Indonesia

Indonesia contains 17,508 islands, of which around 6,000 are populated. The total land area is just over 1.9 million km2. Its geographical location off mainland Southeast Asia places the country as particularly susceptible to natural disasters, including climate change. Indonesia is the fourth most populated country in the world with over 270 million inhabitants. Over 140 million people live on Java, making it the most populous island in the world. It is also the world’s largest Muslim country, making up 87% of the population.

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187,751,900 ha

11,605.9 USD

267,663,435

55.3 %

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33.2 %

62.8 %

46,024,000 ha

1.1 %

8,180,546 ha

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Top brands failing to spot rights abuses on Indonesian oil palm plantations

23 July 2021

A new report highlights systemic social and environmental problems that continue to plague the Indonesian palm oil industry and ripple far up the global palm oil supply chain. The report looked at local and Indigenous communities living within and around 10 plantations and found that their human…

A road project in Indonesia’s Gorontalo carves a path of graft and grief

14 July 2021

More than 1,000 families were entitled to payments for land needed to construct the Gorontalo Outer Ring Road, a national priority infrastructure project on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island. The road will connect Djalaluddin Airport in the capital of Gorontalo province with the province’s main ferry…

‘We guard the forest’: Carbon markets without community recognition not viable

4 June 2021

Researchers looked at 31 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America that hold almost 70% of the world’s tropical forests and 62% of the total feasible natural climate solution potential, and found that most of the tropical forested countries looking to benefit from carbon markets still need to…

Indonesia

projects

Forest Land Use and Governance in Indonesia

Value: $33,700,000.00

Donors: UK Department for International Development

Green Prosperity Project/Participatory Land Use Planning Activity

Value: $43,100,000.00

Donors: United States Agency for International Development

Rural Empowerment for Agricultural Development Programme in Central Sulawesi (READ)

Value: $4,315,000.00

Donors: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Reducing Deforestation Through Improved Spatial Planning in Papua Provinces, Indonesia

Donors: UK Department for International Development

Improving the social-economic impact of biomass production on local communities and indigenous people

Donors: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands

LANDac Land Forum

Value: $372,000.00

Donors: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands

Customary tenure regimes are highly diverse across Indonesia, and include individualised and communal parcels, different means of transfer, and variation in local inheritance practices.

Engaging migrants in natural resource management: Lessons from Indonesia

5 July 2021

A recent paper explores a case study of a palm oil project in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, in which competing claims of recognition and land rights have led to conflict between transmigrants and indigenous Kutai people. The study offers evidence to understand the neglected perspective – and…

Securing Rights to Secure Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change

Research shows that lands managed by Indigenous Peoples and local communities with secure rights experience lower rates of deforestation, store more carbon, hold more biodiversity, and benefit more people than lands managed by either public or private entities. Yet while Indigenous Peoples and…