ASIATODAY.ID, JAKARTA – Indonesia has succeeded in exporting agroforestry commodities from the social forestry group to Japan.
The Minister of Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia, Raja Juli Antoni, said that the success of exporting commodities originating from social forestry and land rehabilitation programs proves that forests can be a source of people’s welfare and forests can also be the backbone of national food self-sufficiency.
The agroforestry products exported to Japan include petai, jengkol, chili, jackfruit, papaya leaves produced by the Social Forestry Group, Sukobubuk Rejo Forest Farmers Group, Pati, Central Java, with an area of approximately 100 hectares.
“So the forests remain sustainable, the people prosper from forest products which will become part of food self-sufficiency,” said Minister Raja Juli, when releasing social forestry group agroforestry commodity exports to Japan, in Jakarta, Tuesday, October 29 2024.
The Social Forestry Program is a policy to improve community welfare, reduce unemployment and reduce poverty levels, by providing access to forest area management for 35 years to communities living around forest areas in the form of groups known as Social Forestry Groups.
So that forests can be used in a protected and sustainable manner in social forestry, three aspects of management are inseparable, namely social management, area management and business management.
To date, Social Forestry Achievements have been achieved covering an area of ±8,018,575 hectares consisting of 10,952 SK Units for beneficiaries totaling 1,385,998 families spread across all provinces in Indonesia except DKI Jakarta.
From the Social Forestry Group which has received the Decree on Approval of Social Forestry Management, they formed a Social Forestry Business Group business unit based on commodities in the form of Timber Forest Products, Non-Timber Forest Products and Environmental Services.
Currently, 14,671 Social Forestry Business Groups have been formed with 116 commodities consisting of 3.55% of Timber Forest Products, 82.47% of Non-Timber Forest Products, and 13.98% of Environmental Services.
In social forestry management, the agroforestry pattern is the most appropriate model because it provides many benefits and advantages, one of which is that it can increase land cover and can produce non-timber forest product commodities, such as: petai, jengkol, chili, corn, coffee, candlenuts, wood oil white, empon-empon, and others.
On this occasion, the agroforestry commodities that have been successfully exported by the KTH Sukobubuk Rejo Social Forestry Group, Pati, Central Java, are dominated by Petai commodities.
The Petai commodity to be exported is 500 kg, along with other non-timber forest product commodities consisting of jengkol, orange bird’s eye chilies, curly red chilies, green bird’s eye chilies, bay leaves, papaya flowers, grated coconut, boiled young jackfruit and cassava leaves, boiled.
The total export quantity this time is 9 tons (1 20 Feet Container) with an economic transaction value of IDR 989 million. The petai products produced are the result of the Community Seed Gardens, Watershed Management and Forest Rehabilitation programs as a form of collaboration with Forest and Land Rehabilitation land restoration.
The consistent efforts of the Social Forestry Group which has succeeded in producing, maintaining quality and fulfilling the export market are highly worthy of appreciation. By successfully exporting, they have demonstrated their ability to collaborate to market their products overseas.
The release of exports of agroforestry commodities from the Sukobubuk Rejo Social Forestry Group to Japan was facilitated by PT. Asha Nouva International Indonesia with Sariraya Co. Ltd. Japan, both of which have collaborated with the Director General of Social Forestry and Environmental Partnerships, Indonesian Ministry of the Environment. (AT Network)
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