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1. Estate Crops More Attractive than Community Forests in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

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James D. Langston, Rebecca A. Riggs, Yazid Sururi, Terry Sunderland, and Muhammad Munawir

Subjects
conservation development tradeoffs, smallholder agriculture, agricultural market frontiers, community-based forestry, landscape approach, Agriculture
Abstract

Smallholder farmers and indigenous communities must cope with the opportunities and threats presented by rapidly spreading estate crops in the frontier of the agricultural market economy. Smallholder communities are subject to considerable speculation by outsiders, yet large-scale agriculture presents tradeoffs that they must navigate. We initiated a study in Sintang, West Kalimantan in 2012 and have returned annually for the last four years, building the baselines for a longer-term landscape approach to reconciling conservation and development tradeoffs in situ. Here, the stakeholders are heterogeneous, yet the land cover of the landscape is on a trajectory towards homogenous mono-cropping systems, primarily either palm oil or rubber. In one village on the frontier of the agricultural market economy, natural forests remain managed by the indigenous and local community but economics further intrude on forest use decisions. Conservation values are declining and the future of the forest is uncertain. As such, the community is ultimately attracted to more economically attractive uses of the land for local development oil palm or rubber mono-crop farms. We identify poverty as a threat to community-managed conservation success in the face of economic pressures to convert forest to intensive agriculture. We provide evidence that lucrative alternatives will challenge community-managed forests when prosperity seems achievable. To alleviate this trend, we identify formalized traditional management and landscape governance solutions to nurture a more sustainable landscape transition.

Published
2017
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2. Governance Challenges in an Eastern Indonesian Forest Landscape

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Yazid Sururi, Chris Margules, Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono, Rebecca Anne Riggs, James Douglas Langston, Dwi Amalia Sari, Han She Lim, and Jeffrey Sayer

Subjects
Civil society, polycentric landscape governance, Geography, Planning and Development, Forest management, 0211 other engineering and technologies, TJ807-830, integrated natural resource management, 02 engineering and technology, 010501 environmental sciences, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Public administration, TD194-195, 01 natural sciences, Renewable energy sources, GE1-350, Natural resource management, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, theory of change, Government, Sustainable landscaping, Community engagement, Environmental effects of industries and plants, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Corporate governance, Indonesia, 021107 urban & regional planning, Theory of change, Environmental sciences, Business
Abstract

Integrated approaches to natural resource management are often undermined by fundamental governance weaknesses. We studied governance of a forest landscape in East Lombok, Indonesia. Forest Management Units (Kesatuan Pengelolaan Hutan or KPH) are an institutional mechanism used in Indonesia for coordinating the management of competing sectors in forest landscapes, balancing the interests of government, business, and civil society. Previous reviews of KPHs indicate they are not delivering their potential benefits due to an uncertain legal mandate and inadequate resources. We utilized participatory methods with a broad range of stakeholders in East Lombok to examine how KPHs might improve institutional arrangements to better meet forest landscape goals. We find that KPHs are primarily limited by insufficient integration with other actors in the landscape. Thus, strengthened engagement with other institutions, as well as civil society, is required. Although new governance arrangements that allow for institutional collaboration and community engagement are needed in the long term, there are steps that the East Lombok KPH can take now. Coordinating institutional commitments and engaging civil society to reconcile power asymmetries and build consensus can help promote sustainable outcomes. Our study concludes that improved multi-level, polycentric governance arrangements between government, NGOs, the private sector, and civil society are required to achieve sustainable landscapes in Lombok. The lessons from Lombok can inform forest landscape governance improvements throughout Indonesia and the tropics.

Published
2018

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