At the Forests Indonesia conference hosted in Jakarta by the Center for International Forestry (CIFOR) on 27 September 2011, participants were asked to answer questions relating to the future of forests in Indonesia. The results have been collated and are presented here.

1. Voting results

2. What is the most urgent and important challenge for
reconciling forest protection with economic development?
1. Forest degradation caused by legal and illegal logging for timber
17%
2. Pressures to convert forest land to commercial scale oil palm and other agricultural uses
14%
3. Smallholder encroachment on forest land
21%
4. Pressures to convert forest land to short-rotation species and illegal logging to supply the pulp and
paper industry
24%
5. Pressures to open new areas of forest to mining activities
24%

3. What is the most urgent and important action that could be
taken within Indonesia to address these challenges?
1. Improve forest law enforcement – including acceleration of the implementation of the SVLK system -- to
ensure a legal and sustainable supply of timber to domestic and global markets
15%
2. Improve land use regulations to remove barriers to the development of new plantations on degraded lands,
provide incentives for such development, and intensify production on lands already under cultivation
26%
3. Strengthen land-use planning through increased capacity, transparency, participation, and coordination for
alignment across all levels
14%
4. Streamline regulations and provide increased support to new enterprises based on forest protection,
such as ecosystem restoration projects and REDD projects
17%
5. Use the current moratorium on new concessions to review and rationalize forest landuse
28%

4. What is the most urgent and important challenge facing the
design and implementation of REDD+ in Indonesia?
1. Lack of a clear national-level strategy and regulatory framework to support REDD+
41%
2. Competition for land for plantation development, agriculture, and mining
20%
3. Unresolved conflicts and lack of clarity over land tenure
26%
4. Lack of adequate finance
4%
5. Lack of a clear international framework for REDD+
9%

5. What is the most urgent and important action that could be
taken within Indonesia to address these challenges?
1. Improve provincial-level spatial planning
20%
2. Accelerate resolution of land tenure conflicts and uncertainty
24%
3. Streamline regulations and reduce transactions costs for REDD+ investors
17%
4. Enhance law enforcement efforts to reduce illegal forest land conversion and degradation
26%
5. Accelerate progress on implementing provisions of the Letter of Intent – including enforcing the
moratorium, developing an MRV system, and establishing a REDD+ Agency
13%

6. What is the most urgent and important action that could be
taken by the international community to enable Indonesia to
address these challenges?
1. Increase bilateral and multilateral investment in “REDD readiness” at the national level
9%
2. Increase private investment available for REDD+ projects
7%
3. Accelerate agreement on a global REDD+ mechanism in the UNFCCC
28%
4. Increase bilateral and multilateral investment to strengthen capacity and implement projects at the
sub-national level
23%
4. Cooperate to close markets and limit finance for illegally and unsustainably produced commodities that
compete with REDD+ for forest land
32%