JAKARTA, Investortrust.id — Indonesia commits US$1 billion to the Tropical Forest Forever Fund on Tuesday, Dec 2, 2025 in Jakarta as President Prabowo Subianto reinforces global cooperation to protect tropical forests and address climate threats. The pledge advances an initiative led by Brazil to create a permanent endowment that finances long term forest conservation.

Utusan Khusus Presiden Bidang Iklim dan Energi Hashim Djojohadikusumo explained that he represented Prabowo at the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP30 in Belem, Brazil, where Indonesia underlined its strengthened climate stance. He said the fund aimed to channel sustained financial support for global tropical forest protection and restoration.

Hashim stated that Prabowo set Indonesia’s commitment at US$1 billion to align with Brazil’s own pledge and to ensure that Indonesia played a leading role among tropical forest nations. He added that long term funding was essential because short cycle donor programs often failed to deliver durable environmental outcomes.

He noted that the Tropical Forest Forever Fund received backing from several countries, including Norway with a ten year commitment of US$3 billion. The Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo Brazzaville, Amazon basin countries, and additional tropical forest states also expressed support for what is expected to become the world’s most coordinated conservation financing platform.

Hashim emphasized that Indonesia’s forests, among the largest and most biodiverse tropical ecosystems on earth, positioned the country as a crucial partner in global climate action. He argued that long term conservation funding aligned with Prabowo’s broader agenda to protect natural capital while ensuring that local communities benefited from sustainable development.

The Tropical Forest Forever Fund

The Tropical Forest Forever Fund was conceptualized by Brazil as a permanent endowment designed to generate long term, predictable financing for the protection of tropical forests worldwide. The fund’s structure sought to avoid the volatility of traditional climate finance mechanisms that depended on political cycles or year to year donor budgets. It emphasized preservation of standing forests, restoration of degraded landscapes, and community based conservation programs.

The fund required commitments from major tropical forest countries to establish credibility and scale, and Brazil invited peer nations across Asia, Africa, and South America to participate as founding partners. Its financial model relied on investment returns from the endowment rather than periodic fundraising, allowing countries to plan multi decade conservation strategies.

Indonesia’s pledge marked one of the largest contributions from a single tropical forest nation and positioned the country as a co leader of the initiative alongside Brazil. Analysts viewed the fund as a potentially transformative mechanism in global climate governance, particularly if it aligned with carbon credit markets, biodiversity financing, and deforestation reduction programs.