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Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) will set up a working group to speed up the process of social forestry.
Tourism development projects on coastal and small islands have been meeting rejections from local people who considered it as land grabbing.
For the past three years of Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla administration, infrastructure development which has been the core of its policy has instead put more threats on farmers and fishermen as food producers, said activists.
After ratified the bill on Minamata Convention on Mercury, Indonesian government is setting up the National Action Plan (NAP).
As much as 70 young people were selected to participate in the Youth Marine Debris Summit (IYMDS) in Ancol, Jakarta, which aim was to tackle marine waste issue.
Indonesia welcomes a pair of giant panda from China for breeding loan as part of Memorandum of Understanding between Indonesian and Chinese governments.
Research and Development and Innovation Agency of Ministry of Environment and Forestry with Directorate General of Natural Resources Conservation and Ecosystem, established an Orangutan Research Center, in Samboja, East Kalimantan.
Hobbyists of wildlife species accounted for 78 percent of online demands, starting from tiger offsets, deer heads and elephant ivory, making them the largest contributor in the chain of illegal wildlife trading.
Indonesia’s Special Envoy for Climate Change Control, Rachmat Witoelar, said that blue carbon will speed up the country’s target on reducing greenhouse gas emissions through its submitted NDC to the UNFCCC on November 2016.
Despite of the country’s marine potential, Indonesia is still lacking behind to recognize its fisherwoman who serves as crucial actor to ensure economical fulfillment while the husbands went to the seas.
Indonesia’s effort to achieve climate change targets by reducing greenhouse gas emissions for 29 percent and 41 percent with international help by 2030 will not succeed without the role of regional levels.
Coordinating Ministry on Maritime Issues targeted marine plastic waste management on five touristic sites, — Toba Lake, Tanjung Kelayang, Mandalika, Labuhan Bajo, Borobudur and Toraja –, by 2018.
Ministry of Environment and Forestry stands to believe that duty on plastic will reduce plastic waste in the country.










































