Dedi Mulyadi Reminds That Social Forestry Areas Don't Turn Into Plantations, Here's The Reason

Dedi Mulyadi. (Instagram @followerkangdeddimulyadi)

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairperson of Indonesian House of Representatives Commission IV, Dedi Mulyadi, reminded that the future social forestry area program should not be turned into an area for plantations because it will damage the sustainability of the forest itself.

"What I'm worried about is that in the next 5-10 years the forest will disappear, and what's left is social plantations", said Dedi Mulyadi in a release in Jakarta, Sunday, August 2.

Dedi hopes that does not happen, especially the first aspect of the task of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) is to protect forests and protect the environment.

He reminded that matters relating to forest issues are not merely administrative matters, because a disaster due to forest destruction cannot be restrained by any administrative force.

Dedi Mulyadi.(Doc Antara)

"What is our focus point is the issue of replacing forest use whose essence is intended to maintain the existence of the forest. When the forest is used for other purposes, such as plantations, agriculture, or any other interest, the forest must not be lost, so a replacement land is made", said Dedi Mulyadi.

He questioned when the replacement (according to the new law) was in the form of money, whether the replacement value would be commensurate between the area of forest land used and the amount of the replacement money.

Dedi assessed that the current nominal amount of replacement is very low compared to the loss of a forest area. He also appealed to the government not to give compensation to people who from the start did not have good intentions related to the use of forest area land.

Dedi also said that administratively, social forestry has basic objectives related to aspects of social justice, in which the community living around the forest must benefit from the forest in the form of land redistribution. "Administratively it is good, but from the technical aspect of its implementation, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry does not have enough people to carry out supervision in the field", he said.

Realization

Forest. (illustration of menlhk.go.id)

As announced, the Minister of Environment and Forestry (LHK), Siti Nurbaya, said that until August 2021 the realization of social forestry had reached 4,721,389.78 hectares, consisting of 7,212 units.

"As of August 10, 2021, 4.721 million hectares have been realized for approximately 1.03 million families with 7,212 groups", said Minister of Environment and Forestry, Siti Nurbaya, in a working meeting with the Indonesian House of Representatives Commission IV which was monitored virtually from Jakarta, Thursday, August 26.

The details of these achievements are village forest covering an area of 1,869,661.36 hectares, community forest 834,706.05 hectares, community plantation forest 349,981.58 hectares, forestry partnerships, recognition of forestry partnership protection (Kulin KK) 481,229.56 hectares, and forestry forest utilization permits. social welfare (IPHPS) 35,613.23 hectares.

That number, including forest area, is 1,150,198 hectares, with details that have been determined to be 59,443 hectares and are included in the indicative customary forest of 1,090,755 hectares. This was reported by Antara.

That is the fundamental reason why as a representative of the people, Dedi Mulyadi is very concerned with the issue of the conversion of this social forest land function.