On August 15 2019, members of the farmer group of Sedyo Makmur in Gunungkidul started the timber harvests from their Hutan Kemasyarakatan/ HKm forests. The harvest is to be completed over the next 10 days, in a 9-hectare block with the expected yield of about 100 m3 of highly valuable teak.

Before the timber harvests, the farmers were only permitted to use the forestland for agricultural cropping. For years, the farmers have waited the “green light” from the government to harvest the read more

 1. Lucca Tacconi, Rafael J. Rodrigues, Ahmad Maryudi. 2019. Law enforcement and deforestation: Lessons for Indonesia from Brazil. Forest Policy and Economics (in press). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2019.05.029 .

Abstract

The Government of Indonesia has committed to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. However, the country suffers from one of the most significant illegal logging and illegal land clearing conditions in the world. Brazil was in a similar condition to read more