OIKN: Forest Restoration Efforts In IKN Appreciated By The International Community

OIKN Head Bambang Susantono (left second) has documents of the Archipelago RDLC and Director General of the Southeast Asian Department ADB Winfried Wicklein (left) at the launch of the RLDC at COP28 Dubai, UAE, Sunday (3/12) (ANTARA/Prisca Triferna)

Head of the Capital Archipelago Authority (OIKN) Bambang Susantono said that the forest restoration efforts being carried out by Indonesia in the capital city of Nusantara received appreciation from the international community. "Indeed, 65 percent of the IKN Nusantara area will be in the form of forests. So we will reform the monocultural production forests into tropical forests and this is important and appreciated by many international communities that Indonesia will try to reverse which was originally deforestation into a refurbishment," said Head of OIKN Bambang after the launch of the RLDC Nusantara Emission Zero Roadmap at COP28 Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Antara, Sunday, December 3. The deforestation itself is one of the focuses carried out by OIKN as part of the region's efforts to contribute to the national greenhouse gas emission reduction target. These steps have been stated in the Nusantara Regionally and Locally Determined Contribution (RLDC). In particular, in the forestry sector, steps will be taken to avoid or suppress deforestation by protecting the remaining 59,000 hectares (ha) of native and mangrove forests. Increase carbon stocks by recovering more than 83,000 industrial forest rights, barbared land and coal mining sites. For this reason, the government has prepared a menuanan Mentawir in North Penajam Paser Regency, East Kalimantan, which can produce 15-20 million trees per year to support reforestation efforts and restore forest biodiversity in the area of Indonesia's new capital city. "Those will all be included in our refresistation programs and this will be carried out immediately and even, God willing, in the near future the President will lead the green movements at IKN Nusantara in the ground breaking in the future," he said. Meanwhile, Director General of the Southeast Asian Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Winfried Wicklein said that his party is pleased to be able to support OIKN in achieving the target of reducing emissions at the regional level.

"We are of the opinion that the role of a sub-national government, a city in particular, is very important to be underlined in order to achieve communities that have climate resilience," he said.