In an effort to support the implementation of the national movement on the Climate Village Programme (ProKlim), FORCLIME is supporting the Sigi Regency Environmental Service in its implementation of this programme. ProKlim is a national programme launched by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK). This programme is intended to encourage climate-change adaptation and mitigation efforts at the grassroots level. KLHK is targeting the formation of 20,000 climate villages (ProKlim) by the end of 2024.

Sigi Regency is one of the regencies included in the Lore Lindu Biosphere Reserve (CBLL). In order to support the strengthening of the CBLL buffer zone, FORCLIME is facilitating the Sigi Regency Environmental Service in the conducting of assessments of villages to be proposed as future ProKlim Villages. The ProKlim assessments are being aimed at villages that have implemented climate action over the last two years and that are deemed to have responsible groups. One of these proposed villages is Baliase, and the Environmental Service conducted an assessment of activities related to climate action in Baliase Village on 19 March 2024. Baliase Village is one of 15 villages that underwent a phase I assessment in order to be proposed to receive the 2024 ProKlim Award.

Baliase Village has implemented various climate-related activities, including:
- Control of drought, flooding and landslides through irrigation, wells, reservoirs and water reservoirs.
- Prevention and control of diseases through the implementation of 3M (draining, filling, covering), the management of fish in community ponds and the implementation of PHBS (Clean and Healthy Living Behavior).
- Increasing of vegetation cover through reforestation activities that involve the planting of trees in every yard.

The Sigi Regency Environmental Service will now process the proposed designation of Baliase Village as a ProKlim Village in accordance with Regulation of the Directorate-General of Climate Change Control P4./2021 on Guidelines for the Implementation of the Climate Village Programme.

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