February 23, 2023
The jurisdictional approach offers an integrated approach that aims to reconcile social, economic, and environmental objectives through cooperation by a diverse set of stakeholders across different sectors, implemented within governmental administrative boundaries, with involvement from the government. The jurisdiction scale can vary from all levels, including country, state, province, or municipality.
The ideal jurisdictional approach involves a full range of stakeholders from all relevant government agencies at the national and subnational levels, sourcing companies, producers, Civil Societies Organizations (CSOs), indigenous communities, smallholder farmers and financial institutions. Each stakeholder representative aims to contribute to the shared goals to advance the green growth agenda.
Mobilizing Collective Action
Opportunities for co-creation and collaboration among stakeholder groups to pursue more coherent sustainable development and embark on collective action strategies are growing. Our aim is to curate business cases that demonstrate mainstreaming collective action agenda.
The aforementioned focus areas are closely related to the interconnected collective actions we propose through jurisdictions engagement, investment mobilizations and private sector coalitions.
In the context of global development, smallholders occupy a unique and important position. In most developing countries, smallholders produce the majority of produce consumed by the general population. The situation presents an imperative to support smallholders as a part of jurisdictional sustainability efforts.
Jurisdictional Collective Action Forum
The Jurisdictional Collective Action Forum (JCAF) is a collaborative platform created to promote the spirit of collective action (gotong royong) across leading jurisdictions in Southeast Asia toward forest positive future. In achieving its objectives, JCAF aims to build partnerships to address various sustainability challenges and opportunities involving key leaders across governments, sectors, and commodities.
JCAF provides an open and safe environment for all parties to contribute constructively. It offers opportunities and priorities across leading jurisdictions for scalable solutions. The JCAF can bring wider communities, promote sustainable policies and regulations, unlock investment opportunities and to develop evidence-based business cases publications.
Our role is to curate, convene and catalyze. In curating, we look for innovative and impactful ideas. In convening key stakeholders, we catalyze actions to support sustainable jurisdictions, promote sustainable supply chain agenda and catalyze collective actions.
While hundreds of stakeholders have endorsed the commitment to reduce the rate of deforestation by half by 2020 at the New York Declaration on Forests, significant progress has been made in the Southeast Asia region.
Furthermore, the Glasgow Leaders Declaration on Forests, signed by more than 141 countries at COP26 in November 2021, indicates forests and land use features prominently. The declaration is also accompanied by $20 billion of new financial resources and stronger private sector commitments.
The growing investment into voluntary carbon markets further hopes that new incentives will be available to encourage greater conservation and restoration of critical ecosystems alongside economically productive activities.
New collaborations on different levels between the government and private sectors are paramount to achieving the expected progress. The Indonesian spirit of gotong royong essentially embodies the essence of collective action—a communal effort responsibility to undertake a task of importance to the whole community.
JCAF Collaborators
In bridging sustainability efforts and collaborations between parties across different levels, JCAF Dialogue is supported by various partners.
Cocoa Sustainability Partnership (CSP) is a forum for public-private collaboration and the betterment of cocoa development in Indonesia. CSP supports the Indonesian cocoa sector in the international market and exists to increase communication, coordination, and collaboration between public and private stakeholders engaged in cocoa sustainability activities for the benefit of all stakeholders.
Daemeter Consulting is a leading independent consulting firm focusing on promoting sustainable development through responsible and equitable management of natural resources. Daemeter’s clients include multinational businesses, NGOs, governments, and research organizations, providing services to forestry, agriculture, finance, energy, mining, and the international development sectors. Daemeter is headquartered in Indonesia, with offices in the USA and projects mainly across Asia.
A CEO-led association of companies operating in Indonesia, who share the same commitment of promoting sustainable development through sustainable economic growth, ecological balance, and social progress. Indonesia Business Council for Sustainable Development (IBCSD) was launched in April 2011 and is a regional chapter of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).
IPMI Case Center is a think tank for cases in the IPMI International Business School which has also conducted a number of workshops focusing on case writing and case teaching. IPMI has been a conduit for the writing of cases to facilitate case discussions in the school and spearheaded a case writing project that included IPMI graduates as research associates.
Formerly incorporated as PT Bentang Alam Indonesia, Landscape Indonesia bridges sustainable landscape management with financial resources. Its mission is to ensure that landscape management in Indonesia is carried out and financed sustainably. Landscape Indonesia supports landscape approach programs that spatially and participatory strives to balance seemingly competing goals of protection and production.
Lingkar Temu Kabupaten Lestari (LTKL), or the District Government Association, was formed and managed by the aforementioned government level to realize sustainable development that protects the environment and improves the community's welfare through mutual cooperation. LTKL is a sustainable development caucus from the Association of District Governments throughout Indonesia (APKASI) established in July 2017.
Partnership for Indonesia’s Sustainable Agriculture (PISAgro) was founded in response to the need for a public-private partnership platform to address the issues facing Indonesia’s agriculture sector.
Proforest is a not-for-profit organization with a global presence that has established itself as a leader in developing and implementing sustainable production and sourcing of agricultural and forestry commodities—including soy, sugar, palm oil, cocoa, beef, and timber. Proforest supports the transition to commodity production and sourcing that delivers positive social and environmental outcomes where commodities are produced. These positive outcomes provide the compass for all its work, including protecting and restoring forests and natural ecosystems, conserving biodiversity, advancing gender equality, and respecting human rights.
A non-profit and independent institution established in 2003 with the objective to advance philanthropy in Indonesia that can contribute to the progression of social justice and sustainable development. PFI intended to advance the interests of philanthropists, both from the giver sector, intermediaries, and beneficiaries, based on the principles of partnership, equality, diversity, justice, the universality of philanthropy, and nationality of Indonesia.
A leading public private partnership brings together different perspectives and viewpoints from the public and private sectors to advance action by the private sector leaders to reduce deforestation from supply chains. Hosted by the World Economic Forum, TFA’s 170+ alliance partners include companies, government entities, civil society, indigenous peoples, local communities, and international organizations, working together through Forest-Positive Collective Action to advance the world's transition to deforestation-free commodity supply chains.
JCAF Dialog Series
A series of recent and upcoming dialogues hosted by JCAF on subjects related to JCAF’s concerns.
November 29, 2021
September 29, 2021