Privatizing Conservation Areas’ Restoration
The government is drafting regulations for the restoration of conservation areas by private entities, non-governmental organizations, or local communities. Carbon trading could be a business option.
Dody Hidayat
March 3, 2025

ARUM Mutazim was stunned when he learned that the forest he had planted and tended to for a decade at the Way Kambas National Park, Lampung, had been ravaged by fire. The Auriga Nusantara Foundation area supervisor had only replanted 5 hectares of forest, but it was located in the heart of the densest zone within the 1,250-hectare Block 2 of the Rawa Kadut area. “I suspect that deer poachers intentionally set the fire,” Arum said
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