Socialization of the Ecology-Based Fiscal Incentive Scheme from the East Kalimantan Provincial Government to City Districts

Monday, 11/14/2022 Ir. Hidayanti Darma, MP (Head of Economy and Natural Resources-Bappeda, East Kalimantan Province), Agus Taswanto, S.T., M. Ling. (Young Expert Planner, Sub-Coordinator of SDA-LH – Bappeda Provincial Kalimantan) as well as all Young Expert Planners and Staff in the Economic and Natural Resources Sector of Bappeda Provincial Bappeda. East Kalimantan attended the Socialization agenda for the Scheme for Providing Ecology-Based Fiscal Incentives from the East Kalimantan Provincial Government to City Districts

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The socialization was attended by 10 districts/cities from OPD elements from Bappeda/Bappelitbang; Environmental Service; BPKAD; Plantation Service; Department of Agriculture. The socialization was opened by Ir. Hidayanti Darma, MP as head of division. Economy and Natural Resources Bappeda Provincial East Kalimantan. By presenting a resource person, namely M. Fadli

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Ecological Based Fiscal Incentives or Ecological Fiscal Transfer (EFT) is a model of allocating transfer spending from higher government to lower level governments in each region, namely: from the center to the province (TANE), from the province to the district/city (TAPE), and from the district to the village (TAKE) based on consideration of the ecological performance that has been achieved. This fiscal transfer scheme is intended to support environmental protection activities by adding ecological indicators as one of the requirements in providing fiscal transfers.

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The TAPE initiative in East Kalimantan was initiated using a special financial assistance scheme from the province to districts/cities. TAPE Criteria, Weights and Indicators for assessing the proposed financial assistance include: the first criterion is the policy for the protection and management of forests, peatlands and mangroves with a weight of 30% and indicators Percentage of Green Open Space (RTH), Biodiversity Parks (TK) and/or Regency/City Botanical Gardens, Regency/City Grand Forest Parks (THR), High Conservation Value Areas (ANKT), and/or other Regency/City Protected Areas (KP) managed, such as KEE, peat protection, etc.

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The second criterion is waste handling with a weight of 30% and the indicator Percentage of waste utilized:

SDK: Reused waste (tons)

SDU: Recycled waste (tons)

SO: Waste processed (tons)

TS: Waste Generation (tons)

The third criterion is improvement in water quality with a weight of 20% and the indicator is changes in the water quality index

The fourth criterion is improvement in air quality with a weight of 20% and the indicator is changes in the air quality index.

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The data collection and index assessment process is carried out in the following stages:

Data is collected by conducting an independent assessment by the Regency/City using the form provided.

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The district/city government fills in the data accompanied by regional documents as a verification tool and sends it to the Provincial Verification Team.

The Provincial Verification Team carries out assessment, verification and scoring (scoring) of the forms that have been sent by the district/city government.

The Provincial Verification Team calculates the cumulative index value of the environmental performance achievements of the provincial government and uses it as a basis for calculating the index value in providing budget ceilings for special environment-based financial assistance for district/city governments.

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