NORWAY SUPPORT AS GLOBAL RESPOND IN INDONESIA PEATLANDS RESTORATION

Abstract

Indonesia become the 4th largest of peatland size in the world (14.905.574 hectare) after Russia, Canada and United States of America. The peatland itself contains the huge number of carbon dioxide. If it is not maintain careful, it will lead production of carbon dioxide (CO2) much bigger. Therefore, it will become another caused of global warming. Related with this matter, a wise handling is mandatory to create the benefit of peatland for prosperity purposing. According the size of peatland in Indonesia, It is also experiencing many of problem which related the cause of global warming. One of problem is forest fires. Some of them occur in peatland. When it occur handling for firefighting will be very difficult. In the other hand, the peatland itself become one of the answer of global problem, such as food security, energy and climate change, of course if conducting with right implementation of sciences and technology. So that, it is also become the global concern, where this is not only become Indonesia responsibility in terms of maintaining and managing peatland, it also become the global respond. One of country who concern about peatland in Indonesia is Norway. Norway become the biggest donor country in Indonesia related with managing and restoration peatland, through a grant, which distributed to Indonesia Peatland Restoration Board (PRB) since 2016. This country has agreed to help Indonesia with USS 4 Million, that used for maximize the role of BRG through 4 action plan, which are: 1. Mapping and planning. 2. Developing a damping infrastructure. 3. Involving the local community based on empowerment local economic and lastly, 4. Research. Furthermore, in order to analyze these issue, researcher will implement theory of international fund and international cooperation, where the theory of international fund will focus on how the mechanism of Norway grant to Indonesia, and the theory of international cooperation will mainly focus on the analyses of Indonesia and Norway cooperation in order to reduce the global problem in this case is peatland restoration. After that, the methodology of this research is descriptive analysis which will present and explain how cooperation between Norway and Indonesia through BRG implement 4 action plan and based on grant that came from Norway. Another important think is the technique of this study, is field research where researcher will conducting the observation of peatland in Indonesia and performing in-depth interview in order to get the valid data. Finally, in this research found that Norway become the main actor and partner of Indonesia in restore the peatland, and maximize the land as one of economic sector that will lead a prosperity for Indonesia citizen, and globally will become a solution of global problem. However, even Norway has a huge deal in restore the peatland in Indonesia, the substantial or core problem of peatland restoration still lack of serious concern from Indonesia government, such as mapping of hydrology peatland zonation, cultivation, and stabilization of protected forest.