ANNEX 11 - Minutes of Meeting – Stakeholder Consultations
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1 113-17 Mei 2019
Jambi
World Bank Team, Ditjen PPI,
Government of Jambi’s OPDs lead by Bappeda, FMUs, National Park Authorities, NGOs, University in Jambi (Unja)
Male : 54 Female: 25
World Bank BioCF Joint Mission
This is the first Joint Mission for the newly requited BioCF Safeguards team in Jambi.
While there are many discussions related to BioCF ERP in Jambi, a few points that are important for safeguards development are as follow:
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There need to be more practical mitigation measures and guideline tailored to Jambi’s Province experience in developing ESMF to strengthen the pest management guidelines, working collaboratively with Provincial TPHP Office in Jambi;
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Consultation with National Park Authorities on actions to prevent further encroachment within NP;
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Working with Jambi Plantation office to learn replanting process and conflict resolution currently practiced by this office.
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To finalize the assignment, the EMS will need to consult more stakeholders in Jambi and especially those at the district level.
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The EMS consultant should use the faces approach, starting with pre investment assessment and then moving to RBP.
PT. Hatfield Indonesia which prepared the draft safeguards documents was also given the opportunity to present the draft document for inputs from meeting participants. One issue raised was whether indigenous people living inside conservation forest was considered as problem or solution to the deforestation issues. Some meeting participants considered them, with the right approach (no detail information on what is the right approach), as solution for strengthening forest management and conservation.
It was agreed during the meeting that the BioCF safeguards team will meet with WB safeguards team to further discuss the draft safeguards documents prepared by PT. Hatfield in mid June 2019 in Jakarta.
1 More detailed report in Bahasa Indonesia were sent to Ditjen PPI.
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1 223 Mei 2019
District Tanjang Jabung Timur, Jambi
World Bank Team, Government of Tanjabtim’s OPDs lead by Bappeda, FMUs, National Park Authorities, head of subdistricts, and head of villages.
Male : 34 Female: 6
Public Consultation on draft safeguards documents
This district represents peatland soil areas within the BioCF coverage area.
This public consultation was part of the PT. Hatfield obligation under the contract with Ditjen PPI in the process of preparing the safeguards documents. EMS and FGRM consultants were invited to be observers.
The meeting starts with the presentation of the safeguards findings by PT.
Hatfield and then followed by discussion.
It was observed that due to lack of knowledge on BioCF project from district stakeholders, the discussion was more focused on explaining about BioCF program in addition to discussing the safeguards findings.
However, there are some valuable information presented by district stakeholders including:
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The future focus of the district in next Medium-Term Development Program 2021-2026 is to manage its peatland sustainably under the icon of “Peatland Friendly District”. This is due to the coverage of peatland as much as 62% in this district. FGD will be done to discuss the meaning of “Peatland Friendly District” for Tanjabtim.
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Some issues in Tanjabtim including land conservation from agriculture to Oil Palm is quite high
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There is potential for developing Social Forestry in Tanjabtim (currently there are 8 SF licences in Tanjabtim, but it should be focused on the whole aspect of social forestry starting from preparation for licencing, forest management, production, marketing, and up to processing of non timber forest products.
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Forest fires is still one of the main deforestation issues in Tanjabtim due to its large peatland coverage.
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There is regulation on the protection of prime agriculture land (LP2B), but the implementation is still problematic due to untargeted subsidies from the government.
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The government has encouraged the communities to plant Jelutong
tress, but after the latex is collected by communities, there is no market
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1(note: Jelutong is one of the commodities that is going to be supported by BioCF).
To further discuss the safeguards issues, another meeting will be scheduled in the new future in this district.
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19 June 2019 Merangin District Jambi
World Bank Team, Government of Merangin’s OPDs lead by Bappeda, FMUs, National Park Authorities, head of subdistricts, head of villages, and local NGOs.
Public Consultation on draft safeguards documents
This district represents mineral soil areas within the BioCF coverage area.
This public consultation was part of the PT. Hatfield obligation under the contract with Ditjen PPI in the process of preparing the safeguards documents. EMS, SDS, and FGRM consultants were invited to be observers. However, learning from the similar public consultation in Tanjabtim, the ICs proposed a new approach, in which in the moring the meeting is focussing on BioCF program presentation followed by
presentation on safeguards. The afternoon session was a break up FGD session discussing six question prepare beforehand by the ICs.
These question area:
1. After listening to the presentation by Ditjen PPI on BioCF program and PT. Hatfield on the safeguard’s documents for BioCF, please discuss what are the main environmental and social issues in Merangin?
2. Discuss how to solve or mitigate the above issues including experiences in solving these issues.
3. What are the main obstacles in handling environmental and social issues?
4. Please list regulations including those at the district or management units that could help solve the above issues;
5. What do you think we should do in the future to help solve the above issues?
6. Please describe the current capacity of each institution in term of
number of staff, budget, completed trainings, and experiences in dealing
with the above issues).
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1Due to time limitation, not all questions can be answered, therefore there will be another meeting in this district to complete answering the above
questions with additional questions to be prepared by ICs.
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June 17, 2019 Jakarta
IC Safeguards Team WB
Jambi Provincial Environmental Office (4 persons)
BioCF Deputy Director Male: 7
Female: 4
Meeting on reviewing the draft safeguards documents.
The meeting was intended to discuss about the draft safeguards document submitted by PT Hatfield. Jambi Provincial Environmental Office was invited also so that, as responsible agency for BioCF Safeguards output (Risk Management), the related staff from this office can follow the discussion from the beginning.
The meeting was also used to describe the core of the BioCF programing and how to approach the safeguards document reviews.
From the meeting it was agreed that Jambi Provincial Environmental Office will take the lead in forming and running the Risk Management Working Group for Jambi.
The WB Safeguards team provided written inputs on what to be included in the revision of the draft safeguards documents.
The BioCF Safeguards team agreed to revise the draft safeguards document and submitted them to WB by the end of July or early August 2019 the latest.
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3-5 July 2019 Jambi
World Bank Team, Ditjen PPI,
Government of Jambi’s OPDs lead by Bappeda, FMUs, National Park Authorities, NGOs University in Jambi (Unja)
TKRM Group Male : 25 Female: 9
(With additional invitees/resource persons during the meeting).
First Risk Management Working Group (TKRM) Meeting
The meeting was intended to discuss about the structure and Modalities of the TKRM and as well as to further discuss and seek inputs on draft safeguards documents.
It was agreed that the structure of the TKRM will be under coordination of the Jambi Provincial Environment Office and will be chaired by Ms.
Lindawati, the Head of the Environmental Management Unit, under the
Jambi Provincial Environment Office. The structure was supported by
Deputy: Mr. Jaya Nofriandi (NGO-YLBHL), Secretary: Ms. Emi Primadona
(NGO-WARSI), and Treasures: Ms. Neti (Private Sector, PT. ABT).
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1During the safeguard’s discussion sessions, many inputs were documented including:
Different perspectives from Jambi OPDs on the drivers of deforestation, most of which are in line with what are discussed in the SESA documents. However, there are new information on the magnitude of the mining sector which was presented by the Jambi Provincial Energy and Mineral Resources including the safeguards to deal with the post mining land rehabilitation.
Plantation office also presented the magnitude of the forest encroachment from plantation in Jambi which was staggering, around 280,000 hectare of plantation in Jambi (oil palm, rubber, coffee, and cassiavera) are located within the state forest land. Social forestry was mentioned as one of the potential solutions to deal with this issue.
There was also presentation about the support from Plantation Office to support ISPO certification for small holder farmers. However, jurisdiction approach for ISPO was not discussed.
Last session of the meeting was an FGD discussing about the capacity of Jambi Stakeholders to deal with environmental issues in anticipation of BioCF project implementation.
It was agreed that the TKRM team structure and modalities as well as next meetings will be further discussed through the TKRM WhatsApp Group already formed by BioCF IC team.
One thing very clear from the meeting was that: most of the stakeholders
attended the meeting agreed to support BioCF preparation and
implementation given that they have enough information about the progress
of BioCF preparation.
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1 617-18 July 2019 Government officials from Jambi,
FMUs, National Parks, NGO, Ditjen PPI.
Male: 15 Female: 10
Discussion and FGD on Risk of Reversal and Risks of Displacement to be included in the ERPD.
Two sources of Risks of Reversal including risk levels and mitigation plan were discussed. These are risks from anthropogenic and natural sources.
Similar to this, during the meeting on Risks of Displacement, sources of risk
with risk level and mitigation plan was discussed.
Summary of consultations on the ERP conducted by PT. Hatfield.
Table 1 Summary of stakeholder consultations in Jambi.
Topic What is the Issue Relevance to REDD+ Recommendations
Kick-Off Meeting Joint Preparation Mission BioCF ISFL
PDO result-chain Annual Work Plan Procurement Plan Draft Grant Agreement Aide of Memoire
ToR Individual Consultant Concept Note
MRV, Safeguards, and initial design of the ERP
The key point discussed were related to the interna arrangement within government of Indonesia especially DJPPI, BAPPENAS< and Government of Jambi related to the implementation of BioCF-ISFL, the role of stakeholder in Jambi in anticipating of BioCF ISFL preparation and implementation, cmmittmen t from Jambi Government to implements BioCG-ISFL, the ole of Consultants in preparing related documents for BioCF-ISFL, especially on safeguards as strictly followed up by the WB, Grant Agreement preparation and signing for BioCF-ISFL between the World Bank and KLHK.
Some of the emerging concerns are related to the readiness of Government of Jambi to prepare and implement the BioCF-ISFL and the complicated vertical and horizontal coordination as currently experienced in most cases in Indonesia, including in Jambi.
From the meeting it was discovered that the Government of Jambi showed positive development toward the preparation and implementation of BioCF-ISFL as shown from the issuance of Government Decree on the Formation of BioCF Team/Taskforce and increased of understanding on the part of the Jambi Government on the role of BioCF-ISFL as al long term, low carbon, and green development for Jambi; the active participation of key stakeholders in Jambi;
finalization of ToR for individual consultants to support the preparation of BioCF- ISFL including the consultant on safeguards.
A few followed ups would be conducted especially in relation to increasing communication between Bappenas and Ministry of Finance related to Grant Agreement, better communication between Jakarta and Jambi on the preparation of BioCF-ISFL PDO and other documents, and the widening of stakeholder’s involvement in Jambi.
Topic What is the Issue Relevance to REDD+ Recommendations Joint Mission BioCF-ISFL PPG Procurement, Lol, Financial
agreement progress, AWP ERP Document
Result chain & Pre-invesment activities
Agriculture framework Private sector
ER allocation
Benefit Sharing Mechanism Safeguards
Part of REDD+
readiness process
The mission agreed that continued refinements of the results framework and monitoring arrangements with interactive follow-up sessions and email
communication with the M&E specialist were expected to take place in the next four months and would be presented in the next mission.
Focus group discussion (FGD) of identification of potential locations for deforestation and forest degradation and peat damage (1)
Identification WPK REDD+
Deforestation and forest degradation
As a document that supports the preparation of ERP
The SESA needs to portray the causes/drivers of deforestation and forest degradation & strategy for handling these issues to inform the ERP design.
Key issues discussed included prevention and control of land and forest fire, poverty as key issues in deforestation, leakage to neighbouring provinces, inadequate numbers of patrol team, tenurial conflicts, sub-optimal forest governance, the needs to link with provincial action plan (RAD/Rencana Aksi Daerah) on greenhouse gas emission, roles and
responsibilities(involvement) at district level, eco-tourism and non-timber forest product (and their marketing) as non carbon benefit, consideration for mangrove in BiCF, Palm oil as potential carbon sequestration, the needs for FGRM at village and sub-district levels, credible MRV and carbon accounting;
Emerging concerns include: greed and speculation may contribute to the degradation, lack of equipment at FMU level for fire prevention / control, implementation of sustainable agriculture policies (includingnon burning methods) and incentives for zero-fire, the needs for formal agreement to prevent leakage to neighboring provinces, the performance area needs to be clearly defined, definition of performance area needs to consider aspirations/concerns from key stakeholders, biodiversity outside protected area,
Topic What is the Issue Relevance to REDD+ Recommendations
Agreement on follow ups are: Manggala Agni to provide capacity building and community-based fire prevention, Manggala Agni will support FMU for fire prevention and control, Agriculture Agency to enforce sustainable agriculture (organic pesticides, allocation of sustainable agriculture areas), increase recruitment of Masyarakat Mitra Polhut (Community Patrol Team) to increase patrol efforts, use of existing regulation and guidelines (e.g., Ecolabel, HCV, RSPO, and ISPO) as safeguardi instruments,
acknowledgement of customary communities, support for customary communities, collaboration with local communities on ecosystem restoration,
The obstacles to the implementation of the Jambi ERP include, procedurally, the issuance of the Decree regarding the involvement of elements from the SKPD (provincial agencies) Other main obstacles include the lack of capacity/guidance to effective implement safeguard mechanisms.
Collaboration with NGOs and academics may be able to address this shortcoming.
Data used for ERP, at least for the last 10 years to ensure the us of most recent data (reflecting current situations and dynamics of land-based sectors in Jambi Province)
There may be inconsistencies in data and maps, even though such data and maps are sourced from the government agencies. Concensus need tp be established to justify data sources and relevant data custodians,
In KPH/National Park/Tahura/BPHP Units, relevant issues include community forest encroachment expansion, forest fires, illegal logging, unlicensed plantations (oil & rubber), expansion of plantation businesses, forest encroachment for oil palm and rubber, encroachment in the inter-zone buffer zones, weak good governance implementation across stakeholders, tenure conflicts, peat decomposition, illegal mining, land use (mining, gardens, agriculture), unsustainable forest management
The agency mapping for data availability is in accordance with the required basic data requirements, which can be enhanced and revisited based on deliberative discussions and stakeholder engagement processes. This suggest that data may come from different sources, and data
mainstreaming may need to be done to ensure consistencies of data;
Topic What is the Issue Relevance to REDD+ Recommendations
Pre-identification of the main drivers that cause issues in the forestry sector will be revisited in accordance with the next plan of follow-up discussions Focus group discussion
(FGD) of identification of potential locations for deforestation and forest degradation and peat damage (2)
Identification WPK REDD+
Deforestasi and degradation
Verification of Main Drivers & Causes of Deforestation and degradation Screening of SESA
Issues
Identification of Social &
Environmental Impacts PDO and ERP
Consolidation Identification of the
Area of Public Consultation
Participants to complete information related to the main causes of deforestation and forest degradation, with supporting data available Participants presented their understanding about the social and environmental
impacts, along with the required strategy and directions for the ERP moving forward. Such information has been used to inform and strengthen the PDO
Based on the stock-taking of issues and screening of spatial data processing, several issues have been addressed. A short list of agreed issues include TBD
Based on the issue categories emerging from the FGDs, several alternative locations for public consultations were proposed. Expert views, for spatial data processing and specific themes may be called for enable robust analysis.
Key issues discussed in this session included: the needs for socialisation of BioCF at district level, artisanal mining as driver of deforestation, illegal use of forest areas (encroachment), infrastructure development (e.g., road) in forest areas, weak forest governance, changes of
traditional/simple into consupmptive lifestyles, unclear village boundaries, lack of conservation awareness ammon
communities/corporations/government agencies, social conflicts, human- wildlife conflicts, non-sustainable agriculture (extensification and non- organic pesticides/fertilisers), imbalance in value chain (middlemen’s excessive profits);
Emerging concerns identified form this discussion are: influx of migrants from other provinces, conflicting development interests/agendas, inadequate resources for effective forest management, weak cross-sectoral coordination, lack of community empowerment programs, and limited access to information regarding licensing policies,;
Concensus on follow ups are: establishing joint task force for law enforcement, partnership to include forest encroachers and convert them to support sustainable forest management, coordination between national and sub-
Topic What is the Issue Relevance to REDD+ Recommendations
national agencies, placing manclear mandates for provincial and district governments, designing and implementing community development programs, empowering village regulation, implementing participatroy mapping for boundary demarcation, improving information system, implementing conservation awareness program, improving synergy between social forestry working group with Forestry Agency, formulating cofnlict resolution strategies, and development of creative economic scheme.
Interview the perceptions of key stakeholders in the sample districts (Bungo, Merangin, Sarolangun, Kerinci and Tanjung Jabung Timur)
Interview related to the Bio Carbon Fund, drivers of deforestation, related stakeholders, fund management mechanisms, important issues and future expectations
Verification of Main Drivers & Causes of DD
Screening of SESA Issues
More than half of the respondents demonstrated lack of awareness of the details of the emission reduction program, its relevance to REDD +, and the role of sub-national stakeholders in the implementation process later. Most of these stakeholders expect that the program can be applied at the local level/district level, to enable fair sharing of the Program’s benefits.
Focus group discussion (FGD) of six villages (Beringin Tinggi, Guguk, Kandis Dendang, Pandan lagan, Sungai beras, &
Rantau kermas) and 1 indigenous people
Natural resource management, root causes, relevant stakeholders and solutions
SESA & ESMF Main issues raised were related to forest conversion to oil palm, illegal logging, encroachment, limited alternative livelihood, and the use of chemical
agriculture inputs
Discussions on measures to address environmental and social issues include:
improving access to markets, stabilising prices for daily needs (sembako), improving skills and technoogy for added value, identification of NTFP potentials (non-carbon benefit), development of village enterprise (BumDes), improving access for ecotourism, community-based patrol implementation, stopping illegal mining operation, community-based peatland rehabilitation, training on prevention and control of forest fire, peatleand rewetting, non- burning method for agriculture, allocation of sustainable agriculture (especially for marginal and isolated communities, including customary communities), production and use of organic fertilisers/pesticides, socialisation of social forestry schemes, increasing gender participation in sustainable land use, increasing commitment of companies (inclusion of local communities in companies’ business),
Topic What is the Issue Relevance to REDD+ Recommendations Public consultations and
focus group discussions in Tanjung Jabung Timur and Merangin districts
To inform the preliminary results of the SESA and ESMF (including all annexes)
SESA & ESMF (including all annexes)
While in the main purpose of these meetings were to get feedbacks from local stakeholders on the draft safeguard documents being prepared by consultants, the meeting also provide an opportunity to introduce BioCF-ISFL for those that were new to this planned program.
Some of the issues raised in Tanjbtim District were related to Community economic development aspects, including supports to non-timber forest product (NTFP) marketing and peatland management. The following were some of the main issues discussed:
• The future focus of the district in next Medium-Term Development Program 2021-2026 is to manage its peatland sustainably under the icon of “Peatland Friendly District”. This is due to the coverage of peatland as much as 62%
in this district. FGD will be done to discuss the meaning of “Peatland Friendly District” for Tanjabtim.
• Some issues in Tanjabtim including land conservation from agriculture to Oil Palm is quite high
• There is potential for developing Social Forestry (SF) in Tanjabtim (currently there are 8 SF licences in Tanjabtim, but it should be focused on the whole aspect of social forestry starting from preparation for licencing, forest management, production, marketing, and up to processing of non timber forest products.
• Forest fires is still one of the main deforestation issues in Tanjabtim due to its large peatland coverage. Efforts to prevent and control forest fires were usually intensified during the long dry season or El Nino years.
• There is regulation on the protection of prime agriculture land (LP2B), but the implementation is still problematic due to untargeted subsidies from the government. Thorough evaluation of the implementation of this regulation will need to be done to find out best future implementation.
• The government has encouraged the communities to plant Jelutong tress, but after the latex is collected by communities, there is no market (note:
Jelutong is one of the commodities that is going to be supported by BioCF).
In Merangin District, some of the important issues were related encroachment and illegal claims of forest land especially by outside migrant (mostly from South Sumatra, Lampung and Bengkulu leading to further deforestation and social
Topic What is the Issue Relevance to REDD+ Recommendations
conflicts, the emerging role of indigenous people that need recognition from government, unclear boundary of villages leading to conflicts between villages.
It was expected that with the support from BoCF-ISFL, issues related to the markets for some Non-Timber Forest Products (Jelutong in Tanjabtim) and products from social forestry could be resolved as Bio-CF-ISFL has consultant to help with this issue. To deal with forest and social conflicts, beside
supporting local institution to deal with these issues especially on capacity building and budget increase, the role of local communities and local wisdoms and local BGOs should be revitalized in solving some issues related to deforestation and social issues.
