Restoring Indonesia’s degraded and post-fire peatlands: Policy framework, strategic actions and techniques

Authors:
Alue Dohong

Book:
p

Venue:
Kuching

Keywords:
degraded-peatland, restoration, revegetation, rewetting

Documentfile:
ipc16p736a460dohong.pdf

Summary:

President Republic of Indonesia has enacted the Presidential Regulation No. 1 of 2016 concerning the establishment Indonesia’s Peatland Restoration Agency. This new special government agency has been tasked to coordinate and facilitate the restoration activities in 7 provinces covering a total area of 2 million hectares degraded and post-fires peatlands during the period of 2016-2020. In order to achieve this target, therefore, several strategies and actions have been currently implemented among others are the establishment of national and provincial institutions;…