{"id":3798,"date":"2013-04-24T20:03:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T20:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2013-04-24T20:03:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T20:03:45","slug":"indonesian-palm-oil-association-gapki-says-no-to-moratorium-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/indonesian-palm-oil-association-gapki-says-no-to-moratorium-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian Palm Oil Association (Gapki) Says \u2018No\u2019 To Moratorium Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3799\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3799\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/p03-aletsget.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3799\" alt=\"A worker harvests palm fruit in a plantation owned by PT Tinting Boyok Sawit Mandiri (TBSM) in Sanggau district, West Kalimantan.  Photo: (Antara\/Jessica Helena Wuysang)\" src=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/p03-aletsget.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/p03-aletsget.jpg 512w, https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/p03-aletsget-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker harvests palm fruit in a plantation owned by PT Tinting Boyok Sawit Mandiri (TBSM) in Sanggau district, West Kalimantan. Photo: (Antara\/Jessica Helena Wuysang)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>by Anggi M. Lubis for the The Jakarta Post<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Indonesian Palm Oil Association (Gapki) has opposed the government\u2019s plan to prolong a two-year forest moratorium, slated to end in May, saying that such an extension would only hamper the expansion of the country\u2019s palm oil sector.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia, through Presidential Instruction No. 10\/2011, had set a two-year moratorium to halt the commercial use of a total 65.2 million hectares of primary forests and peatland in an attempt to curtail deforestation and reduce greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n<p>The moratorium, which resulted from an Indonesia\u2013Norway bilateral agreement with a US$1 billion potential carbon transaction, will expire on May 20.<\/p>\n<p>Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan has declared the moratorium a success, saying that the move has slowed the country\u2019s deforestation rate to 450 hectares per year during 2010-2011 from 3.5 million hectares per year in the period of 1999-2002.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia has pledged to cut back its carbon emissions by 26 percent from the current 2.1 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) by 2020, and by 2012 Indonesia had cut 489 billion tons of CO2e or 16.57 percent of the target.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch progress shows that the country needs to continue the forest moratorium,\u201d Zulkifli said in a speech read during a national seminar held in Jakarta on Tuesday, further emphasizing the government\u2019s plan to go on with the moratorium.<\/p>\n<p>A two-year moratorium was enough to curb deforestation and to lower carbon emissions, but an extension would only incur losses to palm plantation companies that had contributed much to the state income, Gapki\u2019s director of law and advocacy Tungkot Sipayung said.<\/p>\n<p>Tungkot said that the government should focus on protecting primary and conservation forests, and let loose the usage of peatland deemed as prospective palm plantation land.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe moratorium will limit the opportunity to develop our country\u2019s palm oil production. We already have a 1999 Forestry Law to monitor the matter, therefore a longer forest moratorium is not needed,\u201d he said, adding that data gathered from various sources showed that peatland planted with palm could reduce carbon emissions more than peatland left dormant.<\/p>\n<p>Gapki\u2019s data is in contrast with research reports from various international institutions and environmental organizations that say emissions from logging and drainage on peatland have contributed significantly to Indonesia\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions, including methane.<\/p>\n<p>Palm plantation expansion has long been blamed for rampant deforestation, while high demand for palm oil has driven rapid forest loss in several areas such as in Sumatra and Kalimantan.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia, the world\u2019s largest<a href=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/threats-to-orangutans\/\"> palm oil <\/a>producer with an annual output of over 26 million tons, has been expanding its oil palm estates by 200,000 hectares a year, which are mostly developed by large companies.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This excerpt from a news article is courtesy of the Jakarta Post and can be read in its entirety<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2013\/04\/24\/gapki-says-no-moratorium-extension.html\"> here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Anggi M. Lubis for the The Jakarta Post The Indonesian Palm Oil Association (Gapki) has opposed the government\u2019s plan to prolong a two-year forest moratorium, slated to end in May, saying that such an extension would only hamper the expansion of the country\u2019s palm oil sector. Indonesia, through Presidential Instruction No. 10\/2011, had set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-center"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Indonesian Palm Oil Association (Gapki) Says \u2018No\u2019 To Moratorium Extension - Orangutan Conservancy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/indonesian-palm-oil-association-gapki-says-no-to-moratorium-extension\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Indonesian Palm Oil Association (Gapki) Says \u2018No\u2019 To Moratorium Extension - Orangutan Conservancy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"by Anggi M. 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