Implementing Agency:
Department For International Development (DFIDSEA)

Project Code: 150-502-003	Start Date: 01/09/1991	End Date: 30/06/1997
Commitment: £4,148,000	Status: Awaiting Confirmation of Completion	Type of Funding: Bilateral - TC

Project Background:
This 1.8 million GBP initial project executed on DFID's behalf by NRI will be the centre piece and lynch-pin of DFID's forestry programme in Indonesia. Nonetheless it can, if necessary, stand alone. It will initially be comprised of two specialists, supported as required by short-term consultants, to act as key advisers on policy, strategy and management issues within the Bureau of Planning, Ministry of Forestry. The two specialists will be mutually supportive, will consist of a forest economist, whose role will be primarily to advise on policy and strategy issues, and a forest management specialist who will be required mainly to initiate improvements in the management of forest areas, especially lowland dipterocarp production in the rain forests. These two specialists, one of whom will be designated Programme Co-ordinator, will form the core team of the DFID forestry programme and, in addition to filling the roles briefly described above, will also assist in identifying and formulating DFID initiatives in the forestry sector. In 1992, this sub-project worked principally to establish two pilot KPHPs (Forest Utilisation Production Units), with the aim to create rational and permanent production forest management units. Two large seminars were run, each for about 90 people in the two Provinces concerned, to explain and discuss the concept with government officials, land-use planners, and the private sector. The two pilot sites selected, in Jambi (Sumatra) and Central Kalimantan, have been declared as pilot KPHP areas by ministerial decree, and SMAT has now developed a project document for sub-project 2: Provincial Forest Management.

Project Objectives:
To promote sustainable management of Indonesia's Dipterocarp rain forests through the provision of advice and establishment of two pilot permanent forest production units.

Intended Outputs:
Set of forestry objectives. Strategy for implementing the objectives. Trained personnel.