Jakarta, Wednesday, March 3, 2013, Walhi and Rescue Coalition of Indonesian Forests and Global Climate, forest moratorium highlighted by Presidential Decree No. 10 for 2011 and will end in May 2013 should be strengthened and extended. For this purpose called the new licensing delays and pernyempurnaan forest governance should be changed to “a moratorium on forest destruction and evaluation of licensing.” Mainstream moratorium policy for 2 years is still based on the licensing authority of the head of the region must be strengthened by centrally controlled by the map Indicative delay new licenses by the Ministry of Forestry.
Zenzi Suhadi, Forest Campaigner, Walhi, criticizing, “Moratorium based license for 2 years is not effective because it tends to put forward political considerations, the interests of holders of authority and regulatory authority, and rights-holders manage the area so it does not provide a significant effect on improvement of environmental functions . Moratorium on the pattern and extent of revisions periodically area this would be a place of forgiveness for companies that already have licenses in the forest, both legal and illegal. In the revisions are done every 6 months, a reduction in the moratorium area to accommodate the interests of businesses that overlap with PIPIB concession “.
Absurd Platform
Mandate improved forest governance as expressed in the Presidential Instruction No. 10/2011, has so far not the case becomes even more absurd with dikedepankannya P2H bill. Meanwhile, according to Mary Rahma, coordinator of the Law Reform Program and Conflict Resolution Society HuMa, “In addition to not recognize the existence of indigenous forests, the bill is enacted in the forest area is uncertain, the newly designated forest areas, has not been established. Yet according to the decision of the Constitutional Court No.45/2011, called forest is assigned. Secondly it is exacerbating the potential criminalization of indigenous people living around the forest. As we know, the bill also contains a loose definition of illegal logging, with the result that it hit the public customary laws that utilize forest resources as a daily habit. ”
Moratorium based licensing authority is also proved to have been circumvented by many regional heads by including plantations and mining concessions in the proposed review of the (review) in forest spatial planning. As of July 2012, the transfer function and changes in forest allocation to local administrative areas and interests of development has reached 12.35 million hectares, which is last in Papua potentially losing hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest and Aceh also potentially lose millions of acres of forest for Spatial proposal new.
Forest moratorium should be based on the achievement of the consideration in addressing the ecological functions that overlap, the government must put forward stance and charge the perpetrators or the destruction of forest tenure. Law enforcement and review of permits being first and unanswered challenge towards the end of the moratorium in the months ahead. Once again, the extension and strengthening of forest moratorium to be very important for the realization of forest saving and emission reduction as a commitment of the SBY regime.
Pressure for an extended moratorium confirmed by human rights activist Usman Hamid, who co mengalang petition to save the forests of Aceh on the website Change.org. Usman invites the community to sign the online petition at Change.org / SelamatkanAceh to urge extension of the moratorium and prevent the potential for the greatest forest destruction in Aceh through a new spatial plan. The petition was supported by 17 310 people from various parts of Indonesia and abroad.

Contact
Walhi, Zenzi Suhadi, +6281384502601
HuMa, Anggalia Putri, +628562118997
Greenpeace, Yuyun Indriadi, +6281915191979
Change.org Indonesia, Usman Hamid, +62811 812 149