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More informationPT Kayung Agro Lestari (PT KAL) is a large oil palm plantation company in Ketapang District which has been Tropenbos Indonesia (TI)'s partner in forest conservation since 2016. Since 2018, PT KAL together with stakeholders in West Kalimantan Province and Ketapang District, have collaborated with TI to prepare an Essential Ecosystem Area (KEE) Management Plan for the Sungai Putri-Gunung Tarak-Gunung Palung Landscape, Ketapang District. In this KEE, PT KAL allocated a High Conservation Value/HCV area of 3,688 ha or 29% of the total KEE (12,918 ha) and this KEE has been approved by Governor Regulation no. 718/2017 (https://bit.ly/49LNnzB). Through a long process, the KEE Management Plan document was finally approved by the Governor of West Kalimantan Province, Mr. Sutarmadji, SH., M.Hum, on August 15 2023.
Tropenbos Indonesia continues the efforts to prevent forest and land fires on peatlands in Ketapang District, West Kalimantan. In collaboration with UPT KPH Ketapang Selatan (Forest Management Unit of South Ketapang Region), Tropenbos Indonesia organised a training on ‘Peatland Monitoring System’, on Monday to Wednesday, 27-29 November 2023. The training aims to improve the understanding on the importance of a multi-stakeholder-based peatland monitoring system as well as to capacitate the participants on the hands-on of implementing peatland monitoring system. The training consist of theory and classroom sessions, held in Borneo Ketapang Hotel, and field practice, conducted in Sungai Besar Village Forest.
In collaboration with the Embassy of the Netherlands, Tropenbos Indonesia (TI) and Tropenbos International (TBI) organized a workshop entitled “Scaling Agroforestry in Indonesia” in Jakarta, on 23rd November 2023. The workshop was organized in hybrid mode with more than 100 participants attending offline and online. They come from various backgrounds such as from the government agencies, NGOs/CSOs, private sector, and university and research organizations. Giving the opening speech was Joost van Uum, the Agriculture Counsellor of the Embassy of the Netherlands, Edi Purwanto, the Director of Tropenbos Indonesia and Joost van Montfort, the Director of Tropenbos International, while the keynote speech was given by the Director General of Social Forestry and Environmental Partnership (PSKL) Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia, Bambang Supriyanto.
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