 Ladies and gentlemen, gole ayun dance would like to welcome you all, please. Ladies and gentlemen, that was the welcoming dance gole ayun ayun of Jogjakarta. I hope you enjoy it. Now let us watch a short video, two minutes video on introduction of the third Asia Pacific rainforest summit. Please enjoy it. Indonesia holds the Asia Pacific rainforest summit, the third one, in Jogjakarta. With this event, we can also sit together, share our experiences, share our plans and let's see the infusion for the future. This is a wonderful opportunity for countries of Southeast Asia and the Pacific to come together and to work on collaboration and partnerships to tackle deforestation and forest degradation. For this aspect, we develop, we call it social forestry or community forestry, which is important as it is a big and huge agenda for the people, for their welfare. This is also shifting the paradigm and giving the harmony, the combination of the business between the corporates and the smallholder sitting together for the future of the people. So this is a number of issues and it's good to be in one team, forest for people and improving the economic growth. The Asia Pacific rainforest summit brings together governments in collaboration with the private sector and non-government organisations. We're all working together to preserve and protect the 740 million hectares of rainforest, which makes up 26% of the region's area. This 740 million hectares is absolutely critical to the health of our environment. So let's protect them. That's more or less the situation that we are facing, but I believe this is going to be good and we are trying also to learn from other countries as well as other countries learn from us. I think that's the way we are being together in the world. The sometimes the important one is regarding forest in INDC. In Indonesia the forest contribution for the carbon reduction emission is very important, covering about 17% and let's see what is the efforts from Indonesia and share the efforts from other countries. We already have a number of successes to our name since the first summit was held in Sydney. And this partnership between the countries of Southeast Asia and the Pacific is critical to preserving our wonderful environment for future generations. Let's see and let's take something from this summit. Have a good time and have a fruitful discussion. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your kind attention. We are now entering the more formal part of the opening ceremony. And for that it will be in the good hands of Anthony Burney. With that I would like to invite Anthony Burney, the floor is yours. Selamat pagi. Thank you. Your excellencies, ministers, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the third Asia Pacific Rainforest Summit here in the beautiful city of Jogjakarta. My name is Anthony Burney. I'm the director of international partnerships in the Australian Government Department of Environment and Energy. And it's my great honour to be the master of ceremonies for this opening ceremony this morning. So in Sydney four years ago the Australian Government welcomed countries from across Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands to the first Asia Pacific Rainforest Summit to regress action to prevent deforestation across the region. And then in 2016 the region came together again. This time being hosted by the Government of Brunei Dara Selama. We're close to 600 participants discussed action on decreasing deforestation. Now here we are in 2018 at the third Asia Pacific Rainforest Summit and reflecting the importance of forest to the region. Indonesia is now welcoming over a thousand participants at this summit to catalyze practical action on forest conservation to help achieve sustainable development in the region. What a great occasion and opportunity to bring the region together again which is home to some of the most carbon rich forests and landscapes in the world and rich in biodiversity. The theme for this summit is protecting forests and people, supporting economic growth. Over the next few days there is an opportunity for countries from across the region to showcase the work on balancing economics with the well-being of forest communities and conservation. Demonstrating the importance of forest to the Paris Climate Change Agreement and the significant contribution that this region is making the summit is going to be focusing on the implementation of forest and land sector commitments in nationally determined contributions and progress made to operationalise reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation or red plus. The summit has brought a diverse range of speakers from across the governments civil society, the private sector and academia. In addition to the ministers and high level speakers that we'll hear from today tomorrow we have a very full programme where you'll have the chance to participate in engaging and interactive sessions on topics including peatlands, community forestry, production forests, mangroves and blue carbon, finance and investment, eco-tourism and biodiversity. And then on day three of the summit we have an opportunity to visit the region of Yogyakarta and see some of the tropical rainforests of Indonesia and see the work that Indonesia is doing to sustainably manage these ecosystems. So it's now my great honour now to welcome Vice Governor of Yogyakarta, Sri Padukha Paku Alam the 10th to officially open the summit. Minister, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, allow me to deliver to Governor, Governor of Yogyakarta, Sambutan Selamat Datang, the 3rd Asia Pacific Rainforest Summit, Yogyakarta, 23 April 2018. Assalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh, salam sejahtera bagi kita semua. Yang kami hormati para Menteri Kehutanan dari kawasan Asia Pacific para delegasi negara, peserta, the 3rd Asia Pacific Rainforest Summit, sekenap hadirin serta tamu undangan yang berbahagia. Pujis yukurs, nanti asa kita pancatkan keadaian Tuhan yang mengkuasa atas limpahan rahmat dan karuniyanya sehingga pada hari ini kita masih diberi kesempatan untuk hadir dan berkumpul di tempat ini dalam keadaan sehat Wal-Afiq. Selanjutnya, atas nama Pemerintah Daerah Daerah Sima Yogyakarta, saya mengucapkan Selamat Datang di Yogyakarta kepada seluruh Menteri Kehutanan dan Delegasi Negara Peserta, the 3rd Asia Pacific Rainforest Summit yang merupakan sebuah keormatan dan kebahagiaan bagi saya dapat hadir berjumpa dengan sudah sekalian. Hadirin dan sudah sekalian yang saya hormati, Indonesia mempunyai hutan tropis dengan luas terbesar ketiga setelah Brazil dan Zaire, sehingga memiliki tanggung jawab dalam melestarikan agar tetap dapat berfungsi sebagai paru-paru dunia. Kawasan hutan di Indonesia mencapai luas seratu konversi kawasan hutan secara permanen untuk pertanian, berkebunan, pemukiman dan keperluan lain, penggunaan kawasan hutan di luar sektor kehutanan melalui pinjam pakai kawasan hutan dan terakhir pemamenan hutan, maaf, pemamenan hasil hutan yang tidak memperhatikan prinsip-prinsip pengelolaan hutan lestari. Hadirin dan sudah sekalian, berbagai upaya telah dilakukan untuk mempertahankan dan membulikan ekosistem hutan akan tetapi upaya tersebut belum cukup dan memerlukan perhatian yang lebih besar dapat menjadi momentum yang baik untuk meningkatkan kesadaran global tentang upaya mengatasi perubahan iklim dan peran hutan yang penting dalam mitigasi perubahan iklim serta dapat pula dijadikan momentum untuk mengarah kepadaan pengelolaan hutan melalui kegiatan-kegiatan konservasi sumber daya hutan dan meningkatkan penanaman hutan kembali. Hutan merupakan kalinya dan rahmat dari Tuhan yang dapat memberikan manfaat bagi setiap kehidupan manusia dan memiliki arti penting bagi kelangsungan hidup manusia mengingat akan manfaat tersebut maka hutan harus dimanfaatkan sebaik-baiknya dan dilestarikan baik untuk generasi sekarang maupun untuk generasi yang akan datang. Demikian yang dapat saya sampaikan sebagai pengantar pembukaan pertemuan ini semoga Tuhan yang makuasa memberikan petunjuk, bimbingan, perlindungan, dan kemudahan dalam setiap langkah dan upaya kita. Amin. Sekian, terima kasih. Wassalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Jogjakarta 23 April 2018 Gubernur Dara Isimewa Jogjakarta di tanda tangani Haman Kumbuano ke-10. Demikian yang dapat saya sampaikan lebih kurangnya mon maaf. Wassalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh and thank you for your kindness. Terima kasih. So now in recognition of Australia's leadership in initiating the Asia Pacific Rain Forest Partnership and our close working relationship with Indonesia I'd now like to welcome the Honourable Josh Frydenberg Australian Government Minister for Environment and Energy to deliver a keynote speech addressing the theme of the summit protecting forests and people supporting economic growth. Thank you Minister. Your Excellencies, Ministers, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. First let me thank her Excellency Dr. Siti Nubaya for her government's strong leadership in hosting the third Asia Pacific Rain Forest Summit. Your government has done an outstanding job in bringing together the region to protect critical and to progress critical action on forests. Thank you very much Siti. We have committed to under the Paris Climate Change Agreement and for meeting each country's sustainable economic development goals. The facts on the importance of forests speaks for themselves. Tropical forests store 25% of the world's carbon and in our region we have some of the most significant tracks of rainforest in the world. Asia and the Pacific are covered by 740 million hectares of forests. This represents 26% of the region's land area and 18% of the global forest cover. But globally deforestation accounts for an estimated 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions one of the largest sources of global emissions after electricity generation. And for our region a conservative estimate of emissions from forest and land use change is approximately 1 billion tonnes of CO2 per year. This is nearly twice Australia's annual total emissions from all sectors. While the importance of forests may be self-evident, finding sustainable and economic solutions to conserving rainforests and reversing these trends is more elusive and challenging. Focusing on solutions to these issues brings us to the theme of this year's summit protecting forests and we are making progress. And it is worth reflecting how far we've all come on the journey together on reducing emissions from forests. Since our last summit in Brunei I'm happy to see substantial progress on REWD Plus both regionally and globally. Since we came together in 2016 we have seen a number of achievements. In October 2017 the Green Climate Fund to which Australia is a major supporter reached agreement on a pilot program that will provide up to $500 million of REWD Plus results-based payments to forest countries. More countries in our region are implementing their REWD Plus national strategies. Seven countries in the partnership Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Cambodia, Malaysia and Vietnam have now submitted their forest reference levels to the UNFCCC compared with only two when we were in Brunei. And at the beginning of this year we had the first Southeast Asian country, Vietnam have its proposal for reducing emissions from forests approved under the World Bank Forest Carbon Partnership Facility. This project will reduce emissions by 26 million tonnes and these reductions or units will be eligible for purchase by the World Bank with any remaining units available for Vietnam to use at its own discretion. Laos, Indonesia and Fiji are on a similar track for consideration through this initiative later this year. And as any minister here today knows making change is hard. These achievements show that progress while it takes time and is incremental is happening. We need to maintain this momentum and step up the pace of change if we are going to protect our forests and our people while securing economic growth. Collaboration and partnerships do drive change and this takes me to the second issue I would like to discuss today. The importance of collaboration and partnerships in driving change. It is through meaningful collaboration that we can achieve our collective goals. We need to build individual country successes and share the lessons is what these forest monitoring expertise with countries and friends in our region. Australia will continue to play its part in an effective global response to climate change. Under the Paris Agreement Australia is implementing an economy-wide target to reduce gas emissions by 26 to 28% below 2005 levels by 2030. And consistent with the theme of this summit Australia has set its goals to not only meet our reduced emissions but to do so while ensuring Australia's international competitiveness, jobs growth, energy security and affordability are also maintained. The Australian Government's Emissions Reduction Fund is a central policy to help Australia meet its emission reduction targets. The fund provides a broad range of opportunities to reduce emissions and store carbon across the economy. The majority of the abatement from the fund is being achieved via the land sector including revegetation and avoided deforestation. Over 150 million tonnes or 80% of all emissions reductions are from the land sector from more than 300 projects across the country. Australia has been able to harness the potential of the land sector to reduce emissions. This is a result of our expertise in measuring emissions from the land sector and through the governance systems that we have actively been sharing this expertise through the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Partnership. Starting with our good friends in Indonesia we have spent a decade now working with them to develop their national carbon accounting system as we continue to collaborate on a range of projects. This includes improving the way emissions from peatlands are included in the national carbon accounting system. Continuing to build the capacity of Indonesia for example including hosting 30 Indonesian officials at the University of Melbourne to undertake the International Agricultural Research proudly represented by CEO Professor Andrew Campbell at the summit today is supporting improved community fire management and peatland restoration in Indonesia. This support is generating new knowledge to underpin peatland restoration and develop sustainable livelihoods in restored peatlands. At the inaugural summit in Sydney in 2014 the Australian Government announced funding of $6 million to support the responsible Asia forestry and trade program across Laos, Papua New Guinea, Myanmar, Vietnam and Indonesia. We are pleased to have partnered with the Nature Conservancy to support significant outcomes to improve community forest practices across these countries. Examples of the success of this work are close to here. In the Klaten district and the Keeboom and district we are making a difference. Local communities are gaining and retaining certification of their timber as being legally and sustainably logged but it goes beyond that with the sustainable forest management practices of selective logging helping to protect ecosystems and the biodiversity of the production forest areas. These improved forest management practices have allowed these local communities to source alternative income streams through the sustainable harvesting of granulated coconut sugar. And building on these successes we are now starting new partnerships to further share Australia's experiences and expertise. Australia and Papua New Guinea ministers have recently committed to work together more closely on climate change especially in relation to forests and access to climate change finance. Blue carbon is also an important area of the environment with significant greenhouse gas emissions if they are not managed properly. Six of the world's top ten mangrove holding countries are in the Asia Pacific Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Myanmar and the Philippines. Indonesia is an opportunity for mangrove diversity. Blue carbon has the potential to contribute substantially to the carbon stocks and the sustainable livelihoods of many countries in this room. Australia established the International Partnership for Blue Carbon in 2015 to raise the importance of this issue and to find new collaborations for practical action. The partnership, if you are not already a member, is open to all countries, research and non-government organisations at this summit. Australia is working with countries on blue carbon projects to enable them to preserve, to restore, to develop and to measure their blue carbon stocks. A critical component of Australia's blue carbon work in the region is raising awareness and sharing knowledge. To assist this, I can today announce that we will be funding the development by the Coral Triangle Centre of a learning module on blue carbon. The first workshop will be held in Indonesia in the middle of this year. Australian government officials are also hard at work on the final design stages of the $6 million blue carbon initiative. This promises to be a very exciting initiative. And we are eager to work with our partners, governments, the private sector and communities to identify a small selection of pilot sites in the Pacific to help protect and restore these important ecosystems. This work will ensure the carbon in these ecosystems is maintained and enhanced and that fisheries are improved and that does help community livelihoods. In this way, we hope to identify finance mechanisms to support this work on a long-term basis and for these approaches to be reputable elsewhere. Critical to supporting this work will be the parallel investment in data and science, particularly measurement reporting and its verification. Something Australia has worked successfully on with our partner in Indonesia for many years now. This brings me to my third and last issue. The importance of government policy in opening up private sector and market opportunities. Big institutional investors such as superannuation and pension funds are increasingly looking to invest in sustainable development activities because they see a shift is taking place. We are on the verge of realizing significant opportunities but as a region, we need to better be prepared to create the right conditions for well-functioning markets to develop and better facilitate large-scale private sector investment in activities that can serve forests. While there are some promising initiatives under development for greater private sector investments in forests and these are happening under the Green Climate Fund and through the World Bank, there is a need for more action. Private sector investment in forests is not flowing at the scale needed for conserving forests and reducing emissions. For example, while investment to support green bonds is growing rapidly, less than 1% is flowing to forestry and agricultural activities. To leverage private sector investment, countries across the region need to develop enabling environments that meet the requirements of the private sector. For example, to build business confidence for investment, accurate greenhouse gas accounting systems, and transparent reporting needs to be undertaken. And this needs to be matched by policies and regulations that create clear rights for local communities as well as facilitating the potential return to the private sector on their initial investments. One potential opportunity for the region is the operation of sustainable developments markets and the potential transfer of mitigation outcomes between countries under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. As part of a review of our domestic climate change policy last year, the Australian government agreed in principle to the use of high quality international units. There is strong support for the use of international units by Australian businesses to meet potential greenhouse gas liabilities into the future. A final decision on when and how international units can be used will be made by 2020. But a fundamental requirement will be the need for any international units to be genuine and represent additional emissions reductions with no double counting of these emissions. Transparency in the creation transfer and the use of these units will also be vital to creating the right investment climate. If the necessary investments in systems and policies are made, these opportunities driven by the Paris Agreement represent a significant new source of financing for many countries in the Asia-Pacific region. An opportunity that promises to help conserve our forests, benefit local communities and drive economic growth. Ladies and gentlemen, in conclusion, with the collected and concerted efforts in our own countries and through our international partnerships, we are making progress. The hard work we have done together is starting to bear fruit. One of the measures of the success of any summit is the extent to which the conversations continue outside the formal sessions and endure beyond these proceedings today. I urge you all to make the most out of your time at this summit to discuss your work and ideas and to make the necessary connections and new partnerships. I am proud that Australia has been able to work closely with our good friend and neighbour Indonesia to support the third Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit and I'm sure you will all agree that this year's summit will be a great success. Thank you very much. Thank you, Minister. So now I'd like to welcome our host, her Excellency Dr Sidi Nubaya, Indonesian Government Minister for Environment and Forestry to the stage to officially welcome all participants to the summit and deliver her keynote speech on the work that Indonesia is undertaking to protecting forests and people and supporting economic growth. Thank you, Minister. I'm proud to welcome our host, her Excellency Dr Sidi Nubaya, Indonesian Government Minister for Environment and Forestry to the stage. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Ricardo Calderon, representing Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources of the Philippines, Director General of C4, Excellency Ambassador of Norway, Honorable Representative of Governments, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen. It is my honor to host this important event and to welcome you to Indonesia and to Jogjakarta. Welcome to support this event. I should also extend my sincere appreciation to the Ministers, Ambassadors, as well as other senior officials of Governments, International Organization, Private Sector, Civil Society Organization, Universities, and to all of you. My special thanks goes to Honorable George Ridenberg, Minister for the Environment and Energy Australia, and his staff, who have wholeheartedly supported the organization of this summit, both directly and through C4, the Center for International Forestry Research, to whom I also extend gratitude. My special thanks also goes to all who support the session of this summit, including the speakers, moderators, reporters, the contact persons, and last but not least, also the participants. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to welcome you to this important third Asia Pacific Rainforest Summit. The rainforest in Asia Pacific spun across 740 million hectares. Therefore, contribution from the region is worthy of consideration. Apart from that, more than 550 million people's lives are dependent on the sustainable management of forests. As we are aware, Rainforest constitutes a compendium of life, both directly or indirectly experienced, producing both tangible and intangible products, including biodiversity. Forest has a long list of benefits. If we look at the sustainable development goals, forest has roles in the achievement of so many of them, such as climate change, water, food, energy, health, terrestrial ecosystem, job opportunities, industries, livelihoods, sustainable cities, sustainable consumption and production, and so on, so many of them. This summit will last only two days, might not be able to address all aspects of the importance of forest. Rather, we will address seven topics, namely forest in NDC, restoration and sustainable management of feedland, mangrove and blue carbon, community forest, ecotourism and conservation biodiversity, production forest, forest finance, investment and trade, and they are condensed into the same of the summit that is protecting forest and people supporting economic growth. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, in regards to the climate change, I understand that many countries in the Asia Pacific put forests among the important sectors to achieve its nationally determined contribution. I believe forest fire, especially on feedlands, it represented 18% of our national emission target. We therefore did whatever we could to reduce the fire, such as suspension of new permits on feedland and primary forest, which is well known as the Maratorium, and promoting law enforcement, good governance, social forestry among others. With regard to the good governance, Indonesia promotes through the Indonesia Timber Legality Assurance Systems, or in Indonesia we call it System Verikasi Legality Skyu, or SVLK, which has become the first such system recognized by the European Union. Forest is expected to contribute over half of our NDC target. Of the target of reducing 29% of greenhouse gas estimation in 2030, forest constitutes about 17.2% or over half of it. These last three years we have managed to reduce the devastation rate from 1.09 million hectares down to 0.61 million hectares in 2016, and then to 0.48 million hectares in 2017. In 2020, we put the target of devastation down to 0.45 and in 2030 we put the target of 0.35 million hectares. I understand that many countries have passed the stage of endeavoring to reduce the rate of devastation and have bounced back to a positive net change of forest cover. However, for a country with a quarter of billion people living on many thousands of islands, forest land usage for other sectors of development is a necessity. This is also true in West Africa, as I noted from my visit to Brezerville and Kinsasa last month, where vast areas of peatlands have just been discovered. Indonesia's experience and success in controlling peatland fires have been an important reverence and with the guidance of a UN environment, we are now preparing to set up an international center for peatland research based in Indonesia, the center that we can learn from each other. Other measures to achieve the contribution of forest to emission reduction are enhanced implementation of sustainable management principles in both natural production forest and plantation production forest. And secondly, rehabilitation of the graded land of the 12 million hectares by 2030 or about 800,000 hectares per year with 90% survival rate and peatlands restoration of 2 million hectares by 2030 with 90% rate of success. Excellency, ladies and gentlemen, apart from climate change, the second sub-time of this summit is concerning social forestry. I trust that this is an important subject for the majority of countries in this region and particularly in Indonesia. These last years, Indonesia has undertaken major measures to promote social forestry. We have set a target to allocate about 12.7 million hectares by then for social forestry comprised of five types. Those are customary forest or hutanadat, village forest or hutan desa or hutan nagari, community-based forest plantation or hutan tanaman raya and forest partnerships in forest management units. In addition, we have allocated about 4.1 million hectares of forest land for distribution to local people under the land reform agenda. Now that you are in Japa Island, you can easily notice the result of the social forestry program. You will see later many forest plantation patches here and there. You can see and look around in Yogyakarta. They are privately owned land which possibly used to be for other land usage but now planted with trees due to their economic viability. Accompanying the growing smallholder tree plantation are the processing industries including plywood. These trends have been against all odds as in Java we used to import timber from Kalimantan and Sumatra and now it is in the other way around. That Java timber goes across the states to Kalimantan, Sumatra and other places in Indonesia. Congratulations for Java. Excellencies ladies and gentlemen, there are the points that I wish to highlight on this occasion. I believe there will be opportunities to address the other fields of importance such as mangrove, ecotourism and biodiversity conservation. I look forward to follow and learn from the whole proceeding. Indeed, this kind of learning from and supporting each other in the region are important benefit of this summit. This is not only among government but also stakeholders. Among others, I recognize the important roles of the private sector. Public-private partnership should be promoted in order to accelerate achievement of our major agenda such as the NDC and SDGs. Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, lastly I do thank you very much to Minister George Friedenberg for our cooperation and also for our more than one-year preparation for this summit. Thank you, Pajos, also for co-hosting and also thank you to C4 and all Indonesian colleagues from relevant ministers for making this summit available. Thank you to all Excellency Ministers and participants for your presence and active discussion during the summit. With that, I would like to conclude my remark by wishing you a productive event and also an enjoyable one. Please be serious in the discussion of the topic but please be serious also in enjoying the city and region of Jogjakarta. Don't miss the field trip on Wednesday which will give you a lot of knowledge about this region and about Indonesia. Now, allow me to declare this summit officially open. Thank you for your kind attention. Thank you. I now just call up the other ministers to the stage and C4 our collaborating partner and also the ambassador from Norway and we can have the official photo. Here's statements from other ministers in the region and ambassadors but before I close I'll just pass to Ibonini who's got some short announcements. Excellencies ladies and gentlemen, that was concluded the opening ceremony. Now allow me to remind you that on Wednesday we will have field trips. There will be two options, one to the Mount Merapi National Park and the other is to Gunung Kidul or the Salt Mountains. Please register on, reconfirm your participation. There is a dedicated desk for the field trip in the registration downstairs. It is on first come, first serve basis so please don't miss it. Thank you and please enjoy some refreshment at the foyer. Thank you.