VISION MISSION VISION AND MISSION

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CHAPTER 2. VISION AND MISSION

A. VISION

In accordance with Article 3 of Act 41 of 1999 concerning Forestry, with the conditions of forests and forestry in Indonesia, and with the approval of the 2004-2009 House of Representatives, the vision of forestry development has been defined as follows: “Realisation of Forestry Governance for Securing Forests Sustainability and Promoting People’s Prosperity” Based on the vision, the Ministry of Forestry carries out forest governance to obtain optimum and sustainable benefits for the greatest, equitable prosperity of the people. The priority goals for attainment of the Ministry of Forestry’s vision in the medium- term 2005-2009 are as follows: 1. Decentralisation on forestry developmentis is achieved and supported by stakeholders for increasing community welfare and supporting forest resources sustainability. 2. Combatting illegal logging and its associated trade; 3. Implementation of sustainable forest management principles by estabilishing Forest Management Unit FMU at list one’s unit for each province; 4. Development of plantation forests of 5.0 million hectares, and forest land rehabilitation of 5.0 million hectares. 5. Establishment of 20 National Parks Model; 6. Revitalization and development of community forest, in particular outside of Java. 7. Revitalization of 282 priority watersheds to optimize forest functions; 8. Improvement of vary bussines of Non Timber Forest Products NTFP and environmental services commercially. 9. Improvement of labour absorption of 3-10 , and increasing community income within and surrounding the forest by 3-4 per capita. 10. Gazettement of 12 million hectare of forest area.

B. MISSION

In accordance with Act 41 of 1999 concerning Forestry, Act 5 of 1990 concerning Conservation of Natural Resources and its Ecosystems, and aproval of House of Representatives period 2004-2009 on 01 December 2004, the missions of the Ministry of Forestry are as follows: 1. Securing forests existence with adequate extent and distributed proportionally; 2. Optimising different functions of forests and water ecosystems, which include conservation, protection, wood and non-wood products, and environmental services, to obtain environmental, social, cultural and economic benefits; 3. Increasing the carrying capacity of watersheds; 4. Promoting people’s participation; 5. Securing equitable and sustainable distribution of forest benefits; 6. Enhancing coordination between national and sub-national governments. 5

CHAPTER 3. PRESENT CONDITION