The fragmented land use administration in Indonesia – Analysing bureaucratic responsibilities influencing tropical rainforest transformation systems

The emerging power of peasant farmers in the tenurial conflicts over the uses of state forestland in Central Java, Indonesia

“…Since 1970s, the government has gazetted roughly two-thirds of the country's land as state's forestland, which is strongly controlled and authorized under the jurisdiction of its Ministry of Environment and Forestry (Barr et al, 2006;. Over the past few years, forest land-use and allocations in the country have been curtailed by conflicting interests and innumerable uncertainties and complexities Sahide and Giessen, 2015). There has been an increasing occurrence of spontaneous and organized landless movements and struggles demanding access to state forestland (Adi et al, 2004;Wulan et al, 2004;Afiff et al, 2005;Nomura, 2008;Marwa et al, 2010;Peluso, 2011;Lounela, 2012).…”

“…A sizeable body of literature has explained the driving factors of land movement in Indonesia but most of them focus on processes at the national level principally on the changing socio-political landscapes at the end of 1990s (Moniaga, 1993;McCarthy, 2000;Colfer and Resosudarmo, 2002;Thorburn, 2004;Barr et al, 2006;Nurrochmat et al, 2012) and the overlapping land use policy and regulations (Casson, 2001;Santoso, 2003;Contreras-Hermosilla and Fay, 2005;Brockhaus et al, 2012;Indrarto et al, 2012;Sahide and Giessen, 2015). While all of this provides important insights and explains factors that encourage the land movement, the literatures give insufficient answers on the dynamics at the local or micro level.…”

International and Domestic Sustainable Forest Management Policies: Distributive Effects on Power among State Agencies in Bangladesh

“…Krott et al [62] stated that the stronger power is exercised through day-to-day implementations at the local level in the forest. According to Peters (2010) as cited by Wibowo and Giessen [16], only a single actor has a dominant role in a particular sector, and intersection of responsibilities among state bureaucracies will create conflict of interests and unproductive contestation [105][106][107]. For example, the ADB [95] reported that the conflict between the forest ministry and department created over the dissatisfaction with the department during the final project design for the "Sundarbans Biodiversity Conservation Project-1999."…”

Actor Positions on Primary and Secondary International Forest-related Issues Relevant in Indonesia

“…In these cases, the Ministries of Forestry as well as the Ministry of Trade work in similar directions, primarily in order to get Indonesian natural products into EU and the US markets (Kementerian Kehutanan, 2012a;Nurrochmat et al, 2014;Cashore & Stone, 2012;Iben et al, 2014). This is surprising as the theory of bureaucratic politics suggest only a single actor has dominant role in a particular sector (Peters, 2010) and intersection of responsibilities among state bureaucracies will create conflict of interests and unproductive contestation (Sahide & Giessen, 2015;similar Ongolo, 2015;Hogl et al, 2009). Future studies must scrutinize this relationship not based on discursive contributions, but on on-going politics.…”