FACING THE CHOP: FORESTS AT RISK FROM INDUSTRY EXPANSION Indonesia’s flagship moratorium offers no protection to land within existing licensed plantation or logging concessions, nor to secondary forest – ie all areas of remaining natural forest that are not classified by the government as untouched primary forest.1 This leaves vast areas of forest in the hands of plantation companies and loggers, with tens of millions of hectares at risk of deforestation. • immediate threat: ~10 million ha of existing forest in concessions licensed for clearing for oil palm or pulpwood plantations or for mining2 • high threat: ~15 million ha of existing forest in ‘convertible production forest’ (HPK) or ‘other land uses/non-forest’ (APL) areas liable to be cleared for conversion to agricultural plantations, such as oil palm, or for other land uses3 (this
includes some double counting from forest in existing licensed concessions). • medium threat: ~20 million ha in selective logging (HPH) concessions or areas classed as ‘permanent production forest’ (HP) or ‘limited production forest’ (HPT) and located outside the moratorium area4 liable to be converted to new pulpwood plantations, cleared for mining or degraded as a result of bad logging practices • unquantifiable risk: any forest or peatland within the moratorium area is at risk of clearance for oil or gas extraction, electricity generation or geothermal development, or licensed rice or sugarcane production5 (eg through the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate project6).
21 September 2015 1°52’44.19”S ,110°7’33.36”E A smouldering log on recently cleared peatland near Ketapang, West Kalimantan. © Infansasti/Greenpeace
(Endnotes) 1 Austin et al (2012) 2 Greenpeace mapping analysis 3 MoEF (2015a) p34 4 Greenpeace mapping analysis 5 Government of Indonesia (2011) 6 Anwar (2015)
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