Forestry Ministry: Human Resource Capacity Building Key to Carbon Market Development
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Ministry of Forestry considers the improvement of human resource capacity to be a key element in efforts to develop a credible, transparent, and high-integrity national carbon market.
Chief Advisor to the Minister of Forestry Edo Mahendra, in a statement issued in Jakarta on Monday, said that strengthening human resources goes hand in hand with strengthening the national regulatory framework, whilst ensuring that forestry carbon trading delivers benefits for the climate, forest conservation, and communities.
Edo said that in the Indonesian context, capacity building must proceed in step with the implementation of Presidential Regulation Number 110 of 2025 on the Implementation of Carbon Economic Value Instruments and Minister of Forestry Regulation Number 6 of 2026 on Procedures for Carbon Trading Through Greenhouse Gas Emission Offsets in the Forestry Sector.
“Regulations provide the foundation for governance, but market integrity is very much determined by the quality of the people implementing them. We need personnel who not only understand the regulations, but are also able to manage carbon data, MRV (Measurement, Reporting, and Verification), safeguards, project integrity, and market mechanisms,” Edo said.
Head of the Forestry Ministry’s Agency for Extension and Human Resource Development (BP2SDM) Indra Eksploitasia added that strengthening understanding of international carbon integrity standards, national regulations, digital MRV, the nested approach, safeguards, and benefit-sharing mechanisms needs to be introduced to young people seeking to enter green jobs, particularly carbon trading.
“The carbon market must not be seen merely as a trading mechanism. The carbon market must serve as an instrument for building an integrity-based carbon market ecosystem to ensure emission reductions that are real, measurable, and verifiable, that benefit communities, and that support the achievement of Indonesia’s climate targets,” Indra said.
This, he continued, can happen through the transformation of market actors, namely human resources becoming the most important asset in the green jobs transition.
“Therefore, carbon market development must be accompanied by the building of a carbon competency framework, upskilling and reskilling programmes, and the development of relevant professional certifications,” Indra said.
“Green jobs in the forestry sector do not only mean new jobs. Green jobs also mean transforming existing jobs so that they acquire new competencies in line with the demands of the green economy,” he added.