Strengthening Indonesian production forest governance

Abstract

The Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission indicates some leakages in timber governance as a result of poor forest governance. This study aimes to provide some insights in strengthening Indonesian production forest governance by using approaches of effective land-use (ELu), timber production (TP) and Non-tax state revenue (NtSR). Multi-stage analysis are deployed by using main data of forest cover and TP in 2017. Results show that there are 20.84Mha of active forest concessions which is only 11.06Mha administered with ELu, so it is 75.45% of 45.05Mha potential production forests which are un-utilized. There are three-strategic steps proposed, namely: realistic, optimistic and optimistic-realistic. Realistic strategy is proposed to fix TP governance and improve accountability. This step would improve TP by 79.54M m3/year and add NtSR by IDR 2.21trillion/year. Optimistic strategy is proposed to encourage each forest concession implements multi system-sylviculture, so that it would add ELu by 9.48Mha. Optimistic-realistic strategy is implemented by encouraging investment in the 45.05Mha of potential extents of production forest. These all steps would increase ELu to 32.95Mha; TP to 342.54M m3/year and NtSR to IDR 10.41 trillion/year. It would strengthen the National Forestry Planning which initially targeted TP of 376.5M m3/year by2030; however, it is currently stagnant on 44.29M m3/year since the plan was set in 2011.