Decentralization of Forest Administration in Indonesia: Implications for Forest Sustainability, Economic Development, and Community LivelihoodsChristopher M. Barr, Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo, Ahmad Dermawan, John McCarthy, Moira Moeliono, Bambang Setiono CIFOR, 2006 M01 1 - 178 pages Since the collapse of Soeharto s New Order regime in May 1998, Indonesia s national, provincial, and district governments have engaged in an intense struggle over how authority and the power embedded in it, should be shared. How this ongoing struggle over authority in the forestry sector will ultimately play out is of considerable significance due to the important role that Indonesia s forests play in supporting rural livelihoods, generating economic revenues, and providing environmental services. This book examines the process of forestry sector decentralization that has occurred in post-Soeharto Indonesia, and assesses the implications of more recent efforts by the national government to recentralize administrative authority over forest resources. It aims to describe the dynamics of decentralization in the forestry sector, to document major changes that occurred as district governments assumed a greater role in administering forest resources, and to assess what the ongoing struggle among Indonesia s national, provincial, and district governments is likely to mean for forest sustainability, economic development at multiple levels, and rural livelihoods. Drawing from primary research conducted by numerous scientists both at CIFOR and its many Indonesian and international partner institutions since 2000, this book sketches the sectoral context for current governmental reforms by tracing forestry development and the changing structure of forest administration from Indonesia s independence in 1945 to the fall of Soeharto s New Order regime in 1998. The authors further examine the origins and scope of Indonesia s decentralization laws in order to describe the legal-regulatory framework within which decentralization has been implemented both at the macro-level and specifically within the forestry sector. This book also analyses the decentralization of Indonesia s fiscal system and describes the effects of the country s new fiscal balancing arrangements on revenue flows from the forestry sector, and describes the dynamics of district-level timber regimes following the adoption of Indonesia s decentralization laws. Finally, this book also examines the real and anticipated effects of decentralization on land tenure and livelihood security for communities living in and around forested areas, and summarizes major findings and options for possible interventions to strengthen the forestry reform efforts currently underway in Indonesia. |
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... stakeholders received only a small portion of the very substantial resource rents – amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars each year – that were associated with timber extraction and other forestry sector activities (Devas 1997 ...
... stakeholders at the district and local levels, it has never had the united and unqualified support of the national government. From the beginning of the decentralization process, the MoF has frequently acted assomething ofan ...
... stakeholders at multiple levels.3 Directly related to the issue of interestisthat ofaccountability. In many countries, decentralization initiatives have transferred authority over key aspects of forest administration to local ...
... stakeholders at the provincial and district levels. Although the two laws were scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2001, many provincial and district governments began issuing their own regulations and asserting their administrative ...
... stakeholders during the Soeharto era; and they argued that their own efforts to redirect those benefits to district stakeholders was simply a long-overdue effort to rectify this historical injustice. On a more personal level, many ...