Ruandha Agung Sugardiman, from the Republic of Indonesia’s Ministry of Forestry, gave this presentation on 28 November 2012 at a joint CIFOR and GOFC-GOLD (Global Observation of Forest Cover and Land Dynamics) UNFCCC COP18 side-event in Doha, Qatar.

1. Ministry of Forestry
The Republic of Indonesia
Ruandha Agung Sugardiman
INDONESIA

2. 1. Country experiences in improving
national forest monitoring.
2. Assessing drivers of forest change
and implications for REDD+ MRV.
3. Step-wise progress for REDD+.
monitoring and reporting
4. Uncertainties and REDD+ financial
incentive benchmarks.

3.  Well established national forest monitoring system
should be continuously improved with sustainable
financial resources and capacity-development
programme.
 Monitoring and reporting systems should be
transparent, consistent, complete, comparable
and accurate.
 Further investments will be needed for building
strong leaderships, for clarifying mechanisms and
procedures to encourage aggregation and scaling
up diverse initiatives on field measurements and
monitoring into robust national capacities.

4. Country experiences in improving national forest monitoring
Guyana Indonesia Mexico Vietnam
Forest cover / Low / Low
High / Low High / High Low / Low
deforestation (in some parts)
MRV capacity Low, the only historical Medium, combining RS and Advanced, combining RS and Medium, MRV follows
deforestation at national field inventory data multi forest inventory data strictly UNFCCC guidelines
level for all carbon pools
Success • Focus on certain REDD+ • Existence of regulations on • Strong collaboration and • Long experiences of NFI on
factors and programme. climate change mitigation. public awareness regular basis and
challenges • National capacity relatively • Bridging different REDD+ supported by government. supported by Law.
low. initiatives (national- • Lack of transparent data • Need better capacity
international). sharing. building and institutional
arrangement.
Policy  Guyana’s low carbon  Preventing forest fire  Fire mitigation program  Land allocation program
intervention development strategy  Combating illegal logging  Logging ban (1988)  Agriculture intensification
(LCDS).  Suspending new permits  Ecotourism  Forest rehabilitation
 Capacity building at on natural primary forests program
different administrative and peat lands
levels.  Establishing Timber
Legality Verification System
 One billion Indonesian
trees programme (OBIT)
REDD National REDD plan UN-REDD National REDD plan FCPF
initiatives FCPF REDD+ National Strategy FCPF UN-REDD
UN-REDD FCPF UN-REDD

5. M R
ACTIVITY DATA EMISSION FACTOR
Satellite Land Representation x National Forest Inventory = REDD+ GHG Inventory
System (NFI)
LULUCF
UNFCCC
Country level Inventory
Monitoring systems
at national level
Inventory Emission
(forest inventories) compilation Inventory
QA/QC Database
V
UNFCCC Secretariat
Roster of Experts

6. INPUT: OUTPUT:
• SPATIAL AND ATRIBUTE DATA
• THEMATIC MAP
• ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARY
• FOREST RESOURCES INFORMATION
• LAND COVER
• SPATIAL ANALYSIS RESULTS
• CONCESSIONAIRE BOUNDARY
• TSP/PSP GRID
LAND COVER &
LAND USE
GIS LIST OF CLUSTER
GRIDS AND STRATA
INPUT: STEM VOLUME AND INPUT:
AUXILIARIES
• REMOTE SENSING DIGITAL SRATIFICATION • MASTER FILE OF FIELD DATA
DATA
• DATA FOR TRIALS RELATIONSHIP
Processing
application/
program
DIAS FDS
DATA FOR TRIALS
TSP/PSP Data
OUTPUT: OUTPUT:
• IMAGERIES HARD COPY • FOREST RESOURCES STATISTIC
• MOSAIC IMAGERIES • POTENCY
(NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORY, Ministry of Forestry, 1996)

7. • TSP/PSP (NFI) • Remote sensing
• Balance of forest • Land cover map
resources • Forest resources-
• Forest resources change- monitoring
assessment
Emission Forest Forest Activity
factor inventory monitoring data
Data Spatial data
Mapping Spatial
sharing and networking
exchange analysis
• Clearance house • Geographic
of Spatial data information system
• WebGIS • Modeling
• Users’ involvement

8.  Activity data
Activity data:
Land cover change: Landsat 5, Landsat 7
ETM+ (1990, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2006,
2009, 2011)
 Emission factor
Emission factor
National Forest Inventory (NFI)
Sample Plots: TSP/PSP
• 1990-1996 ( 2.735 cluster plots)
• 1996-2000 ( 1.145 cluster plots)
• 2000-2006 ( 485 cluster plots)
• 2006-2014 (>3.000 cluster plots) 
Redesign NFI

9. PATH/ROW
LANDSAT DATA
Remark: Landsat 7 ETM+ coverage for the whole Indonesia (217 scenes)

10. 4,0
3,5 3,51
3,0
2,83
2,5
2,0
1,87
1,5
1,37 1,17
1,08
1,0 0,83
0,78 0,76
0,68
0,61 0,45
0,5 0,41
0,50 0,32
0,22
0,30 0,13
0,0
1990-1996 1996-2000 2000-2003 2003-2006 2006-2009 2009-2011
1990-1996 1996-2000 2000-2003 2003-2006 2006-2009 2009-2011
Indonesia 1,87 3,51 1,08 1,17 0,83 0,45
Forest Land 1,37 2,83 0,78 0,76 0,61 0,32
Non Forest Land 0,50 0,68 0,30 0,41 0,22 0,13

11. Cluster Plot (PSP/TSP) Distribution in
Grid 20 X 20 km

12. ..national approach, sub-national implementation..
national approach
Regional (main island)
Province
District
sub-national implementation
Management Unit

13. REDD+ Compilation of all Regional Action
1.760 million tCO2e Plans to reduce GHG emissions
NATIONAL STRATEGY
553 million tCO2e 688 million tCO2e 92 million tCO2e 313 million tCO2e
58 million tCO2e
60 million tCO2e
Subnational: regions, provinces, districts, management units Result:
• The REL is defined by the central government.
1.Source carbon
• Regional Action Plans to reduce GHG emissions must take into
2.Sink carbon
account Regional Development Plans and Provincial Spatial Plans

14. Running the
‘TASK & JOB
DESCRIPTION’
With foreign
cooperation
Toward
readiness for
REDD+

16. • Continuing Human Resources
Development  Dedicated team;
• Empowering Implementation Unit 
Institutions in the field;
• Maintaining infrastructure and
facilities  Improved and up-date
regularly;
• Raising cooperation's (National and
Foreign)  Networking;
• Building strong leadership(s) 
Personal and Institutional.

17. Country experiences in improving
national forest monitoring
Ruandha Agung Sugardiman
Ministry of Forestry - INDONESIA