Adaptive collaborative management of community forests in Asia ...

Chapter 4.
Shaping Opportunities for Improving
Forest Quality and Community
Livelihoods in Central Sumatra and East
Kalimantan, Indonesia 1
Trikurnianti Kusumanto
This chapter shares the experiences of CIFOR and
partners’ Indonesian research team 2 in adaptive collaborative
management (ACM) in Jambi, central Sumatra, and Pasir, East Kalimantan.
Through social assessment combined with participatory action research,
the research project sought insights on the preconditions, strategies and
outcomes of fostering learning-based collaboration among different actors
in forest management. The researchers hypothesised that by creating
opportunities for shared learning among forest actors, forest initiatives
using an ACM approach could contribute to more equitable and effective
management of Indonesian forests by local people.
The chapter starts by describing the context of forest management in
Indonesia. It then explores the limitations of existing people-oriented
forestry policies and programs in Indonesia, the possibility that a learning
approach is warranted in such initiatives and the potential for an ACM