Nusa Dua, Bali (ANTARA News) - Forestry Minister MS Kaban has stated that all types of Indonesian forests must be given compensation in the scheme of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation).
"All of them have correlation in the efforts to reduce emissions as part of the fight against climate change," Minister MS Kaban said here on Thursday on the sidelines of the 13th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change being held in Nusa Dua, Bali Island, from December 3 to 14, 2007.
The minister also said that the compensation should be awarded not only for the trees which could absorb CO2 but also for biodiversity and the water catchment function as well.
Compensation for non-timber could be in the form of transfer of technology and research cooperation as stated in the REDD scheme`s conservation section, he said.
However, the implementation would depend on multilateral and bilateral cooperation agreements, he said.
He cited a 1,200-hectare project in Bromo, Tengger, Yogyakarta, with the cooperation of Japan as an example of the implementation of bilateral cooperation in the compensation project.
Minister Kaban said that Indonesia received appreciation for its achievement in reducing forest degradation in the Forest-11 plus 18 meeting attended by 18 countries having tropical forests and advanced countries such as Germany, Britain, the US and Japan which had been held on the sidelines of the 13th COP UNFCCC.
The forest degradation rate between 1997 and 2000 in Indonesia was 2.8 million hectares, and the figure decreased to 1.08 million hectares between 2001 and 2005.
Kaban said that his ministry had disbursed rehabilitation funds amounting to one billion US dollars, an increased of 800 percent from the previous period.
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