TFA REGIONAL OVERVIEW

TFA Southeast Asia aims to support public and private collaborations to achieve zero deforesta- tion commitment through collective action. The objective of the Southeast Asia region is to cham- areas of access to finance, links smallholder pion palm and forest positive narratives through to the market, shares national action plans and jurisdictional/landscape approaches, to support enables the policy enactment of the platform smallholder farmers and independent third-party for all members. To date, the discussions have suppliers and to facilitate peat restoration and revolved around two key themes: access to forest protection efforts in . finance and the formulation of national policy to protect essential economic interests. Currently, the The key focus commodities are palm oil and team is incubating the idea to facilitate private pulp and paper. The team works in Indonesia sector engagement in and supports the and Malaysia with the focus in North , alignment with emission reduction programs. , , Jambi and West , where sectoral and government leading commitments • Jurisdictional Approach in Jambi: TFA South- are existed. east Asia has been supporting efforts to create preferential sourcing areas by supporting pro- COUNTRIES AND REGIONS COVERED BY gressive sub-national leaders through facilitating TFA SOUTHEAST ASIA INITIATIVES serial meetings and jurisdictional dialogues Indonesia: , Aceh, Riau, Jambi, on provincial level. Jambi Province has now West Kalimatan; Malaysia developed its Green Growth Plan to integrate social, economic and environment scenarios into OVERVIEW OF SPECIFIC INITIATIVES the plan. TFA Southeast Asia also supports the • Smallholder Task Force: The Smallholder Initiative for Sustainable Landscape through the Task Force is an exchange on lessons learned Biocarbon Fund. This initiative will link national and facilitates linkage to debottleneck exist- emission reductions with the provincial level ing constraints in the context of smallholders. with a particularly focus on two key areas: The task force facilitates discussions, provides strengthening policy both in provincial and necessary expertise and engagement in the district level and private sector engagement. THIS WORK WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE FURTHER ALIGNMENT OF THE PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIONAL EFFORTS TO PROMOTE KEY EVENTS, MILESTONES A LOW-CARBON DEVELOPMENT AND ACTIVITIES PATH FOR INDONESIA • Jambi: • Jurisdictional Approach in Riau: The Prov- » Jambi stakeholder mapping and ince of Riau initiated Green Riau, a subnational joint agenda plan 24 October 2019 initiative under Indonesian government’s Low » Jambi Dialogue, 26 November 2019 Carbon Development Initiative (LCDI). The LCDI • National Jurisdictional Exchange, seeks to maintain economic growth and to help December 2019 or January 2020 meet sector-level development targets within • Riau Dialogue its National Medium-Term Development Plan » Riau serial meetings December 2020-2024. This work will contribute to the 2019 - January 2020 further alignment of the partnership with national » Riau Dialogue, February 2020 efforts to promote a low-carbon development • TFA Annual Meeting in , exact path for Indonesia and a high-impact delivery date TBD model by promoting a strong sense of community, cooperation and collaboration among different stakeholder’s efforts to reduce deforestation.

KEY PARTNERS ENGAGED AND REGIONAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS • National Government: Ministry of National Planning, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Ministry of Agriculture, Coordinating Ministry. • Provincial Government: » Jambi: World Bank – IFC, IDH, UNDP, RSPO, Provincial Government (BAPPEDA) and Private sector that members of Small- holder Task Force (GAR, Wilmar, Asian Agri, Astra Agro, APP, Sinar Mas) » Riau: WRI, CLUA, LTKL, WWF, Winrock, and private companies • Regional Committee Members: IDH, SPKS, IBCSD, GAR, RGE (APRIL), Wilmar, Ministry of Planning