 Good evening, distinguished speakers, ladies and gentlemen. I would like to welcome you to the ITPC site even at the XP World Forestry Congress Pitland Restoration in Southeast Asia. Challenges and opportunities. Monday, 2 May 2022. My name is Angga Pratama Putra and I'm greatly honored to have this opportunity. In this session, we will highlight challenges and opportunities to distill key points for pitlands restoration strategies. Ways of addressing policies, access to financial resources and on the ground experience on ways of pitlands restoration can enhance the well-being of communities. Please welcome to our today's moderator, Dr. Haruni Krisnawati, ITPC Lead Coordinator. For Dr. Haruni, the floor is yours. Thank you, Angga. Good evening. It's excellency, the Indonesian Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, Papa Kandi Sulisianto Suherman, distinguished speakers, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome and thank you for joining the session of the site event of the 15th World Forestry Congress on Pitland Restoration in Southeast Asia. Challenges and opportunities. I'm Haruni Krisnawati with the International Tropical Pitland Centre. We'll be sharing the session. As we all know, the pitland restoration is a complex process that requires continuous monitoring to enable an adaptive iterative landscape approach that meets local condition and needs. Pitland restoration monitoring can inform design strategy, site selection and management approach, as well improve restoration outcomes through adjustment. As we inform by Angga, the session will discuss about the challenges and opportunity to distill the key points of the restoration strategy on tropical pitlands and why of addressing policy issues and also sharing the ground experience on why of restoration can enhance the benefits of community and also how the research need for monitoring pitland restoration and also the support that contributed by international organizations such as FAOM. The session will run in one hour and 30 minutes and we have keynote speaker and five panelists. First, we would like to extend a very warm welcome to our distinguished keynote speaker and panelists. The first re-excellency, Bapak Gandhi Sulishtianto-Suehrman, the Indonesian Ambassador to the Republic of Korea. And then we will be having five panelists. The first one, Dr. Wong Sok, the head of the Environment Division, the ASEAN Secretariat. And then second, Mr. Kim Yongjun, the project manager of the Korea Indonesia Forest Cooperation Centre. And then Mr. Adam Jiran, the Chief Technical Advisor of the Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO. And we have Mr. Brett Sanders, the head of Operation Rio Ecosystem Restoration. And the last but not least, they will be joining with us later on, Dr. Robert Nasi, the Director-Cindal of the Centre for International Forestry Research. At the moment he is still running in another session but will be joining us later on. We don't further do, we will be going to the first agenda. The ladies and gentlemen, please join us in welcoming rematch of His Excellency, Bapak Gandhi Sulishtianto-Suehrman, the Indonesian Ambassador to the Republic of Korea. Mr. Ambassador, the time is yours. Honourable speakers, Dr. Robert Nasi, Director-General of the Centre for International Forestry Research. Mr. Adam Gerant, Chief Technical Advisor for the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations. Dr. Fong Sok, Head of Environment Division, ASEAN Secretariat. Mr. Kim Young-Kyun, Project Manager for of the Korean International Forest Corporation Centre, we just met in the halls. Mr. Brett Sanders, Head of Operation Restoration RIO from RIO Andalan Pulp and Paper. Madam Moderator, Dr. Haruni Grisnawati, Coordinator of International Tropical Pitland Centre, the Ministry of Environmental and Forestry Republic of Indonesia. Distinguished participants, ladies and gentlemen, Good evening to all of you. Thank you for joining the event physically here at COEX SEAL Convention Centre also for those who are joining us virtually. First of all, I would like to extend my gratitude and appreciation for the hard work and dedication provided by the International Tropical Pitland Centre Secretariat, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, the Republic of Indonesia and all partners involving in organizing this session on pitland restoration in Southeast Asia challenges and opportunities and the site event of the 50th World Forestry Congress in SEAL Republic of Korea. It is my great honour to have this opportunity as the Indonesian Ambassador to the Republic of Korea to open this session. As you know, as you may know, today is the first day of the congress and it is also coincides with Idol Fitri for Muslims around the world. I wish you a happy Idol Fitri for those who celebrate this auspicious event. May God Almighty bring you happiness, joy, prosperity and peace on the blessed time. Allow me to read out the remark prepared by our Ministry of Environmental and Forestry of Republic of Indonesia for this event. Distinguish participant, ladies and gentlemen. Tropical pitland are highly significant to global effort to combat climate change as well as wider sustainable development goals. Hence, the protection and restoration of pitlands are vital in the transition toward a low-carbon and circular economy. Tropical pitlands cover approximately 24 million hectares in Southeast Asia with the majority in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Thailand and Vietnam and smaller areas in Myanmar, Laos and the Philippines And in Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam form more than 10% of the land area of the country. Tropical pit swarm forest play a critical role in the economy and ecology of the region providing timber and non-timber forest products, water supply, flood control and many other benefits. They also play a very important role of global significance in storing an estimated 120 billion tons of carbon or approximately 5% of all global terrestrial carbon as well as being repositionaries for unique and important biodiversity. Indonesia is a home of around 14 million hectares of pitlands, the fourth largest in the world, comprising about 36% of the world tropical pitlands. They hold a large pool of carbon storing about 30% to 40% of global soil carbon deposits making them one of the world's largest carbon storage and contributing to global climate change mitigation and adoption. Despite their importance for environmental service and economic sources, tropical pitlands are amongst the most funerable ecosystem that could be treating the anthropogenic activities. Currently, pitlands are subject to rapid degradation due to strong economic and social pressure and land for agriculture and plantation. A major threat to pitlands degradation is clearing and drainage that affect ecosystem quality and health. Clearing and drainage of pitlands over recent decades has resulted in an unprecedented increase in pitfires which not only produce deadly toxic haze and pollution but also endanger the multitude of critical ecological service to the ecosystem could provide. Distinguished participants, ladies and gentlemen, with increasing recognition of the significance of pitlands degradation, there has been a growing level of activities at the national and regional level. The Indonesian government has a strong commitment to protection and sustainable management of the pitland ecosystem. At the national level there has been a range of action initiated including the establishment of national mechanism for monitoring and controlling fires. There have also been some measure to promote the sustainable use of pitland in some sites which can be scaled up to the national or regional level. This time is a good opportunity to reflect on our achievement of working in past year and tropical pitland and to share best practices, lessons, learns and experiences in managing tropical pitland to achieve our national development agenda while contributing to the global commitment including rising our climate ambition. Working on pitland is an easy task. Strong effort to restore degraded pitland have been carried out by line ministries the ministry of environment and forestry. Pitland and mangrove restoration agency, the business sector and communities. We continuously seek an effective way to prevent pitland from burning through rewetting, refrigeration or revitalization of livelihood. Law enforcement has also needed to be implemented against the perpetrators of burning pitland both for corporations and individuals. The government is continuously pursuing the best way to manage pitland in many aspects including institutional technical know-how scientific approach paying attention to sustainable water management and relying on local community resources and local community wisdom. For example, enhancing Palu D culture activities on deep pitland above one meters and improving rice cultivation on shallow pitlands below one meters. Through the sustainable use of pitland in accordance with pit deep proper water management and the utilization of local resource and local wisdom it is expected that pitlands will be managed to prevent from burning and be able to support the national development agenda. Distinguished participant, ladies and gentlemen, recognizing the significance of pitland degradation, restoration and way of addressing policy are urgently needed. At the global level UNFCCCC in the meeting in Cancun in December 2010 acknowledge a new activity called rewetting and drainage which is the reduction of TSG emission from rewetting of drainage wetland including pitlands could be accounted for in a nation inventory report. Also under the verified carbon standard program carbon offsetting under the pitland rewetting and conservation module of the AVOLU guidelines now become possible. Hence in addition the very real benefits of pitland restoration on the ground it is now possible for them to be recognized at the international level. Indonesia has implemented strategic approach to managing its extensive pitland ecosystem found across the Archipelago which will allow the country to meet global goals to reduce greenhouse gas emission and our first national contribution NDC the forestry sector including pitland is expected to be the backbone of our effort in achieving our TSG emission reduction target by 29 to 41 in 2030 compared to the business as usual scenario. Fewer than a dozen countries have so far included pitland in their nationally determine contributions although the carbon reach ecosystem exist in 180 countries Indonesia has made a strong commitment to restoring 2.4 million hectares of drained pitland Distinguished gas ladies and gentlemen despite the growing awareness of the importance of pitland also critical information and research gap that need to be filled to understand pitland restoration project activities information such as the cost and benefit of pitland restoration to water quality on the ground of experience on how restoration activities serve as a key approach for enhancing the well-being of communities and approaches untuk memperkenalkan resourcenya restoration memperkenalkan ruang penting ada yang mempunyai program fasilitas untuk memperkenalkan perjalanan, memperkenalkan kapasitas lokal dan mempunyai pilihan yang menggunakan netif komunitas untuk mendukung pitland untuk mendukung komunitas yang di depan untuk mendukung pitland restoration dan konservasi yang penting untuk program sukses yang penting untuk memperkenalkan pertahanan finansial untuk contoh budget untuk memperkenalkan perjalanan medium term perkenalkan perjalanan dan budget yang memperkenalkan perjalanan. Bantu untuk memperkenalkan pilihan hidup menggantikan pilihan pit dan kemampuan untuk menggunakan pilihan yang menggunakan perjalanan yang menggunakan pitland restoration. Selama waktu perjalanan seperti ini di seluruh Asia akan menggantikan pilihan pitland dan memperkenalkan planet kita untuk memperkenalkan penggantikan pilihan pit dan menggunakan pilihan pitland untuk memperkenalkan pilihan pitland untuk menggunakan pilihan pitland. Saya terima kasih untuk kaya-kaya Anda dan dengan kemampuan ini akan menjadi tempat yang baik dan memperkenalkan untuk memperkenalkan pilihan pitland yang menggunakan dan memperkenalkan pilihan pitland kita. Selama sekali, terima kasih. Oke. Sekarang kita akan menggunakan agenda yang penting. Kita akan mendengar beberapa pilihan dan pilihan dari 5 pilihan pilihan. Dan saya akan ingat bahwa setiap pilihan 10 menit. Sebelum kita mulai memperkenalkan pilihan, saya ingin memberi beberapa pilihan untuk pilihan yang memperkenalkan dalam persen di sini. Jika Anda memiliki pilihan, maaf, apa yang berlaku? Oke. Bisa saya lanjutkan? Untuk pilihan yang memperkenalkan kami di sini, jika Anda memiliki pilihan, Anda bisa menunggu sampai akhir pilihan dan untuk pilihan yang menghubungi online. Anda memiliki pilihan, Anda bisa menulis pilihan dengan pilihan Q&A dan kita akan bersyukur untuk mengadraskan pilihan nanti. Bagaimanapun, saya akan meminta Dr. Wong Sok, Head of Environment Division, Asian Secretariat. Kita ingin memiliki pilihan pilihan pilihan pilihan. Dr. Wong Sok, pilihan pilihan pilihan. Terima kasih banyak-banyak. Selamat malam, wanita-wanita. Ini adalah kejutan terima kasih untuk menyelamatkan Anda semua hari ini. Saya pikir ini sangat penting bahwa Asian Secretariat bisa memiliki pilihan untuk memiliki pilihan untuk memiliki pilihan yang memiliki pilihan untuk memiliki pilihan. Bagaimanapun, dan cara Asian bersama-sama untuk mengadraskan pilihan. Bukan hanya untuk pilihan, tetapi juga untuk banyak perkara seperti yang terkenal dengan pilihan pilihan awal. Saya mengambil kejutan ini saya juga ingin berkata dan berkata pilihan Indonesia dan juga pilihan pilihan pilihan pilihan pilihan pilihan dan pilihan pilihan pilihan pilihan pilihan yang selalu memiliki pilihan yang terkenal untuk region kita. Jadi kami sangat gembira untuk pilihan kami yang mencoba membuat hal yang sangat berbeda untuk membawa region kita untuk kemungkinan lebih baik. Untuk itu, saya hanya berkongsi perspektif overall yang Asian buat dengan pilihan pilihan dan itu cara bisa memberi anda kepercayaan tentang apa yang kami lakukan dari pilihan pilihan pilihan dan restorasi. Jadi selanjutnya saya tolong. Saya bisa menangis dengan saya. Oke. Dengan itu, saya hanya ingin berkongsi dengan Anda 3 perkara penting yang penting. Satu tentang pilihan Asian untuk memiliki pilihan pilihan yang terkenal. Dan kemudian kita berkata tentang pilihan Pilihan Pilihan Pilihan dan pilihan pilihan yang terkenal juga untuk memiliki pilihan pilihan yang terkenal dan juga untuk berkongsi. Sebelum itu, saya juga ingin berkongsi pilihan kita, dan terutama C4 dan juga ITPC dan FAO, UNAGC, UNEP dan sebagainya, untuk memiliki pilihan yang penting. Jadi seperti yang Anda pernah dengar, ini adalah pilihan Pilihan Pilihan Pilihan yang terkenal. Ini adalah dokumen yang akan membantu pilihan Pilihan Pilihan Pilihan di region kita. Kita belajar dari pilihan Pilihan Pilihan Pilihan pada tahun 1997 tahun 1998. Dan itu cara kita mengasuki pilihan Pilihan Pilihan Pilihan yang berkongsi pada tahun 25 November 2003 dan berkongsi oleh semua memberi di 2015. Kita juga menghasilkan pilihan Pilihan Pilihan Pilihan untuk mengawasi pilihan Pilihan Pilihan dengan perjalanan pilihan Pilihan Pilihan. Jadi sekarang kita mengatakan pilihan Pilihan Pilihan tentang pilihan Pilihan Pilihan. Tapi apa yang penting untuk Pilihan Pilihan? Ini adalah dokumen yang penting dan unik di dunia, membawa orang bersama untuk mengadakan pilihan Pilihan Pilihan. Kita adalah region yang berkongsi pada pilihan Pilihan Pilihan. Jadi ini mengapa kamu ada beberapa pilihan pilihan general dan pilihan pilihan pilihan yang mengingat apa yang Pilihan Pilihan Pilihan mengawasi dan mengasuki pilihan pilihan dan memutuskan pilihan pilihan pilihan pilihan pilihan pilihan dan penyelamatkan. Itu sebabnya pilihan pilihan yang penting untuk membuat pilihan pilihan pilihan pilihan untuk mengawasi pilihan pilihan untuk semua, bukan hanya untuk pilihan, tapi juga pilihan pilihan pilihan. Jadi dengan ASEAN, untuk memperbaiki pilihan Pilihan Pilihan, kita memiliki framework untuk membahas pilihan pilihan. Kamu lihat kolam yang di tengah-tengah mengatakan tentang Pilihan Pilihan Pilihan yang bergantung untuk Pilihan Pilihan Pilihan dan di bawah itu, kami memiliki komite di bawah Pilihan Pilihan dari ASEAN. Dan kemudian kami memiliki pilihan Pilihan Pilihan Pilihan Pilihan. Jadi mereka memiliki pilihan pilihan Pilihan Pilihan Pilihan yang di tengah-tengah untuk pilihan Pilihan Pilihan Pilihan di Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapura, dan sebagainya dan juga yang lain kita disebut pilihan Pilihan Pilihan. Kenapa kita memiliki pilihan pilihan pilihan pilihan karena pilihan pilihan yang berbeda di tengah-tengah dan di tengah-tengah In order to address the issue of forest fire on time, we should have this sort of north and south sub-regional level to address whatever the issue happen on time. So that is the institutional structure. So among other, I think it's specifically to run this sort of communication coordination day-to-day basis. We have ASEAN coordinating center and currently it's operated by ASEAN secret as an interim interim center to provide all sort of coordination matter. And then we have also ASEAN Specialized Meteorological Center based in Singapura provide the hotspot and smoke hazemap satellite imagery and so on. And we have also fire danger rating system that allow us to understand the key issue also that can be potentially create south issue. And also we have the rate support by all the national monitoring center from each ASEAN Member State that provide regular report monitoring and so on. So so far we have developed a number guiding document that to make it available and to guide the Member State partner to work together consistently and coherent. The key document including roadmap on ASEAN cooperation to transform pollution control implementation. We have ASEAN management strategy and ASEAN program sustainable management on pit lane ecosystem. So this is also the guiding document to provide this sort of guide to implement control the forest fire and pit lane and so on. And including the standard operating procedure that guide day-to-day operation as well as the emergency respond. So now come to translate from the agreement to the roadmap here. They have roadmap on the cooperation with Transboundary Health Pollution here. We have clear vision. It's try to do the Transboundary Health Free ASEAN by 2020. And then with the goal at Regional Transboundary Health Pollution is eliminate through intensify collective action to prevent and control the forest and land fire. This is the M that we have for that roadmap. So I just flash here to make you aware of what is the roadmap consist of. Roadmap consist of 8 strategy area I mean from the institutional setting implementation, the strategy 1 and then the strategy 2 which is very important about the sustainable management of pit lane fire prevention. Of course it can be contribute multiple sort of benefit not only fire prevention. And then the other strategies about agriculture and land agricultural land and forest also that is important for this roadmap. So along the side a number of things on the cooperation, policy, development and so on. So I just flash this and now going to the asian pit lane management strategy as you can see asian pit lane management strategy itself it build upon the roadmap that the strategy 2 point out clear that we need to manage well our pit lane. So with the pit lane we have a pit lane management strategy that I don't want to highlight again and I think our region is quite rich in terms of pit lane. So we have an international ITPC established to guide and let the world contribute to that. I think the ITPC also contribute a number of, present a number of cases to the global fora for the best that we have and also we want to show that this important contribute to the global climate agenda as well. So pit lane have a number of value to elaborate further because ambassador it's really highlighted contribute a lot to the water supply, storage, flood control and so on, carbon sequestration and also there is majority of the pit lane in our region but the issue is still a challenge due to that practice and also the fire and also the climate sort of condition. So here to present you ASEAN, what ASEAN doing with regard to the pit lane so we have ASEAN pit lane management initiative that adopt in 2003 by the high technical task to guide the early stage of the pit lane management and cooperation and then later on we have develop the ASEAN pit lane management strategy APMA 2006 and 2020 that strategy provide specifically about how pit lane can be managed and restore and also including the research and cooperation and then we have also ASEAN pit lane forest project RPFP 2009-2014 sustainable management of pit lane forest in Southeast Asia CPIT and the ASEAN program on sustainable pit lane ecosystem APS and PE that is from our past project now this is the way I want to show you about this ASEAN program on sustainable management pit lane ecosystem the consistent number of key activity so it's not only restoration but it's from the identify of the key each pit lane and a priority so here the pit lane task for meeting to guide the implementation and management and cooperation of pit lane this is for your reference among other I think we have for important cooperation with partner this is one of the big program on the sustainable use of pit lane and has mitigation in ASEAN because so it's super with the overall objective sustainable management pit lane in ASEAN through collective action in hand cooperation support sustainable local livelihood re-use risk of fire and associate has and contribute to management so I just flash here for your information I have two component component one on the pit lane government component two on the non-state actor participation so the government part implement by GIZ while the non-state actor implement by the WRI and people for pit so one of the most important program as well that we have project right now at measurable action for history management in South Asia that consists three main objective to be a capacity to enhance the availability and usage of knowledge product that run by C4 and also the third objective in hand ASEAN regional coordination mechanism that run by ASEAN secretary so these are the key activity and I would not go to all detail and welcome any question and then the project management pit lane ecosystem in the Mekong country run by IUCN that try to strengthen their capacity and also identify the pit lane and the key priority in their area and how they can accelerate further where they integrate in their wetland management plan or any other plan to make it more coherent to address the pit lane issue now the APMS is really come to end this is the final review of the implementation of the APMS so the review finding at present that the four objective in hand awareness capacity on pit lane and also the address transboundary health pollution general objective promote sustainable pit lane so this is the result I may not say but I may go to the key point because we run all time it's critical just to give you information about pit lane it's quite dominant in Indonesia and some part of Malaysia and so on now they challenge an opportunity so challenge as you may know climate change one of the thing and also the practice including agriculture purpose of different sort of user that can be a challenge also the limited in term of data information as highlighted by the ambassador and still some low understanding and poor practice somehow in relation to the pit lane management so the opportunity is in term of what we have right now in three important opportunity that for us to make a difference with that I also invite if you have any sort of input of want to participate we have three important development of new ASEAN health free road map 2022-2030 and a new APMS 2022-2030 and also the investment framework that to guide the success of implementation and cooperation with ASEAN partner as well as opportunity cooperation with ASEAN dialogue and development partner so that is the specific opportunity so this is the overall conclusion but I mean I just want to say one word or two words important for you to consider I think from the finding is quite important to note that the climate change one of the window that could be challenge to the pit lane but also right now it could be the opportunity the finding confirm that we have limited information and data from the pit lane how the pit lane contribute to climate change and how climate change impact to the pit lane so this really still a big gap so with that I think the research and partner may wish to look at that is about the how pit lane and climate change interact as opportunity for tap into resources for the support in the pit lane and ecosystem and community and with that I also would like to highlight the second point on the pit lane it's about ASEAN it's the way we work it work collaboratively with that we got ASEAN standard to support and facilitate any partner would like to talk more and coordinate with ASEAN Secretary please feel free to reach out to ASEAN Secretary we are welcome any sort of initiative thank you very much thank you Dr. Hong for your presentation sharing with us about the ASEAN Secretariat programs and has been implemented the policy and program on sustainable management for pit lanes and also for fire prevention ASEAN Secretariat have many a lot of management strategy like on pit lane and then also program on sustainable management of pit lane ecosystem rehabilitation and also highlighting some challenges and of course the opportunity thanks again for Dr. Wong's next I would like to invite the next speaker Mr. Kim Gyun Gyun from the project manager for Korea Indonesia Forest Cooperation Centre he would like to share with us about the partnership between Indonesia and Korea especially on pit lane restoration Mr. Kim Good evening ladies and gentlemen my name is Kim Hyung Gyun the project manager Korea Indonesia Forest Cooperation Centre and today I would like to share our experience during we are implementing the pit lane restoration project in Jambi Indonesia I think some of you have never heard about that Jambi Indonesia so first of all let me show the location of the Jambi and our project site West side of Indonesia you can find the Sumatra Island one of the biggest island in Indonesia and then Jambi is one of the province in Sumatra and the Kota Jambi it means Jambi City is the capital city of the Jambi province we have the project office here and then in the Jambi city there is the airport also and we have around four flights per day from Jambi from Jakarta to the Jambi city and north of the city you can see the Bata Hari river and this place a very important role in our project for logistics and rewriting activities and also the community the life of the community of our partners from the Jambi city around the 50 km to the north east we can reach it to our project site which is Laundrang Pit lane Laundrang Pitland protected area we can call it Heilge Laundrang and you can see the yellow color box this is the Heilge Laundrang and in 2015 and we had the first fire here and also in 2019 we had another very big first fire here again you can see this using the satellite pictures and we lost around 12,000 ha if you see this picture closely you can see the village by the Bata Hari river then we can find this as a very typical village in the Indonesia Pitland area now let's see the history of our project we made MOU between Korea and Indonesia in 2016 and we have spent another 5 years to implement our project we could start our project we could start our project from end of the 2021 yes we have met many stakeholders even our goal is same to restore the Pitland the details were quite different because each one has their own condition and ideas and viewpoint and our management team realize that the goal of the project is not only to restore the Pitland but also the goal of this project is working together to restore our Pitland maybe all the management team in ODA project they have a strong intention to drive the project in their way efficiently but actually yes we need to go together as a joint and cooperation project partner after that the way of the approach to the project was totally changed efficiency for a project is important but effectiveness is also critically important need to consider both of them very seriously with all of our stakeholders to implement project smoothly then our project could speed up as you might know most of the Pitland restoration project has a 3R activities our project main activities are also same having 3R rewetting, revegetation and revitalization in revegeting section yes we have many partners also here and one of the most important partner is Jambi University and then they are specialized to local Pitland survey also we communicate with the communities in our project area very closely to get full support to build the canal blocks for revegetation activities we have 20 facilitators we are doing these activities in 10 villages with 20 facilitators it means 2 facilitators in each village and then they stay 24 hours a day with the community people to check real issue in each village also have the community to develop their business plan the business plan is aimed to create alternative source of lively food also as a community empowerment in these activities we make a collaboration between Korea Indonesia Forest Corporation Center and community village and also local government to create alignment with the government program which can make village business plan run sustainable later and there are 10 villages around the high land land and our facilitators are working together at the field with the community people for revitalization program for revegetation we did many activities such as building bridge access road working logic nursery planting pace and other facilities we share this works with the community and the stakeholders so that they can participate also to build the community ownership in this project together and also we try to find all the labor in the local community nearby our project site and then these are the villages nearby our project site every day we are working with 35 to 70 people from those villages together and to buy seedlings we have a contract with the nursery based on the communities around the high land land land so we still can cooperate with our partners very closely even buying the seedlings based on our experience the most important part in the project is cooperation with our partner if we want to do it all by ourselves it's not easy it's not easy there are a lot of specialists at the field that we need their advice and cooperation to see the real condition at the field and they are our partners to implement the successful project we should go together with much respect we believe only through the cooperation this project can be implemented and be useful to the local community in Jambi we would like to take this opportunity to express our special thanks to our partner directorate of the pitland control in MOEF and the forestry service of Jambi province Tanjung Jabung Timur FMU and Muara Jambi FMU and Balipang Eraka Balambang and Jambi University and thanks all of you too thank you very much for your kind attention thank you thank you Mr. Kim for sharing with us regarding the project cooperation between Korea and Indonesia on restoring pitland I think we should move to the next speaker moving from bilateral cooperation and now we have Adam Jeren from FAO he is the chief technical advisor from the FAO we would like to have your thoughts on how FAO will support the countries especially in pitland restoration Mr. Adam and I hope what we're participating in is going to be very useful for and interesting for all of us but let's not waste time the main thing I want to say is in the first five words climate action needs pitland action I want to talk about what FAO is doing but all we do is support countries it's the countries that do this work so what I'll be talking about I'm the chief technical advisor on some forest and pitland monitoring project work based in Jakarta and Indonesia and I'm supported by pitland technical lead in our FAO office and of course many people in our countries I'm going to do a very quick run through so apologies if I go fast but you will get the slides I want to talk about the status and trends of Indonesia's pitlands and really give you a sense of why pitlands matter for climate change I'll talk about FAO's work on pitlands but as I said it's really the countries work that are doing this in the end we support countries through technical solutions and capacity development in Indonesia I'll give some examples but we also share that knowledge globally through the global pitlands initiative and work we do bilaterally in other countries I want to end with some challenges and opportunities because I think that was asked for by our presenters and I hope there's some good opportunities there let me set the scene by saying that globally pitlands are the world's largest terrestrial carbon store only 3% of the land area 3% according to FAO 15% by ASEAN it's small but it contains twice as much carbon as the forests and this is only recently been recognised and so pitland only in the last decade or so has come to the prominence as an activity deforestation was always or has been long recognised Indonesia is really important it's a superpower in pitlands it's the country with the world's largest area of tropical pitlands not pitlands overall but tropical pitlands and it's the tropical pitlands that actually are some of the deepest and have some of the largest stores of carbon in Indonesia the estimates vary between 15 and 22 million hectares depending on your definition and the depth the really important point that we need to know is that most of Indonesia's pitlands more than half are degraded because of drainage past activities like logging and conversion to large industrial plantations oil palm pulpwood forestry plantations also agriculture and fire especially since the 1990s this has been a really significant issue and the drained and degraded pitlands are extremely prone to more fire it's a vicious circle they then get land subsidence which leads to flooding so in climate change terms they release significant greenhouse gas emissions from pit decomposition but you don't really see because it's the surface of the pit degrading as the carbon gets eaten by bacteria and fungi and disappears and particularly when you get a fire it can go down a lot more so you're losing valuable carbon stores from the top but what happens you get a reduced ability to provide ecosystem services all those really important values of carbon storage, biodiversity and a productive ecosystem that supports local livelihoods is damaged and in many cases extremely hard to repair the degraded pitlands are vulnerable to climate change even more when they become degraded if they are in good condition they are more resilient but once you get severe fires you get large environmental and socioeconomic damage particularly in the 2015 fires they burnt 2.6 million hectares 40% of that was pitlands it produced a toxic smoke that covered parts of Indonesia neighbouring countries the estimate is more than 100,000 premature deaths and more than $16 billion in economic losses in one fire season alone and it's the local communities who live in these pitlands or surrounding areas and depend on them that suffer the most this is an effect an estimated 15 million people with about 1 in 10 of those living below the poverty line they are critical let's step back from the sort of local picture there and show you this old graph it goes from 1916 to 2010 2015-16 it's a big spike but it shows that the real increase in climate change greenhouse gases is coming in other development areas like fossil fuels and cement the deforestation has stayed relatively stable since the 1960s through to the 1990s then there has been a decline since the 1990s that's actually success story the reduction in deforestation what about this the globally significant spike in 96-97 it shows how important they are I use this old graph because it's got that important fact when you put this in context the Indonesian fires in 2015 released 11 million tonnes of carbon per day it's larger than the daily fossil fuel use of the whole of 28 countries of Europe setiap hari, segala industri segala orang-orang itu besar ketika terlambat terlambat semoga saya memberikan contek yang kita bergabung dengan saya mengucapkan terima kasih Danial Muriaso untuk mencari yang adalah mesej yang penting tentang tempatan dan lembaga tempatan dan lembaga terutamanya menggabungkan dan keadaan yang terlambat terlambat itu adalah sebuah periode di beberapa negara yang terlambat yang terlambat dan itu dapat membantu dengan menggabungkan keadaan yang terlambat untuk menggabungkan mereka dapat membantu menggabungkan dan menggabungkan jadi sesuatu yang bisa dibuat tentang masalah ini informasi di depan dan yang terlambat yang terlambat adalah informasi yang penting dan itu penting untuk menggabungkan keadaan yang terlambat dan strategi misi keadaan yang terlambat keadaan yang terlambat akan membuat keadaan yang lebih terlambat akan menjadi sebuah periode yang lebih terlambat tetapi ada sesuatu yang bisa dibuat saya akan cepat menggabungkan karena kita sudah dengar 3 strategi Indonesia menggunakan membuat keadaan yang terlambat dan menggabungkan keadaan yang terlambat ini sudah menjadi keadaan yang baru sejak 2015 mari kita memberitahu bahwa data dan sesuatu yang FAO melakukan disini ada map di atas yang menunjukkan beberapa land yang terlambat dan beberapa dot red adalah pemerintah keadaan yang terlambat itu adalah keadaan yang terlambat kita perlu bekerja di mana dan apa yang terjadi sehingga 90% sebuah pemerintah di sesuatu cara dan kita memiliki banyak data yang baik jadi apabila kita menggabungkan itu, kita mengidentifikan bahwa kita bisa membuat sokongan untuk menggabungkan pemerintah keadaan yang terlambat pemerintah keadaan yang terlambat keadaan yang terlambat karena itu terlambat, seperti yang saya katakan keadaan yang terlambat untuk menggabungkan pemerintah keadaan yang terlambat dengan sebuah 24 dot untuk menggabungkan pemerintah keadaan yang terlambat setiap dua minggu dengan data di satellite baru seharusnya untuk menggabungkan orang-orang untuk menggabungkan data tapi itu lebih gampang dari keadaan yang terlambat jadi kita memiliki ini dan menggabungkan 100 orang dari 14 organisasi untuk menggabungkan data ini dan menginterpretasi pemerintah keadaan yang terlambat terlambat pemanggan yang merupakan gampang dari keadaan yang terlambat dan menggabungkan data ini untuk menggabungkan data ini bersama orang-orang yang 31 dengan 100 orang dari diui keadaan yang terlambat So it's about 100 km, 150 km wide and top to bottom. If you watch this chart, this is going from 2018, get a really big drop in modelled field measured data. But also if you watch closely, start to say which part of the countries are dry, where is there likely to be fires, possibly this data could be used for that. We haven't yet, there's a lot of opportunity for it. So we've developed the technique, we have an index, we want to explore it more. We've documented a lot of this in our materials, we have a website there that you can look at later. We've got a manual for running it in Indonesian and in English. It's free, open source, anybody can run it. And we've run workshops as I've said across Indonesia. So we've got some tools, we've got some problems, we've got some tools. So we've also still had these challenges. I want to talk about a few things that challenges that we need to work on. Institutional challenges, agency coordination. And I'm talking here multiple levels of government, but I'm also talking internationally between countries. I think this is really important as we heard from the ASEAN colleague. We've got a new research agency in Indonesia bringing together a lot of resources. That could be an interesting opportunity. It could be a challenge to get it functioning properly as well. We've got a small number of highly trained, sort of well trained competent staff in many countries. But it's not enough for the size of the problem. And they have high staff turnover and some challenges internally institutionally. I think there's a big gap and a need for socioeconomic work. Understanding what is going on in the fear, why people are burning and setting fire to those areas. But they're livelihoods. We need to design some better incentives to help them not do that. Some companies have been doing that and getting good results. We need to expand on that. And we need to do more research and better select those research sites. I'm going to really skip through this quickly because I've gone over time. I think I've explained to you about the fire and degradation. We need to understand the causes of that better and the conditions and thresholds for a surface fire to become a peat fire underneath the ground. There are fire danger rating systems. We need to combine those, coordinate them and work out how they better relate to the field activities in the field. Subsidence is a big gap, not measured or worked on as much as it could be. But with new tools like the satellite data, radar data can give you some estimates. Agriculture, restoration opportunities are all there. Sharing data is a final thing. And I'll leave you with the slides with the links where all of our data and our publications are available for you to work on. Thank you very much. For sharing with us, regarding the FAO works in supporting countries in pitland actions. And also, in particular, you also mentioning how FAO have in supporting Indonesia, especially in technical solution and also global partnership on pitland restoration and monitoring. Distinguished speakers, ladies and gentlemen, I think we should move to the next speaker. We would like to invite Mr. Brad Sanders of Operation Ecosystem Real Restoration. Time is yours. So tonight I want to share with you, if I may, the experience from one company on one project for what we're doing to protect and restore pitlands in Riau province, Sumatra. I'm with the April group or our national name is Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper. I'm the head of operations for this restoration program called Riau Ecosystem Restoration or RER. April is a large developer of fiber plantations and a manufacturer of pulp, paper and viscose. In case you're not aware, we sell our products in over 70 different countries around the world. 75% of our volume, however, is sold in the Asia Pacific region. There we go. So the RER program is 100% financed and led by April group. We, of course, working very closely with many collaborators of the local government and the national government, especially the Riau Conservation Agency as well as many forestry experts and NGOs and the communities as well. We have a commitment for five concessions over a 60-year period. We've been issued a license or licenses by the ministry over a 60-year period starting in 2013. The total area of the RER is 150,000 hectares of degraded peat forest on two landscapes, the Kampar Peninsula and Padang Island. And the company's commitment for funding began in earnest in 2015. Shortly after we started the program, we committed $100 million for the first 10 years and is increasing starting this year, actually. We've made some new commitments which will increase this funding. This funding is not only for the RER program, but it's also for other conservation efforts that are being run by the program, by the April group. And our main partners, we have three, our Bidara, a local NGO focusing on community empowerment, Fauna and Flora International both at the UK level and the conservation society both from the US and here in Indonesia. So where is the RER specifically located? We're about 150 kilometers from Singapore. We're on the east coast of Sumatra in the province of Riau. We're on two landscapes again, Kampar is to the south which is a 700,000 hectare peninsula and Padang Island to the north. We have 20,000 hectares in the north and 130,000 hectares in the south. The dark green you see is the largest block of peat forest remaining in Sumatra. It's about 344,000 hectares of peat forest. This is larger than some national parks, especially the peat parks that are in Sumatra. Sumatra, excuse me, Riau province itself 50% of the province, nearly 50% is peat land. That's about 4 million hectares. And what's remaining in peat land based on some of the latest studies I've read is only about 1.5 million hectares of peat forest remaining in Riau province. And we've got significantly the largest block under our management. As you can see in the lighter green there's a ring of plantations. These are a ring of fiber plantations managed by April and one or two other companies which provide a buffering ring or zone to protect the RER at the center of these landscapes. At the center are peat domes which range from 3 to 15 meter deep peat. This ring of plantations not only provides a reduction of threats but also financial stability. The fiber that's produced from these plantations on the ring goes to the mill, produces our three main products which produces revenue and profits which are then reinvested back into the conservation program. And by being associated with April the RER program benefits from long term operational and technical capabilities of the company. I have 170 employees who are working within those black lines on the two blocks that are managing and protecting and planting trees but we also get to draw the assets of the larger company from the human resources, legal, technical, remote sensing and other support services. The RER takes a four prong approach, strategic approach to its restoration work. The first and most important is protection because peat swamp forests do recover quickly in the absence of new disturbance. If you can protect them from new disturbance, they begin to return and that's our experience anyway. So protection is number one. In parallel with this, we do numerous assessments. We monitor, monitor, monitor. We're monitoring the wildlife, all the biodiversity, sociocultural economic assessments in the communities that surround us as well as carbon stocks. And then from these assessments we're able to identify gaps and needs which focus on restoration work and then the management. The management is the tough part. We're dealing with people. We're dealing with our collaborators, the government, the communities and our own teams. Coordinating and managing people is the tough one and Mr. Kim is shaking his head. I think in agreement. But it does come with challenges. We do have challenges like all of us would know. One of our main challenges is the highly degraded areas in our concessions which need active regeneration. These are very isolated, difficult to access and it takes considerable effort to get our teams into those locations. Another challenge we have on the ground is unfortunately songbird poaching. This is a historical cultural norm in Indonesia to collect birds. This particular trade is driven by competitions in some of the city in Indonesia and elsewhere. And that provides incentive in a sense for people to go out and collect birds. And of course the legal logging. It continues to be an issue in some places where forest remains. And a lot of this is driven because local sources of wood around communities are gone. They've been converted to other plantation or cash crops. So how do we deal with these challenges? For us is protection, but there are active security patrols and community agreements. Example of one of these is our fishing agreement with the fishermen that live temporarily, periodically in our forest and using the rivers. They've agreed not to burn left and right of the river. They've agreed not to use poisons or chemicals or electric shock to catch fish. As a result this has improved water quality and fish catch. So this is a positive. And our active patrols ensure this continues. And have an establishing trust and relationships with the people. In terms of our restoration work we've now completed 140 hectares out of the 875 that we consider highly degraded and needing active regeneration or planting. But this comes at huge effort. It's not just putting a tree in the ground. It's been a year for four or five years to maintain that single tree and all the trees that have been planted. So this is not just a one-time effort. It's ongoing. And of course the most important thing is the re-wetting. We've identified 146 kilometers of old drainage canals left behind by the previous companies which operated in these landscapes and our teams are busy constructing hand-built dams using sandbags and other materials. There's no access other than rivers and walking through the peat. But we've impacted about 9,000 hectares of peat by re-wetting these open old drainage canals. And then biodiversity. This is probably the most unique and most interesting part of our jobs is monitor, monitor, monitor again. And we've now identified over 838 different species of fauna within our boundaries and on the peninsula. 66 of these are identified by the IUCN red list as globally threatened and another 100 or so are protected by the Indonesian government or listed on the SITES list. I'll be happy to talk more about biodiversity. And one of the benefits of all of our monitoring is the government looked for us to help assist them in returning Matron Tiger back to the forest. The Kampar Peninsula in particular is designated as a Tiger Conservation Landscape. It is one of six priority landscapes in Indonesia for the National Tiger Restoration Recovery Program. And recently we did a survey with Sintas, a local NGO which says that if you go to the forest 73% chance they're going to see a tiger sign in that area, which is good but scary, one of the two. But we did release Karina was her name back in December 2020. We put a GPS collar on her and this was the first time a tiger has been collared in the peatlands and we were able to see where she moves, how she moves and how she establishes her home range. We were even able to identify what she eats based on the intensive monitoring and field teams going out behind her to see what she was eating. A few days behind her but one of the most interesting things was the fact that she spent majority of her time in the production areas, in the plantations. This was a very interesting finding for us. We monitored her for five months until the battery died. For long term and science based monitoring and information collection we are doing greenhouse gas flux monitoring. RER is home to one of four greenhouse gas towers that the April group has established. These towers have been operating for about five years now and the other three towers other than the RER is a fiber plantation in peat another one is in a fiber plantation in mineral soil and the last is in mixed land use also on peat. So with this we are now able to clarify and identify what the carbon emissions sequestration and all of that is doing in these three different four different cover types. It will help to clear up the uncertainty about some of these because we are monitoring this 24 there is 10 readings per second occurring 24-7, 365 a year. The data from these towers is going to be extremely beneficial for carbon credits in the future. We are almost finished. The last but not least of course is the communities there is about 40,000 people living around our area none of which live inside of our concessions which is clearly a benefit and reduces our threats but we do have fishermen there is several families which utilize the forest inside our area for fishing and they are all dependent and the resources that originate from our areas. And finally to share for the future we have recently completed our eco research camp. This is a camp that serves as our base of operations for the RER staff but it is also open and available to students, researchers and other stakeholders sincere interest to study and learn and understand more about peatlands in Indonesia so the research camp is a very good asset for us to have to share our experiences and so finally I'd just like to close out by saying thank you very much you can see all of our social media outlets there on the right and if you are inclined we've recently been featured in a documentary film called Frontier Sumatra which was released late last year on the Discovery Asia Channel and it will be appearing again on that and some other channels across Europe and Greece I understand is next to have it as well so check out our social media and Frontier Sumatra and thank you very much. Thank you Brett for sharing with us on your current experience on protecting and also restoring the tropical peatland landscape especially in the peninsula islands and Rio. Ladies and gentlemen I think we already run out of time and we still have our last but not least our great speaker Dr. Robert Nasi the Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research will be sharing with us about the research and also the future for the peatland restoration and monitoring. Here I am, folks standing here between you and well deserved rest and I only have 125 slides but thanks to all the good presentation before I managed to reduce that to five or six so it should be manageable so looking at the main issue that we have seen is how do we monitor and how do we manage tropical peatland restoration and Adam show us some things a colleague from an IPP so how do we create in a sense a framework on monitoring restoration how do we define success is success when something is put under restoration or is success when it has been restored for 20 years or its success when it has been restored for 40 years I will pass this one the degradation of peatland you know and then you have subsidence greenhouse gases and problems happen so we do need to restore degrade peatland we need to know how much it costs and what is success looking like and how do we monitor restoration and that is fundamentally true for any restoration activity be it in peatland and we had the curiosity to look at what are the restoration efforts in Indonesia and in a paper that is currently in press we did a survey and recorded something like 341 restoration project in Indonesia the one that we could record and you can see the project duration in egg it's mainly very short term and you have a couple of projects that are more than 10 years out of this 341 restoration project 217 say that they were successful and when we ask what do you mean by success what are the reasons why you are successful quite interesting and I will show that in the next slide it's awareness and community engagement the main reason for success there is a bit of technology and tenure sustainability funding but no the main reason you are successful in restoration in peatland is that you work with the local people you convince them and they are buying in it and then you can estimate that your success so these are the main element that were recorded as success in 2017 so that gives you an idea of the basis of what could be a monitoring of peatland restoration so what do we need the monitor and then we have a very good paper that was prepared for effort and what you need the monitor in restoration monitoring is different to what you need the monitor in an intact peatland which is different to what you need the monitor in a degraded peatland and the question is that how do you operationalize this monitoring and we had no peculiar knowledge about that so we organize a series of workshop with various stakeholders going from government to community to peatland restoration agency private company with four webinar and collecting ideas what do you need to monitor how do you monitor how do you operationalize and creating a framework of criterion indicator in terms of you have this set of criterion indicator that you will implement on the ground to monitor restoration and then based on the result you can see the trajectory and you can decide whether you consider that it is a success or not and this criterion indicator you can see in the table there are biophysical aspect, economic aspect governance and pretty classic these are the things that come from the ground and what is missing now and what we like to do is really putting it into action how do we transform something that is a theoretical framework of criterion indicator in something that could be a certification system like FSC or PFC have done but for this specific ecosystem that is peatland and that's it and that's my small effort in terms of restoring peatland thank you very much kain presentation also keeping the time short so we will finish all the presentation before 8pm and we have an audience here and also if you have any question 1 or 2 we still allow to use this room because we are lucky we actually did the last session of today in this room so we can have a little bit more time but up to 5 to 10 minutes actually but we would like to open the discussion will come to participant who would like to ask the question would like to open 1 or 2 question if anyone would like to ask the question to the any question from online participant not yet okay okay Michael ready please you can introduce yourself you come forward to whom the question would like to address please Michael from C4 a craft what question I'm just wondering if anybody I've seen a lot of efforts and data on rewetting some degree on revegetation but I'm really curious to know whether anybody is tracking actual Pete accumulation is Pete continuing to degrade and can you get it in a steady state or are there cases where you can actually see accumulation of Pete to what degree is that part of the restoration recipe so anybody any comments appreciated thanks okay thank you Michael for your good question and comment actually would like to invite speakers I would like to respond anyone of you Brett okay please good question Michael Pete subsidence or growth is not easy to monitor number one it takes significant time you can't just do it in one or two years has to be looked at over the long term even the physical monitoring is difficult is when you walk up to that point make sure you don't step on the point or else you've subsided it immediately it depends on rainfall too when more rainfall maybe you're going to get some bulging in the Pete surface and if you measure it in the dry season after six months of low rainfall it's definitely going to be down a little bit so from our monitoring and we're doing regular monitoring on our transex across the campar and also a little bit on Palau Padang which you might be familiar with you've traipse through there a while ago we see highly variable annual numbers coming eight from each of our we monitor about once every three months particular point and it's up and down throughout the year and I the long term trend meaning four years five years worth of data it's still declining ya ya what are the reasons well it might be because my guys are stepping on it sometimes too close to it or walking around it it could be because rainfall is a little less than maybe 100 years ago I don't know exactly because temperatures are higher than they were 50 years ago but ya what we're finding in our monitoring is it's definitely not getting thicker it's just going down so improvements and how we monitor more suggestions and setting up the points are also needed from the science guys ya thanks thank you Brett for your response Adam you would like to add some comments just a little bit of more information rather than drawing on hard research but I have heard a number of researchers say they've been able to get a feeling an estimate of the fact that the ground border level is a very good indicator a surrogate of the rate of decomposition and more peat exposed that is more peat able it goes down faster so there is and the converse we think or they think should apply but this has been very hard to prove in practice that if you rewet the peat it should slow down the decomposition whether you can actually turn it around and get it to accumulate again I think the general feeling is at that point you need to do something more you need to put the accumulation and I'm not talking shrubs and bushes and things that burn frequently because then you'll continue to be in a spiral downwards you need to get large vegetation that has big biomass that produces a lot of leaf litter and then starts to build up in excess of the rate of decomposition so you can slow things down with the peatland rewetting getting the water up to the surface that's the first and most important step but that's only part of the effort then you've got to put some big vegetation in there and wait a long time and protect it and not have it burn so it's a really challenging combination of factors but in terms of the science and the biophysical thinking about it most people say it is possible but extremely difficult because of the factors of fire and other disturbances that come in but really hard but it's really important and it's got a huge potential and if you don't it's just gonna keep emitting and gonna keep degrading so you're in a downward spiral anyway so we should be trying to do something about it because it's a big opportunity the land is in many cases not being actively used for other things so it's a big hard thing but a big one that we should be grasping Thank you, Adams for your comments Ladies and gentlemen I think we have reached the end of the session on pitland restoration in Southeast Asia challenges and opportunity. Thanks for all speakers and audience in this room and also joining us online and also for the participant Michael who actually ask the questions I will not highlight or summarize our discussion today but two things two points that I would like to say the first one is about tropical pitlands in Southeast Asia play a critical role in economy and ecology of the regions and despite the informant and economic importance they are also vulnerable ecosystem that could be treated by anthropogenic activities so strong efforts would really needed to protect, to restore and sustainably manage our pitlands I hope our discussion and our presentation in this session today could have benefit for all of us and especially for future of our tropical pitlands I would like to say again thanks to all speakers and of course all audience for keeping until the end of the session again give applause to all of us and thank you once again would like to invite all speakers to come forward we have a little things to give