Browsing by Author "Sirait, Martua"

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Mapping Customary Land in East Kalimantan, Indonesia: A Tool for Forest Management
(1994) Sirait, Martua; Prasodjo, Sukirno; Podger, Nancy; Flavelle, Alex; Fox, Jefferson
"Effective forest management requires balancing conservation and local economic development objectives. This project demonstrated a method for mapping customary land use systems using oral histories, sketch maps, and GPS and GIS methodologies. These maps can form the basis of talks for identifying customary forest tenure boundaries in order to assess how indigenous ways of organizing and allocating space might support or conflict with the objectives of forest protection; for evaluating different means of coordinating indigenous resource management systems with government-instituted systems of management; and as a basis for formal legal recognition and protection of customary forest tenure arrangements. The constraints on this process include the accuracy of the base maps, the ability of social scientists and mapmakers to accurately capture the complex relationships of traditional resource management systems on maps, and the political will of the parties involved for recognizing different forms of land rights."
The Unfinished Debate: Socio-Legal and Science Discourses on Forest Land-Use and Tenure Policy in 20th Century Indonesia
(2006) Galudra, Gamma; Sirait, Martua
"In recent years, policy research in Indonesia has questioned the mandate of the state to control and manage the forest. This question developed following several conflicts and disputes over forest land reported during the reformation period in 1998. Many authors argue that the present uncertainty in state forest management and control goes back to an unfinished debate during the Dutch Colonial Period. In Java, state forest areas today cover 24.26% of land or 3,009,779 hectares, consisting of forest production, forest protection and forest reserves. This is almost equal in size with the 3,057,200 ha of Java's land designated as state forest by the Dutch colonial administration in 1946. This ongoing application of these past designations brings us to question the arguments and justifications behind the Dutch Colonial Government's decisions. This paper explores the scientific discourse on the issue of forest land-use and its implications for land tenure policy during the colonial period and current policy framework of forest tenure."