Presidential Instruction (PI) No. 10/2011 regarding the Suspection of Granting New Licenses and Improvement of Natural Primary Forest and Peatland Governance was enacted in May 2011. In June 2011, the Ministry of Forestry published a series of maps at a scale of 1:250,000 known as the Indicative Map for the Moratorium on the Issuance of New Licenses for the whole of Indonesia. Part of the process is to update the Indicative Map every six months, and in December 2011 the first revision was published.

This report outlines a preliminary set of observations pertaining to the revised maps and the associated Ministerial decree, and recommendations related to achieving Indonesia’s national emission reduction targets.

While commendable in many ways, the revision process highlights the inability for the moratorium decree to achieve national emission reduction targets in isolation, and without expanded support in the form of (a) incentive mechanisms to encourage private sector to avoid high-carbon stock forests, (b) incentives and technical assistance to encourage alternative, low carbon planning decisions by Provincial governments and Regencies, (c) facilitation of the Ecosystem Restoration license model, and (d) strengthened community-based forest management models aligned towards strengthening REDD safeguards and equitable benefit sharing.