Nusantara Biodiversity Management Master Plan
The Nusantara Capital Authority is committed to supporting the government’s agenda in three global campaigns, namely biodiversity, climate change, and achieving sustainable development goals. After launching the Nusantara Net Zero Strategy at the 2023 United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP) and preparing the Voluntary Local Review Sustainable Development Goals, we gratefully announce that the Nusantara Biodiversity Management Master Plan has been successfully finalized.
The Nusantara Biodiversity Management Master Plan is a manifestation of our commitment to building Nusantara as a sustainable forest city, including strategies for protecting and managing biodiversity. As a government institution, which will later become a special regional government, the Nusantara Capital Authority makes serious efforts to implement the Presidential Instruction concerning mainstreaming biodiversity conservation in sustainable development. In addition, the Nusantara Biodiversity Management Master Plan also symbolizes our effort to contribute to the target of protecting global biodiversity, which the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) 2022 strives to achieve.
The Master Plan sets the direction for policies, programs, and targets to protect biodiversity in Nusantara over the next five years (2024-2029). This is a crucial momentum that will determine the fundamentals of Nusantara Forest City as it enters the third stage of development and is crucial for achieving the 2030 Kunming-Montreal GBF target. We hope the biodiversity in Nusantara can be enriched by 2030 through programs to protect remaining ecosystems, habitats, and species, as well as restore damaged and degraded ecosystems. By doing so, hopefully, we can achieve a Nature Positive condition. Adequate institutional, technological, and funding preparation as well as support from all parties, including communities with protected local wisdom, will be required.
The Master Plan was prepared through literature reviews, field surveys, and a series of discussions with experts and representatives of government agencies and local governments. We also conducted a multi-party public consultation to collect feedback regarding this plan.
On behalf of the Nusantara Capital Authority, I would like to thank all of the parties who have supported the preparation of the Nusantara Biodiversity Management Master Plan.
In particular, we would also like to express our gratitude to the Asian Development Bank and the Australian Government for their full support in the study and preparation of the Master Plan.
Jakarta, 21 March 2024
BAMBANG SUSANTONO
Chairman of Nusantara Capital Authority
