 First of all, I would like to thank you all, the participants and also the supporting institution and also organizer of this workshop. It's been a very long process until we reached this point. Just to give you a little bit of background where we do this. Actually, C4 and the International Tropical Pit Center ITPC were thinking of having this event as a small workshop in Tallinn Estonia when the organizer was organizing the International Pit Congress. It was planned in June this year, but suddenly it did not happen because of the pandemic. So we repackaged this idea and think about having it as a series of webinars regardless where we are and we expect to reach as many people as possible and definitely we'll be larger than what we were thinking if it was in Tallinn Estonia. So we approached the Ministry of Forestry, BRG, the Bitland Restoration Agency in Indonesia and shared the idea of having this. So we were thinking of running it as a webinar and the idea was welcomed by both the Ministry and the PRG. So thank you very much for that support and perhaps we are better off because what we are going to do today will be much more than what we could have been doing in Tallinn. And perhaps towards the end of this series we might be able to present the full flash of the criteria and indicator identification processes in Tallinn probably in May next year. So we will come with a better idea and share the result of the series of webinars. So I keep saying that it is a series because this is the first of the series. We try to explore the possibility of incorporating criteria and indicators. So we try to set the scene today and we expect to have at least two or three more webinar to go into deeper kind of exercise to look at the biophysical, socio-economic, and other aspects that might be useful to consider in designing the criteria and indicator for tropical bitland restoration. So we will come up with a kind of synthesis by the end of this year and that will be the kind of deliberate outcome of this series. And during the course of this series we are trying to identify the criteria and indicators and more importantly to validate that if that can be used for tropical bitland restoration monitoring. So the core of this activity is really in the second and the third webinar. So stay tuned, we will be there and engage you throughout the process. So for today we are fortunate to have a whole set of dignitaries and also prominent people working in this area. Again thank you very much, Mr. Alut Dahong, who is the Vice Minister of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia. And also Phuat, Padna Sir Phuat, who is the head of BRG. Both of them will help us to set the tone where are we heading to in the next four or five months or so. And then in the first section, as I said, we are going to set the scene. Again we are fortunate to have colleagues from the Ministry of Forestry, Miss Pudi Susanti, who will be sharing with us about the challenge about what happened in Indonesia hitland management. And Lira Miles from WCMC of UNEP will be sharing with us about criteria with regard to biodiversity framework, etc. And thanks to Maria and Nutinan from FAO, who has been very keen and continuous support person to this process. And she will be sharing with us about the monitoring of hitland throughout the world. And perhaps we can learn from these two ladies about this global context of environmental processes, especially when we are talking about criteria and indicators. In the second session, we will go deeper into more technical, and we are glad to have colleagues from Indonesia who will be sharing with us about the experience, especially in the past five years in restoring hitland in Indonesia. Mr. Pudi Wardana from BRG, Professor Maaz from Gajamada University, and Mr. Agus Chinus Tambupolom from Fordia, the Research and Development Center of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, and my friend Sonny Mumbunan from the University of Indonesia. And the entire process will be concluded by Mr. Harris Kunawan, one of the deputies in the BRG, who will again wrap this event up and then help us to move forward what to do in the next series of webinar. So that's for today, and we are really happy to think about what would be the output from this process throughout the rest of this year. We are expecting to have a set of validated criteria and indicator, especially to monitor and assess hitland restoration, not necessarily in Indonesia perhaps, because we work very closely with ITPC, so probably the result can be shared with colleagues in the ITPC member countries, Congo's DRC and ROC, and perhaps also Peru. So we will reach out that far learning from these lessons. Hopefully we will be familiarizing ourselves with the validated criteria and indicator themselves. So when the knowledge is exchanged, I believe throughout this discussion we will be learn more and more, and while verifying those CNI, we will be coming up with this set of CNI towards the end of this year. So with that said, again it's been very privileged to be able to work with you all. Your participation will be very much welcome during this discussion. Please use the chat me to think about what you can contribute. Do that and I will read the questions and comments for the speakers while we are listening to the discussion in each session. Somewhere in the middle of this session, we will have a break for 10 minutes and perhaps we can use that time to go to the restroom or whatever stretch you like, but we will also show some of videos that are relevant to the topic that we are discussing today. So thanks also to our supporter USAID, Nick Fee, suddenly FAO and UNEP has been very instrumental in helping and designing this workshop, also the Global Bitland Initiatives. Before I would like to to invite our guest of honor that would be a set of agenda that we will be going through today and this is quite packed, we will have two and a half hours more or less, so probably three, so please bear with us. So without further ado, I would like to invite Nasir Fuat to address the participant and give your wise word what to do in the next few months, especially today when we are discussing this for the first time. Panasir, time is yours. Thank you for your kind and great initiative to get us all today. Good afternoon, good morning, all colleagues, Excellency Vice Minister of Environment and Forestry, distinguished speakers from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, from BRG, from colleagues from FAO, UNEP, ITPC, universities and Jews and all honorable guests. Let me start by saying that we appreciate of course all your support and attentions and corporations with Indonesia in working to improve our management of practices and the science also behind that for tropical pitland. Indonesia have more than 500 tropical pitland ecosystems stretched from Aceh to Papua, the size I think the distance from Portugal to Moscow with 26 million hectares of tropical pitland ecosystems and we are very grateful to have our President, President Joko Widodo, who himself have personal attentions and support and guidance towards our agenda of pitland aspirations and pitland protections in Indonesia and also appreciate very much to Ibu Siti Nurebayya, our ministers in providing policy and guidelines on all of these tropical pitland agenda. Now criteria indicator for the pitland aspirations, we have had already a ministerial decree, a ministerial regulations number 16 of 2017 bringing three categories of criteria. Number one is the water table, it has to stay above 40 centimeters and number two is the layer of pyrite cannot be exposed to keep the pitland as a healthy and restorative and number three is the land cover, so these are three bio-physical properties and we set up our restoration program in Indonesia towards these three criteria. So let's call this the ultimate criteria for pit restoration. Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to take a few minutes to describe what we're doing. Number one, we adopt three approaches in our program. We call it three R's. The first R is the rewetting program. The rewetting is of course to bring up the water level and avoid more draining of pitland and make sure that pit is wet as possible, it will decrease greenhouse gas emissions, it will minimize fire hazard during the dry months and that rewetting program addressed to the two criteria set up in the ministerial regulation which is the water table and the pyrite layers here and then number two, our program, our approach, we call it the second R is the refugitation, is the replanting there with the endemic species that grew in the pitland. So this also addressed the third criteria from the ministerial regulation which is the land cover. Now the third part which is very important as you all know, there are tens of millions of people living in our pitland ecosystems, some of them practice traditional agriculture and fisheries and so forth but many have adopt different types of cultivations that involve draining so that creates some problems as well as we have left off or let's call it problems from the past. Many concession license have been issued by the government in the past on these pitland areas and they have legitimate license, they operating in that area. The ministry have issued several regulations and policies driving those concession holders to improve their practices and so on. But we have to face with the problems mostly with our communities as well that's why we adopt the third R, they call it refitalization of the livelihood. So we have to provide solution for these farmers on how can they still cultivate the pitland which they have been living there for maybe hundreds of years without compromising further the integrity of the ecosystem. Now this is perhaps the beyond biophysical criteria indicators. Our third R of course we adopt that because we're answering the problems of communities but it goes towards the ultimate criteria which is the water table, the high right and the land cover, the petition cover. Now our first president six months ago when we were summon he gave a very strong emphasis on changing people's attitude and behavior is perhaps the hardest challenges. It's the harder challenge. So how can we also look at ourselves when we run this third R, the third approach? How do we know that we're on the right track in building awareness in changing attitude and behavior towards more friendly practices on pitland which then leading up to improve ecological function on the pitland. So how can we look into that? Now of course we meet the criteria which is maybe more sociological, cultural, social, and so on and perhaps economies as well and I welcome Daniel and all of you to share your thoughts, to share your experience, analysis in the past, reports you have been written or you have been analyzing and how can we move quicker for us to tell ourselves whether we are on the right track on building that strong awareness changing the attitude and behavior towards more friendly pitland ecosystem cultivation and practices. We have worked with these communities and local government in rewetting the area of 800,000 hectares in the last four years and a half. I'm not saying that we already achieved the goals from the city criteria in the regulation, but we are on the way to go to that. Now it's also interesting if we can evaluate ourselves, assess ourselves that if there are progressive indicators, so when we look at what we are doing, we look at certain categories, we know that we are on the right track, halfway, three-quarter or a quarter. So it would be interesting to look at also these progressive indicators in the future. On top of the one I mentioned before, which is the non-biophysical, which will lead into healthier pitland ecosystem function. Number two that I like to mention is the emphasis given by the president, instruction by the president, many, many times when we were summoned in the palace, he stressed very strongly that pitland ecosystem has to be the basis. So the pitland restoration work, the improvement of governance and management of pitland has to be looked at the landscape level, has to be looked at what we call Kahagi or pitland landscape pitland ecosystems. Now it's like the healthiness feature of the ecosystems. How can we also look at that scale? So I encourage you in the discussions, in your sharing discussion in the future, to look into that landscape level. I trust the direction from the president instruction is the proper one. So in solving the problems of pitland restorations, we cannot look in one specific side of the whole ecosystem. So we need to look at the whole ecosystem holistically. Of course the design of the pitland restoration program has to be based on that whole ecosystem of the Kahagi and we have more than 500 Kahagi in the country. Now these are the things that I would really encourage you to look at. So if I may summarize again, looking into the progressive indicators toward the ultimate goal, looking into the perhaps intermediary criteria indicators that are leading toward that goal as well on the non-reversical. And the last part is looking at the landscape level. It's looking at the pitland ecosystem level, which can be challenging because some landscapes of our pitland in Indonesia have a size of half a million hectares. Some is pretty small, a few thousand hectares only. So it depends on where we are in the island, in the part which part of the island. We may face very dynamic situations biophysically apart of of course cultural and social structure. One thing I miss, I'd like to mention also that we worked in 590 villages so far. 590 villages, these village territories encompass 4.6 million hectares of pitland, 4.6 million. We have been working with the village executive, the village officials, the village councils, the informal village leaders, community groups, could be farmer groups, could be women's group, could be youths and also with artists in the village. We worked with them to try to interfere on the village policies, policies of five-year development plan of the village. Policies in many, in controlling which kind of activities are allowed, what kind of activities cannot be done in certain areas of their pitland. And also policy of using their village fund, the village grant that they got from the government. Some can be used for pitland reservations and some villages indeed have allocated that part of the fund. So we're very appreciative that we have seen very progressive village leaders and officials and groups agree with us to use some of the village grant for pitland restoration. Now this is also interesting if you look at that part which will ensure the sustainability of our pitland restoration program, looking at the lowest level in Indonesia, the village level, that they're mainstreaming the pitland ecosystems and pitland friendly practices in their daily activities as well as in their village policy setting. It can be also interesting of exercise to look into what kind of criteria indicator we need to look at at the village level. I guess Van Daniel, distinguished speakers and honorable guests, these are my messages. I again thank you for everybody who take time to participate in this webinar. I thank also your prepared efforts that you have made in sharing your thoughts, your analysis, your experiences during the next two hours and a half. Thank you very much, Van Daniel. Thank you very much, Panazir. There was a very thoughtful suggestion and advice on the way forward where we are heading to and I'm particularly glad you mentioned about community level and also gender balance. I think we take a note on that very wise advice for us today. Thank you. So next we would like to welcome Dr. Alu Dahong, the Vice Minister of Environment and Forestry. We're going to give his keynote speech and officially open this webinar. All right, thank you. Honorable the head of Pitland Restoration Agency, the President from UN Environment Program, Food and Agriculture Organization, Center for International Forestry Research, Global Pitland Initiative, Honorable the President from Ministries and Government agencies, distinguished speakers, moderators, participants, ladies and gentlemen. Good afternoon, good morning, maybe good evening for other participants from overseas. Welcome you all in this joining this webinar. First of all, I would like to extend my gratitude and appreciation to C4 and International Tropical Pitland Center in collaboration with Ministry of Environment and Forestry in the Pitland Restoration Agency for organizing this online workshop entitled Exploring the Criteria and Indicators for Tropical Pitland Restoration. Indeed, it is honor and pleasure for me to be part of this important workshop. This thing is a participant, ladies and gentlemen. I've been reported by the organizer that today's webinar is an initial workshop which will be followed by subsequent consultative workshops. The objective of this online workshop is to identify key contributors and suitable methodology for selecting appropriate criteria and associated indicators based on characteristics as relevant, ease of application, responsiveness, representative effectiveness, consistency and sensitivity to the local condition. This allows restoration targets to be adequately quantified and successfully measured. Ladies and gentlemen, Pitland is a critical ecosystem that plays important roles at global, regional and national level in controlling climate change, protecting biodiversity and environment, and contributing to the social economy welfare of people who depend on Pitland. International Pitland are the four largest in the world after Canada, Russia and the USA. International Pitland is one forest comprised 36% of the world's tropical pitland. They hold a large pool of carbon storage, about 30 up to 40% of the global soil carbon deposit, making them one of the world's largest carbon storage and contributing to the global climate change mitigation and adaptation. As one of the largest tropical pitland, the nation Pitland provides numerous ecosystem services. In their in their natural condition, Pitland supports a large range of habitats and provides home for biodiversity. They also play important roles in retention, purification and release of water and providing vital ecosystem functions and services, reducing scale and mitigate the impact of drought, floods and intrusion of salt water into productive pitland areas. Despite their importance for environmental services and economic sources, tropical pitlands are among the most vulnerable ecosystem. They could be threatened by anthropogenic activities. A major threat to pitland degradation in many countries, including in Indonesia in particular, is a clearing and pitland drainage. Clearing and draining of pitland over a recent decade has resulted in unprecedented increase in pitfires. It's not only for juice haze and pungent, but also endangered critical ecological services and affect ecosystem quality, including biodiversity loss and increase of greenhouse gaseous emissions. The Indonesian pitland has faced deforestation and drainage in 1980s, actually, mainly due to timber plantation and agricultural purposes. This thing is gase, participant and ladies and gentlemen. The government of Indonesia has demonstrated a strong commitment on the protection and sustainable management of the pitland ecosystem. President of the Republic of Indonesia, Bapa Joko Widoro, gives a very clear direction to protect and sustainable manage the pitland ecosystem, as well as prevent from potential forest pitland fire related. The enactment of government regulation number 71, 2014, and then revised by government regulation number 57, 2016, provide the authority to the government of Indonesia to protect and manage Indonesian pitland ecosystem based on pitland hydrological unit approach and establish pitland function into conservation and cultivation function. Writeria and indicators for pitland ecosystem degradation are clearly mentioned in the article 23 of the government regulation number 71, 2014, article 23, first two, as the graded pitland mentioned that pitland ecosystem with protected function are declared as a degraded pitland if it exceeded the standard criteria for degraded pitland as a follow. A, there is an artificial drainage bill on pitland ecosystem. B, there is an export of pirates or courts sediment under the pit layer. And C, there is a reduction in the land cover in pitland ecosystem. Furthermore, article 23, first three, mentioned the pitland ecosystem with cultivation function are declared as a degraded pitland if it met the following standard criteria. First, water level in the pitland is lower than 40 centimeters below the pit surface. And B, there is an export of pirates or courts sediment under the pit layer. These criteria and indicators are then used as the baseline for measuring the performance of pitland restoration activity in Indonesia. Referring to those government regulation and direction, currently there are 280 concession holders in 224 pitland hydrological units have implemented the government regulation requirement with estimated impact of restoration area is about 3.47 million acres. The restoration activities conducted through the establishment of pitland rewetting infrastructure including construction of more than 10,690 units of water table compliance points and 1,121 data lodgers for real-time water table monitoring, 792 units of rainfall monitoring station, and construction of 27,889 units of canal blocking board we thought and with spillway system. In implementing the pitland protection management in community areas, the government of Indonesia has also developed various community-based programs to empower community to actively participate and improve community livelihood in line with the implementation of sustainable pitland management. The Ministry of Environment Forestry of the government of Indonesia has worked together with seven universities and nine provinces in recruiting 121 facilitators to assist the communities in implementing restoration and pitland management in the area. The total degree that pitland area restored resulted from this implementing program is estimated about 9,950 hectares. In relation to restoration achievement aforementioned with greenhouse gases reduction mitigation, those restoration activities have successfully reduced approximately 280 million tons CO2 equivalent from water management improvement which were monitored through the SIMATA water level monitoring database. This achievement will significantly contribute to meet Indonesia's and MDC's target. The success pool of Indonesia in reducing emission from our EDD plus performance by around 17 million tons CO2 equivalent in the period of 2016 and 2017 has been approved by Norway government through result-based payment mechanism on the basis of letter of intent between the governments of Norway and Indonesia and moreover Indonesia also succeeded in receiving a group result-based payment proposal from Green Climate Fund for paying Indonesia's emission reduction achievement from our EDD plus activities during 2014 up to 2016 period with a total reduction around 20.3 million tons of CO2 equivalent. This achievement will rise public confidence about seriousness of the government in implementing its commitment toward protecting pitland including forest including pitlands. This thing is guess ladies and gentlemen. I do hope we can formulate the reliable practical and scientifically proven sets of criteria and indicators to monitor and assess pitland restoration success and the way forward to achieve the goal in protecting our tropical pitland as well as gaining global beneficiaries on climate change. So I need to stress here so the indicators and criteria can be divided into three three major indicators. First is the nearly mentioned about this biopistical and second is social economics and I think it's very important also to include in this kind of criteria we call it regulatory criteria that's already implemented in Indonesia. So before I conclude my speech I wish this webinar will provide better scientific knowledge and practical experiences on pitland restoration monitoring and strengthen cooperation and coordination amongst stakeholders in tropical pitland restoration before. That's one of the leading tropical pitland countries and also founder of the international tropical pitland center. We are also happy to serve what we have already achieved so far that we later on will be explained by Ibu Abi and experiences that we learn from this workshop to our colleagues in the ITBC member countries. Obviously all are very productive and fruitful workshop and looking forward to receive constructive recommendation out from this important event. So thank you very much for your kind attention and by asking blessing from our almighty God and from you all I officially open this seminar and thank you very much and have a good afternoon to all of you. Thank you.