Protecting Forest with the People

The Sunda Hejo Farming Association turns deforested land into a coffee plantation. This is a model for social forestry.

Reza Maulana

September 6, 2021

SOCIAL forestry is now the best choice for managing forests in this country. This system gives the largest role to the people living around the forests—turning the paradigm of administration of forests by the state into management with the people.

According to the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), around 39,000 villages, or 46 percent of all villages in Indonesia, are on the edges of forests. More than 3,000 ot

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