Increasing community involvement in Indonesia’s biodiversity conservation

Dyah Arum Selebesia is a national UN Volunteer Biodiversity Finance and Implementation Officer serving with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Indonesia. She shares her insights on increasing community involvement in Indonesia’s biological diversity conservation. 

Dyah joined the Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) Project as a UN Youth Volunteer in 2018. BIOFIN is a global partnership that addresses the challenges of biodiversity financing in a comprehensive way. This initiative provides an innovative methodology that enables countries to measure biodiversity expenditure in the medium term and identify financial solutions that are most suitable for bridging biodiversity and financial disparities.