Abstract
Despite the growing interest in social forestry (SF), how much do we understand the social, economic and environmental outcomes and the conditions that enable SF to perform? In this article, we use a content analysis of literature on existing traditional SF practiced throughout Indonesia. It examines the outcomes of these systems and the conditions that enabled or hindered these outcomes to understand possible causal relations and changing dynamics between these conditions and SF performance. We discuss the gaps in how SF is assessed and understood in the literature to understand the important aspects of traditional SF that are not captured or that are lost when the diverse traditional systems are converted into other land uses. It aims to understand the potential trade-offs in the State’s push for formalizing SF if these aspects continue to be ignored.
Highlights
Forests have long been used and managed by local communities for cultural reasons, subsistence and trade in Indonesia
We identified traditional social forestry systems using general keywords related to traditional social forestry in both languages, English and Indonesia
Traditional social forestry (SF) in Indonesia is a declining practice as forests are increasingly converted to agriculture and other land uses, diverse forest practices shift toward more intensified production systems, and traditional systems move towards formal SF schemes
Summary
Forests have long been used and managed by local communities for cultural reasons, subsistence and trade in Indonesia They modify forests, for example, through their activities of collecting certain species, manipulating forest micro-environments to be favorable to particular species to meet needs at different points in time, and planting valuable species around their settlement. Within the climate change agenda, forests are seen as an important climate mitigation option, with potential benefits for the local community that might come with the capitalization of the services These ideals are translated into policies promoting social forestry.
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