Date: 16th December (Friday)
Time: 14:00 – 16:30 am
Venue: Inamori Memorial Building, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University 3rd floor, Middle Meeting Room

Presenters & titles
Prof. Bramasto Nugroho (Forest Management Department, Faculty of Forestry, Bogor Agricultural University)
“Forestry Research on Policy, Governance and Institutions in Indonesia:　Challenges and Opportunities”.

Dr. Agus Setyarso（Professional Certification Body in Indonesia Forestry）
“The Development of Forest Management Unit (KPH) as New Governance in Forestry in Indonesia”

Prof. Kanehiro Kitayama (Laboratory of Forest Ecology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University)
“Enhancement of ecosystem services in production forests of East Kalimantan for the benefits of local foresters”

Prof. Mamoru Kanzaki (Laboratory of Forest Resources and Society, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University)
“Forest Management and Rural Development for SDGs: Implications from Cases in Southeast Asian Countries and Japan”

Commentator: Prof. Misa Masuda (Tsukuba University)

Organizers: Institute for Global Environmental Strategies; Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University; Japan Consortium for Area Studies.

We are planning to have a dinner after seminar.
Please send email to lahang.lejau”at”gmail.com if you are int4eresrteed join the dinner, too.

Profiles of the presenters
Prof Bramasto Nugroho is a professor in forestry policy and institution. He is member of Forestry Policy Division, Forest Management Department, Faculty of Forestry, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) and lecturing courses of forestry policy analysis, forestry development policy, forest resources management institution and forestry governance. His research topic focuses on policy, institutions and governance with various objects like transaction costs in forest utilization business, micro credit institutions for supporting development of community forest plantation in outside of Java and small private forest in Java, financial management system for Forest Management Unit (FMU) and the opportunities of FMU financial self-sufficiency, institutional arrangement for payment for environmental services (PES), REDD+ and Low Emission Development. His recent activities are facilitating governance improvement for PERUM PERHUTANI (forestry state own enterprise) that supervised by Department of Research and Development of Indonesian Anti-corruption Commission (Litbang KPK), supporting the preparation of Low Emission Development (LED) Planning in Locally Appropriate Mitigation Action of Indonesia (LAMA-I) program funded by DANIDA in 2 provinces and 6 regencies, member of expert team for acceleration of development and operationalization of FMU, and resource person for various FMU’s policies and regulations.

Agus Setyarso is basically an academician, associated with Gadjah Mada University and Institute of Stiper Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He is currently the Chairperson for the Professional Certification Body in Indonesia Forestry (LSPHI). He is also the chairperson for the Academic Chamber of the National Forestry Council of Indonesia. His passion in SFM can be traced back in 1984 when he established the first ever Forest management Unit (FMU) outside Java, Indonesia. He continued to FMUs at Sumatra and Borneo during the period of 1993-1996. In 1994 he joint a group of imminent persons to establish Indonesian Ecolabelling Institute (LEI) and then became Chairperson of LEI board. He joined WWF Indonesia in 2000 to 2004 to produce guidelines to combat illegal logging in Indonesia and to promote forest certification. He formulated timber legality definition and then facilitated the standard of timber legality and its verification system (Indonesia TLAS). He joined the expert panel in drafting Government Regulation NO 6/2007 which mandated the government to established FMUs all over Indonesia. He was assigned as the National Executive Secretary for the development of FMUs (2012-2015). He is still a senior adviser to the Secretariat. His passion to promote SFM is also indicated by continuing effort to promote certification for personnel in forestry.