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1. Library Resource

   

   Shifting patterns of oil palm driven deforestation in Indonesia and implications for zero-deforestation commitments

   Land Use Policy Volume 69

   Peer-reviewed publication

   December, 2017

   Indonesia

   Forest Landscape Restoration

   Forest Tenure

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   Land & Investments

   Land Conflicts

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   agriculture

   deforestation

   land use

   palm oil industries

   research

   Oil palm plantations in Indonesia have been linked to substantial deforestation in the 1990s and 2000s, though recent studies suggest that new plantations are increasingly developed on non-forest land. Without nationwide data to establish recent baseline trends, the impact of commitments to eliminate deforestation from palm oil supply chains could therefore be overestimated. We examine the area and proportion of plantations replacing forests across Sumatra, Kalimantan, and Papua up to 2015, and map biophysically suitable areas for future deforestation-free expansion.

2. Library Resource

   

   Building an effective coalition to improve forest policy: Lessons from the coastal Tripa peat swamp rainforest, Sumatra, Indonesia

   Land Use Policy Volume 99

   Peer-reviewed publication

   December, 2020

   Indonesia

   Forest Landscape Restoration

   Forest Tenure

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   Land & Investments

   Land Conflicts

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   advocacy

   deforestation

   land use

   palm oil industries

   research

   In recent history, Indonesian forest policies have been dominated by deforestation in the name of economic progress. Many actors have expressed concerns about this trend and have tried to reverse it in favour of a more sustainable pathway. From 2004–2017, non-governmental environmental organisations fought for the case of the coastal Tripa peat swamp rainforest in the province of Aceh, Sumatra. Unique in Indonesian history, they managed halting and reversing the deforestation of an area.

3. Library Resource

   

   Local impacts of industrial tree plantations: An empirical analysis in Indonesia across plantation types

   Land Use Policy Volume 60

   Peer-reviewed publication

   January, 2017

   Indonesia

   Forest Landscape Restoration

   Forest Tenure

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   forestry

   land use

   research

   The values ascribed to industrial tree plantations are often controversial. Hence knowledge of their perceived impacts is important for improving their integration in rural landscapes. In 2016 we conducted household surveys with 606 respondents living in villages adjacent to acacia, teak and pine plantations across three islands in Indonesia (Java, Borneo, Sumatra). Results show that perceptions toward pine and teak plantations tend to differ from those toward acacia pulpwood plantations in several ways.

4. Library Resource

   

   Towards productive landscapes: Trade-offs in tree-cover and income across a matrix of smallholder agricultural land-use systems

   Land Use Policy Volume 58

   Peer-reviewed publication

   December, 2016

   Bangladesh, Indonesia

   Forest Landscape Restoration

   Forest Tenure

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   deforestation

   environment

   land use

   research

   sustainable land management

   One of the main causes of tropical forest loss is conversion to agriculture, which is constantly increasing as a dominant land cover in the tropics. The loss of forests greatly affects biodiversity and ecosystem services. This paper assesses the economic return from increasing tree cover in agricultural landscapes in two tropical locations, West Java, Indonesia and eastern Bangladesh. Agroforestry systems are compared with subsistence seasonal food-crop-based agricultural systems.

5. Library Resource

   

   The fragmented land use administration in Indonesia

   Analysing bureaucratic responsibilities influencing tropical rainforest transformation systems

   Peer-reviewed publication

   February, 2015

   Indonesia

   Forest Tenure

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   land administration

   land titling

   forest law

   community forestry

   private forests

   state forests

   indigenous peoples' lands

   forest land

   agroforestry systems

   indigenous peoples' land rights

   indigenous people's tenure

   Tropical forests in Indonesia are subject to major transformation processes from native forests to other land uses, including rubber agroforestry as well as rubber and oil palm plantation systems. Using content analysis of policy documents, this paper aims at (i) analysing the formal administrative responsibilities related to the four rainforest transformation systems and (ii) based on the informal motives of the competing bureaucracies involved generating hypotheses on their future course of action and related research.