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

• Mulyanto prefers the land-system-approach for climate change study which classifies
areas by same geomorphological properties as soil or climate (for example: one landsystem-unit
could be covered by primary forest as well as by plantations). A land-systemmap
of Kalimantan is just finished
• Mulyanto suggests that our joint project could be an “umbrella” under which other
subprojects could be summarized. For example there is also the possibility to look for
grants at the Asia-Pacific Network (APN) or within internal/own budget. Jan explained the
background of the proposal and the funding by BEAF
• There already exists a partnership of Bakosurtanal within the project “Forest Degradation
and Vegetation Mapping in East Kalimantan” (including Sabah) by Dr. Kitayama and Dr.
Tay (since last year?)
• Bakosurtanal has a strong interest in international cooperation whereas climate change is
of main interest (which is not directly linked to the BEAF-grant). They are open to carbon
stock as well. The agency wishes to be more involved in research
• A lot of data exist already which are scattered over entire Indonesia. Bakosurtanal has
spatial data for whole Indonesia. Hyperspectral data shall be acquired in the coming years
• Bakosurtanal has no climate data and they have not worked on carbon stocks yet
• The niche for our project could be the “entire Borneo-approach” and the social adaptations
which could be part of the development of Borneo. Climate change could be a new
approach as well.
• To Mulyantos knowledge it is possible to “look” into the peat up to three meters depth
which opens a way to estimate biomass through volume. Maybe it is feasible to estimate
the belowground biomass by other technique
• Biomass is mapped only for small areas so far by BAKOSURTANAL
• They have not worked with carbon flux yet but Deddy Hadriyanto at University
Mulawarman Samarinda might has
• The project “Land cover change in South Kalimantan” by Bakosurtanal starts now (three
years by 25,000 $/year). It is expected to be extended
• Many thanks to Mulyanto Darmawan for the review of the minutes
10.2.3. Ministry of Forestry Indonesia
Minutes of the Meeting with Lely Rulia and Saipul Rahman at BAPLAN
Ministry of Forestry Indonesia
Jakarta, 12 th January 2009, 13:45 to 15:30 PM
Lely Rulia is a remote sensing and GIS specialist, Saipul Rahman an expert for carbon
stocks
• There a two ongoing tasks on a large scale in the Department at national level (and
around 50 smaller activities) about how to calculate carbon and land cover change (for
three years)
o FRIS: Forest Resource Information System (since 2005/2006)
o NCAS: National Carbon Accounting System (since 2008)
• For forest inventory BAPLAN uses 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).
o There a 2,735 plots in Indonesia (except Java) whereas 465 are on Borneo
o The plots are both temporarily and permanent
o The inventories at BAPLAN contain topography, height and diameter of trees, kind
of species, seedlings, saplings, canopy cover, disturbance of the canopy, soil
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