The largest potential for ICCAs was identified in the Papua Region, covering an area of 11.67 million hectares.

The largest area of nationally registered ICCAs is located in the Kalimantan Region, spanning 671,323.60 hectares.

The National Registration of ICCAs is distributed across 192 Stakeholder Communities, consisting of 169 Indigenous Peoples and 23 Local Communities.

ICCAs encompass a diversity of interconnected ecosystem types, where Indigenous People and Local Communities play a cruscial role in maintaining ecosystem functions and sustainability through local wisdom practices and lcoal governance.

ICCAs encompass various interconnected ecosystem types within a single living landscape.

Out of the total registered and indicative areas, ICCAs constitute critital ecosystems that include Key Biodiversity Areas, karst region, peat swamps, forest, savannas, seagrass beds, coral reefs, mangroves, and lakes.

The diversity of plant species and their uses demonstrates the deep connections between Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities and biodiversity, reflecting the breadth of traditional knowledge that has developed through long-term interactions with their territories and surrounding environments. This knowledge contributes to biodiversity management and serves as an important foundation for biodiversity-based innovation and bioprospecting in the future.

As knowledge holders, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities play a vital role in maintaining, developing, and transmitting knowledge of plant resources, including species with cultural, spiritual, ecological, and conservation significance. Therefore, the protection of their rights, the recognition of traditional knowledge, and fair and equitable benefit-sharing must be prioritized as biodiversity-based innovation and bioprospecting continue to advance.

Sources:

• ICCA Documentation - WGII
• Participatory mapping of customary territories
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility, combined with literature studies