Social Forest Freeloaders
Monday, October 3, 2022
NGOs supporting the social forestry scheme are demanding illegal levies from farmers. This is obstructing the aims of the social forestry program.
IT had been hoped that the social forestry program would be a solution to the problem of inequalities in the management of natural resources. During the New Order era, 64 million hectares of state forests were handed over to companies in the form of forest utilization licenses (HPH) or industrial timber estates (HTI).
Since 2007, the people have had a legal right to manage state forests through the social forestry program, which is restricted to
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