Integrated land and seascape solutions for Indonesia

Indonesia’s landscapes and seascapes are undergoing significant degradation due to changes in land use, human activities, unsustainable mineral and sand mining, and inadequate waste management. These issues threaten terrestrial and marine ecosystems and contribute to the endangerment of biodiversity. Addressing this degradation is vital for enhancing ecosystem resilience and fostering climate-resilient livelihoods.

Supported by IKI, SNV, in collaboration with GIZ, ICRAF, and KEHATI, the Integrated Land and Seascape Solutions for Indonesia (SOLUSI) is committed to establishing sustainable management practices for aquatic systems, agricultural lands, and agroforestry landscapes. Through an integrated land and seascape management approach, it aims to achieve shared sustainability goals.

The goal is to enhance ecosystem resilience, which will help maintain biodiversity, natural resources, and ecosystem services, ultimately benefiting local livelihoods.

SOLUSI project will be implemented over five years from 2023 to 2028 in three provinces in Indonesia: Central Java Province, Bangka Belitung Province, and Central Sulawesi Province. 

The project will engage with national, sub-national, and local stakeholders to advance spatial and development planning by incorporating principles of the green and blue economies. This includes the protection, restoration, and management of natural and semi-natural ecosystems, promotion of sustainable business practices, ecotourism, integrated waste management, and access to sustainable finance.

Its implementation will focus on three main components: improving plastic waste management, establishing inclusive, sustainable, and climate-resilient supply chains through partnerships, and increasing access to innovative financing. Additionally, the project will collaborate fully with the Government of Indonesia at the national, provincial, and local levels to ensure that related policies and regulations are in place and properly enforced.

Integrated plastic waste management

The key to improving plastic waste management is through behaviour change approaches (campaign is one of such, but not solely the main activity). The project will seek to ensure the implementation of integrated plastic waste management to foster a circular economy through the implementation of smart incentives for behavioural change; strengthen the capacity of related stakeholders to practice reduce, reuse, and recycle; encourage collaboration with the private sectors; and also support the development of relevant policy and regulation at the city level.

Public-private community partnership (PPCP)

The project will encourage a collaborative scheme among key stakeholders to create a new business model that harvests the role and contribution of each key stakeholder to support farmers in adopting regenerative agriculture and fishery practices to be more climate resilient. Regenerative agriculture and aquaculture have three principles: reducing the use of chemicals for soil health, maximizing water use efficiency, and conserving biodiversity.

Innovative financing

Not only at the household level, the project will engage with small- and large-scale private sector to ensure they are involved in enforcing their environmental duty. We aim for the private sector to fund any activity related to environmental improvement through the innovative financing mechanism. We have identified types of financing mechanisms that we want to push through: carbon financing, circular economy financing, payment for environmental services (PES), green financing, blue financing, ESG financing, blended financing, public-private partnership, philanthropic financing, and disaster financing.