Indonesia's Land Area, Forest Cover, Reforestation, and Net Deforestation in 2024

The Ministry of Forestry (Kemenhut) released its monitoring report on Indonesia's forest conditions and deforestation in 2024. The monitoring was conducted across all Indonesian landmasses, covering 187 million hectares (ha).

The results show that forested land in Indonesia in 2024 totaled 95.5 million ha, or about 51% of the total landmass. Of this area, 87.8 million ha, or 91.9%, is located within forest areas.

Kemenhut explained that throughout last year, reforestation was also carried out on 217.9 thousand ha. This achievement came from forest and land rehabilitation within forest areas, covering 71.3 thousand ha, and outside forest areas, covering 146.6 thousand ha.

"Meanwhile, over the last decade, the average annual forest and land rehabilitation figure was 230 thousand ha," Kemenhut explained.

Net deforestation in 2024 was recorded at 175.4 thousand ha. This figure was obtained by subtracting the 40.8 thousand ha of reforestation results from the gross deforestation of 216.2 thousand ha.

According to Kemenhut, the majority of gross deforestation occurred in secondary forests, covering an area of 200.6 thousand ha.

In curbing the rate of deforestation, Kemenhut stated that strategic steps have been taken, including:

• Controlling forest and land fires;
• Implementing the Presidential Instruction on Halting New Permits and Improving Governance of Primary Natural Forests and Peatlands;
• Controlling peatland damage and climate change;
• Limiting changes in forest area allocation for non-forestry sectors;
• Sustainable forest management and social forestry;
• Forest and land rehabilitation; and
• Forestry law enforcement.

"These efforts are also in line with the Indonesia FOLU Net Sink 2030 program, which aims to reduce carbon emissions from the forestry and other land use sectors, and achieve a balance of emissions and carbon sequestration by 2030," Kemenhut said.