Rescaling of Access and Property Relations in a Frontier Landscape: Insights from Jambi, Indonesia

Hein, Jonas; Adiwibowo, Soeryo; Dittrich, Christoph; Rosyani,; Soetarto, Endriatmo; Faust, Heiko

doi:10.1080/00330124.2015.1089105

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“…In the process of accelerating economic growth, land has been turned into a contested commodity. This process is accompanied by decreasing opportunities for local communities to access land, and forced transformation of local livelihoods (Hein et al, 2015). In Sumatra, many remaining forested areas have been designated as protection areas, with further restrictions on communities' access to the land on which they depend for their subsistence livelihood (Yusran et al, 2017).…”

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‘The fridge in the forest’: Historical trajectories of land tenure regulations fostering landscape transformation in Jambi Province, Sumatra, Indonesia

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‘The fridge in the forest’: Historical trajectories of land tenure regulations fostering landscape transformation in Jambi Province, Sumatra, Indonesia

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“…provincial government, district government and village government) and beyond are not ontological given. They are the outcome of power relations and social conflict within society (Brenner ; Hein :31; Houdret et al. ; Swyngedouw ).…”

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“…“Scales of regulation” (Towers ) for instance refer to spatial entities such as jurisdictions with a specific regulatory order (Hein et al. ). Actors might produce additional scales or shift political struggles to a specific scale of regulation or political forum to pursue their interests (Smith :232; Towers ; von Benda‐Beckmann ).…”

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“…:245; Hein et al. ). In 2008, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), the Jambi‐based NGO Gita Buana, the Berbak National Park Authority, and the Provincial Forest Service used the REDD+ boom after the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali in 2007 to enhance the protection and rehabilitation of peat swamp forests of the southern Batanghari Delta.…”

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“…Frontiers are spaces where actors as well as social and environmental relations “of the recent past are currently being challenged by new enclosures, territorializations, and property regimes” (Peluso and Lund :668; see also Fold and Hirsch ; Hein et al. ). A number of different state‐sponsored development programmes, but also spontaneous migrants, have transformed Sumatra's coastal peat swamps.…”

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The Transnationalisation of Competing State Projects: Carbon Offsetting and Development in Sumatra's Coastal Peat Swamps

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Indonesia's peatlands can be considered as conflict arenas where different state projects and actors compete. The case presented here stands for a new conservation controversy. The Berbak Carbon Initiatives overlap with a settlement project, inducing struggles among different state apparatuses, transnational actors, and peasants. This article is based on a novel conceptual approach building on political ecology, politics of scale and state theory for investigating divergent and transnationalised state projects. Empirically we draw on qualitative research conducted in the province of Jambi, Sumatra. We argue that the territorial conflicts mirror the contradictory interests of different state apparatuses influenced by conservation‐oriented and development‐oriented actors in society but also by supra‐national planning institutions. In our case, the contestation becomes visible through inconsistent notions of development and property. We show how political change challenges the implementation of a forest carbon project, illustrating the high risks of mitigating climate change through offsetting.

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Rescaling of Access and Property Relations in a Frontier Landscape: Insights from Jambi, Indonesia

Cited by 13 publications

References 29 publications

‘The fridge in the forest’: Historical trajectories of land tenure regulations fostering landscape transformation in Jambi Province, Sumatra, Indonesia

‘The fridge in the forest’: Historical trajectories of land tenure regulations fostering landscape transformation in Jambi Province, Sumatra, Indonesia

The Transnationalisation of Competing State Projects: Carbon Offsetting and Development in Sumatra's Coastal Peat Swamps

The Relevance of Environmental Research for Development Studies

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