Hutan Aceh jadi aset untuk transaksi "Broker Karbon"

JAKARTA - Greenomics Indonesia mengungkapkan, perusahaan broker karbon asal
Australia, Carbon Conservation, telah menjadikan perjanjian kerja samanya
dengan Pemerintah Aceh sebagai aset dalam bertransaksi saham dengan East
Asia Minerals Corporation, sebuah perusahaan tambang emas Kanada yang telah
melakukan eksplorasi emas di hutan Aceh.

Dalam perjanjiannya dengan Pemerintah Aceh tersebut --yang ditandatangani
pada Juli 2008- Carbon Conservation mendapatkan hak ekslusif dalam pemasaran
dan penjualan karbon kredit hutan Aceh pada Blok Ulu Masen seluas 700.000
hektare.

Dalam siaran pers yang diterbitkan oleh East Asia Minerals Corporation
tertanggal 3 Mei 2011 (waktu Kanada), East Asia Minerals Corporation yang
tercatat pada Toronto Stock Exchange menyatakan bahwa mereka akan membayar
tunai sebesar 500.000 dollar Amerika Serikat serta menerbitkan 2,5 juta
lembar saham untuk Carbon Conservation.

"Greenomics Indonesia menentang keras langkah Carbon Conservation tersebut,
yang telah menjadikan perjanjian kerja samanya dengan Pemerintah Aceh
sebagai aset dalam transaksi saham dengan East Asia Minerals Corporation.
Greenomics meminta Gubernur Aceh untuk tidak membiarkan transaksi tersebut
berlanjut," tegas Koordinator Nasional Greenomics Indonesia Vanda Mutia
Dewi, dalam siaran pers yang diterima Serambi, Rabu (4/5) malam.

Vanda mengatakan, mekanisme transaksi saham itu secara jelas telah
menjadikan hutan Aceh seperti agunan yang digadaikan melalui suatu skema
transaksi saham. "Di satu sisi, East Asia Minerals Corporation punya
kepentingan bisnis tambang emas di hutan Aceh (Miwah Project). Di sisi lain
Carbon Conservation memiliki hak eksklusif dari Gubernur Aceh untuk menjual
dan memasarkan karbon kredit dari 700.000 hektare hutan Aceh pada blok hutan
Ulu Masen. Mengapa hutan Aceh dijadikan aset oleh Carbon Conservation untuk
mendapat dana dari transaksi saham dengan East Asia Minerals Corporation?
Ini jelas mengandung konflik kepentingan," tulis Vanda.

Carbon Conservation menurutnya telah menyalahgunakan perjanjian kerja
samanya dengan Pemerintah Aceh. "Transaksi saham itu harus ditolak
mentah-mentah," tegas Vanda.

Menurut Vanda, motif transaksi tersebut sangat jelas untuk kepentingan
bisnis East Asia Minerals Corporation dan Carbon Conservation. Buktinya
adalah pernyataan dari East Asia Minerals Corporation dalam siaran persnya
yang menyebutkan bahwa terdapat fakta di mana pelaku bisnis perhiasan skala
besar melakukan boikot terhadap emas yang diambil dari praktik pertambangan
yang tidak ramah lingkungan, atau mengambil emas dari kawasan-kawasan yang
sensitif secara lingkungan.

"Hutan Aceh, terutama kawasan hutan lindungnya, tergolong kawasan-kawasan
yang sensitif secara lingkungan. Perjanjian kerja sama antara Pemerintah
Aceh dan Carbon Conservation telah dijadikan tameng operasi tambang East
Asia Minerals Corporation melalui transaksi saham antara kedua perusahaan
itu," jelas Vanda.

Vanda mengaku sudah melakukan konfirmasi kepada Gubernur Irwandi Yusuf dan
Ketua DPRA Hasbi Abdullah soal transaksi saham tersebut. "Gubernur
menegaskan tidak pernah keluarkan rekom apa pun terkait operasi East Asia
Minerals Corporation di Aceh. Bahkan, Gubernur mengaku aneh, East Asia
Minerals Corporation sekarang operasional," ujar Vanda.

Karena itu, Greenomics meminta Gubernur Aceh Irwandi Yusuf untuk segera
meminta Carbon Conservation membatalkan transaksi saham tersebut. "Ketua
DPRA dengan tegas menyatakan menolak transaksi saham antara Carbon
Conservation dan East Asia Minerals Corporation," pungkasnya.(yos)

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Fast, Easy, Cheap But Inappropriate

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Exploitation of forests and peatlands for palm oil plantation industry (from the conversion of forests and peatlands for palm oil), Pulp plantation (expanded through social forestry scheme, community forest plantation -HTR), and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation is becoming a trend. The lack of wood supply for pulp-paper, an increase in demand of CPO (crude palm oil, palm oil) of the world, and increased release of greenhouse gases (GHG) from deforestation, forest degradation, are the reasons of the three kinds of forest peatlands.

Ministry of Forestry, Zulkifli Hasan stated in the opening ceremony of UN-REDD Inception Workshop at the Grand Melia Jakarta is organized in cooperation by Ministry of Forestry, FAO, UNEP and UNDP (31 / 3), where the Minister Hasan asserted of an immediate action for rehabilitation, restoration and investment in forests and peat sectors related to climate change mitigation, which are not contrary to the trend of forest and peat.

It is doubtful whether it was possible measures of rehabilitation, restoration to the investment as a significant action in the synergy-exploitation of forests and peat? It is worth to be assessed. From past experience, long before climate change mitigation in the forest and peat sector became a serious conversation, exploitation of forests and peatlands for oil palm plantations, HPH / HTI, and agriculture has led to various social and environmental issues.

These problems are increasingly broaden and sharpen the conflict between the company’s permit holders of HGU / HPH / HTI with the community; water, soil, and air pollution by the use of fertilizers, pestisida, and even chemical wastes from of pulp-paper mill; illegal logging and logging the wrong location; increasing violence against the community by the security forces, companies, and others. And meanwhile, the Fund for Rehabilitation (DR) have never been proven for the recovery of forests and peat, thus it even suspected this recovery fund reconciled in the Ministry of Finance (read: unused).

Until now, those experience has never been solved. Even The Minister of Forestry himself admits, forestry development in the previous period shows the decreasing of forest cover area. Forest area (peat), which form a forest cover area is only 49% of primary forests remaining (the forests in mountainous areas and steep-peat dome generally have status as conservation areas or national parks).
Fraud Mitigation

Via Koran Tempo (29 / 3), Meine van Noordwijk of ICRAF called mitigation of climate change through Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is a false concept. One reason, the concept of REDD is too much put its focus on the funding (money), while the aspect of justice (social and environmental) is abandoned.
Meine opinion is a severe blow to the bearers of REDD’s myth (fast, easy and cheap way) for climate change mitigation efforts in Indonesia, which touted the post-UNFCCC COP 13 in Bali. Moreover, if it were combined with investments of carbon trading in which REDD will tend to become offsets schemes, developed countries does not have to reduce its emissions by buying carbon sequestration services in developing countries that have forests and peat.

Back on the quotation of Minister Hasan in the event of UN-REDD ago, “.. the more important things is how fast the developed countries to invest in carbon trading in Indonesia“, it can’t be denied Kemenhut have a strong passion to make REDD as a model of commercial exploitation of forests and peat based on the mitigation of climate change.

While many people view the investment in forests and peat sector is not only for carbon sink services. But also increased investment for the previous industries to be more promising for the expansion of forests and peat Industrial Forest Plantation (pulp-paper), palm oil plantation (for biofuel / biofuel), and peat’s electric energy fuel. If all stakeholders believe that industries based on peat and forest conversion is a major factor that increased carbon emissions, the action and spirit of Kemenhut to use REDD as forestry industry services is very contradictory. And this is a what it called Fraud Mitigation.

And is there anyone dare to take a high risk to invest their money through REDD in Indonesia? Investment in forests and peat sector is very risky, sincethe investment needs certainty and security guarantees in its operations. Horizontal-vertical conflicts, destruction of natural resources and environment, and social injustice is still the main shadow of forest and peatlands management in Indonesia. And who is really dare? World Bank are brave enough to give countenance funding to the HTI industry (through the International Finance Corporation-IFC) as well as mitigation of climate change (through the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility).

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