KKP Ensures Science-Based Blue Carbon Climate Actions
The Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) ensures that every marine-based climate action is executed using a data-driven, scientific approach, along with sustainability principles. Strengthening technical capacity is considered a crucial factor in ensuring the quality of credible and internationally recognised blue carbon reporting.
Secretary of the Directorate General of Marine Spatial Management at KKP, Miftahul Huda, stated that blue carbon management must be built on a strong scientific foundation, supported by a credible Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) system, while upholding high reporting integrity.
“Blue carbon management must be built on a strong scientific foundation, supported by a credible Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) system, and upholding high integrity principles,” said Miftahul Huda in an official statement in Jakarta on Thursday, 7 May 2026.
As an effort to enhance technical capacity, KKP, together with the Climateworks Centre – Monash University and the Centre for Coastal and Marine Resources Studies (PKSPL) at IPB University, held Training on Greenhouse Gas Reporting from Blue Carbon Ecosystems in Bogor, West Java.
The training was attended by dozens of participants from ministries and agencies, local governments, to academics with experience in managing blue carbon ecosystems. The materials provided covered international standards such as those from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), field data collection techniques, to carbon stock analysis in mangroves and seagrasses.
Miftahul Huda added that coastal ecosystems like mangroves and seagrasses have great potential in absorbing and storing carbon, making them a strategic solution in climate change mitigation.
“The sea is not only an economic space, but also a space for life and a space for the future that we must manage sustainably,” he emphasised.
Meanwhile, the Indonesia Country Lead of the Climateworks Centre, Jannata Egi Giwangkara, stressed the importance of strengthening human resource capacity as the foundation for effective marine and climate governance. She stated that the Climateworks Centre is committed to being a long-term partner for the Indonesian government in building systems, capacity, and evidence-based solutions.
“We believe that the future of Indonesia’s marine-based climate action is determined by practitioners who can translate science into action, and policies into real impacts,” she said.
This activity is part of a series of three integrated trainings covering greenhouse gas reporting, validation and verification of carbon projects through the MRV system, and the development of blue carbon economics. This approach is designed to build comprehensive competencies in national blue carbon management.
In addition to enhancing technical capacity, the training also serves as a platform to strengthen synergy between central government, local governments, academics, and international partners. Cross-sector collaboration is considered essential to address challenges in implementing marine climate actions, from data limitations to methodologies and inter-agency coordination.
Previously, the government has set a target for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 31.89 percent independently and up to 43.20 percent with international support by 2030, as outlined in the Enhanced Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC).
To support this target, KKP continues to accelerate marine and coastal governance to function as a resilient instrument for climate change mitigation. Steps taken include developing a blue carbon roadmap, building an MRV system, to implementing pilot projects in several coastal areas.
Through these various efforts, the marine sector is expected to make a significant contribution to achieving national climate targets while bringing sustainable economic benefits to coastal communities. KKP also reaffirms its commitment to continue strengthening science-based marine resource governance, collaboration, and technological innovation in line with the policies of the Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Sakti Wahyu Trenggono, in promoting the blue economy and improving the welfare of coastal communities.