Presented by Arief Darmawan, Lecturer at Department of Foresrty, Lampung University in national workshop on the Role of Science in the Development of Forest Reference Emission Level on 13 June 2022

1. The development of Indonesia’s
2nd Forest Reference Emission
Level (FREL)
Arief Darmawan
*Member of 2nd FREL Team
*Lecturer at Dept. of Forestry, Lampung University, Indonesia

2. Background
The forestry sector shares the largest contribution to the NDC’s emission reduction target,
i.e. 17.2% (out of 29%) using own resources and 24.1% (out of 41%) with international
supports.
To achieve this fairly large forestry sector target, Indonesia undertakes various mitigation
actions through GHG emission reduction activities in the forestry sector, particularly through
REDD+ implementation.
Indonesia’s 1st FREL has gone through a technical assessment process in 2016 and has been
legally used as a reference in measuring REDD+ performance to obtain Result Based
Payments (RBP) for the period 2013 – 2020.
Indonesia’s 2nd FREL includes most of improvement plan in the 1st FREL by considering new
data, improved methodology and broader scope of anthropogenic activities.

3. 1st FREL and 2nd FREL, What is the different?
No. Topic 1st FREL 2nd FREL
1. Activity Data Deforestation and forest
degradation in mineral and organic
(peat) soils.
deforestation, forest degradation, and enhancement of forest
carbon stock in mineral and organic (peat soils), peat fires, and
emissions from conversion of mangrove forests
2. Pool carbon Aboveground biomass and
emission from peat decomposition
Aboveground biomass, belowground biomass, dead wood, litter,
and soil organic carbon, although not for all REDD+ activities.
3. Gas CO2 CO2 and non-CO2 emissions (CH4 and N2O) from forest and land
fire activities.
4. Gross/net emission Gross emission Application of net emission approach
5. Wetland emission
Tier
Tier 1 (assume Tier 2) emission
factor for peat decomposition
Tier 2 emission factors for peat decomposition, peat fires and
mangrove conversion
6. Uncertainty
assessment
Root of uncertainty from AD and EF Applying adjusted areas for activity data using sample-based area
estimation (Olofsson et.al, 2014) and Monte Carlo Simulation

4. 2nd FREL Progress

5. Who’s involved in the 2nd FREL Progress
DG-CC, MoEF
Research Institution
Universities Non-
Governmental
Organization
Consultants

6. What’s in the document?
1. Introduction
2. Improvement from previous submission
3. Definitions
4. Area, activities and pools covered
5. Data, methodology and procedures
6. Results of the construction of forest reference level
(FRL)
7. Description of policies and plans and their
implications to the constructed forest reference
level (FRL)
8. Opportunities for improvement

7. • Working with many institutions need extra time, but when the process can be lead
proportionately, it has many insight and also ‘hand’ to finish the work.
• Significant improvement has been made by the 2nd FREL by considering new data,
improved methodology and broader scope of anthropogenic activities
• FREL and REDD+ in general has made significant progress on how Indonesia provide
improved quality data and also networking (expert, academicians and researchers) on
forest monitoring.
Key messages

8. Thank you