Jakarta (ANTARA) – The Ministry of Forestry emphasized that investment opportunities in Indonesia's forestry sector are increasingly open in developing carbon trading in line with international standards.”Indonesia has entered a new phase in the carbon market era. This time, our political will is clearly translated into regulatory products,” said Edo Mahendra, Principal Advisor to the Minister of Forestry, in a statement here on Monday.He added that Minister of Forestry Regulation Number 6 of 2026 serves as the foundation for expanding these opportunities, while also accelerating carbon trading in the forestry sector through clearer and simpler business processes.He believes that this regulation is a response to the growing market demand for high-quality, high-integrity carbon credits.”In this case, the government is opening up all mechanisms for carbon economic value instruments, including through the nesting scheme,” Mahendra said.”The nesting approach is considered crucial for ensuring environmental integrity, preventing double counting, and strengthening market and investor confidence,” he added.Meanwhile, the Director General of Sustainable Forest Management at the Ministry of Forestry, Laksmi Wijayanti, stated that the government is very open to carbon investment in the forestry sector by opening all mechanisms for carbon economic value instruments.She added that currently there is a government commitment through the President's Special Envoy for Climate and Energy who has published a plan for a restoration or rehabilitation program for 12 million hectares of critical land.The government is also reducing forestry sector emissions (through avoidance carbon project) on 50 million hectares of land, 8.3 million hectares of social forestry, and 1.4 million hectares of customary forests at COP 30 UNFCCC in Belem, Brazil, 2025.”The Indonesian government is opening up all forest carbon investment opportunity mechanisms to meet President Prabowo Subianto's commitment targets,” she said.Director of Forest Utilization Business Development at the ministry, Ilham, said the government has also issued regulations to simplify business processes for forest carbon credit investment through Minister of Forestry Regulation 6/2026 without reducing output that produces carbon credits with integrity and high quality.”The President's commitment to the restoration/rehabilitation of 12 million hectares is a major challenge for the forestry sector, but it aligns with the needs of the international carbon market, which demands high-quality, integrated carbon credit products,” Ilham said.The required criteria include compliance with international standards and the Core Carbon Principles (CCP) of the Integrity Council for Voluntary Carbon Markets (ICVCM), which is the fulfillment of additionality of involvement and benefit sharing to the biodiversity protection and safeguard communities.