In a comprehensive position paper released recently (May 5), Indonesia's Minister of Environment and Forestry Professor Siti Nurbaya has clarified that the accusation claiming that Indonesia's carbon trading for international markets is legally and technically closed is untrue.

The Indonesian Environment and Forestry Ministry is continuing to make consistent and substantial efforts to ensure that forest carbon governance remains on a legal track following the issuance of the landmark presidential regulation on the country's economic value of carbon, which was signed by President Joko Widodo in October last year.