Levelling up the collaborative forest management in Indonesia: a review

Abstract

Forestry-related conflict in Indonesia urgently requires a solution, and regional authority has failed to protect forest areas. This failure rooted on the unequal power relations and the discourse applied in governing the forest area. "Collaboration" only exists superficially. The ongoing narration shows that the management of forest resources became the arena of contestation, not for collaboration. Bureaucracy rises with policy and legal narration, private corporations rise with growth and welfare narration, and communities rise with resistance and exclusion narration. The respective narration is diametrically negating and compete to dominate each other, resulting the practice of "legal not legitimate" and "illegal but authentic" on the other side. Starting with that issue, the concept of Collaborative Management’s effectiveness should be levelled up through devolution based on local-users in a polycentric system. These three steps of the policy development are: 1) the formulation of collective narration based on knowledge and local multi-stakeholders discourse; 2) the creation of local actor web as authentic resource users, and 3) institutionalisation of forest resources management and the local resource mobilisation.

Vegetation analysis, physico-chemical properties and economic potential of damar (Agathis dammara) in Mount Halimun Salak National Park,West Java, Indonesia

“…Community involvement in maintaining the preservation of the MHSNP area needs to be pursued, among others, through the utilization of non-timber forest products (NTFPs), including a collection of damar resin. However, if livelihood activities are not linked to conservation, it would strengthen heteronomous motivation because the commitment to conservation by local people is instrumental in an economic incentive (Desmiwati and Christian 2019). Forest management needs to be focused on the production of NTFPs which can generate income for local communities by taking into account ecological factors (Ahenkan and Boon 2011).…”

Role and interaction between local actors in community-based forest management in Upper Citarum Hulu

“…Supporting this, Thondhlana et al (2015) revealed that the barriers to collaborative natural resource management include lack of participation in decision-making, information dissemination, transparency, trust, power relations, and unequal access to natural resources. The community, as one of the stakeholders in various forest management efforts, has been involved in problem formulation, developing resolution strategies to decision making to achieve sustainable forest management (Gunawan et al, 2004;Martins and Borges, 2007;Chen et al, 2013;Bartlett, 2018;Pujo et al, 2018;Desmiwati and Christian, 2019). The results of these studies confirm that collaborative forest management is one of the efforts believed to be able to ensure sustainable forest management (Carter and Gronow, 2005;Akamani and Hall, 2019).…”

Wild Grazing Of Beef Cattle In The Buffer Village Of SPTN Region II Sumberwaru Baluran National Park

“…A high sense of ownership of all parties to a program will increase cooperation in achieving physical development success. (Christian, 2019) stated that based on three categories of sustainable forest management by CIFOR, collaborative management should include:…”