Ungirwalu, A., Mansoben, J. R., Runtuboi, Y. Y., Fatem, S. M., Peday, M. H., Marwa, J., & Maryudi, A. (2025). The fall of the kings: Power relations and dynamics in Papua’s indigenous community in forest resource management. Forest Policy and Economics, 172, 103424. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.FORPOL.2025.103424

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Tribal leaders in Papua had been positioned as both cultural symbols and real decision-making leaders, but they have lost their power over natural resource management and forests. Using the case of nutmeg management by the tribal Baham-Matta community, we present changes in the power constellations within the local social structures, in which the Kings (Patuans), the highest tribal leaders, have increasingly been unable to rule their people. In this research, we mainly employed the theoretical read more

Daulay, M. H., Soraya, E., Ha, T. T. T., Laraswati, D., Susanti, F. D., Sahide, M. A. K., & Maryudi, A. (2024). Implementation of Timber Legality Assurance and Licensing Systems in Vietnam: A SWOT-AHP Analysis. Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 43(1–5), 54–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/10549811.2024.2439618

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The European Union (EU) established cooperation with timber exporting countries to fight illegal logging through the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan. FLEGT has gained increasing interest from several countries, including Vietnam, which has signed a bilateral Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with the EU. Central to the VPA is the implementation of a timber legality assurance system (TLAS) that ensures that only legal products are exported to the EU. read more

Daulay, M. H., Susanti, F. D., Laraswati, D., Arthalina, E. C., & Maryudi, A. (2023). New land governance models and management scenarios: Fitting Forest Management Units (FMUs) for forested landscapes outside forest zones in Indonesia. Forest and Society, 7(1), 43–60. https://doi.org/10.24259/fs.v7i1.23962

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Many parts of non-forest zones (Areal untuk Penggunaaan Lain/APL) in Indonesia are forested but are however under intense pressure from unsustainable practices and conversion. To help preserve forested APL zones, the Ministry of Environment of Forestry is envisioning the integration of forested APL areas into the operational activities of the Forest Management Units/ FMUs (Kesatuan Pengelolaan Hutan/KPH), a management arm of the forest administration. Under the current governance arrangements, read more

Daulay, M. H., Soraya, E., & Maryudi, A. The Competitiveness of the Indonesian Furniture Industry in Global Trade: A Comparative Study with Vietnam. Jurnal Ilmu Kehutanan, 16(2), 152-158.

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Furniture products with significant added value are strategic commodities for the Indonesian economy. Therefore, this research aimed to determine the competitiveness of the Indonesian furniture industry in terms of marketing by making a comparison with Vietnam due to being one of Indonesia’s main competitors in the furniture trade for decades. This research employed a literature study to collect data and an integrated comparative analysis using the 5P mixed market framework of position, read more

Ragandhi, A., Hadna, A.H., Setiadi, S. and Maryudi, A., 2021. Why do greater forest tenure rights not enthuse local communities? An early observation on the new community forestry scheme in state forests in Indonesia. Forest and Society, 5(1), pp.159-166. doi.org/10.24259/fs.v5i1.11723

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The Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry recently issued a 35-year permit-based social forestry, called Izin Pemanfaatan Hutan Perhutanan Sosial (IPHPS), which was implemented in forestlands managed by the State Forest Corporation (SFC). IPHPS is a unique scheme because social forestry permits were previously granted on forestland unencumbered with rights. It provides more secure tenure rights (long-term permits), greater decision-making authority, and improved profit-sharing read more

Rahayu, S., Laraswati, D., Pratama, A. A., Sahide, M. A., Permadi, D. B., Wibowo, W., … & Maryudi, A. 2020. Bureaucratizing non-government organizations as governmental forest extension services in social forestry policy in Indonesia. Forests, Trees and Livelihoods, 29(2), 119-129. doi.org/10.1080/14728028.2020.1753585

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The government of Indonesia is ambitiously planning for more expansion of social forestry with a target of 12.7 million ha of state land to be distributed to local communities through several permit-based social forestry schemes. To deliver the target, the central forest bureaucracy issued a new forest extension policy, which enables non-government organizations (NGOs) to get involved in government extension services. This short commentary analyses aspects related to the coordination and read more

1. MAK Sahide, S Supratman, A Maryudi, Y-S Kim, L Giessen. 2016. Decentralisation Policy as Recentralisation Strategy: Forest Management Units and Community Forestry in Indonesia. International Forestry Review 18 (1): 78-95. https://doi.org/10.1505/146554816818206168

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Critical political analyses on decentralisation policies have revealed that such approaches may not achieve their formal goal, and might even support centralisation efforts. A number of previous studies on decentralisation separated the analyses of administrative process from the analyses of political power of administrative actors across levels of government. Using bureaucratic politics theory, this article presents close examinations of both process and power relations reconfigured read more

1. Sepus M Fatem, San A Awang, Satyawan Pudyatmoko, Muhammad AK Sahide, Andita A Pratama, Ahmad Maryudi. 2018. Camouflaging economic development agendas with forest conservation narratives: A strategy of lower governments for gaining authority in the re-centralising Indonesia. Land use policy 78: 699-710. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.07.018 .

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The government of Indonesia has recently recentralised the authority over forest resources. This paper analyses the bureaucratic politics and power struggles between central and local governments concerning the re-centralisation policy. This paper analyses the local initiative by Tambrauw District of West Papua in integrating management of conservation areas into district governance through so-called “conservation district” policy. We asked what are the specific real interests read more

1. Doni Prabowo, Ahmad Maryudi, Senawi, Muhammad A. Imron. 2017. Conversion of forests into oil palm plantation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia: Insight from actors’ and its dynamics. Forest Policy and Economics 78: 32-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2017.01.004 .

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Oil palm plantations have been touted as one of the main drivers of deforestation in Indonesia. This paper aims to explain how oil palm companies accumulate power that enables them to control forestland read more

1. Carsten Schusser, Max Krott, Mbolo C Yufanyi Movuh, Jacqueline Logmani, Rosan R Devkota, Ahmad Maryudi, Manjola Salla, Ngo Duy Bach. 2015. Powerful stakeholders as drivers of community forestry—Results of an international study. Forest Policy and Economics 58: 92-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2015.05.011

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Community forestry is a complex collective action by forest users that takes place within a broader network of multiple actors at local, national and international levels. This paper looks at all relevant actors and tests the hypothesis of whether they have a significant influence on the outcomes of community forestry. The empirical basis comprises 57 cases of community forestry in four developing and one developed country. The cases were selected to represent a variety of political conditions read more