Commission IV Of The House Of Representatives Criticism Of The Minister Of Transportation Of The King Of July Regarding The Appointment Process Of 11 PSI Cadres Filled With The 2030 FOLU Net Sink Team

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of Commission IV of the Indonesian House of Representatives Alex Indra Lukman, criticized the process of appointing 11 cadres of the Indonesian Solidarity Party (PSI) as the Operation Management Office Indonesia Ferestry and Other Land Use (FOLU) Net Sink 2030 team by the Indonesian Minister of Forestry (Menhut) Raja Juli Antoni.

Lukman urged the Minister of Transportation Raja Juli to put forward the principles of transparency in determining the personnel assigned to the 2030 FOLLU Net Sink team. This is because Raja Juli is the Secretary General of PSI.

"We don't mean to doubt the competence of the personnel set, but the public needs to know who is selecting and the process," Alex told reporters, Jakarta, Friday, March 7.

For information, the Minister of Forestry Raja of July is known to 'bring' at least 11 PSI cadres to become a team of institutions financed through the Norway Contribution grant through the Environmental Fund Management Agency (BPDLH).

Based on the Decree of the Minister of Environment and Forestry No. 168 of 2022, there are 5 areas in the composition of the 2030 FOLU Net Sink team. These include Field I of Forest Management Lestari, Field II of Carbon Reserve Improvement, Field III of Conservation, Field IV of Gambut Ecosystem Management, and Field V of Instruments and Information.

Referring to the attachment to Kepmenhut 32/2025, the Minister of Forestry Raja Juli appointed himself as the person in charge as well as the team's director. He was accompanied by a deputy person in charge.

Then, there are 43 people who are part of the Operation Management Office Indonesia FOLU Net Sink 2030 team. Where, 12 of them (25 percent) have a PSI politician background. They occupy various positions.

As people who work in the 2030 FOLU Net Sink program, each of them is then determined to receive honorariums with a different nominal, depending on the rank in the team.

Based on the attachment of the Minister of Finance Number 32 of 2025, the person in charge gets an honorarium of IDR 50 million. The deputy person in charge received IDR 40 million.

Meanwhile, each expert advisory board (4 people) will get a monthly fee of Rp. 25 million. The chief executive, daily chairmen I and II, secretariat secretariat secretaries/coordinators and heads of the field receive an honorarium of Rp. 30 million per month.

Meanwhile, members of the field receive Rp. 20 million. For the level of sector secretariat staff, get an honorarium of Rp. 8 million per month.

"This grant fund should have been spent more to finance the program. Seeing the attachment to the decree signed by the Minister of Transportation Raja Juli Antoni, it seems that hope will not be realized," said Alex.

Observing the personnel who filled the FOLU Net Sink 2030 team and the established honorarium system, the Chairman of the PDI-P (PDIP) West Sumatra (West Sumatra) assessed that the Minister of Forestry Raja Juli was not in the process of realizing good governance (good governance) and clean (clean government).

This assessment cannot be separated from Alex's observations of personnel who filled various positions in the previous 2030 Net Sink FOLU team. The majority of which were filled by structural officials at the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (LHK) and pro-environmental academics.

Therefore, Alex asked the Minister of Transportation Raja of July to open to the public the entire process of determining 25 percent of the 2030 FOLU Net Sink team.

"If you don't dare to be open, the public will of course consider the decision of the Minister of Forestry Raja in July to be nothing more than distributing power cakes to colleagues, which of course are far from the spirit of Asta Cita Presiden Prabowo Subianto," concluded Alex.

To note, Indonesia's FOLU Net Sink 2030 is the mandate of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Implementation of Carbon Economic Values for the Achievement of Contribution Targets Set Nationally and Control of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) in National Development.

In Article 3 Paragraph (4) of Presidential Decree 98, it is stated that the reduction in GRK emissions is mainly supported by the forestry sector as a carbon store with a net sink approach (clean carbon absorption which refers to the much more absorption of carbon emissions than it released).

This program uses four main strategies, namely avoiding deforestation; conservation and sustainable forest management; protection and restoration of peatlands; as well as increased carbon sequestration.

Indonesia's FOLU Net Sink 2030 is a program financed, one of which is through the Norway Contribution grant through the Environmental Fund Management Agency (NPDLH).

With this program, it is hoped that it will support Indonesia's commitment to encourage the achievement of the GHG emission rate of -140 million tons of CO2e by 2030 and implemented through a structured and systematic approach.

FOLU Net Sink 2030 is a condition that wants to be achieved through mitigating the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the forestry and land sector, with conditions where the absorption rate is already higher than the emission rate by 2030.

This target was born as a form of Indonesia's seriousness in order to reduce GRK emissions and control climate change and its impact. It is projected that the FOLU sector will contribute almost 60 percent of the total target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions that Indonesia wants to achieve through its own efforts.