Challenges for the development of environmentally sustainable cage culture farming in Lake Maninjau, Indonesia: an institutional perspective

Abstract

The environmental condition of Lake Maninjau, a complex tropical system in Indonesia, has been suffering from the proliferation of tilapia cage culture practices. The area around the lake is inhabited by the Minangese ethnic group, which has strong customary laws and clan system. Applying the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework and based on face-to-face semi-structured interviews, this paper aims to understand the challenges for the development of environmentally sustainable cage culture farming. Our institutional analysis reveals that the main challenges are low levels of trust between communities and officials, and conflicting formal and informal institutions which have prevented the emergence of strong rules-in-use. This is a particularly interesting theoretical contribution to the literature on the management of common pool resources (CPR), as our case study is an example of private property farming in a common pool resource (the lake), a dynamic which remains understudied in the CPR literature. We provide suggestions for local stakeholders as well as regional and national government related to the importance of seeking local legitimacy of the working rules to govern cage culture. The lessons learned from this case study might be useful for the governance of aquaculture in other lakes in Indonesia and countries of the Global South.

Towards sustainable management of Lake Singkarak, Indonesia: System analysis and research priorities

“…We noticed that the ongoing management responses still address biophysical aspects, while the governance side has not received enough attention. Governance is the key point in lake management [38]. Governance, which is a process to coordinate political decision-making to achieve the agreed goals [38], includes institutional settings and political actors [38,39].…”

“…Governance is the key point in lake management [38]. Governance, which is a process to coordinate political decision-making to achieve the agreed goals [38], includes institutional settings and political actors [38,39]. Thus, it relates to the process of developing management objectives, success indicators, monitoring efforts, and sanctioning.…”

Policy issues and options in aquatic food systems: Review of frameworks, tools, and studies

“…The IAD framework has been applied in some empirical aquaculture studies to understand the challenges in analyzing governance of coastal and marine ecosystem services in Qingdao, China (Li et al, 2016); developing environmentally sustainable cage culture farming in Lake Maninjau, Indonesia (Yuniarti et al, 2021); analysis of aquaculture in Galicia, Spain (Fernández-González et al, 2020); and assessing policy design and interpretation of aquaculture policies in Florida and Virginia of the United States (Siddiki, 2015).…”

“…Analysis of the challenges for the development of environmentally sustainable cage culture farming in Lake Maninjau, Indonesia (Yuniarti et al, 2021), institutional analysis of aquaculture in Galician turbot, Spain (Fernández-González et al, 2020), assessment of policy design and interpretation of aquaculture policies in Florida and Virginia of the US (Siddiki, 2014) Systems thinking Provides a methodology to achieve a better understanding of the nonlinear behavior of complex systems and improve the assessment of the consequences of policy interventions (Hynes et al, 2020); based on the belief that component parts of a system will act differently when viewed in isolation from other parts of the same system, so sets out to view whole structures in a holistic manner (Stead, 2019).…”