Bukit Bulan
CERTIFIED JANUARY 2025
The Bukit Bulan landscape site is part of the larger Bukit Barisan Forest Conservation Project. The Bukit Bulan communities seek to conserve 10,027 hectares of tropical rain forest located on the border of Kerinci Seblat National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Over the past thirty years expanding plantations, logging operations, and mining companies have driven rapid deforestation in surrounding watersheds. In response, the six indigenous villages have created a long-term conservation plan for their ancestral forests.
With support of WARSI, the local communities are building their management institutions, conducting forest patrols, monitoring biodiversity, and implementing livelihood activities. The project has set aside an extensive Forest Conservation Area comprised of primary tropical rainforest that contains diverse flora and fauna as well as important wildlife corridors that are connected to the National Park.
Project Summary
Project Site: Bukit Bulan
Participating Villages: Napal Melintang, Meribung, Mersip, Berkun, Temalang, and Lubuk Bedorong,
Regency/Province: Sarolangun/Jambi
Elevation: 400 – 700 meters above sea level
Community/Household: 4,673 inhabitants
Ethnic group/Language: Jambi Malay (genus: Bathinjo Panghulu)/Bukit, Bulan, Jambi Malay, Indonesian
Project Start Date: 2010 (Customary Forest Decree), 2017 (Village Forest decree)
Total Project Area: 11,417 hectares
Forest Conservation Area: 10,027 hectares
Forest Tenure Status: Customary Forests and Village Forests
Biodiversity Level: Extremely high
Forest Carbon Stock: 644 tCO2 per hectares
Forest Carbon Sink: 6,457,388 tCO2
Forest Carbon Benefit (Carbon Emissions Reductions): 219,014 tCO2 or 21,901 tCO2 per years
Cost per Biodiversity Credit (BC equal to one conservation hectare): $6.33
Carbon benefit per BC: 2.18 tCO2
