ANNEX 11 - Minutes of Meeting – Stakeholder Consultations

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ANNEX 11 - Minutes of Meeting – Stakeholder Consultations

NO DATE AND LOCATION PARTICIPANTS (M/F) TOPICS AND SUMMARY OF RESULTS¹ 1 13-17 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:

• 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;

• Consultation with National Park Authorities on actions to prevent further encroachment within NP;

• Working with Jambi Plantation office to learn replanting process and conflict resolution currently practiced by this office.

• To finalize the assignment, the EMS will need to consult more stakeholders in Jambi and especially those at the district level.

• 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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NO DATE AND LOCATION PARTICIPANTS (M/F) TOPICS AND SUMMARY OF RESULTS¹ 2 23 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:

• 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 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.

• There is regulation on the protection of prime agriculture land (LP2B), but the implementation is still problematic due to untargeted subsidies from the government.

• 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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NO DATE AND LOCATION PARTICIPANTS (M/F) TOPICS AND SUMMARY OF RESULTS¹

(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.

3 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).

Due 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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4 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.

5 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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During 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.

6 17-18 July 2019 Government officials from Jambi, FMUs, National Parks, NGO, Ditjen PPI.

Discussion and FGD on Risk of Reversal and Risks of Displacement to be included in the ERPD.

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Male: 15 Female: 10

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.

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Summary of consultations on the ERP conducted by PT. Hatfield.

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

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 arrangement with interactive follow-up sessions and email communication with the M&E specialist would take place in the next four months and would be presented to the next mission.

Focus group discussion (FGD) of identification of potential locations for deforestation and forest

Identification WPK REDD+

Deforestasi and degradation

As a document that supports the preparation of ERP

The presentation of SEA stated that at this time a program design for Biocarbon Fund ISFL is needed, and how to portray the causes/drivers & strategy for handling it

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degradation and peat damage (1)

The obstacles to the implementation of the Jambi ERP at this time include, procedurally, the issuance of the Decree regarding the involvement of elements from the SKPD (provincial agencies)

Data used for ERP, at least the last 10 years The existence of data and maps that are likely to be different, even though the data (both) are sourced from Government agencies

In KPH/National Park/Tahura/BPHP Units, generally the problems that occur are community forest encroachment expansion, forest fires, illegal logging, unlicensed plantations (oil & rubber), plantation

investors (non local Jambi), forest encroachment for oil palm and rubber, encroachment in the inter-zone buffer zone, lack of implementation of good governance from various relevant 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 (attached ppt slide-13), from the basic data they can be developed again in accordance with the progress of deliberative discussion and process

Pre-identification of the main drivers that cause issues in the forestry sector (attached-xl), will be met again by

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the audience in accordance with the next plan of follow- up discussion

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 on the main causes and things that underlie Deforestation and Degradation, with supporting data

Participants deliver information on the social and environmental impacts of the arising issues, along with the required program plan directions, this input can strengthen PDO and the details of its activities program details in participants' slide

As per initial information from the previous info recap and screening support from spatial data processing, several issues have been addressed

In the process of ensuring that the issue on the second day was obtained a short list of agreed issues was 7 points

Based on cluster issues that arise from the participants' discussion, several alternative locations for public consultation areas are proposed, the next screening can be arranged in accordance with the consideration of the basis of spatial data processing and expert judgment

Interview the perceptions of key stakeholders in the sample districts (Bungo, Merangin, Sarolangun,

Interview related to the Bio Carbon Fund, drivers of deforestation, related stakeholders, fund management

Verification of Main Drivers & Causes of DD Screening of SESA Issues

More than half of the respondents stated ignorance of the details of the emission reduction program, its relevance to REDD +, and its role in the

implementation process later. However, most

stakeholders hope that the program can be applied at

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Kerinci and Tanjung Jabung Timur)

mechanisms, important issues and future expectations

the local level at the district level, so that the benefits of the programs and subprograms can be directly felt by the related units in the field in dealing with the

dynamics that occur at this time.

Focus group discussion (FGD) of six villages (Beringin Tinggi, Guguk, Kandis Dendang, Pandan lagan, Sungai beras, &

Rantau kermas) and 1 indigenous people

know the problems of natural resource management, the root of the problem, the parties involved, and the solutions offered

SESA & ESMF Participants complete information in accordance with the directions. Most of them raised the issue of recognition of indigenous right, difficult acces to the market for the agriculture products, lack of capacity in agriculture product processing, lack of law enforcement leading to illegal activities inside forest areas.

Public consultation at district level

(representatives from Tanjung Jabung Timur, Tanjung Jabung Barat, Muaro Jambi, and Batanghari)

Introduction of BioCF and activities that can be supported at district level.

Update information on existing social forestry, sustainable plantation, and sustainable agriculture practices Challenges in peatland management, including fire prevention

Additional driver of deforestation (mangrove) outside the WPK Illegal oil mining in grand forest park (Taman Hutan Raya / Tahura) under provincial forestry agency

SESA & ESMF Leakages between districts, and between provinces

Existing regulatory instruments at district level (e.g., Perda No.

18/2013 on land for sustainable agriculture, and 13/2013 on corporate social and environmental responsibilities

Addressing the issues of leakages by building coordination across districts and across provinces Strengthen implementation of regulations (Component 1 of the PDO) to support safeguards of BioCF

Need to find best practice model for peat land agriculture management (paludiculture)

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