Palm oil and the politics of deforestation in Indonesia

Cisneros, Elías; Kis‐Katos, Krisztina; Nuryartono, Nunung

doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2021.102453

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“…How to move from the detection of political cycles to the design and implementation of effective environmental protection policies is, however, unclear. On this front, research focused on understanding the precise mechanisms through which firms, the state, and the electorate interact to determine the incidence of environmental externalities (Morjaria 2018;Cao, Kostka, and Xu 2019;Alesina, Gennaioli, and Lovo 2019;Cisneros, Kis-Katos, and Nuryartono 2020;Pailler 2018;Balboni, Burgess, and Olken 2020;Kountouris 2020) will be the best guide for designing policies to slow global environmental degradation.…”

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confidence: 99%

Cycles of Fire? Politics and Forest Burning in Indonesia

Balboni¹,

Burgess

Heil

et al. 2021

AEA Papers and Proceedings

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This paper examines the link between electoral incentives and environmental degradation by exploiting a satellite dataset on 107,000 forest fires and 879 asynchronous district elections in Indonesia. Fires represent a cheap but illegal means of converting forested land to other uses, but they risk burning out of control and creating substantial negative environmental externalities. We find a significant electoral cycle in forest fires. Ignitions and area burned decline during election years but steeply increase in the year after. The results suggest that politicians may suppress this activity at times when it might particularly dent their electoral chances.

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Cycles of Fire? Politics and Forest Burning in Indonesia

Balboni¹,

Burgess

Heil

et al. 2021

AEA Papers and Proceedings

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“…This increase affects water use and social conflict costs. For example, the large amount of land used by palm‐oil plantations has been criticized as one of the reasons for the high deforestation rate 59,60 . As implementation of FAME‐blending mandates increases as an integral part of current and expected future policy, there remains a serious potential for an increase in the deforestation rate.…”

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confidence: 99%

Assessing and choosing the optimum blend of biodiesel, hydrogenated vegetable oil, and petroleum diesel based on sustainability in Indonesia

Syauqi

Halimatussadiah

Purwanto

2022

Biofuels Bioprod Bioref

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The trend towards increasing biofuel blending mandates in several countries has raised a sustainability trilemma, especially for biofuels derived from palm oil. This study aims to find the most sustainable hydrogen production technology for the production of hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) and biofuel blending. It assesses the sustainability of palm‐oil‐derived biofuel blending of biodiesel (FAME), HVO, and petroleum diesel. There are three hydrogen production options for HVO: steam methane reforming (SMR), biomass gasification (BG), and electrolysis from solar energy (PVELC). The use of any production option depends on a combination of fuel quality standards and the prioritized sustainability considerations. The fuel quality aspects consist of constraints on the quality of the blend based on EURO‐2, EURO‐4, and EURO‐5 fuel standards, while sustainability priorities lead to varying policy preferences involving economic, environmental, and social sustainability considerations. There are two approaches to determine the most sustainable blend: using the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method and using the sustainability index. The results show that scenarios that favor the economic dimension tend to produce a higher FAME blend, whereas those that prioritize the environment emphasize higher HVO blending with PVELC as the hydrogen production technology. Finally, any scenario that prefers the social aspects tends to produce higher biofuel blending. Overall, to achieve higher sustainability, higher biofuel blending is needed. The policy analysis section concludes that the biofuel policy direction should focus more on combining HVO and FAME so that each can offset the disadvantages of the other. © 2022 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…deforestation is carried out recklessly and ignores the negative impact on the environment that they have experienced on this earth until the last few decades (Panel & Change, 2018). The destruction of Indonesia's forests is getting worse, and it is clear that the country's forest cover is shrinking at an alarming rate; this has a negative impact on Indonesia and the rest of the world (Cisneros, Kis-katos, & Nuryartono, 2021). Information from Greenpeace, Indonesia is the third country that contributes carbon gas emissions, after the United States and China.…”

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Impact of Deforestation on Forestry and Forest Village Community Institution (Lmdh)

Harmadji

Hastutik

Leksono

et al. 2022

IJOMS

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The causes of deforestation in Indonesia have been widely discussed in the literature related to this matter, but this article discusses the impact and mitigation of deforestation in the Gunung Kawi forest area. The purpose of this study is to answer the questions that are at the heart of the problem, namely: (1) How do we define “forest”, “deforestation” and “LMDH” and “Role of Forestry” in the Indonesian context? (2) What is the principle of the implementation of the cooperation between Forestry Malang Regency and LMDH Wonosari (actors who are grouped as the indigenous people of Gunung Kawi) to reduce deforestation and forest land degradation? The research method uses a descriptive qualitative approach. The results of this study provide suggestions for Forestry Malang Regency to apply the principles of the Partnership Program with a Public Private Partnership which can eliminate the tendency to find a single cause of the failure of the cooperation program with LMDH Wonosari. Deforestation can be tackled by planting coffee trees “intercropping” and Taro Beneng plants among the pine trees in the Gunung Kawi Forest. Suggestions for future researchers to be able to know with certainty the involvement of the Malang Regency Government and Forestry in providing deforestation and reforestation data in the Gunung Kawi Forest.

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Palm oil and the politics of deforestation in Indonesia

Cited by 54 publications

References 76 publications

Cycles of Fire? Politics and Forest Burning in Indonesia

Cycles of Fire? Politics and Forest Burning in Indonesia

Assessing and choosing the optimum blend of biodiesel, hydrogenated vegetable oil, and petroleum diesel based on sustainability in Indonesia

Impact of Deforestation on Forestry and Forest Village Community Institution (Lmdh)

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