Scaling Concept of Gorontalo REDD+ Project
Shinsuke Yazaki (Kanematsu Corporation)

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Scaling Concept of Gorontalo REDD+ Project
Shinsuke Yazaki (Kanematsu Corporation)

First of all, to Novia-san from Indonesia, thank you very much to the colleagues from Indonesia.
Without the support from our colleagues in Indonesia, we could not have developed our project there.
Next, to the government of Japan, there is much support from Japanese government such as JICA, theMinistry of the Environment 1, FFPRI, the Forestry Agency; without their support, it is too difficult
for me to develop a REDD project overseas.

Thank you very much.

I will start my presentation: scaling concept of Gorontalo REDD+ project from district level
demonstration to provincial level, sub-national.

We have three project proponents.

One is Boalemo district government of Gorontalo province.

The second is Perseroan Terbatas Dharma Karyatama Mulia
Panasonic-Gobel Group 3, Jakarta.
Corporation, Japan.

2(PT. DKM), a company ofThis is our counterpart company.

The third one is Kanematsu

We have two REDD+ demonstration activities. A is to develop MRV that is

consistent with national mitigation plan, Local Action Plan for Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emission
Reduction (RAD-GRK) provincial.

This is a national mitigation plan of Indonesia.

https://www.env.go.jp/en/
http://www.gdkm.co.id/
3 http://www.panasonic.com/global/home.html
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the plan is National Action Plan on GHG Emission Reduction (RAN-GRK).
with RAD-GRK.

RAD-GRK is a provincial one.

This is A.

Our MRV is consistent

Activity B is cacao project assafeguard program.
REDD+ Project in Boalemo District, Gorontalo Province, Indonesia

This photo is our demonstration project team.

In the center is the Boalemo district major.

call his position Bupati, so always I call him Bupati.

His support is very, very important for ourproject, and his policy is to plant one million trees of cacao in Boalemo.
our target is same.

Therefore, his policy andThat is why our project is going very well.

I am explaining about the place of our project.
Sulawesi Island.

We

In the red circle is Gorontalo province.

of our project database.

We are working here.

This is Indonesia.

In the green circle isThis is our project area.

This is snapshot

This is Boalemo.

The deforestation driver of Gorontalo province is slash-and-burn corn agriculture.

Corn is amajor industry of Gorontalo province because provincial government has been providing subsidies tocorn farmers since 2002.

The photo on the right is the minister of agriculture from Indonesia.

They came to Gorontalo province and they promote the corn agriculture.
slash-and-burn.

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This photo is also slash-and-burn for corn agriculture.

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This is the driver of the deforestation.

You can see we have three satellite images of Landsat in 1990, 2000, and 2010.
have made remote sensing analysis by using Landsat sat images.
there is Gorontalo city.

Our colleagues

This is the deforestation because

There is much population living there, so sometimes they want to havemoney, so they make slash-and-burn around their houses or communities.

You can see the forest

area size is decreasing like this.
I am explaining about Boalemo district.

This is Gorontalo province.

and we are working with Bupati of Boalemo district here.

There are five districts

This is Boalemo district.

The blue map is the forest cover map of Gorontalo province.

We have made reference emission

level from the deforestation trend of the whole of Gorontalo province because the Indonesian
government has sufficient knowledge to make reference emission levels.

They have already madebusiness-as-usual (BAU) of the province by using the deforestation trend of the province.
double work to calculate reference emission levels.
the background of our MRV.

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That is why we make good use of this.

We avoidThis isSession 2

This is the whole province, and now I am talking about Boalemo district only.
demonstration project boundary of our project, the forest area of Boalemo district.
project boundary is around 88,000 hectares.

year, but not by ourselves.

Our REDD+

This is the forest area colored with blue here. We will

monitor the forest area size every year and we will compare with REL.
emission reduction amount every year.

This is theThen we will know theThere is a good point. We monitor the forest area size every

The provincial government does it every year.

Again we avoid double

work to reduce the cost of the project.

Google Earth shows you the forest area, the dark green area.
district.

This is the forest of Boalemo

On the next page you will see the deforestation area.

In the red circle you can see the deforestation.
tree cover gain.

Red points are tree cover loss.

You see that there are many red points in the red circle.

deforestation areas around the forest area.

Blue points are

These points are theIf you go back to the previous map, this is thedeforestation area. What I want to say is that around the forest, there are communities around there,
they do slash-and-burn, and deforestation occurs there.

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Session 2Demonstration Cacao Farms

In our REDD+ project we have five demonstration cacao farm around the forest.
in the deforestation area we made five demonstration farms here.

That means

As part of REDD+ activities foreach sub-district we have set up a demonstration farm of cacao to show how to produce high quality
cacao.

This is one main activity of our REDD+ project.

Some people know what cacao is, but this is the cacao tree, like an apple tree in Japan.
colored things are cacao pods.

In the cacao pods there are many cacao beans.

Red

That is the raw

material of chocolate.

We are providing capacity building of cacao agriculture.

We provide a value chain.

help farmers to shift from corn to cacao, so we provide capacity building.
together in the demonstration farm.
program.

Then weMore than 20 farmers got

That means that more than 100 farmers will join our REDD+

Then these farmers will go back to their community and broaden the knowledge of how tomake good cacao.

This is our strategy to increase the number of cacao farmers.

One of our partner companies in Japan is Dari-K 4, a Japanese chocolate company in Kyoto.
They are importing fermented cacao beans from Sulawesi.
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http://www.dari-k.com/en/

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They have know-how.

That is why I

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invited them to do the same activity in Boalemo.

This is a photo of the training and demonstration farm.
In order to get a better yield of cacao we teach important knowledge. For example, there are too
many branches of cacao trees, so they cut some branches.

Then good cacao pods will grow on thistree.

We do capacity building not only for cacao farmers but corn farmers too.

Corn farmers learn

how to make cacao.
Some corn farmers have already shifted from corn agriculture to cacao agriculture.
place.

This is theBefore, this is a corn farm, and now they have planted some cacao trees around this area.

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Project Concept

It is not easy, but I tried to explain concept of our project.
and orange is cacao farming.

Yellow is slash-and-burn of corn,

In 2000 there was not much slash-and-burn area of corn, but thanks tothe subsidy, they made much more slash-and-burn area in 2010.

Without a REDD+ project,

deforestation will increase maybe like this, but we provide REDD+ project here, so we may keep theforest area size because our team supports cacao farmers.

This is the very basic concept of ourproject.

This is the estimated CO2 emission reduction.
deforestation will increase like this.
may keep the forest area size.

You see that without the REDD+ projectIn 2011 we started REDD+ project, so with REDD+ project weThe gap between the two lines will become the carbon credit. We

estimate 86,000 tons of CO2 per year.

This is our estimation just for Boalemo district.

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This page is explaining about scaling concept. As I said, this is Gorontalo province, and we areworking here in Boalemo.

We are using MRV here and the reference emission level is for whole

Gorontalo province. We refer to the reference emission level here.

Now our project is very famousin the province, so neighboring districts’ Bupati, they would like to do the same project in their district,so they are asking us to do the same project here.
expand our project.

Therefore, probably this year or next year we will

Then we will apply the same MRV to the whole of Gorontalo province.

our concept of scaling, so we use the same MRV and we will refer to the same REL.

This isIf acceptable,

this is not difficult for us to do.
The parents of these children are corn farmers.
future.

I hope they will become cacao farmers in theBoalemo farmers produce high quality cacao and bring prosperity to the community. We

hope this program expands over the whole of Gorontalo.
help to the Indonesian government, too.

This is our goal.

I hope we would be ofThen we would like to share the carbon credit.

very much.

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Thank you