Prabowo summons Forestry Minister Raja Juli to Palace Thursday afternoon
President Prabowo Subianto has summoned Forestry Minister (Menhut) Raja Juli Antoni to attend a limited meeting at the Indonesian Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Thursday afternoon.
“I was asked to present myself to the President at 1:30 p.m. WIB. I don’t yet know what the agenda is,” said Raja Juli in response to journalists’ questions when met at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Thursday.
Nevertheless, Raja Juli stated that he had prepared several reports to present directly to President Prabowo.
“I’ve prepared some materials on forestry, on national parks, on our plan to establish a task force for national park financing, and various other matters,” said Raja Juli.
Regarding the National Park Financing Task Force, Raja Juli explained that budget allocations from the state budget (APBN) for national park management have been inadequate to date. For this reason, the Forestry Ministry has taken the initiative to seek new sources of funding to finance conservation and management needs of national parks.
“The task force for national park financing that we have. We have 57 national parks in Indonesia, and their budgets have been inadequate to date, and we hope our national parks can become world-class. Therefore, funding is needed beyond the APBN,” said the Forestry Minister.
In a separate matter, Raja Juli explained in mid-January that the National Park Financing Task Force is expected to provide sustainable funding sources for Indonesia’s 57 national parks. According to Raja Juli, the establishment of the task force is aligned with President Prabowo’s instruction for the government to take extraordinary steps to protect national biodiversity and national parks.
“This task force will provide strategic direction and coordinate the implementation of the National Park Financing Investment Strategy and Framework. Secondly, revision of all necessary regulations, and the issuance of new regulations if needed, to enable Indonesia to partner effectively with the private sector,” said Raja Juli in an official statement on 22 January 2026.
Raja Juli then exemplified several sustainable financing models that can be adopted, including those implemented by the Peusangan Elephant Conservation Initiative (PECI) in Aceh Province, which focuses on the protection of Sumatran elephants, and also those implemented by Way Kambas National Park in Lampung Province, Sumatra.
“We are currently building the necessary foundation so that Way Kambas can become Indonesia’s first carbon offset project site within the national park system that is open to the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM),” said Raja Juli in the same official statement.