Report for the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) - UMS

Other REDD programs
• World Bank Forest Scheme. The bank’s forest carbon partnership facility aims to gather
$300 million in contributions from rich nations to help at least a dozen developing
countries, such as Vietnam, Costa Rica and Madagascar, prepare for Redd schemes. The
programme aims to help nations figure out credible estimates of their national forest
carbon stocks as well as offer technical aid to design individual Redd projects.
• UN-Redd Programme. The UN is running a separate Redd programme to help developing
nations get ready for the scheme. So far, $35 million has been committed.
A FAO-Global Report available in the internet about forest resource assessment and
recalculation of land cover (in Bahasa Indonesia at www.dephut.go.id). According to BMG
the Indonesian Science Institute LIPI in Jakarta could be another address for inquiries about
ongoing projects. Projects conducted by the partners are amongst others from Mr. Sadely
UnMul about Acacia stands in coal mining areas, from Dr. Syahrinudin UnMul about carbon
stock below ground in forest plantations at Sabulu 60 km from Samarinda. He works together
with Dr. Dady Ruhiyat, Soil Forest Laboratory.
8. Available data
This chapter deals with data and information available from the prospective partners of the
project. This includes also departments like the National Coordinating Agency for Surveys
and Mapping Indonesia, Ministry of Forestry Indonesia, Meteorological and Geophysical
Agency Indonesia, The National Institute of Aeronautics and Space Indonesia, or the
Malaysia Meteorological Department. The Indonesian contacts as public utilities are not
permitted to sell data but to exchange them.
8.1. Forest Inventories and vegetation data
For the purpose of the project it is crucial to maintain forest inventory data from local sources
because it might be too expensive and time-consuming to collect them during the working
phase. CIFOR underlined the possibility to receive such data from sources like the Ministry of
forestry Indonesia, diverse timber companies (cooperation with CIFOR), the Project by the
Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (see below), and other sources. The Ministry of Forestry
Indonesia BAPLAN uses for forest inventory a grid of 20 x 20 kilometer with a single plot
(“kluster”) of 100 x 100 m (divided in 16 subplots of 25 x 25 m). In Borneo 465 of these
klusters are found whereas the plots are both temporarily and permanent. The inventories at
BAPLAN contain topography, height and diameter of trees, kind of species, seedlings,
saplings, canopy cover, disturbance of the canopy, and soil. So far they use 23 classes of
land cover and 6-7 types of forest. According to IPCC there shall be six classes at all in the
near future. BAPLAN basically agreed to share their forest inventory data with members of
the project under certain conditions. UnMul can provide data about fast growing species from
plantations taken for three years every September in Bukit Suharto. These data contain tree
high, diameter, saplings, etc. and are still not published. They have photosynthesis
measurements as well. Surin Suksuwan from WWF in Kuala Lumpur recommended to ask
the Sabah Forestry Department in Sandakan (for Sabah) respective in Kuching (for Sarawak)
for forest inventory data. The UnMul Faculty of Forestry has a research forest between
Balikpapan and Samarinda, the Bukit Suharto (ca. 20,000 ha), another one is close to
Samarinda.
8.1.1. Forest types
Several distinct ecosystems are found across Borneo as well as different types of forests.
The partners should agree upon the classification and definition of forest types early to
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