Natural resources management at the landscape level requires an integrated view of all aspects of the landscape (bio-physical, social, economic, and cultural) that optimises benefits for stakeholders living in the landscape. In order to develop principles for landscape approaches in natural resource management, TBI Indonesia, in collaboration with IUCN and ITTO, and with the support of the Ministry of Forestry and DGIS, published a Guideline for Forest Landscape Restoration in Indonesia. The guideline was developed by an informal Indonesian National Working Group on Landscape Restoration during a workshop held in Bali in May 2009 and has become a complement for the Ministry of Forestry Regulation No: P.61/Menhut-III/2008 regarding the provision and procedures for issuing permits for ecosystem restoration of forest timber utilisation of natural forests in production forests.

The application of forest landscape restoration in Indonesia should lead to an improved government policy on the rehabilitation and conservation of forests. TBI Indonesia, facilitated by the Forest Research and Developing Agency (FORDA) of the Ministry of Forestry and IUCN, organised a second workshop on forest landscape restoration entitled “Development of a National Plan for Landscape Restoration in Indonesia”. The workshop was conducted in Wanagama, Yogyakarta on 7-8 December 2009. The 2 days workshop was attended by 61 participants from government in various level, research institutions, universities, NGOs and private sector in forestry business. The opening address of the workshop was given by the Minister of Forestry, through the Director General of Forest Production Development (Dr. Hadi Daryanto), demonstrating the importance of forest landscape restoration on the political agenda of the Ministry.

During the workshop four important issues were highlighted:

1. Inputs and comments to revise the Guideline of Forest Landscape Restoration in Indonesia.
2. Socialize the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration website (www.ideastransformlandscapes.org).
3. Agreement in increasing the number of learning sites for landscape restoration in Indonesia.
4. Initiating the development of the Indonesian Landscape Community (Asosiasi Masyarakat Bentang Alam Indonesia – MASBENI).

For more  information on the workshop: http://www.forestlandscaperestoration.org/workshops/indonesia200912/