At a joint business forum hosted by the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) and the Indonesia-America Chamber of Commerce (IACC) in New York, Indonesia’s Minister of Forestry Raja Juli Antoni reaffirmed the government’s commitment to building forestry carbon trading governance that is credible, transparent, and aligned with international standards. The minister positioned Indonesia’s approximately 120 million hectares of tropical forest as the foundation for global climate investment partnerships, signalling a shift in forest management philosophy — away from timber as the primary value and toward a broader portfolio including carbon, biodiversity, environmental services, and green economic development.
A regulatory milestone cited at the forum was Ministry of Forestry Regulation No. 6 of 2026, which the minister described as a landmark in the sector’s transformation. The regulation is said to provide legal certainty for producing, verifying, and trading carbon credits across concession types — covering natural production forests, industrial timber plantations, and social forestry areas — while explicitly integrating the national carbon market with ICVCM integrity principles and the Paris Agreement’s Article 6 mechanisms.
Indonesia is also promoting a multi-use forestry scheme allowing concession holders to develop diversified revenue streams simultaneously, including non-timber forest products, environmental services, ecotourism, and bioeconomy outputs such as biochar and sustainable biomass energy. On governance infrastructure, officials highlighted Indonesia’s submission of its Forest Reference Emission Levels to the UNFCCC, operationalization of the National Registry System (SRN), and the FOLU Net Sink 2030 target — which seeks to make the forestry and land-use sector a net carbon absorber by the decade’s end. A senior ministry official framed Indonesia’s pitch to investors as an offer of “strategic partnership” backed by regulatory certainty, not a request for development assistance.
Carbon Market Context
- The source cites biochar as one of several bioeconomy outputs Indonesia intends to develop under its multi-use forestry scheme. The research tracks active crediting frameworks for this pathway, including Biochar Production and Storage v1.2 (Isometric) and the Puro.earth Certification Framework – Biochar Edition 2025 V2 — standards that Indonesian concession developers may engage with as biochar project crediting matures.
- Among notable biochar credit creators tracked in the research are two Japan-based entities — 株式会社TOWING and 株式会社Chem．Eng．Lab． — illustrating that Asian-origin biochar crediting activity already exists in the global voluntary market, relevant context as Indonesia moves to formalise domestic bioeconomy credit pathways.
Source
- Indonesia tegaskan pembangunan tata kelola perdagangan karbon kredibelKantor Berita ANTARA, 2026-05-12