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Brief
PB0110-16
TitleVillage Forest licences (Hutan Desa) in West Kalimantan: Way forward for equity and land security?
AuthorSebastien de Royer and Reny Juita
Year2016
PublisherWorld Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Southeast Asia Regional Program
City of PublicationBogor, Indonesia
Series NumberBrief No 58
Number of Pages6
Call NumberPB0110-16
Abstract:
• Village Forest licences are a good way to secure communal rights against external claims, and a viable strategy to retain control of land, especially for non-indigenous communities and long-term migrants.
• A Village Forest licence in its design does not fully cover the complexity of customary adat and traditional rights claimed by longhouses and individuals and does not take into consideration local specificities.
• There are many uncertainties about the objectives and implications of the program.
• Without free, prior and informed consent, risks of conflict between individual/group interests and the intended role of the program are higher.
• The process is entangled in conflicts over contested village communities’ boundaries.
• Ownership of the responsibilities for community-based forestry management is not yet present at Forest Management Unit level.
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