Kalimantan

Monetizing Carbon Trade-offs over Indonesia’s Heartland

Kalimantan is home to Indonesia’s richest biodiversity, carbon sink, vital river systems, and the new capital city, Nusantara. Yet, its landscapes face mounting pressure from deforestation, illegal mining, and unsustainable agriculture.

Through our BILD strategy, focussing on critical areas: Business, Infrastructure, Logistics, and Development, we’re asking our portfolio partners to building resilient forest ecosystem services with clean-techs, reducing material footprint, empower communities, and unlock sustainable investment.

Our Strategy : BILD Pillars in Action

1. Business: Empowering Circular Growth

We incubate nature-positive enterprises and enable carbon market access. From community-owned cooperatives producing forest goods to carbon offset partnerships, we make sustainability investable.

• Circular Capital Investment Zones for recycling industries.

• Forest-based MSMEs led by first nations-communities

• Verified carbon credits from restoration projects

2. Infrastructure: Building Forest Cities

With Nusantara as a model, we prioritize infrastructure that integrates with nature, not replaces it. The 97km of toll road network makes up about 3% of projected 2600km linking 56 cities and regencies through ringroads, junctions, and shortcuts. What people overlooked is the vast mass of peatland and carbon storage, while in fact, Kalimantan is blessed with enormous water bodies supporting first nation Dayak communities on its major riverbanks. At the same time, upstream hinterland water serves as main modes of transporting people, goods and trades. 

East Kalimantan is a region that is growing rapidly, second to Jakarta's $20,000 GDP, with communities at different economic levels pulling the industry in multiple directions whereas trends shifting from East to West. 

• Integrated Material Recovery Facility; biomass, waste-to-energy, waste-to-fuel. 

• Nature-friendly transit systems (TOD) empowered by Solar PV

• 2600km climate-resilient toll roads and solar pedestrian corridors

• River transport support system (Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul Industries)

3. Logistics: Connecting Without Costing the Planet

We rethink how goods move through multi-modal transport—faster, cleaner, and closer to communities. 

• Agro-Logistics Hubs: Cold-chain nodes linked to food estate projects, transmigration clusters in North, East and Central Kalimantan.

• Electric freight along hubs-and-spokes (Kapuas, Mahakam, Barito)

• Digital Blockchain-based traceability through GAP platform

4. Development: Restoring Lands, Uplifting Lives

Kalimantan’s future depends on ecological regeneration and inclusive rural development.

• Rehabilitation of ex-mining and palm oil zones

• Artisanal agroforestry and food security systems

• Local wisdom integrated into land planning