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PB0049-12
TitleSocio-Economic Impact Assessment of Palm Oil Production
AuthorSuseno Budidarsono, Sonya Dewi, Muhammad Sofiyuddin and Arif Rahmanulloh
Year2012
PublisherWorld Agroforestry Centre - ICRAF, SEA Regional Office
City of PublicationBogor, Indonesia
Series NumberTechnical Brief No. 27: palm oil series
Number of Pages4
Call NumberPB0049-12
Abstract:
In 1935 Indonesia became the global leader in palm oil export, with a plantation area of 75,000 ha. Seventy five years later it re-gained the number one position that it had lost to Malaysia with a planted area of over 8 M ha, 100 times more than in 1935, but still less than 5% of its land area. In much of the humid lowland tropics, oil palm production is one of the most economically attractive forms of land use. The introduction and expansion of oil palm in Indonesia reflects its economic attractiveness and benefits, but the social interactions between companies and local communities have had a mixed track record that requires attention. Ambiguous and contested land tenure in local communities and the state issuing concession licenses has been at the heart of most of the problems in this regard.
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