Browsing by Author "Iwan, Ramses"

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Facilitating Cooperation during Times of Chaos: Spontaneous Orders and Muddling Through in Malinau District, Indonesia
(2007) Wollenberg, Eva; Iwan, Ramses; Limberg, Godwin; Moeliono, Moira; Rhee, Steve; Sudana, Made
"Adaptive management has become increasingly common where natural resource managers face complex and uncertain conditions. The collaboration required among managers and others to do adaptive management, however, is not always easy to achieve. We describe efforts to work with villagers and government officials in Malinau, East Kalimantan Indonesia, where a weak, uncertain institutional setting and complex shifting political landscape made formal cooperation among these groups for forest management problematic. Through successive trials, the team learned instead to work with and enhance a 'spontaneous order' of cooperation using four tactics: (1) continuous physical presence, (2) regular contact with the people who advised and were close to major decision makers, (3) maintenance of multiple programs to fit the needs of different interest groups, and (4) hyperflexibility in resource allocation and schedules."
Mobilizing Community Conservation: A Community Initiative to Protect Its Forest Against Logging in Indonesia
(2004) Iwan, Ramses
"This paper provides a picture of the villagers of Setulang, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, and their rejection of IPPK forest conversion licenses during the decentralization era (2000 - 2002). In contrast to other villages in the region, which invites investors in to clear-fell their forest lands, Setulang's fight to protect its forests resulted in a Kalpataru award from the President of the Republic of Indonesia. "This paper explains how the conservation movement came about in the village."
Tane Olen: A Piece in the Village Landscape Land Use Planning in Setulang Village, East Kalimantan
(2006) Iwan, Ramses
"In my previous paper I described the efforts by the people of Setulang to protect their Tane' Olen (protected forest). The paper explains the factors that stimulated the people and threats that they faced in achieving their goals. In this paper I would like to reflect upon the changes of the concept of Tane' Olen and its relation to the village land use planning. I will start by briefly describing the prevalent concept of Tane' Olen before the Uma Lung people migrated to Setulang and how the concept, including the customary institution, changed in Setulang. Then I will explain the general land use plan developed by the people of Setulang and how it relates to the management of the Tane' Olen. I will then analyze how the commitment to protect the Tane' Olen influenced the overall land use plan, and how the overall land use plan supports conservation of the Tane' Olen in the long run."