The term and the idea was first Green Aceh ejected from Irwandi Yusuf since first elected as Governor of Aceh in Aceh local elections directly in 2006.
The idea of Aceh's natural resource management of sustainable and equitable has been thought Governor Irwandi years since his guerrilla in the woods, during active in the Free Aceh Movement. He was concerned after seeing the devastated Aceh's forests are exploited by the owners of capital but the results are not much enjoyed by the people of Aceh. Even people just assume a variety of disaster caused by the destruction of forests in Aceh.
After the governor was elected governor of Aceh, he immediately moved quickly to establish the development of Aceh should be based on Aceh's natural resources management sustainability for the benefit of future generations, and the results can be enjoyed equally by society.
Governor of Aceh Irwandi Green highlighted a number of strategic agenda as an effort to arouse the people of Aceh's economy, among others, in the field of forestry, renewable energy, fisheries and marine sector, restructure Aceh, public infrastructure and other activities related to natural resource management sustainable.
The activities were coordinated in a single container Secretariat Aceh Green. The Secretariat is tasked with ensuring all basic agenda established by Governor Irwandi running and integrated in all stages of development planning in Aceh by the Government of Aceh, the provincial and district / city.
Secretariat Aceh Green also became the center of information together about ideas, ideas and policies of sustainable economic development of Aceh in order to realize the ideals of the people of Aceh a prosperous and equitable.
