Indonesia JCM Secretariat

Indonesia Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) Secretariat was established by the Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia in February 2014 to help manage the implementation of JCM activities between Indonesia and Japan. Its main function is to support the JCM Joint Committee and relevant stakeholders, to act as center of JCM information and communication, and to collaborate with all stakeholders to ensure the smooth implementation for the achievement of JCM purpose. The Indonesian secretariat is the only existing JCM Secretariat which serves the Government of Host Country. The Indonesia JCM Secretariat, based in Jakarta, works intensively with the JCM secretariat of the Japanese side in Tokyo.

The Indonesia JCM Secretariat and the Japanese secretariat, as representatives of the JCM JC may jointly:

• Prepare draft methodologies and draft rules and guidelines and submit them to the Joint Committee for its consideration, when necessary;
• Receive new initiatives from candidate project participants;
• Monitor the development of JCM related programs and implementation of JCM projects, taking into account sustainable development criteria and environmental integrity.

And each secretariat may separately:

• Develop environmental and sustainable development criteria for JCM implementation as well as identifying needs for capacity building, and submit them to the Joint Committee
• Monitor the development of JCM Feasibility Studies activities
• Facilitate the project participants to perform project-based capacity building
• Establish and maintain a registry in line with the common specifications for registries, as developed by the Joint Committee
• On the basis of notification for issuance of credits by the Joint Committee including for allocation of credits among project participants, issue the notified amount of credits to its registry. 

For general inquiries, the Indonesia JCM Secretariat can be contacted through email address: secretariat@jcmindonesia.com
The Japanese JCM Secretariat can be contacted through email address: id-jc-secretariat@jcm.go.jp