Measuring social capital in Indonesian community forest management

Lee, Yohan; Rianti, Indri Puji; Park, Mi Sun

doi:10.1080/21580103.2017.1355335

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“…All participants in the FGDs expressed how working together is a tradition within their communities. Other studies support our findings, demonstrating that rural Javanese communities participating in natural resource management have high levels of social capital (Lee et al 2017).…”

Section: Pes and Nonpes Participant Social Capitalsupporting

confidence: 89%

Green without envy: how social capital alleviates tensions from a Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) program in Indonesia

McGrath¹,

Erbaugh²,

Leimona³

et al. 2018

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Social capital increases participation and the success of conservation projects. However, research often overlooks social capital between program participants and nonparticipants. We examine social capital between participants and nonparticipants in villages across the Cidanau Watershed in West Java, Indonesia. Villages in this region have longstanding participation in a Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) scheme, and previous studies note they contain high levels of social capital. We find that working together, helping each other when someone is in need, and trusting your neighbors are part of the tradition and the history of these communities. Furthermore, we find that high levels of social capital persist between village members who do and do not participate in the PES scheme, despite perceived tensions and jealousy and elite capture in the PES scheme. The high levels of social capital mitigate the social impacts of the PES program. Specifically, participants report giving cash to jealous neighbors and/or providing nonparticipants with information about the PES scheme and encouraging their involvement. The informal actions that participants take to alleviate tension and jealousy mitigate the negative social impacts and perceptions of the PES. Thus, this research extends the literature on PES programs to consider participants and nonparticipants and it demonstrates how high levels of social capital can contribute to project stability by alleviating negative consequences and perceptions through informal mechanisms.

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Section: Pes and Nonpes Participant Social Capitalsupporting

confidence: 89%

Green without envy: how social capital alleviates tensions from a Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) program in Indonesia

McGrath¹,

Erbaugh²,

Leimona³

et al. 2018

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“…This indirectly becomes an investment in cultivating trust to prevent negative prejudices among parties during the consensus. It confirmed studies performed by Witasari (2016) and Lee et al (2017) who also assert that trust establishes mutual support for collective action in forest management. Conversely, it may be indicated that the stakeholders' communication in some of consensus projects of previous works such as Margerum (2002) and Poitras et al (2003) is abruptly started in the initial dialogues led to the lack of trust among parties during the process.…”

Section: Process-related Aspectsupporting

confidence: 84%

Finding Common Ground in Collaborative Environmental Management: A Case Study in Cijedil Forest Landscape, Cianjur

2021

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Forest landscape in Cijedil Village, Cianjur hosts numerous endemic wildlife to conserve. On the other hand, the needs of local people from forest utilization could not be also neglected. Hence, the environmental management issues in the forest landscape of Cijedil are not only attributed to the biodiversity and ecological protection but also social and economic empowerment that engages various stakeholders. To get a mutual understanding among the stakeholders within collaborative management, building dialogue, reaching consensus, and comprehending its process is necessary. Nevertheless, few studies, particularly in Indonesia, have thoroughly performed related to this topic. The objective of this study is to fill this gap by describing the consensus building in the collaborative process framework and its affecting factors for reaching an agreement in collaborative management in the forest landscape of Cijedil. We performed a qualitative study by using action-based research and a case-study approach. Semi-structured and in-depth interviews were undertaken with 18 key informants selected by the snowball sampling representing six stakeholders involved: KPH Cianjur, SPH II Cianjur, BLHD Cianjur, officials of Cijedil Village, LMDH Cijedil, and the local community of Cijedil. The findings show that this consensus building has adapted the collaborative framework indicated by problem- and direction-setting activities in the first two stages of the collaborative process. It also suggests that the main influencing of parties-related factors are human resource capacity, level of understanding, and commitment, whereas process-related barriers are time uncertainty and incentives offered. These factors are indicated not completely discrete but rather affecting each other. To conclude, while the consensus for broadly collaborative environmental management is still needed to promote, the driven inhibiting factors remain. It is, therefore, crucial to address and deal with those main challenging elements. AbstrakLanskap hutan di Desa Cijedil, Cianjur mempunyai banyak satwa endemik yang penting untuk dilestarikan. Namun di sisi lain, kebutuhan masyarakat lokal dari pemanfaatan hutan juga tidak bisa diabaikan. Oleh karena itu, masalah pengelolaan lingkungan di lanskap hutan Cijedil tidak hanya terkait dengan perlindungan keanekaragaman hayati tetapi juga pemberdayaan sosial dan ekonomi yang melibatkan berbagai pemangku kepentingan. Untuk mendapatkan pemahaman bersama di antara para pemangku kepentingan dalam pengelolaan kolaboratif, perlu membangun dialog, mencapai konsensus, dan memahami prosesnya. Namun demikian, baru sedikit penelitian, khususnya di Indonesia, yang telah dilakukan terkait topik ini. Tujuan dari studi ini adalah untuk mengisi kesenjangan ini dengan menggambarkan pembangunan konsensus dalam kerangka proses kolaboratif dan faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhinya untuk mencapai konsensus dalam pengelolaan kolaboratif di lanskap hutan Cijedil. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif berbasis aksi dan pendekatan studi kasus. Wawancara semi terstruktur dan mendalam dilakukan dengan teknik snowball terhadap informan kunci yang mewakili enam pemangku kepentingan yang terlibat: KPH Cianjur, SPH II Cianjur, BLHD Cianjur, aparat Desa Cijedil, LMDH Cijedil, dan masyarakat Cijedil. Temuan menunjukkan bahwa pembangunan konsensus ini telah mengadaptasi kerangka kerja kolaboratif yang ditunjukkan oleh aktivitas penetapan masalah dan arah dalam dua tahap pertama proses kolaboratif. Temuan juga menunjukkan bahwa faktor utama yang mempengaruhi terkait pihak adalah kapasitas sumber daya manusia, tingkat pemahaman, dan komitmen, sedangkan hambatan terkait proses adalah ketidakpastian waktu dan insentif yang ditawarkan. Faktor-faktor ini tidak sepenuhnya terpisah melainkan saling mempengaruhi. Penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa walaupun konsensus untuk pengelolaan lingkungan kolaboratif secara luas masih diperlukan, faktor-faktor penghambatnya masih tetap ada. Oleh karena itu, penting untuk mengatasi tantangan utama tersebut.

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“…These techniques included interviews with respondents and key persons and focus group discussion. Interviews were conducted with 50 farmers randomly selected from 98 KTHKm members to explore the social capital in the form of motivation (Lee et al 2017). Interviews were also conducted with 7 current formal elite figures in KTHKm, covering the advisor, the two chairpersons, the treasurer, the chief of production facilities, and as well as the chairperson and the treasurer of cooperation section.…”

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Land cover changes and carbon storage before and after community forestry program in Bleberan village, Gunungkidul, Indonesia, 1999–2018

Sadono

Pujiono²,

Lestari

2020

Forest Science and Technology

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This study investigated the land cover changes, carbon storage dynamics and their underlying socioeconomic processes before and after a community forest permit in Bleberan village, Gunungkidul, Indonesia, during 1999-2018. We used a combination of the forest canopy density model, carbon conversion and socioeconomic related data to analyze land cover classes in the periods of 1999-2003, 2003-2009, and 2009-2018, representing the phases of several years before community forestry permit, initial phase of community forestry establishment and several years after community forestry permit, respectively. Results showed that at baseline (1999), where illegal logging was started on the ground, the condition of the 40 ha investigated area was dominated by non-forest in the form of open land by 54% with an amounted carbon storage of 1352.62 ton. In the phase of before community forestry permit (1999-2003), when there was continuous illegal logging, the open land rise quickly achieved to 83%, with only 312.09 ton of carbon storage remaining. In the initial phase of community forestry establishment (2003-2009), when the government issued a legalization of community forest, the mixed dryland agriculture shifted to dominate the area by 55%, with the carbon storage being increased to 1840.94 ton. The last phase, several years after community forestry permit (2009-2018), which characterized by active engagement of the community in forest rehabilitation, the area was altered to fully stocked teak plantation forest by 82%, with a carbon storage enhancement of 3379.16 ton or two times higher than that at baseline. Such results are important for the forest community authority and related stakeholder for designing appropriate forest-related policies and supporting REDD þ implementation.

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Measuring social capital in Indonesian community forest management

Cited by 35 publications

References 22 publications

Green without envy: how social capital alleviates tensions from a Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) program in Indonesia

Green without envy: how social capital alleviates tensions from a Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) program in Indonesia

Finding Common Ground in Collaborative Environmental Management: A Case Study in Cijedil Forest Landscape, Cianjur

Land cover changes and carbon storage before and after community forestry program in Bleberan village, Gunungkidul, Indonesia, 1999–2018

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