Upaya menjaga kelestarian hutan yang masih tersisa di Indonesia, di tengah praktik pembabatan hutan secara ilegal yang masih sulit diatasi, kini mendapat dukungan dari Bank Dunia berupa pemberian insentif. Atas rencana tersebut, Indonesia berpotensi memperoleh manfaat langsung.
"Komunitas internasional sejak lama memerhatikan perlunya menekan laju deforestasi yang cepat, yang berpengaruh pada perubahan iklim global. Karena itu, ini peluang baik bagi Indonesia untuk menyambutnya," kata Penasihat Senior Kelompok Evaluasi Independen Bank Dunia, Kenneth M Chomitz, di Jakarta, Rabu (28/3).

Dimana pun di pelosok Indonesia, dapat dipastikan akan bertemu dengan mereka yang menjadi korban dari undang-undang kehutanan di negara ini. Kasus yang terjadi di Lampung era 1990-an misalnya. Petugas kepolisian menyita tanaman kopi yang ditanam penduduk di tanah negara dan mengusir mereka keluar dari hutan di Simpang Sari. Hal serupa juga terjadi di Dwi Kora, dimana aparat menggunakan gajah untuk menghancurkan rumah dan tanaman pangan yang berada di atas tanah negara dan merebut penghidupan serta tempat bernaung para penduduk.

Kalimantan memiliki hutan terkaya dan terluas di Asia Tenggara. Di dalamnya terkandung keanekaragaman hayati yang luar biasa. Menjaga keselamatan kekayaan ala mini adalah tugas pelestarian global yang signifikan.

According to the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), benzoin resin in Central Java is used mainly for the production of incense and cigarettes. Only a small portion is exported overseas through Singapore. In the 1970s, an average income from benzoin farming was enough to allow the people of North Sumatra to send their children to university.

Kenneth M. Chomitz, senior advisor to the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group, on Wednesday launched a report on farm expansion, poverty eradication and forestry titled In Dispute.

After the launch, Chomitz addressed 70 researchers who were taking part in a seminar on forestry management and carbon trading investment held by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) at its office in Situ Gede, Bogor.

When it comes to Indonesia’s forests, the news is usually bad. But according to an international forestry expert, there’s some good news as well. Doris Capistrano, director of the Forests and Governance Program at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), said that in the last two years Indonesia has been active in pursuing illegal loggers, enforcing stricter laws against violators and implementing a range of other actions to safeguard the country’s precious forest resources.

Frances Seymour, director general of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) explains the whole idea behind the model forest project.

The little locality played host to the CIFOR Director General, Frances Seymour, over the weekend. It was with pomp and pageantry that the people of Efoulan II, Nko’ongop in Akom II sub division of the South province, received the Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Frances Seymour, who travelled all the way from Indonesia to make a bird’s eye assessment of the implementation of the Model Forest concept in the Campo Ma’an forest reserve area.