COMMUNITY BASED FORESTRY
AND FOREST STEWARDSHIP
Journalist Workshop” Reporting on Forest and Environment in Asia
Pacific Rainforest Summit 2016”
Bandar Seri Begawan, 2 August 2016
Presented by: Dede Rohadi

Topics of discussions
 What are the functions of forests to
community
 How community can be involved in
conserving forests.
 Community Based Forestry Practices

What forests can provide to
community:
 Source of goods (foods, fiber, water,
medicines) – subsistent, safety net
 Source of income (goods for cash) – value
chain
 Source of lands (agriculture) – tenure
 Life support system (ecosystem) – payment
for environmental services/PES

How to involve community in
sustaining forests?
 Forest first and forest second paradigms
 The real actors on the ground – rational
choice (access to capital, labor, knowledge,
technology, time; values/preferences;
information; social influences).
 Livelihood options (incentives/return,
market, regulations)

CommunityBasedForestsinIndonesia
Customary Forest (HA)
Private Forest (HR)
Community-Company
Partnership Plantations
Community Plantation
Forest (HTR)
Community Forest
(HKm)
Community Based Forestry Practices – e.g. in Indonesia
4 million ha
• + 12.7 M ha
allocated
• + 1 M ha
delineated
• + 350,000 ha
licensed
• + 15,000 ha
planted
State Forests
Non State Forests
Village Forest (HD)

What journalists can help?
 Diversity of community based forestry
 Share stories (both success and failure) for
lessons
 Educate policy makers – gaps often exist
between policy, regulations, practices. Think
impacts to community/smallholders.

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