Indonesia’s Ministry of Forestry is positioning Mount Ciremai National Park as a national model for integrating conservation and community-based development to help meet its FOLU Net Sink 2030 emissions reduction target.
Head of Mount Ciremai National Park Toni Anwar said conservation areas are being strengthened as strategic instruments to support Indonesia’s climate mitigation agenda, particularly by protecting carbon stocks.
"This is a concrete step to safeguard the national carbon reserves from being released into the atmosphere and part of efforts to achieve the FOLU Net Sink 2030 target,” Toni said on Monday.
He made the remarks during the “Women’s Synergy for Indonesia’s FOLU Net Sink 2030” forum organized by the Ministry of Forestry at Mount Ciremai National Park in Kuningan, West Java.
Toni said the park has restored vegetation cover from 50 percent to nearly 90 percent, helping preserve carbon stocks and reinforcing Indonesia’s broader climate commitments.
He said the restoration demonstrates that protected conservation areas can make a significant contribution to Indonesia’s Second Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement.
Through regular patrols and strict monitoring, the park ensures stored forest carbon remains protected from encroachment and forest fires, he added.
Beyond carbon sequestration, Toni said the park has become a national model for resolving land-use conflict through community livelihood transformation.
He explained that 54 villages surrounding the park, whose residents once cultivated forest land, have transitioned into ecotourism management partners to support green economic development.
"Ecosystem sustainability is their primary economic asset. This synergy is what we are promoting as a national model for community-based forest management,” he said.
Toni added that the approach also helps protect 279 plant species and dozens of wildlife species, including the critically endangered Javan hawk-eagle.
The initiative supports the ministry’s target of keeping national deforestation below the baseline rate of 0.31 million hectares annually.
Strengthening the role of Indonesia’s 57 national parks is expected to help reduce emissions by 1.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030.
“Through active community participation, we are proving that biodiversity protection and emissions reduction can go hand in hand with community welfare,” Toni said.
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