Forests in Indonesia are suffering from massive deforestation and degradation. The area of degraded forest is now even larger than that of productive forest concessions due to massive deforestation or conversion into plantations for oil palm, rubber and industrial timber. People living in and around the forest and those who directly depend on forest resources suffer as a result. The facts indicate that most of these people live below the poverty line. Forest destruction has clearly worsened their struggle to escape from poverty.
TBI has been operational in Indonesia since 1987. The objective of TBI Indonesia is to supply the Government of Indonesia with sound and adequate information for formulating and implementing appropriate knowledge-based policies and improving the management of protected areas for the benefit of people, conservation and sustainable development. Management will become sustainable and placed under decentralized governance. The programme is carried out in partnership and generates knowledge and information on integrated land use and collaborative management that respects traditional rights, promoting and financing conservation and developing alternative livelihoods.
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Protected areas in Indonesia (accounting for more than 55 million hectares) have been designated for the purpose of providing environmental services, conservation and social and cultural services.
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Limited rights and access to natural resources and declining forest resources leave local communities few other livelihood options but to engage in activities that yield immediate economic gain, particularly illegal logging activities, and convert forest lands for other purposes (e.g. oil palm) that can provide quick cash income.
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Our interest is to learn how to incorporate customary rights and claims into formal spatial planning processes.
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31 August, 2010
