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

Ruysschaert, Denis; Hufty, Marc

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.04.034

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“…because some local actors conjectured REDD+ differently as an opportunity for logging, and forest rangers have struggles to monitor and halt deforestation (Setyowati 2020b). This is in line with the observation that while local politicians may have committed to a Green Aceh discourse, in practice, they issue licenses for plantations and mining in protected forest areas (Hanafiah 2014;Lund 2018: 444;Ruysschaert and Hufty 2020). Poor supervision remains a bottleneck (Antara 2019) and illegal mining is still ubiquitous because of missing control by the state apparatus (Zulkarnaini 2019).…”

Section: From Structural Violence To Structural Peace?mentioning

confidence: 72%

Social-Ecological Peace – A framework to analyze the transition from violence to peace in post-conflict areas, applied to Aceh, Indonesia

Herawati

Bluemling²,

Biermann

2022

Journal of Political Ecology

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While the analysis of peace often stops with "negative peace" in conflict studies (Shields 2017), critical structural analyses of a transition towards peace risk to analytically emphasize how wartime structures extend into post-conflict times (see e.g. Lee 2020). In this article, by engaging with the two fields of conflict studies and political ecology, a framework is developed that allows a critical analysis of resilient structures and discourses from times of conflict, as well as of possible leverage points that could support a transition towards what is here conceptualized as "social ecological peace". The framework hence helps to understand in how far dimensions of prior violence have transformed into peace, and if certain dimensions of violence have continued, even though they manifest themselves in a different way. The framework builds on Galtung’s conceptualization of violence and peace, but realigns "cultural violence" with Pierre Bourdieu's "symbolic violence". Additionally, for extending the framework with an ecological dimension and historical dimension, the notion of 'slow violence' by Rob Nixon is introduced. Applying the framework to Aceh, Indonesia, shows how cultural peace allows individuals to narrate and act out of a new identity, and in this way, enables them to put into effect structures of a new era of positivesocial-ecological peace. At the same time, discourses that are inherited from wartime and transform into peace time structures risk to carry violence in them. It becomes important to lay open the structural effects of the very discourses that have supported Aceh’s autonomy, so that they may not further extend structural violence into peace times. This is likely to remain a challenge in a context that is described as still negotiating and struggling to enhance its autonomy (Setyowati 2020a).

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Section: From Structural Violence To Structural Peace?mentioning

confidence: 72%

Social-Ecological Peace – A framework to analyze the transition from violence to peace in post-conflict areas, applied to Aceh, Indonesia

Herawati

Bluemling²,

Biermann

2022

Journal of Political Ecology

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“…The methodological approach adopted in this study in the context of Salta can also be used to help navigate governance of resource and commodity frontiers [53,54] in other countries. For example, a recent study on Indonesia's forest policy used the advocacy coalition framework to understand the conditions that have allowed NGOs to reduce deforestation patterns through a series of coordinated behaviors among stakeholders [55]. Another article combines discourse network analysis with the advocacy coalition framework to understand tree plantation policy in South Africa [56].…”

Section: Impact Of Weak Advocacy Coalitions and Multivocal Actors On Law Implementationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collaborative Governance Networks: A Case Study of Argentina’s Forest Law

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Deforestation causes biodiversity loss and the eviction of small-scale ranchers and indigenous people. Accordingly, it is a global issue in environmental politics. This article analyzes a participatory governance system associated with the implementation of Argentina’s forest law in a hotspot of deforestation: the province of Salta in the Gran Chaco ecoregion. Specifically, this article investigates policy actors’ core beliefs, how they match with policy network clusters, and how this affects the implementation of the forest law. The study is based on a unique data set derived from extensive fieldwork and a network survey among all actors who participate in the policy forums. After defining three main core beliefs that describe policy actors’ motivations, we systematically analyze all key actors’ beliefs as well as their interactions in the various policy networks. This analysis shows that it is necessary to empirically identify coalitions based on both behavior and core beliefs to understand the limited implementation of the law. Our methodological approach holds promise for the analysis of other governance systems where multiple stakeholders engage in consensus-oriented decision-making.

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“…117 The sustainability of forests is the responsibility of not only the government but also all stakeholders who are involved in forest exploitation. 118 Forest management becomes the responsibility of the central government and local governments, although they try to improve preconditions for best forest practices as well as to enhance capacity building among the forest community. 119 It includes biodiversity conservation and mitigating environmental damage through implementation of forest certification 120 and to achieve SFM.…”

Section: B the Implementation Of Community-based Forest Managementmentioning

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Balancing the Principle of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources and Sustainable Forest Management: Indonesian Experiences

Wartini¹

2021

JEAIL

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Most scholars argue that the principle of permanent sovereignty over natural resources (PSNR) has been used by developing countries as a legal basis to exploit their natural resources, including forests, for the sake of economic development. Land conversion and forest burning are the primary causes of forest degradation and deforestation in Indonesia. Thus, the biodiversity of Indonesian tropical forests is decreasing tremendously. This article aims to comprehensively analyze the experiences of the Indonesian government to balance the principle of PSNR and sustainable forest management (SFM). The paper argues that the implementation of the PSNR principle in SFM faces many challenges, such as deforestation, forest degradation, and the failures in implementing laws, as well as weak law enforcement. Therefore, to balance the PSNR principle with SFM, the Indonesian government needs to undertake various efforts, such as strengthening law enforcement, carrying out social forest management, and exercising mandatory forest certification. Moreover, all these efforts need to be further improved.

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

Cited by 23 publications

References 13 publications

Social-Ecological Peace – A framework to analyze the transition from violence to peace in post-conflict areas, applied to Aceh, Indonesia

Social-Ecological Peace – A framework to analyze the transition from violence to peace in post-conflict areas, applied to Aceh, Indonesia

Collaborative Governance Networks: A Case Study of Argentina’s Forest Law

Balancing the Principle of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources and Sustainable Forest Management: Indonesian Experiences

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