The Climate Village Programme (Proklim) is a national programme that is being organised by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK). This programme is intended to encourage climate change adaptation and mitigation actions and efforts at the ground level. During its implementation, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry is collaborating directly with various local governments as implementers and communities as active participants. Community involvement at the site level, whether at the village or hamlet levels, is seen as one of the keys to successful control of climate change. Adaptation to climate change encompasses control over droughts, floods and landslides, working to increase food security and tackling climate-related diseases. The various types of climate change mitigation actions that can be carried out in villages include waste management, uses of new energy and energy conservation, low-emissions agricultural cultivation, increasing and maintaining vegetation cover, as well as preventing and handling forest and land fires (Karhutla).

Sigi Regency is one of the Indonesian districts that is actively participating in this programme. To support Proklim and strengthen the buffer area of the Lore Lindu Biosphere Reserve (CBLL), the Sigi Regency Government organised an outreach session on Proklim, which was held on 28 June 2024 in Makmur Village, Palolo Sub-District, Sigi Regency, Central Sulawesi. The event was opened by the Secretary of the Sub-District Head, who is currently acting Head of Palolo District, Mr. Kasirun, S.Sos., MM., and was attended by various village government officials from Palolo Sub-District.

During the event, the Sulawesi Region Climate Change, Forest and Land Fire Control Center delivered a presentation that specifically addressed the definition, legal basis and objectives of Proklim. The goal was to provide the village government officials present with some understanding of efforts to implement the programme.

This dissemination event will be followed with a Proklim proposal and assessment in accordance with Regulation of the Directorate-General of Climate Change Control P4./2021 on Guidelines for the Implementation of the Climate Village Programme. Locations that can be proposed and assessed as Climate Villages are villages that have implemented sustainable climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts for more than two years and that have formed community groups/communities that are responsible for activities in this area.

For more information, please contact:
Muhammad Yusuf, Adviser for Social Forestry and Sustainable Forest Management
Ismet Khaeruddin, Senior Adviser for Biodiversity and Provincial Coordinator for Central Sulawesi