State, Communities and Forests in Contemporary Borneo

Table of Contents

Preliminary Pages

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Contributors

I. Introduction

1. Recent Development and Conservation Interventions in Borneo

Introduction

From Timber to Oil Palm: State-Driven Development and its Effects on Forests and Customary Land

Conservation and the Search for Alternatives

On Being Indigenous

This Volume

References

II. Framework and Institutions

2. Expanding State Spaces Using ‘Idle’ Native Customary Land in Sarawak

Introduction

High Modernism in Sarawak

Persuasion: Creating Vulnerable Identities and Places

Of ‘Idle’ or ‘Waste’ Land

Native Customary Land and ‘Development’

Trade-offs and the Limits of Persuasion

Conclusion: Development, the State and Localities

References

3. Native Customary Land: The Trust as a Device for Land Development in Sarawak

Introduction

Defining Native Customary Rights to Land

Agricultural Policies and Land Development Schemes

The New Model: Joint Venture Companies

The Trust and Protection of Property

Concluding Remarks

References

4. Decentralisation, Forests and Estate Crops in Kutai Barat District, East Kalimantan

Introduction

Kutai Barat and Its Resources

Forest Resources

Agro-Industrial Estate Crops

Decentralisation in Kutai Barat

Creating a District Regulatory Regime to Exploit Forest Resources

A New Forestry Vision — Community Forestry

Decentralisation and the Oil Palm Sub-Sector

Conclusion

References

III. Local Interventions

5. Community Mapping, Tenurial Rights and Conflict Resolution in Kalimantan

Introduction

Land Tenure and Natural Resource Conflict in Indonesia

Community Mapping and Its Implications

Conclusions

References

6. Community Cooperatives, ‘Illegal’ Logging and Regional Autonomy in the Borderlands of West Kalimantan

Introduction

Borderlands and Borderlanders

The Upper Kapuas Borderlands

Regional Autonomy and ‘Illegal’ Logging

Discussion and Conclusion

References

7. Seeking Spaces for Biodiversity by Improving Tenure Security for Local Communities in Sabah

Introduction

One Landscape, Three Competing Interests

Customary Claims and State Lands

The Community–Conservation Link

Moving Beyond the Impasse: Teasing Out a Tenure Solution

The Importance of Collaboration

Discussion: Conservation on Community Lands

Conclusion

References

8. Social, Environmental and Legal Dimensions of Adat as an Instrument of Conservation in East Kalimantan

Introduction

Adat Communities in the Kayan Mentarang National Park

The Management of National Parks in Indonesia

Recent Legislative Developments and the Status of Adat

The Masyarakat Adat Management Model

References

9. The Potential for Coexistence between Shifting Cultivation and Commercial Logging in Sarawak

Introduction

Study Area and Methodology

Results and Discussion

Conclusion

References

IV. Conclusion

10. Concluding Remarks on the Future of Natural Resource Management in Borneo

‘Localised’ Interventions

Relevant Research

Multi-stakeholderships

References