Indonesia : The Challenges of World Bank Involvement in Forests

Lele, Uma; Gautam, Madhur; Kartodihardjo, Hariadi; Khan, Azis; Erwinsyah, Ir.; Rana, Saeed

Indonesia : The Challenges of World Bank Involvement in Forests

2000

This case study is one of six evaluations of the implementation of the World Bank's 1991 Forest Strategy. This and the other cases (Brazil, Cameroon, China, Costa Rica, and India) complement a review of the entire set of lending and nonlending activities of the World Bank Group and the Global Environment Facility. A review of World Bank assistance to Indonesia in the forest sector since 1991 faces two challenges. The first is maintaining a distinction between an assessment based on quick solutions to outstanding problems and one based on long-term underlying objectives and historical facts, and how they shaped government and Bank actions toward Indonesia's forests until 1997. The second challenge is to assess the performance of the Bank's 1991 Forest Strategy in a situation where, despite largely adopting the principles that its strategy espouses, the Bank has been unable to influence the rate of destruction of natural forests. Following a brief discussion of the background and context to the current forest sector situation in Indonesia, this review is divided into two parts. The first part presents the state of the forests and the forest sector and identifies the pressures on forests and the key issues. The second part assesses the Bank's involvement in the sector and concludes with the main findings of the review.

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AGROVOC Keywords

agriculture agroforestry biodiversity capacity building carbon community participation decision making deforestation degradation economic development economic growth environmental impact assessment forest cover forest degradation forest fires forest industry forest land forest resources forest sector forestry forests gnp gross national product imports isolation laws logging logs marketing natural capital natural forests natural resources natural resources management paper industry planting plywood population growth poverty alleviation property rights pulp pulp and paper industry reforestation sawnwood structural adjustment sustainable forest management timber wood

Bibliographic information

Publisher

World Bank, Washington, DC

Other Subjects

Forest dwellers; Forest concession; Sustainable management; Environmental impacts; Tree planting; Forest development; Forest sector management; Institutional change; Forest policy; Producers; Forest strategy; Forest; Resources conservation; Oil; Exploitation; Partnership; Forest dwelling; Natural resource management; Indigenous forest dwellers; Boxes; Conditionality; Reserves; Tropical moist forests; Selective logging; Economic rents; Concession management; Concession holders; Timber forest products; Conservation activities; Forest sector policy; Forest concessions; Reforestation fee; Forest lands; Land for plantations; Forest resource royalty; Sustainable management of forest; Forest resource; Economic incentives; Social issues; Forest areas; Wood processing; Natural resource; Concession rights

Language

English

Format

application/pdf, text/plain

License

CC BY 3.0 IGO, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/

ISSN

8213-4763

In AGRIS since: 2024-10-18

Format: Dublin Core

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