Presented by Budi Wardhana, Senior Advisor of Peatland and Mangrove Restoration Agency (BRGM) in national workshop on Criteria and Indicators for Tropical Petland Restoration: Exploring Holistic and Practical Approaches for Monitoring Tropical Peatlands on 7 July 2022

2. Background
Practical use of Criteria and
Indicator
(Session 4)
Budi Wardhana

3. Background
• The C&I approach aims to recognize and incorporate attributes from all four aspects:
• biophysical (extent, peat condition/quality, land cover condition, hydro-topography, canal
network, historical burning),
• economic (land use, land based economic activities, valuation of ecosystem services, regional
GDP),
• social (tenurial/entitlement, gender issues, access, jobs, adaptive to change), and
• governance (Participatory, transparency, adaptive management, local power dynamic, decision
making process).
• Use of C&I in restoration planning and monitoring, in restoration interventions and
evaluation, decision on designation of land use plan/allocation, peatland management
regime across land use, stakeholder communication.

4. Further approach to permanent solution
• Use of C&I for Net Sink FOLU 2030 for peatland target (~4,783,223 ha).
• Control deforestation of intact peatland (forests and Non-Forest Area/APL) and restore degraded peatland
• Improve Hydrological management on concession areas of forests industry and plantation estates
• Improve hydrological management on communities’ land
• Sustainable peatland management → restoration, hydrological management, paludiculture, fisheries.
• The need of scientifically robust C&I for NDC commitment and the future ITMO (Article 6 of Paris
Agreement).
• Peatland restoration needs to be underpinned by monitoring efforts that allow an adaptive approach.
Peatland monitoring, guided by science-based practice, will enhance the transparency and accountability
of reporting under the Paris Agreement of the UNFCCC. Indicators that are simple, easy to recognize,
measure and monitor over time can be helpful.
• Use of C&I on KHG model designing, application and monitoring & evaluation (BRGM Strategic
Plan – 2024)

5. Keputusan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor SK.168/MENLHK/PKTL/PLA.1/2/2022 Tentang Indonesia's Forestry and Other Land use (FOLU) Net Sink 2030 untuk Pengendalian
Perubahan Iklim – Rencana Operasional Indonesia's Forestry and Other Land use (FOLU) Net Sink 2030 page 40. IPL = Indeks Prioritas Lahan/Land Priority Index, on which 9 is the highest. PBPH
= Perijinan Berusaha Pemanfaatan Hutan, HT hutan tanaman. ENR enhanced natural regeneration, RIL-C reduced impact logging-carbon.

6. Towards practical use and institutionalization
• Opportunities
• advance of remote sensing technology
• accumulated data and lesson learned
• continuous development of C&I approach: scientifically robust, reliable and practical set of criteria and
indicators (C&I) to help assess the progress and outcomes of peatland restoration efforts.
• C&I on Peatland Restoration and Information System (PRIMS) https://prims.brg.go.id/
• Challenges and hurdles
• robust/reliable, attainable, time and cost effective > comprehensible to key stakeholder
• spatial data of attributes not always available and readily accessible or in the level that provide user
friendly information for decision making.
• the use of C&I to support planning, operational and monitoring and simple use of C&I for quick responses.
• Capacity building and existing institutional support

7. Key Messages
• The science of restoration is growing, including the sophistication of C&I and the use
of remote sensing data, the challenges are how to take advantage of this
development to practical use and needs for various stakeholders.
• Robust and globally accepted C&I is required for high quality offset to NDC
commitment, high quality carbon pricing as option for restoration financing and
future ITMOs – Internationally Transferred Mitigation Options (robust accounting,
transparency etc.)
• Nonetheless for restoration practitioners, a simplified version or tailored to different
capacity and needs of stakeholders → flexibility, reliability, attainability
• Continuous consultation between practitioners and researcher is required to
response the growing and diverse needs of C&I.

8. Thank you