree (Permenhut) No. P.30/Menhut-II/2009, issued on May 1, 2009 concerning the mechanisms of Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD);
3. Minister of Forestry Decree (Permenhut) No. P.36/Menhut-II/2009, issued on May 22, 2009 concerning the permission procedures of projects on carbon sequestration and/or storage in production and protected forests.

 

Permenhut No. 68/2008 basically describes the permission and approval procedures of REDD’s demonstration activities, so that the methodologies, technologies and institutions of REDD are practicable and evaluable. The challenges are that how the demonstration activities are able to be transferred to the real activities in the future.

 

Meanwhile, Permenhut No. 30/2009 regulates procedures on the implementation of REDD including requirements that should be fulfilled by developers, verification and certifications, and terms and conditions of REDD’s implementing bodies. Up to now, requirements on setting the emission standard of comparison has not been set.

 

Permenhut No 36/2009 regulates the permission procedures of REDD projects through carbon sequestration and storage. It includes revenues sharing, application, collection, depositing, and utilisation procedures of revenues from REDD projects. This decree distincts between the sequestration and storage carbon projects in different type of forests and type of projects.