Who Should Own Indonesia's forests? Exploring the Links between Economic Incentives, Property Rights and Sustainable Forest Management

Raymond Atje () and Kurnya Roesad
Additional contact information
Raymond Atje: Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta, Indonesia
Kurnya Roesad: Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta, Indonesia

No WPE076, CSIS Economics Working Paper Series from Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta, Indonesia

Abstract: The existing economic incentive regime was one main factor behind high deforestation rates in Indonesia. Government intervention to push for the expansion wood processing industries resulted in unsustainable resource use patterns. Uncertain tenurial arrangements and property rights, unenforceable contractual obligations and weak monitoring and enforcement by the government exacerbated the situation. Indonesia's existing forest management system does not provide efficient structures of control rights to any of the sector's many stakeholders. The lack of well-defined property rights has prevented various stakeholders from trading their control rights so as to improve the efficiency of the management. Future economic research on forestry issues in Indonesia could therefore highlight the importance of secure property and ownership rights in any strategies to implement sustainable forestry management.

Keywords: Indonesia; forest management; property rights; incentive design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 F18 Q23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-env and nep-sea
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.csis.or.id/working_paper_file/35/wpe076.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 502 Bad Gateway

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sis:wpecon:wpe076

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CSIS Economics Working Paper Series from Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta, Indonesia Jl Tanah Abang III/23-27, Jakarta 10160, Indonesia. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Arya B. Gaduh ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).