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IN SEARCH OF NEW PARADIGM ON
SUSTAINABLE HUMANOSPHERE
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1st KYOTO UNIVERSITY - LIPI
- SOUTHEAST ASIAN FORUM

November 26-27, 2007
PDII Building 2nd Floor, LIPI

Jl. Jendral Gatot Subroto Kav. 10
Jakarta - Indonesia

Organizers:
Kyoto University - Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI)
Kyoto University Alumnae Association (HAKU)ISBN NO: 1234567890

IN SEARCH OF NEW PARADIGM ON
SUSTAINABLE HUMANOSPHERE
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1st KYOTO UNIVERSITY - LIPI
- SOUTHEAST ASIAN FORUM

Organizers:
Kyoto University - Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI)
Kyoto University Alumnae Association (HAKU)

November 26-27, 2007
PDII Building 2nd Floor, LIPI

Jl. Jendral Gatot Subroto Kav. 10
Jakarta – Indonesia

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Organizing Committee
Advisors:
Prof. Dr. Rochadi Abdulhadi
Dr. Neni Sintawardani
Prof. Dr. Kosuke Mizuno
Prof. Dr. Kenichi Abe
Associate Prof. Masaki Okamoto
Chairman:Prof. Dr. Bambang Subiyanto

Members:
R & D Unit for Biomaterials - LIPIDr. Subyakto
Dr. Suleman Yusuf
Euis Hermiati
Mohamad Gopar
Linda Kriswati
Ika Bachtiar
FitriaDwi Hadi Restuningsih
Kurnia Wiji Prasetyo
Ismadi
Yusup Amin
Herry Samsi
Dede Heri Yuli Yanto
Syam Budi Iryanto
Centre for Southeast AsianStudies (CSEAS)
Dr. Yumi Kitamura
Dr. Yasuyuki Nagafuchi

Bureau for Cooperation &Promotion of Science &Technology - LIPI
Nur Tri Aries S.
Sri Amiyati
Nirma Yossa
Heni Rosmawati
Ina Ihdiana
Murti Martoyo
Ruben Silitonga
Agung Legowo
Martahan Tambunan
Sancoyo
Kyoto University Alumnae
Association (HAKU)
Prof. Dr. Supiandi Sabiham
Dr. Arie Damayanti
Kanti

Proceedings:
Dr. Wahyu Dwianto
Dr. Kenichi Abe
Faizatul Falah
Ika Wahyuni
Teguh Darmawan

Preface

Eleven years after the fall of the Suharto authoritarian region, Indonesia continues tomuddle through in search of a “New Indonesia.” There continues to be no simple solution to
the main problems the country faced in the last 32 years: corruption, collusion and nepotism(or as the Indonesians refer to as KKN). Not even the formalization of democratic practices
and the decentralization of governance – all aimed at further breaking up the autocratic orderof the Suharto era – have reversed this slide. Jakarta continues to define what “national
development” is all about, causing economic dislocation and losses among the regions andthe least-privileged social classes, and untold ecological damage to an already fragile
Indonesian eco-system. As if their travails were not enough, Indonesians would likewisecome to grips with terrorism, natural disasters (earthquakes and tsunami), and epidemics likethe bird flu.
Given this sordid condition we ask: what is the role of both Indonesian and Japaneseand researchers? It is obviously not enough to simply show a picture of a society without its
fissures, or describe a political community as having attained democracy while ignoringdisparities in wealth and political influence between individuals and groups, as well as the
economic and ecological challenges it faces. Rather, we must reexamine the pre-existing
concepts that we – consciously or unconsciously – use to frame our approach to Indonesiansociety, and reconsider their usefulness in the light of these realities. More importantly, wemust re-evaluate our research together or in collaboration with our colleagues in Indonesia.
Whatever “new paradigm” that may arise from this profound re-examination should pay closer
attention to what local communities could realistically aspire for in the immediate and medium
terms, without losing perspective on a desired future that is fair and safe for these societies.
Moreover, considering the fact that more than half of the global population will soon live in thetropical Asian and African area, this “new paradigm” must be sensitive to the area it studies
and in the case of Indonesia, doubly so given the above issues the country and its peopleihave to deal with.
Kyoto University’s Global COE project, “Sustainable Humanosphere,” is seen as oneof the starting points towards the formulation of this new paradigm. It is a multidisciplinary
effort that aims to combine Asian and African area studies with frontier science andtechnology. In so doing, it hopes to train a new generation of area studies specialists andscientists equipped with a more comprehensive and diverse range of perspectives.
Kyoto University has been closely working together with its Indonesian counterparts,
especially LIPI, in the study of politics, society and culture in Indonesia. In 2006, these two
institutions have signed an MOU to further these collaboration and academic exchanges. The
Kyoto University Alumni Association of Indonesia (HAKU) was also established in July 2007
and is expected to participate in this collaboration by acting as a mediator between Kyoto
University and Indonesian academia, as well as the general public.
The First Kyoto University and LIPI Southeast Asian Forum is the first concrete projectof this collaboration. This is a two-day seminar that will explore the concept of “Sustainable
Humanosphere,” as well as related themes like “Bio-energy for Community” and “Forest as
Humanosphere.” We hope that this seminar series will become an important starting point in
the attempt to develop this new paradigm.

Organizing Committee

iiOpening Remark 1

Assalamu’alaikum warakhmatullahi wabarakatuh,
First of all, it is my great pleasure today to introduce this forum, “In Search of
Sustainable Humanosphere.” I am very pleased that Kyoto University has been able toorganize it, in collaboration with Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (the Indonesian
Institute of Sciences, LIPI) and Himpunan Alumni Kyoto University, or インドネシア京都大学
同窓会 in Japanese.
If we may look to the past for a moment, we can see that Kyoto University has had along history of academic communication with Indonesia, as with other Southeast Asian
countries. The first concrete step in our relationship was taken in 1970 when we opened aliaison office in Jakarta, following the opening of our Bangkok liaison office in 1964. Since
then we have developed continuous and harmonious academic exchanges with Indonesia bysending Japanese scholars and researchers to Indonesia and by receiving undergraduate
and graduate students from Indonesia. At present we have many MoUs with Indonesian
universities and institutes, including LIPI, Hasanuddin University, and Cenderawasih
University.
Bapak-bapak dan ibu-ibu, Kyoto University is quite well known for its commitment to“academic liberty” and its high esteem for intellectual distinctiveness and creativity. It is thisacademic culture that has pushed the scholars and researchers of Kyoto University to do
fieldwork in Asia and Africa, to find things unrecorded in books and documents, and to rethinkworn-out concepts and theories. Kyoto University researchers have even created new ideas
and terminologies for poorly understood or unexplained global phenomena. Perhaps thisunique academic culture comes from the intellectual atmosphere of Kyoto city, this ancient
capital of Japan that has been robust enough to ward off all kinds of ephemeral and fragile
academic trends and to sustain the intellectual tenacity to grasp the essentials of things.
In 2001, in order to integrate the academic disciplines holistically, Kyoto University
hammered out a new intellectual mission, to aim “for the harmonious coexistence of humansiiiand ecology on our planet.” This mission is based on the understanding that our community
should not only comprise human society but also the flora and the fauna and even thepebbles, creeks, and brooks. Kyoto University firmly believes that this concept of harmonious
coexistence would no longer seem strange or foreign once we consider that excessively
human-centered thinking has caused the critical environmental problems we face, such as
global warming. I wish that Indonesian intellectuals will learn something new from the concept.
Bapak-bapak dan ibu-ibu, we are proud to announce to you that in October of thisyear, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, in collaboration with the Research Institute of
Sustainable Humanosphere and other seven institutes and departments in our university,
launched a new and ambitious five-year research program called Global COE Program “InSearch of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa.” Here is the program leader, Prof.
Sugihara Kaoru
The aim of this research program is to propose a new paradigm of “sustainablehumanosphere” in the field of Asian and African area studies, by bringing the knowledge offrontier science and technology into contact with the conventional disciplines of agronomy,
ecology, politics and economics, sociology and anthropology, history, and medical science. In
doing so, we will train a new generation of area studies specialists and scientists equippedwith a more comprehensive range of humanities, social science and science disciplines thanhitherto possible.
One of the main research sites of this program is Indonesia. I am sure many
Indonesians were startled when they heard that their country is the third largest greenhousegas emitter after the United States and Canada – ahead of Brazil, Russia, and India. Suchemissions in Indonesia are mainly caused by deforestation, and Indonesia is urgently required
to take steps to solve this problem. So I believe the time is right to strongly solicit thecollaboration of Indonesian intellectuals to maximize the results of the “sustainablehumanosphere” program.
In fact, Indonesia is now seriously geared to take a leadership role in solving
greenhouse gas emission and other global environmental problems. This can be seen fromiv

the fact that Indonesia will organize the Bali climate conference in early December as the firststep toward a post-Kyoto protocol. In support of this role, Kyoto University sincerely hopes tomake academic and intellectual contributions to Indonesia and hopes for Indonesia to
become the most ecologically innovative developing country in the world.
Bapak-bapak dan ibu-ibu sekalian, this two-day forum is initiated with the hope thatIndonesian and Japanese scholars can exchange ideas and concepts on the harmonious
coexistence of humans and ecology. Our side will try to show the new paradigm called“sustainable humanosphere” and is glad to receive critical and constructive comments andadvice. I am sure that the forum can be quite fruitful and productive for Indonesia and Japanand for the global community as well.
Finally, on behalf of Kyoto University, I am deeply grateful to LIPI and HAKU for coorganizing this forum. Thank you very much. Arigatou gozaimasu.

Masato Kitani
Vice President
Kyoto UniversityvOpening Remark 2

Supiandi Sabiham
President
Kyoto University Alumnae Associationvi

Opening Remark 3
Mr. Masato Kitani, Vice President of Kyoto University; Prof. Shuichi Kawai, Director of
Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University; Prof. Kosuke Mizuno,
Director of Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University; Dr. Narifumi Tachimoto,Director-General of Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Dr. Kaoru Sugihara, Leaderof G-COE, Kyoto University; Dr. Yoko Hamami, Professor of Center for Southeast AsianStudies, Kyoto University; Prof. Supiandi Sabiham, President of HAKU; Distinguished Guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen.
Assalamu’alaikum Wr. Wb. Good morning. Allow me first of all, on behalf of theIndonesian Institute of Sciences to extend our warmest welcome to all of you especially to alldelegates from Kyoto University. Please also allow me to convey warm regard from the
Chairman of LIPI who could not be able to be with us. He is invited to present in Parliament
House for special briefing. I am very much welcome and support this seminar. Through thisseminar, strategic collaboration between our institute (LIPI), Kyoto University and The Kyoto
University Alumni Association of Indonesia (HAKU) could be developed. The theme of theFirst Kyoto University – LIPI – South East Asian Forum: In Search of New Paradigm on
Sustainable Humanosphere is very relevant to the hottest issues Global Climate Change
and MDGs.
Distinguished guests, Ladies and Gentlemen. This seminar marked as the concrete
project after LIPI and Kyoto University sign an MOU in Kyoto Head Quarter in 2006. This is a
two-day seminar would be important as the basis to tightened our strategic collaboration
between LIPI and researchers in Indonesia and Kyoto University in particular Centre forSoutheast Asian Studies (CSEAS) and Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere(RISH) and Research Institute for Humanity and Nature. I am confident, that through thisseminar, we could together explore the concept the most appropriate way to address global
challenges issues, “Sustainable Humanosphere” while achieving MDGs e.g. to eradicate
poverty, hunger, health problems, and biodiversity lost. I do appreciate the Organizingvii

Committee and sponsors who able to invite senior scientists from Japan and Indonesia topresent their papers and share their knowledge to response to the above issues. The
attendant of more than 120 Indonesian scientists coming from various universities, research
institutes, NGO’s and private companies will be of great value to the success of this two days
seminar.
Distinguished guests, Ladies and Gentlemen. On this occasion, please also allow me
to congratulate alumni of Kyoto University in successfully establish the Kyoto University
Alumni Association of Indonesia (HAKU) in July 2007. I also learn that HAKU will beholding the First Annual Meeting here in Jakarta. I look forward to see the participation of
HAKU in conducting collaborative research and bridging our Indonesian scientific community
with scientific community in Japan in particularly scientists at Kyoto University.
Finally, I would like to again thank the Organizing Committee in successfullyorganizing this seminar and I do hope that all of you will have a very fruitful discussions. With
bismillah hirrohman nirroohim, I officially open the First Kyoto University – LIPI – South
East Asian Forum: In Search of New Paradigm on Sustainable Humanosphere.

Thank you very much for your kind attention.
Wassalamu’alaikum Wr. Wb.

Endang Sukara
Deputy of Life Sciences
Indonesian Institute of Sciencesviii

Content
Preface…………………………………………………………………………………………............ i
Opening Remark
Masato Kitani (Vice President of Kyoto University)……………………..................................... iii
Supiandi Sabiham (President of Kyoto University Alumnae Association)………..................... vi
Endang Sukara (Deputy of Life Sciences, Indonesian Institute of Sciences)………............... vii
Keynote Speech
The Humanosphere-sustainable Path of Economic Development: A Global Historical
Perspective - Kaoru Sugihara…………………………………………………………………….…1
Mainstreaming Forest Biodiversity: Its Prospect for Regional Economic, Social andEnvironment Development Program - Endang Sukara……………………….………………13
Futurability of Humanosphere: Toward Global Humanics of the Environment - Narifumi
Tachimoto……………………………………………………………………………...…………….. 19Grand Sessions: Towards Harmony between Environment and Economy: In Search of
Sustainable Humanosphere in Indonesia
In Search of New Direction of Development in Indonesia: Possibility of Sustainable
Humanosphere Type Development in Indonesia - Kosuke Mizuno……………………...… 28
National Park Management in Local Autonomy from the Viewpoint of Political Ecology:
A Case Study of Tanjung Puting (Central Kalimantan) - Herman Hidayat……………..… 37
Seeking Sustainable Society through Science and Technology - Shuichi Kawai…….… 56
Improvement of Potency and Rehabilitation of Degraded Forest through Community
Forest Management - M. Bismark……………………………………………………………..… 63
Scientific Session 1: Bio-energy for Community
Prospect of Bio-energy Development in Rural Area - Supiandi Sabiham and Syaiful
Anwar…….............................................................................................................................. 71ix

Lignocellulosic Biorefinery for Sustainable Society in Southeast Asia - Takashi
Watanabe, Takahito Watanabe, and Rudianto Amirta………………………………………..… 77
Current Status of Research and Development on Biofuels in Indonesia - Gede Wibawa,
Didiek Hadjar Goenadi, Tjahjono Herawan, and Yahya Kurniawan…………………………… 84
Novel Thermal Conversion Process for Bio-energy by Microwave Heating at ResearchInstitute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), Kyoto University - Taro Sonobe, Hiroaki
Suzuki, Tomohiko Mitani, Naoki Shinohara, and Kozo Hashimoto…….................................. 90
Scientific Session 2: Forest as Humanosphere
Biotechnology of Tropical Fast-growing Trees - Toshiaki Umezawa…..………………..… 98
Man-made Forest as Humanosphere Component - Parikesit…………………………..… 102
Human Security in Peat Swamp Forest - Kenichi Abe……………………………………… 111
Empowering Local Institutions for Sustainable Forest Management: Lessons from
“Facilitative Research” on Community Forestry in Sumber Agung Village, Lampung
Province - Keron A. Petrus and Motoko Shimagami………………………………………..… 123
Warp up Session: Resolution and Future Perspectives - Wahyu Dwianto…………...… 136
Closing Remarks - Kosuke Mizuno…………………………………………………………..… 138
Report on Proceedings - Retno Kusumaningtyas………………………………………….… 142xKeynote Speech 1

The Humanosphere-sustainable Path of Economic Development:
A Global Historical Perspective
Kaoru Sugihara
Leader of G-COE, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

Abstract
This paper outlines some of the key ideas behind the Global COE research program (2007-2012)
on sustainability in Asia and Africa. It calls for broadening the current perspective of environment, which isoften premised on land use, productive resources, and private property rights, by introducing the conceptof “humanosphere”, in order to capture the mobile, changeable and transformable qualities of life andenvironment more fully than hitherto possible. Humanosphere is a term already established at Kyoto
University, to refer to the scientific study of material and energy flows and conversions, but we suggestthat the term should also include all interactions between man and nature, including human and social
responses to the environment.
The second part of this paper describes how the land-based perspective of environment hashistorically prevailed, and nature came to be understood in the context of resource use, by reviewing theWestern and the East Asian historical experiences over the last few centuries. It argues that the relatively
mild environment in the temperate zones, especially in Western Europe, Japan and the Yangzi delta
provided the basis for the productivity-driven path of economic development. The kinds of institutions thatwere developed there are therefore not necessarily suited to the much more dynamic tropical environment
with constant floods of major rivers, variable annual and seasonal rainfalls, and a much greater degree of
biodiversity and activities of living organisms. Nevertheless, most of the institutions established in thetropics under colonialism were modeled on Western institutions, and the regime of private property rights
and rigid territorial boundaries were imposed on their colonies. And this bias has not been fully rectified
after independence.
The paper ends by suggesting that one of the key topics for Asian and African area studies today
is to create an interdisciplinary framework under which to inform sustainability of the humanosphere inconcrete terms. We would like to conduct this research by bringing the area studies knowledge into
contact with the knowledge of frontier science. In economics and history, for example, a humanospheresustainable path of economic development should be contemplated. Given the centrality of the tropics inthe earth’s heat energy distribution system, it is crucial for the tropics to follow such a path, if we wish toensure the sustainability of global environment.

Introduction
The Global COE
In July 2007 a major research initiative was launched at Kyoto University, to conduct a wide
range of interdisciplinary studies on sustainable development in Asia and Africa. It is a Global COE (Centerof Excellence) Program, funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
through JSPS, which will be run for about five years. Nine research institutes, centers and graduate
schools collaborate this program. The Center for Southeast Asian Studies acts as the organizer institution,and leads research in humanities and social sciences, in cooperation with the Graduate School of Asian1and African Studies, while the Research Institute of Sustainable Humanosphere undertakes the main partof scientific research.
By bringing the knowledge of frontier science and technology, including wood science andmaterial science, climatology and atmospheric science, material conversion and energy science, into
contact with the conventional area studies disciplines of ecology, politics and economics, sociology andanthropology, history, and medical science, this program aims to put forward a new paradigm of“sustainable humanosphere”, which will enable us to address such vital issues as biodiversity, energy
security and the impact of global warming, from truly interdisciplinary perspective. The regions we are
primarily concerned are Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and Africa. It is important that most ofthem are located in the tropics, which arguably holds the key to global sustainability.
The Disciplinary Context
In this paper, I would like to outline some of the main ideas driving this research. Since I am an
economic historian, I wish to express them by characterizing the path of economic development whichthese societies have followed in the past, and by suggesting the way forward.
The prevailing literature on sustainability in developing countries has been concerned with growth(to alleviate poverty and raise living standards) and environment (to deal with soil degradation, water
shortage, deforestation etc.), trying to meet both goals (Neumayer 2003; Barbier 2005). Meanwhile, there
has been a growth of literature on environmental sustainability on a trans-regional or global scale, like thelinkages between energy consumption, carbon emissions and global warming, which involves bothdeveloped and developing countries (Stern 2007; Maddison 2007).
These streams of research share at least three problems. First, issues of sustainability indeveloping countries of Asia and Africa need to be studied in long-term historical perspective, as thenature of human interactions with environment there is just as path-dependent as in developed countries.
Yet we know far less about their past than we do about the West and East Asia where written documents
and recorded data are more abundant. Historical data on land use, vegetation, forestry, climate anddiseases are only beginning to emerge, and they are yet to be incorporated into the mainstream historicalnarrative.
Second, most of our regions suffer a particular kind of path dependency, namely colonialism. In
addition, under the colonial rule by Western powers, these regions were incorporated into the international
economy as exporters of primary products and importers of manufactured goods. The primary aim ofdeveloping these regions was not to raise the welfare of the people living there, but to expand production
for exports and create opportunities for Western trade and investment (Lewis 1970). Territorial boundaries,
the infrastructure such as roads, railways and ports, the bureaucracy, and education and health systems(mainly for colonizers and local elites) were all created with this purpose in mind, and this focus

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significantly modified the pattern of human interactions with local environment in tropical Asia and Africa.
Even after independence it was hard for the new countries to change it to suit the needs for the welfare of
local population. This, often unintended but serious consequences of colonialism on ecological andenvironmental history need to be explicitly brought into the picture, in accounting for the origins of
ecological and environmental problems today.
Third, the deepening of globalization for the last thirty years or so has brought to tropical Asia andAfrica both its benefits and costs, in some ways even more forcefully than colonialism did. In particular, the
new technology, combined with the ideology of free trade and openness to the outside world, powerfully
altered the landscape and the livelihood of local population, sometimes with disastrous ecologicalconsequences. Be it chemical plants or deforestation, multinational companies operated for global markets,
using local resources and employing local people. Yet the question of how to manage the indigenous
environment for the sake of local population has been attended to very slowly. Clearly, climate change
needs to be studied on a global scale, while the environmental and institutional implications ofdeforestation in the tropics can only be understood with full knowledge of local societies. And the findings
from both streams of research must be combined, not just to serve for immediate global concerns but tocontextualize them into the formulation of local and regional paths of economic development. In view ofthe fact that about a half of world population live in the tropics today and that this proportion is likely toincrease in the future, finding the local-environment-inspired path seems to me to be a vital element informulating the global vision of sustainability.
In the next section I argue that the prevailing thoughts on resources are too narrowly focused onland and bound up by the institutions based on private property rights, and suggest that we broaden ourperspective by understanding the environment in terms of “humanosphere”, a more embracing category.
The third section reviews the two most successful regional paths of economic development in global
history, the Western and the East Asian paths, and shows how the “land-based” perspective ofenvironment has become predominant though the observation of these successes for the last few
centuries. The final section sketches an alternative, “humanosphere-driven” path of economic
development, primarily with the tropics in mind.

Shifting the Perspective: From Land to Humanosphere
The Land-based Perspective and Its Limits
Over the last two centuries, capitalism diffused worldwide under the regime of private property
rights, and economic actors increasingly regarded land, labor and capital as three main factors of
production. Land, or more specifically land surface, became the key conceptual and administrative unit.
Land was now freely bought and sold, which meant that “nature”, conceived as a space where soil,

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vegetation, living organisms, water and air freely interact, was literally cut into pieces, primarily for the
purpose of agricultural production. Other resources were also brought into this capitalist system, but were
often understood as either attachment of land or a factor translatable to it. Water, for example, was usually
recognized in relation to irrigation rather than as an independent commodity. Forests and other common
resources were defined in relation to the dominant regime of private property rights, for example as“commons”. And, until relatively recently, commons were typically recognized and administered in terms ofland surface, so that they could be partitioned or territorialized, essentially in the same way as private land.
The overwhelming concern governing this regime was the need to secure and increase
agricultural production. Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries the man-land ratio became a key
factor in determining whether the society could provide enough food for the population. The increase of
acreage was pursued wherever population grew and arable land was available (Richards 2003). At thesame time, land productivity, that is, the amount of produce per unit of land became a decisive element inselecting the optimum size of land holding. Technological and institutional innovations were accumulated
and diffused for the more efficient use of land. In pursuing these activities, land-owning rights, as well as
land-holding rights, had to be legally protected. It became an important business of the state.
It was this land-based perspective that came to dominate the world of geopolitics. The system ofnation states first developed in Europe in the seventeenth century, and the European idea of territorialboundaries diffused worldwide, through imperialism and colonialism, in the nineteenth and the first half ofthe twentieth centuries. In the second half, a number of Asian and African countries achieved
independence and the nation state system became global. This not only helped the diffusion of the regimeof private property rights, but created national borders all over the world. Many of them inherited colonial
borders, but quite a few new borders were created as the number of nation states increased to over ahundred by the end of the century.
Some of these borders clearly do not correspond to environmental or socio-economic units. In theage of imperialism, borders in Asia and Africa were often drawn, reflecting the will of European powers
rather than along ecologically sensible and locally agreeable lines. Politically motivated borders were
frequently drawn in the post-colonial period as well. In addition, the more complex and interactive use ofnature created new border issues. For example, most major rivers cross national borders, benefiting eachcountry as they run over its respective territory, but monitoring the smooth flow from upstream todownstream have not been considered an obvious part of the business of the sovereign state in the past.
As rivers increasingly came to be used for multiple purposes, ranging from transport and fishery toelectricity generation, river management became a frequent source of international conflict (Conca 2006).
The point I wish to make here is the fundamental difficulties tropical Asian and African societies
encountered in adopting this “land-based” perspective. Where severe environmental constraints prevail, it
is not always appropriate to focus on the productivity of land and labor, for the understanding of the4

options and priorities available to local society. The more urgent task might be to secure the livelihood of
local people, by responding to changes the nature suddenly brings and by preventing catastrophes. They
include monsoon failure and the lack of water, shortage of energy, and the prevalence of infectious
diseases. Social instabilities and war could follow from natural disasters, and vice versa. That manysocieties pursue a path of development with these concerns deeply in mind can be confirmed on the siteof fieldwork in the contemporary world. It had also been a norm for most human societies until a few
centuries ago. More recently, increased trans-regional and global activities have exposed the limits of theterritorially confined view of the world in responding to these concerns.
In other words, the ecological and historical circumstances of tropical Asia and Africa seldom
allowed for a single-minded pursuit for efficient land use for agricultural production. Partly because of themore uncertain climatic and environmental conditions and partly as a result of colonial rule by Western
powers, there was little chance of these regions prioritizing the improvement of living standards over theprotection of local society against nature’s violence. Technology, institutions and social norms were clearlyaffected by this, and it has been difficult to adapt Western technologies and institutions to cope with suchdiverse needs.
The Humanosphere
In order to capture all the environmental factors relevant to people’s livelihood, we propose themore embracing perspective than the land-based one. We believe that, instead of studying land, forests,
mountains and oceans from the perspective of resource use, the essence of the meaning of theenvironment would be better understood if we view all the natural elements that interact with local society
from the perspective of the world of life itself. For example, we recognize the need to focus on water, air,biota and biomass, which move around the human habitat, in order to appreciate the environment as avital supporter of human life. On the one hand, they are part of the system of energy and material flows
and conversions around us. At the same time, local society adapts to this system to become part of it. We
call it humansphere (see Figure 1).
Thus the first feature of this concept is its three-dimensional mobility and transformability. Unlike
the land-based perspective, many of these materials and matters are movable, changeable andtransformable entities without a permanent habitat or clear boundaries. In this perspective, it is entirely
possible that we need to look at very large entities or distant space in order to understand the local
phenomenon. For example, the study of energy flows could include the energy from outer space, while theearth’s heat distribution system requires research into atmospheric circulation and oceanic currents on a
global scale. On the more local scene too, material flows and conversions are vital to the life of land andforests, while it is impractical and unwise to study the movements of ground water or fish, with fixed
political boundaries in mind, at least in the first instance. Finally, human activities, which can also be seen5

as part of these flows and conversions, can, and increasingly do, cross fixed boundaries and become
regional or global. Second, the humanosphere is the sphere where man and nature freely interact, without
a well informed and articulated recognition of its structure. In its most descriptive form, it is a sphere, seen
and perceived by the local population as the environmental basis of their livelihood. For example, water
usually does not automatically become available to local population, following the logic of natural waterflows. Local society tends to create some form of distribution system, in which not everyone has an equal
access to water, and social or religious codes (e.g. purity) may affect such decisions. It is likely that someof these codes (e.g. restriction of access to water to a certain type of people) have been created in
response to local environmental characteristics (e.g. the shortage of water). Of course, technologicalchanges (e.g. introduction of well pumps) may lead to changes in the social system, which in turn may
encourage further technological innovation. These dynamic interactions may not be sustainable in the longrun, if the local environment cannot cope with them. And it has not been the norm that scientists could fully
predict the potential impact of new technology on the environment before it was put in use. Whatever theconsequences, these interactions between man and nature constitute central aspects of thehumanosphere.

Figure 1 The Humanosphere
Energy for the sun

Outer space

Atmosphere

Carbon circulation

Forests

Water circulation

Human habitat

Fossil fuels

Soil

Sea

What we are proposing here is to construct a framework of analysis of such a sphere. The landbased perspective sees agricultural production essentially as man’s intervention in nature, while
technology is usually seen to have developed in order to extract resources by changing and controlling
nature. By contrast, the humanosphere-based perspective recognizes that local society is dependent on
the sustainability of humanosphere, and that we do not necessarily know if it is sustainable (on the issue

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of how to utilize local knowledge to improve on the management of common pool resources, see Ostrom
1990). And, since both the society and the sphere encompass all aspects of life, we need to be concerned,
not only with production, but with production, distribution, consumption and reproduction of the society andtheir respective counterparts of the sphere. Only by so doing can the concept fully embody and express
the two-way relationships between man and nature.

The Productivity-driven Path of Economic Development: The West and East Asia
The Western Path
Why has the land-based perspective prevailed? In this section I wish to examine the basis onwhich it was built, diffused and came to be taken for granted. The question of why capitalism emerged inWestern Europe, not anywhere else, in the early modern period has been traditionally answered in political,
economic and cultural terms. The development of agriculture entailed a rotation system combining arable
land with pasture, which produced wheat, wool, meat and dairy produce at the same time. Population
growth, urbanization, and the growth of regional commerce increased the pressure on land. In the
countryside, the issue was how to manage land to produce the largest amount of agricultural produce, sothat the landed aristocracy could enjoy their power and wealth. A series of “enclosure” movements enabled
the consolidation of small and divided plots and common lands into the more efficient larger managerial
units, and the capitalist system of agriculture, under which managers would organize production and labor,prevailed. The change from “commons” to the private property ensured the protection of the owner’s
capital (the cattle were better protected and were less likely to contract diseases), and allowed the
manager to concentrate on the increase of productivity of land and labor. Thus labor was released fromland, and national wealth enhanced through commerce and industry.
More recently, this classic picture has been revised from the perspective of the more gradualdevelopment of proto-industry, commerce and the change in consumption patterns. This revision made theearly modern growth even more important for the understanding of modern economic growth, byconsiderably reducing the significance of the qualitative change as a result of the industrial revolution. One
way of bringing environmental factors into the revised picture is that Europe's environmental diversity
ensured the growth of geographical specialisation between fertile grain-producing regions and those whichwere either mountainous or of a poor soil and engaged in pastoral husbandry. Over time the former raised
land productivity, earned a good surplus from grain sales, and tended to lose cottage industry, while thelatter combined it with pastoral agriculture, and eventually began to produce industrial goods for sale. The
access to sea, which does not easily freeze, big rivers (like the Rhine), which seldom flood, and resourcesfrom the surrounding mountainous areas and forests, all helped the growth of trade. This is the vision of“Smithian growth” (Wong 1997) under the “organic economy” (Wrigley 1988). Not yet dependent on fossil

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fuels (coal), it nevertheless developed the market economy, which became the basic economic system
today.
Another way of emphasizing environmental factors is that Western Europe developed a better
technique of disaster management than other regions, and became relatively disaster-free (Jones 1981).
This helped the accumulation of social overhead capital, such as buildings and roads, well before theindustrial revolution raised labor productivity, while the rest of the world continued to suffer from chronic
destruction of infrastructure caused by monsoons, earthquakes and fire. This might have biased thetechnology path taken by Western Europe towards investment in physical rather than human capital. It
might also have created an environment favorable to scientific experiments aimed at the use of motive
power. Meanwhile, the control of epidemics, and hence the decline of the mortality rate, lagged behind alittle, although population pressure came from the increase of birth rate.
Towards the end of the eighteenth century, Western Europe faced the shortage of land anddeforestation. This was overcome by the use of coal and, more important, the incorporation of vast
resources in North America into the orbit of the economies of Western Europe. While land became thesymbol of scarce resources, Western Europe acquired the conditions under which to combine capital,
labor and resources, by territorial acquisition overseas, the provision of resources through trade, and thegrowth of capitalist agriculture through the commoditization of land. The industrial revolution occurredunder these circumstances.
The recent literature on global economic history has focused on the comparisons between “world
regions” such as Western Europe and East Asia rather than between nation states, and suggested that thestandard of living of the ordinary people in the advanced areas of East Asia and that in Western Europe atthe end of the eighteenth century were roughly comparable. It was the “great divergence” (Pomeranz
2000), which occurred mainly during the nineteenth century as a result of two contingent factors, i.e. theavailability of coal near major industrial areas and the incorporation of huge land and other resources ofNorth America into the orbit of the economies of Western Europe, that enabled the West to raise laborproductivity significantly and dominate the world economy. The development of capital-intensive andresource-intensive technology, with the extensive use of fossil fuels, became a feature of the developed
world for the last two centuries.
The East Asian Path
In contrast to the more traditional view, we now think that the standard of living of the ordinary
people in advanced regions of China and most of Japan was well maintained, though not substantially
improved, at least up to the end of the eighteenth century. While the Western path sought to raise labour
productivity, East Asia had a much larger population relative to land, and had little pasture. It focused on
the increase of land productivity rather than labour productivity. The result was the development of labour-8intensive technology and labour-absorbing institutions, and the number of working days per year became
greater, with the diffusion of double-cropping and proto-industrial by employment (Sugihara 2003).
Although clearly targeting at a different goal, this path too single-mindedly pursued productivity (see Figure
2).

Share in world
population (%)

HumanosphereHumanosphere-sustainable path of global
development

Share in world
GDP (%)

2050(forecast)
Regeneration ofmaterial and energy
flows on a global scale

Response to global warming
Response to global energy supply
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2000

The American system ofmass production

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miracle51

The Industrial Revolution
in England

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1950

Globalisation
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and energy flows andbalances

1820

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Labour productivity driven path(the West)Land productivity driven path
(East Asia)

Capital-intensive technology
Resource- and energy-intensive technology

Labour- and human resource-intensive technology
Resource- and energy-saving technology

Humanosphere concerns have been overwhelmed by productivity concerns.

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Measurement of material and energy
flows and treatment of imbalances

Colonialism,
Incorporation into theworld economy,
Deforestation,,
Famines and epidemics

Introduction of Western technology
and institutions
Land and resource constraints

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Regeneration of local material andenergy flows with the use offrontier technology

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Labour-intensive
pattern ofdevelopment
24 Use of indigenous
energyHumanosphere driven path
(Southeast/ South/ West Asia, Africa)
Risk reducing devices
Battle against environmental constraints
Labour-intensive technology
Resource- and energy-recycling technology

Japan had a strikingly similar environmental profile to Western Europe, 1 except that the size ofarable land was so much smaller. Thus, the Malthusian relationship between population and resources,
which shifted favorably through geographical specialization in Western Europe, did not do nearly as muchin Japan. On the other hand, he Japanese control of epidemics was far more successful than theEuropean in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries (Jannetta 1987), while her battle against fire,
flood and typhoons continued to be less so. This environmental differentiation must have reinforced
differential technology paths, Europe towards labor-saving, and Japan towards labor-intensive. Blessedwith water, wood and paper, as well as precious metals and sand iron, Japan pursued the development oflabor-intensive technology and the “industrious revolution”, without the expansion of foreign trade.
During the second half of the nineteenth century Japanese coal was exported to other Asian
countries, in addition to serving for the industrialization at home. Timber remained plentiful, and was also
1 Japan is a relatively small country with considerable climatic and geographical diversity. Four main and manysmaller islands form a long chain along the western side of the Pacific Rim. The difference of latitude between thefurthest north and south is about 10 degrees, being larger than any Western European nation situated on a similar
latitude. The mountains take up some 80 per cent of the land and divide the habitable parts of the main island into
the warmer and sunnier Pacific side and the colder and snowier Japan Sea side. Each area of habitable land of a
relatively small size naturally tended to form a region, often along the coast, separated by surrounding mountains.
There are great seasonal differences in rainfall and temperature.

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an export item. Overall, Japan was a resource-rich country in almost all respects except for the shortage ofarable land, until the 1920s when she suddenly faced the severe shortage of resources; the trade oftimber and coal turned into deficit, and imports of oil increased rapidly, all at the same time.
Although China had pursued a very different institutional path from Japan, the economy of thelower Yangzi, one of the most advanced regions, followed a path of economic development rather tosimilar Japan’s, with the “industrious revolution” of an East Asian variety (Sugihara 2004; Arrighi 2007).
Unlike other major rivers, major floods disappeared by the early modern period, and a broad ecologicalstabilization was achieved in the Yangzi delta. Epidemics were generally not a major element in Chinese
population trends of this period, although famines were frequent enough, especially in the northern part ofthe country.
The issue of resource scarcity featured largely in the subsequent East Asian history; Japan went
to war partly to secure raw material and energy needed for the heavy and chemical industrialization she
pursued during the 1930s, while the East Asian miracle, all the way from the Japanese high-speed growthof the 1950s and the 1960s to the growth of NIEs and ASEAN in the 1970s and the 1980s to the rise of
China in the 1990s and the 2000s, was heavily dependent on the availability of imported oil, especiallyfrom the Middle East. In this respect, the United States-led international order and the regimen of free
trade provided a vital framework for the East Asian miracle. On the other hand, Japan’s historicalsensitivity to the procurement of resources has been a major background to her commitment to thedevelopment of resource and energy-saving technology (Sugihara 2006).
It therefore seems possible to argue that the two most successful paths of economic
development in global history benefited from stable environmental conditions, relatively free fromepidemics and natural disasters. Although institutional devices certainly contributed to capitalizing on this,they were in themselves responses to relatively mild environmental constraints. The two different paths
also shared the notion that the combination of land, labor and capital formed the basis of technologicaland institutional development. Resources were thus brought into the system as “factor endowments”.

The Humanosphere-sustainable Path of Economic Development
The Tropics-centered View of the Earth
The realities of the tropics present a stark contrast with the above observations of Western andEast Asian paths; Frequent floods of major rivers suggest that the broad ecological stabilization has notbeen achieved; Changes in annual and seasonal rainfalls could be too sudden and drastic to cope;
infectious diseases are much more difficult to contain, because biota are much more voluminous, diverse
and active; Other disasters such as El Nino induced climate change, tsunami, earthquakes and fire could
bring extremely serious damages, as the infrastructure there remain weak.

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On the other hand, there is no reason to think that the topical environment is “abnormal”, exceptthat perhaps human beings have so far been unable to control it as fully as they did that of the temperatezones. In fact, from the point of view of heat energy distribution, the tropics act as an engine of the earth.
Most solar radiation and heating of the surface occurs at the equator, where the sun’s rays are nearly
perpendicular to the surface all year round. The climate system redistributes this heat energy more equally.
Atmosphere and oceanic circulation contribute equally in moving energy from the equator towards thepoles. It is therefore much more natural to view the earth system from the tropics-centered, rather than thetemperate zone-centered, point of view, even if global warming today is primarily caused by the growth ofcarbon emissions in the temperate zones.
This leads to our notion that there are serious path-dependent gaps in the directions oftechnological and institutional development between the temperate zones and the tropics. Most of themodern technology and institutions were developed with the moderate environment in the temperatezones in mind. In order to come to terms with the realities of global environment, we need to develop thesort of technologies and institutions that accommodate all aspects of tropical humanosphere. Thus areastudies need to address the issue of appropriateness and relevance of these technologies from the pointof view of local societies. We should set our research agenda in terms of the transformation from thehumanosphere-driven path to the humanosphere-sustainable path, by which we mean that the newtechnologies must serve for the humanosphere-sustainability of local societies, while local societies in turnshould appreciate the scientific knowledge, and improve their capacity to respond to environmental, as
well as developmental, issues by adopting this knowledge.
We also need major institutional innovations to accommodate the perceptions generated by newtechnologies. The private property rights regime (and the inter-state system) is based on the assumptionthat humans essentially control the society through the control of land surface. When we begin to control
the atmosphere and space, we will need a different regime to capture the movement of material andenergy on and around the earth. It is here that local knowledge, engrained in the humanosphere-driven
path, could be reminded of as a thought better equipped with considerations for sustainability than
productivity-driven ideas. The humanosphere-sustainable path can only be established when the purposeof institutions is transformed from productivity-driven, growth sustainability to humanosphere sustainability.
Finally, the issue of humanosphere sustainability is an issue of long-term developmental path. We
need predictions of both the future of the environment and the future of human society, including theforecast of population and GDP. We would also need information on the long-term direction oftechnological and institutional path. We can understand the nature and the extent of the path dependency,
only by bringing in history and social sciences on the one hand, and frontier technology on the other, todetermine the long-term path of economic development of the local society.

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SUGIHARA Kaoru is Professor of Economic History at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto
University. Trained in Japan, he taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London,
from 1985 to 1996 and at the Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, from 1996 to 2006. His
Japanese-language publications include Patterns and Development of Intra-Asian Trade (1996), The Riseof the Asia-Pacific Economy (2003) and The East Asian Miracle in Global History (forthcoming). He is
editor of Japan, China and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949 (Oxford University
Press, 2005), and co-editor of Local Suppliers of Credit in the Third World, c.1750-1960 (Macmillan, 1993),
Japan in the Contemporary Middle East (Routledge 1993), Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India(Curzon 1996; Manohar 1997) and Labour-intensive Industrialisation in Global History (Routledge,
forthcoming). He is currently program director of a large-scale interdisciplinary “Global COE” project onsustainability in Asia and Africa at Kyoto University. <sugihara@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp>

12Keynote Speech 2

Mainstreaming Forest Biodiversity: Its Prospect for Regional Economic,
Social and Environment Development Program
Endang Sukara
Deputy of Life Sciences, Indonesian Institute of Sciences
AbstractIndonesia is a maritime country with the islands laid across Asia and Australian continent. It
covers a large land and oceanic areas. It consists of diverse terrestrial and marine ecosystems
representing unique ecosystems from ice landscape in Papua to various humid low land forest, mangrove,
spectacular coral reefs, sea grass beds, and deep Weber seas. Indonesia is mega-diverse country both inbiological and cultural. There is no doubt, that Indonesian as a mega diversity country should gain
economic benefit from both cultural and biological diversity. It is urgently need to study the value of wild life
species. Plant resources may be used not only for timber but also for non timber products e.g. food(grains/cereals, tuber, fruits etc.), vitamin, minerals, medicines, perfumery, and many others benefit forhuman kind. Meanwhile, study on wild life animals could also improve our knowledge on the value of wildlife animals as a source of food, agriculture and event pharmaceutical industry. Similarly, also apply to themicrobial genetic resources. For this purpose, protection of natural forest in Indonesia from illegal logging,encroachment, human made disaster is a must. At the same time, the development of forest plantation
may be continued using the existing area and expanded to degraded areas which are abundantly
available in the country. To ensure humanosphere be sustainable, joint research collaboration in urgently
required.
Key words: ecosystem, mega-diversity, cultural and biological diversity, timber and non timber products,
natural and plantation forest, humanosphere

Introduction

Indonesia is a maritime country with more than 17,000 islands laid across Asia and Australiancontinent. It covers 7.7 million km2 consists of 1.9 million km2 land areas, 3.1 million km2 water, 2.7 million
km2 exclusive economic zones with the total coastal line about 80,791 km (Sukara, 2006).
Around 42 types of terrestrial and at least 5 types of marine ecosystems exist in this country.
Those ecosystems representing diverse and unique ecosystems from ice landscape in Papua to various
humid low land forest, peat swamp forest, spectacular coral reefs, sea grass beds and mangrove
ecosystem. There are many of those ecosystems are unique and can not be found in any part of the globe.
The present of Wallace and Weber Lines make the Indonesian even richer in term of biological diversity
which distributed in 4 different Malesias distribution zones. Indonesia is one of mega-diverse country. With
only 1.3% of the world total terrestrial area, more than 17% of living organisms in the entire globe arefound in this country. More than 10% of the whole flowering plant species, 12% of mammal, 16% of reptile
and amphibian, and 25% of fish species are found in Indonesia (Sukara, 2006).
There is no doubt, that Indonesian as a mega diversity country should gain economic benefit from13

plant resources not only for timber but also for non timber products e.g. food (grains/cereals, tuber, fruitsetc.), vitamin, minerals, medicines, perfumery, and many other.
For Indonesia, the mega-biodiversity country has an ample opportunity to attract global
infestation for the establishing solar based industry through the harvesting process of solar energy bydiverse plant resources for diverse products to serve humankind needs. Indonesia which is rich with sun
light, humid and also supported by fertile volcanic soil is a perfect place for such initiative. When thisprogram is attached to the eradication of poverty, creation of job, improvement of livelihood, and improving
the condition of the environment, it is no doubt, that the program be promoted for DEBT EQUITY SWAFT
program in the country.

Indonesian Biodiversity – State of the Art
Biodiversity, however, is poorly studied including in particular, Indonesian biodiversity. Their value
is not being explored. The utilization of biodiversity if exists is generally only based on direct used with noadded value and based on local knowledge from generation to generation. Timber generally harvested
directly form natural forest and sell as raw material, no added value and no replanting program.
Only recently, LIPI through PROSEA Program, collecting information on Plant Resources exist inSouth-East Asia. The information includes taxonomic, botany, ecology, cultivation, and its usage on morethen 6000 species (PROSEA Annual Report, 2005). That information should be of important for thedevelopment of crop estate to boost the economic of the country through. The establishment of crops
estate on degraded land not only dedicated to support timber industries but also be directed to support
food production, pharmaceutical and many other industries in Indonesia. This initiative could easily belinked to the economic, social and environmental program mandated by Millennium Development Goaland Agenda 21.
Establishment of Ex Situ Conservation Site (Botanic Garden) for Long Term Regional Economic
Development
Botanical garden is known world wide as a vehicle in promoting the importance of plant resources
to mankind. Botanical garden has very strong committeemen in plant conservation program, educationand tourism. Botanical garden continuously promotes sustainable use of plant resources. In Indonesia,
conservation program carried out by two institutions namely Department of Forestry (concern with in situ
conservation – National Park etc.) and LIPI (concern with ex situ conservation – botanical garden). In
addition to that, there are other conservation sites namely collection gardens, arboretum, University
Garden etc.). It is hope that through various initiatives, plant resources can be conserved, study andutilized in sustainable manner.

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It is predicted that the total number of plant species exist in Indonesia is about 40.000 species oraround 10-12% of the total plant species in the whole world. Indonesia is therefore known as megadiversity country. But, the rate of extinction is very high. Indonesia therefore is also known as hotspots
country. Conservation initiatives are urgently required.
It is fortunate that many Provinces and Districts in Indonesia show an interest in establishingConservation Sites (Botanical Gardens). For this purposes, LIPI actively engages. Wamena Biology
Garden in Papua is already 15 years of establishment and shows a good progress. During the last five
years, Bukitsari Botanical Garden in Jambi, Baturraden Botanical Garden in Central Java, Sungai Wein
Botanical Garden in Balikpapan District are established. District of Kutai Kartanegara, South Sulawesi
Province and Enrekang District in this province, district of Ogan Komering Ulu Timur (OKU), Province ofMaluku, Province of Nusa Tenggara Timur, Kuningan of West Java, Malinau of East Kalimantan, Pulang
Pisau of Central Kalimantan, and also Jakarta (Kelapa Gading, Cinere and Nort Beach of Jakarta)
showing a very strong commitment in establishing Botanical Garden.
Sibolangit Botanical Garden in North Sumatera established in 1974 at the elevation of 1.2501.450 m above sea level and Setia Mulia Botanical Garden established in 1955 at the elevation between
350 and 900 m above sea level in West Sumatera may be revitalized. It is hope that more of plantresources can be conserved, studied and used and in the near future could contribute to the economic,
social and environmental development program at regional and national level.
Economic Valuation of Non Timber Product at Conservation Site of the Private Company Timber Estate
Crops at Province of Jambi, a Case StudyPT Wira Karya Sakti (PT WKS) is a private estate crop company recieving permit from thegovernment of Indonesia to manage 250.000 ha of forest for Forest Timber Estate Project (HTI). This
company also has an obligation to set aside 10% of their concesion for conservation site (25.000 ha).
Purwanto et al. (2005) in 2003 carried out study at the conservation site of this company. Their study was
focused on the natural diversity of plant species exists in this conservation area. For this purpose, twopermanent plots with a 1 ha size was established within the conservation site of this company. Floristic
analysis, identification of tree species and the identification of the usefulness of those species were done.
Local knowledge related to the etno-botany aspects were gathered from the local people surrounding thearea of study.
Conservation zone of this company is scattered within the concession area. Conservation zone isactually post logged zones. It is more a secondary forest rather than natural forest. It is heavily logged
illegally including for direct used by local people as a raw material for construction. Even though, some
important commercial tree species e.g. Shorea parvifolia, Dyera costulata, Eusideroxylon zwageri, Dialium,
Palaquium, Alseodaphne, Koompasia are found. Tree species frequently found are Hydnocarpus

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polycephala, Parashorea aptera, Pentaspadon motleyi, Pimelodendron griffittii, Santiria rubiginosa,
Artocarpus kemando, Dysoxylum ridgewayi, Diospyros, Knema cinerea, Nephelium maingayii, N.
uncinatum, Shorea spp., and Syzygium are found (Purwanto, et al., 2005) .
Within the conservation zones where it is dominated by Dipterocarp, wild animal e.g. Macaca
fernoralis, Hylobatas agilis, Felis bengalensis), Buceres rhinoceros, and Ducula aenea are also found.
Main while, within the conservation zoned which is dominated by fruit tree species, wild animal e.g. bird
(burung beo, elang, srigunting, punai), monkey (long tail macacca and beruk) are found. On secondary
forest where it is dominated by tree species e.g. mahang and balam, wild animal such as bird (murai,
burung madu, and burung kipas) were found abundantly. In shrub area, wild bird e.g. burung bubut,
burung perenjak, and kucica are found. Deer, antelope, and honey bear are also found. This zone found tobe rich in germ plasma which may of great important for the future economic development program of thecountry.
Etno-botanic study on plant species shows, that more than 300 tree species were known by local
people (Malay ethnic) living surrounding the forest concession as useful for food, timber, religious
purposes and religious ceremonies (ritual), energy, clothing, coloring agents, poison ingredient, craft,cosmetics and other purposes. Our inventory in established permanent plot shows that we could found at
least 77 plant species useful as a raw material for medicines, 51 plant species used as a source of food,21 species use as vegetables, 6 plant species as spices and food additives, 2 species use as a source forpoison, more than 45 species used for cooking energy, and around 65 species used for making tool, craft
and cultural purposes. Within the permanent plot, we also found around 157 plant species used as a raw
material for construction purposes, and about 27 plant species suitable for pulp and paper, plywood andparticle board industry. In addition, we also found 8 species of rattan.
Exploration of Microbial Resources to Improve the Conversion of Sun Light Energy to Biomass and Extent
the Durability of the Biomass Produced
Join collaboration with Osaka Gas Company, LIPI evaluate biofertilizer based on VAM (prviously
developed in Japan) and microbial consortium to improve the performance of plant species from nursery to
the field. Effective microorganisms such as VAM, Rhizobium and Azospirillus proved to more effectively
absorbe nutrient and water for the benefit of plant growth. With this association, plant is more resistant tofrought, soil borne pathogen, and as a consequenses, the yield is improved significantly. In collaboration
with Osaka Gas R & D Center, VAM base biofertilizer could work effectively on 77 plant family. The effectof VAM and microbial consortium on growth of various crops is significant and could boost the greening
program for economic, social and environment development program in Indonesia.

16Exploration of Microbial Resources from Forest Floor
It is also worth to note that the richness of microbial resources at forest floor is tremendous. A join
work between LIPI and NITE (Japan) on ‘Taxonomic and ecological studies of fungi and actinomycetes inIndonesia and in Japan’ which is started in 2003, found that the forest floor is rich in fungi andactinomycetes. During 2003, the total of 500 fungi and 500 actinomycetes was isolated and evaluated on
the basis of morphological structures, 18S rDNA (600bp), ITS (500bp), and 6S rDNA (1500bp). It issurprising that 30% of the isolates are species NOVO.
Begining in 2002-2003, LIPI exploring microbes from the plant tissues known as endophytic
mircrobes. Plant resources available at Botanical Garden, Tesso Nilo Forest and forest in Sumbawa were
evaluated. More than 6,000 microbial endophyte collected and only a few of them were evaluated. An
endophytic fungus, Muscodor albus produces mixture of gasses having antimicrobial activity (volatile
antibiotics, biofumigan) (Atmosukarto et. al., 2005). This finding could be of great important forbiofumigation of exported fruit, vegetable and flower. Biofumigan could prevent microbial deterioration
during shiftment. Our finding also shows that most of endophyte synthesizes useful metabolites e.g.
herbicide, anti fungal, anti yeast, anti bacteria, and anti-oxidant (Sukara, 2007; Tanaka et., al. 1999;
Tanaka et., al., 2001)

Major Threats to Indonesian Biodiversity
The conversion of forest to support a short term need of the country e.g. timber estate crops,
palm oil plantation, agriculture, housing, roads is also tremendous reaching to almost 44% of the total
forest exist in Indonesia. The rate of forest degradation is tremendous. Only 19 million ha of natural forest
is in a good condition from more than 121 million ha in early 1980s. There is no doubt if Indonesia being
top listed country in the world where plant and animal species are in danger and may close to theextinction. More than 126 species of birds, 63 species of mammal, and 21 species of reptile are in great
danger. Ramin population depleted. Gaharu is almost extinct so does sandal wood (cendana). There arearound 2 to 3 million ha of forest being degraded each year.

Conclusion
Indonesia with sun light energy and fertile volcanic soil and biodiversity do have an opportunity toharvest solar energy and convert to chemical energy through its photosynthetic ability of green plant anddevelop an environmental friendly business. The absorption of CO2 through photosynthesis could bepromoted through two systems e.g. conserving natural forest and the development of forest estate crops
in marginal land or degraded areas. Those initiatives could be intensified and coupled to the global
initiative e.g. CBD, Global Climate Change, Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, Certified Emission

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Reduction (CER) program and reducing emission caused by deforestation and degradation(REDD/REDDI) while maintaining biological diversity richness in remaining forest for the future of humanneed including addressing MDGs e.g. eradicate poverty, hunger, improve health and prevent biodiversity
lost. Indonesia should play an important role and for this, joint effort to do more research to study theimportance of biological resources including in particularly plant and microbial resources is urgently
required. Multidisciplinary approaches program involving scientists from both Japan and Indonesia isurgently necessary.

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Keynote Speech 3

Futurability of Humanosphere: Toward Global Humanics of the Environment
Narifumi Tachimoto
Director General of Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Global Environmental Problems
Homo sapiens (modern man, the “wise” species of Homo) has, like other life forms, adapted toenvironmental change and himself modified his environment in order to survive. Being “wise,” man has not
only adapted to the environment but also changed it by exploitation of its resources. Civilization has
progressed with such developments as the invention of tools, the agricultural revolution and the urban
revolution, and spoken and written language have contributed greatly to this progress. As a result, man
has been able to build rich societies.
The remarkable development of civilization in the early modern and modern periods brought
about by the energy revolution and the resulting industrialization have allowed feeble man to impact
decisively upon the natural environment. Environmental changes have been part of earth’s history fromtime immemorial, whether slow and gradual or sudden and drastic like volcanic eruptions or earthquakes;
and many sciences and other fields of study have been established to investigate environmental changes.
Environmental problems, on the other hand, while in part attributable to changes brought about by man’s
activities since the distant past, have mostly emerged as a result of industrial civilization. Industrial
development and medical progress have brought about rapid growth of human population and higher
living standards; but the cost has been more massive consumption of resources in society and a level ofwaste that far exceeds the threshold at which it can be processed by natural circulation. Such mass
production, mass consumption and mass wastage have resulted in dwindling resources, damaged healthand threatened amenity.
Environmental change is a problem not only of quantity but also of time. Man would probably
adapt unconsciously to gradual change over a long period. However, today’s environmental problems
have emerged rapidly over a short space of time. Their rise is symbolized by the steeply exponential curveof population growth in the past two centuries; and the fact that population growth has exceeded the limit
for co-existence is an environmental problem. What defines such changes as problems is the recognition
that they are not a matter of fate but something that man can do something about. [Takahashi et al. 1998–
1999]
From the mid-20th century, the first environmental problems to be tackled were those of pollution.
These were followed by ecological problems of destruction of nature and disturbance of ecosystems, andfinally environmental problems in general. Intellectuals began to realize that problems of garbage,

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destruction of nature and environmental degradation are not local problems but must be considered on a
global scale. Since then, people’s daily lives have come unquestionably to be impacted by global
environmental problems: global warming, ozone holes, the water crisis, desertification, acid-rain, pollutionof the atmosphere and oceans, toxic waste, loss of biodiversity, deforestation and energy problems.
It should be noted here, first, that environmental change is not itself an environmental problem.
As mentioned, environmental change has been ongoing on various time-scales since the earth’s formation.
Global warming is not itself a problem: the problem is that it appears to be the result of human activity. In
the face of long-term global warming and cooling, man at present can only adopt defensive strategies. But
if warming is man-made, then solutions must be sought. This is why it is an environmental problem.
Secondly, it should be noted that global environmental problems are not globally uniform. Most
people blame global environmental problems on a number of developed countries; not everyone isuniformly at fault. Developed countries are both offenders and victims, while developing countries, though
they may be victims, are rarely responsible for today’s environmental problems. At the least, environmental
problems cannot be solved by depriving people in developing countries of their right to livelihood, people
whose basic human wants are not met. Perceptions of environmental problems differ between richcountries seeking to maintain a comfortable environment for daily life and poor countries seeking at least
to meet basic human wants. Even within the same country, the rich and the poor differ in their perceptions.
Global environmental problems represent a situation in which the system of the human sphereor humanosphere is threatened by changes in the earth’s sphere or geosphere, i.e., the “environment” ofthe humanospheric system; and these involve non-uniform changes and non-uniform human activities.
Individual environmental problems are parts of the geospheric system that, at times, threaten to have a
global impact. They therefore need to be tackled comprehensively on a global scale. Without progress
towards solving global environmental problems, the earth has no future. Science can provide predictions,albeit uncertain, and unless action is taken considering the future of society on the basis of thosepredictions, it will be too late. Observations of the balance of ecosystems show that recovery is impossible
once a certain threshold has been passed, and the systems collapse.

Sustainability and Futurability
Restricting the human activities that cause them will not be enough to solve environmental
problems. Ideally we should reduce the burden on the environment while continuing to enjoy the wealth ofcivilization, and pass that wealth on to future generations. The concept that has emerged to make thispossible is that of sustainable development. It would be ideal if this were possible, and it is clear thatconcerted efforts are required to bring it about, but perhaps a little more fundamental consideration isneeded.

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What is threatened by global environmental problems is human well-being, the state of health,happiness and prosperity [Griffin 1986]

or to live well. Well-being does not mean simply the satisfactionof excessive material desires, but rather richness of heart, peace of mind. We must set our sights firmly on
well-being as our ultimate objective and figure out the steps needed for its realization. In the modern age,the goal must be universal well-being, not restricted to specific groups but enjoyed by young and old, richand poor, the healthy and the weak or disabled, citizens of America and citizens of Africa.
The humanospheric system has as its environment the sun, air, earth and water, animals, plants
and minerals. In addition, the environment includes appurtenances to the system: man-made objects likebuildings and machinery, civilizations and social systems. The chains of interaction between man andnature should, strictly speaking, be termed the dynamic equilibrium between the humanosphere, which ispart of the natural world, and its environment [Luhman 1984], the geosphere, but for convenience I shalluse the phrase the chains of interaction between man and nature here. Elucidation of this dynamic
equilibrium is the role of global humanics of the environment. Global environmental problems represent asituation in which a system whose primary purpose is well-being faces a crisis caused by environmental
changes the system itself has generated.
Theories advanced to explain these changes and their varieties in the humanities and social
sciences include environmental determinism, demographic view of history, a theory of limitation that posits
limiting factors rather than determining factors, and a theory of interaction that posits a trajectory (inFrench, trajet or trajection) between culture and nature [Berque 2000]. What is difficult about global
environmental problems, as various controversies show, is obtaining scientific proof of causal relationships.
Mechanistic models of problems can be built by specifying a chain of causal relationships and reducing
the complexity of causes, but testing such models is difficult. Nevertheless, countermeasures must be
taken immediately some form of inference or prediction is made. Otherwise, we face with a situation inwhich we have no strategies whatsoever for resolution,
In view of these features of global environmental problems, the concept of sustainable
development has been taken up internationally. Nevertheless, the pursuit of permanent sustainability ofnatural capital, man-made capital, and the social capital [Morotomi 2003] is liable to sink into conservatism,
including maintenance and approbation of the status quo. Another possible route should be to seek newtransformations rather than maintaining the status quo. We must learn from the history of civilization thatunless plans are premised upon constant change, circulation and flow, they are likely to become uniformly
standardized; and such plans, ironically, offer no guarantee of permanent sustainability. This is not to denya possibility to keep the sustainability for a millennium by new technologies and by the development ofscience[Oki 2001], but this kind of sustainability would be only possible with incessant, not only
technological but also socio-cultural, innovations to change the status quo. We must also take into
account not only the balance between generations but also the balance between regions. What is

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important here is not sustainability in terms of maintaining the status quo of what is sustained, but themaintenance of well-being or, more fundamentally, the security of life and livelihood. Such security does
not necessarily require maintenance of the status quo.
Rather than sustainability, with its strong nuance of maintaining status quo, the more romantic
term futurability, though not clearly defined, is probably more suitable to describe designs for a new
dynamism of interaction between man and nature that have the potential to create a new future. However,to build a civilization premised on flow, fluidity or mobility, involving as it does the pursuit of apparently
contradictory goals of change and continuity, is extremely difficult. Success depends on whether we canfind a form of governance (a new order or system) to replace sustainability and whether people will accept
it. The term futurability does not deny sustainability. Sustainability is one form of futurability, and it may turnout to be the only possibility left to mankind. Building a foundation of scholarship that will clarify theseissues is the task of global humanics of the environment.

A Basic Approach to Solving Global Environmental Problems
The basic approach to solving environmental problems will need to take the standpoint ofanthropology (human sciences, or humanics) in order to define a dynamic equilibrium between
humanosphere and geoshperere that will lead to futurability. In cooperation with the natural sciences,initiatives will need to come from the viewpoint of the humanities and social sciences, namely, humanics.
Of course, this is not something that can be done in a day, for we have barely reached the starting line. In
this situation, how should we set about finding solutions; what specific approach should we take?
While it is necessary to devise countermeasures on a global scale, there is the danger of losing
sight of environmental problems by insisting too closely on the global scale of the environment. The global
point of view is of course necessary, but because “environments” are essentially separate and distinct, it isimportant to take the standpoint of the area, region or locality. By returning as it were to our starting point,
we can say that the specific target is to establish rules for man’s involvement with the earth, with nature asa whole.
In the chains of interaction between man and nature, nature influences and imposes restrictions
on man. Conversely, there are actions that man takes that change nature. These actions of nature on man
and of man on nature are, of course, not unilateral but form part of a chain of action and reaction. For
individual sciences it is natural to evaluate natural changes and human activities separately, but forenvironmental studies it is necessary to understand the chains of interaction in order to explain therealities of interconnectedness of the whole. The earliest frameworks set up on the basis of suchinterconnectedness were the systems theories incorporated into various fields of study in the latter half ofthe 20th century. Whether a system is open or closed, whether its logic is deductive or inductive (fact-

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based), the concept of system is a metaphor [Lakoff & Johnson 1980; Tachimoto 2001a, 2001b]. It allows
a perspective on reality. While avoiding a discussion of the pros and cons of systems theory, I should here
accept both systems that exist in objective reality and systems that are completely subjective creations at
the same time. We can then ask how close the metaphor is to the essence of the problem. Metaphors that
capture the essence of a problem will be termed root metaphors. They might also be called fundamental
concepts that act as the foundations for model-building.
While there are many ways to understand reality, I would propose as a starting point forenvironmental studies that integrate various disciplines the establishment of interdisciplinary root
metaphors. As root metaphors that express the dynamic equilibrium of man and nature, circulation anddiversity are unlikely to meet with objections. These must take into account not only actions from nature
but also from man. Consequently, societies modeled on circulation or flow as well as those modeled on
harmony or cooperation, seeking harmony not only in the diversity of life forms but also in cultural andindividual diversity, fall within the purview of these metaphors. In both cases, however, these metaphorsaddress the aspect of environmental mechanism and do not directly deal with human activities. In a sense,
what mediates man’s action on nature are energy and resources in their widest meaning. Resources arethose parts of the natural world that have passed through the filter of human choice. As a root metaphor,
resources are parts of the natural world that mediate between man and nature. By securing the continuityof food and resources, societies are modeled on maintaining the basis of survival by realizing amenity,
safety, security and stability. [Sugihara 2007]
If the three root metaphors, circulation, diversity and resources, are taken as analytical tools ofglobal humanics of the environment, then they must be integrated within a frame. They must encompass
temporal change and spatial distribution.

History provides a comprehensive viewpoint within thetemporal frame as duration. A similarly comprehensive viewpoint is possible with the spatial frame as areal
unit. Rather than analyzing individual phenomena along temporal and spatial axes, a comprehensive
viewpoint is required.
The environmental history of civilization, symbolizing both change and continuity, is a metaphor of
the time axis, seen in such spans as day, year, life, centuries, millennia or millions of years. Sustainability
alone does not guarantee the continuity of all things; rather, we should seek certain transformations for the
future. Our task is to create a design for futurability by clarifying the structural mechanisms of continuity ofcivilization and environmental change. The unit of time, its divisions and range should, of course, not belimited to the short period mentioned in connection with global environmental problems but must be longenough to encompass macroscopically long-term environmental fluctuations. [Wada 2002]
A metaphor for the spatial category (= axis) is area or place because space is simply an expanse.
Area studies deal with the question of areal units which becomes one of scale of place. Seeking meaningfor people within space means investigating places; and here places are understood as being stratified

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from the community level to the global level. The choice of global area studies or ecosophy [Takaya 2001]
as a metaphor for the spatial axis is because of the compatibility of the concepts of area in global orinterdisciplinary area studies and of environment in global humanics of the environment [Tachimoto 2001].
What sets the boundaries of place is governance. Without governance, solutions to environmental
problems lie open to the criticism of being impractical.
As a hypothesis of regional division, the earth seen from space can be called the ultimate
expanse. It should be remembered, however, that it is only very recently that man has been able to know
and see the earth as a whole. From the viewpoint of land-dwelling man, the largest area is the continent.
These mega-areas can be divided into meso-areas (for example, the EU), including areas linking
continents (for example, the world of the Mediterranean) and areas spanning boundaries into the maritime
world (for example, Southeast Asia). Nation-states are of various sizes, and it is impossible to say ingeneral whether a nation should be treated as a single unit, a collection of units, or part of a larger unit.
From the global standpoint of global humanics of the environment, the nation is not a sacred framework.
Global area studies from which humanics of the environment arose takes as its mission the planning ofenvironmental governance that will solve local problems on a global scale without making regional
divisions. Such governance needs not only to be of global scale but to have macro-micro links between
the various levels of place and the geosphere as a whole.
In sum, an environmental history of civilization is not the aim itself: global humanics of theenvironment extracts futurability from its findings. Researchers do not carry out area studies as such:global humanics of the environment seeks to establish environmental governance by using the findings ofglobal area studies.

Global Humanics of the Environment
Global humanics of the environment seeks to build theory by consilience [Wilson 1998)], theunifying of inductive conclusions, based on the research findings of the disciplines concerned with the root
metaphors. Each discipline naturally adopts an analytical approach and at the same time is required topursue internal coherence and consistency with neighboring disciplines. Ideally, miniature versions of themacrocosm that is global humanics of the environment are realized in each of the microcosms
represented by the five metaphors. Global humanics of the environment can only be said to exist when thehomology of the part and the whole and the idea of participation, or sharing properties (scientificallyspeaking, the model of macro-micro link between strata and the whole) permeate from the earth to man.
Figure 1 illustrates the concept of global humanics of the environment. The mechanisms of thenatural environment occupy the center as a part of geopshere, with the spatial axis to the left and thetemporal axis to the right. They are a part of the humanosphere, which comprises the geosphere as a24

whole. Global humanics of the environment comes out of the inductive results of these five research fields
together in a unitary whole.

Figure 1. The Concept of Global Humanics of the Environment.

Figure 2. The Structure of Global Humanics of the Environment
Also we can understand the structure of global humanics of the environment created by thelinking together of the environmental history of civilization (sustainability) and global area studies(governance theory) with environmental studies in the narrow sense: environmental dynamics - the25dynamics and systems of the chains of interaction between man and nature (circulation, diversity andresources). These are, as shown in Figure 2, the three pillars that support global humanics of theenvironment and the foundation on which it rests. Based on global humanics of the environment, it will bepossible to draw up a plan for building a futurable society.

Acknowledgments
I am grateful to members of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature for their suggestions
while I was refining my ideas. Many people have also reviewed various versions of the manuscript, and I
am particularly grateful to Ishii Yoneo, Fukushima Yoshihiro and Yumoto Takakazu for their pertinentcomments. Special thanks to Peter Hawkes who edited the Japanese version into the English.

Glossary
Consilience: “Literally a jumping together of knowledge by the linking of facts and fact-based theory
across disciplines to create a common groundwork for explanation.” [Wilson 1998: 8]
Humanics: This word was coined in the mid-19th century by an American chemist Roger I. Williams inthe sense of the study of the nature or affairs of humankind. Here it is used to mean thecomprehensive, interdisciplinary study of man as distinct from the humanities.
Futurability: The German term for “sustainability” translates literally into Japanese as “future potential” or“future possibility,” and this Japanese term has been used at the Research Institute for
Humanity and Nature since its founding in preference to the more usual Japanese word forsustainability. Futurability is mentioned in a 1980 article in Time magazine as a neologism.
[Peter Hawkes]

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TACHIMOTO Narifumi is Director-General at Research Institute for Humanity and Nature at Kyoto. He
obtained M.A. on Anthropology-Sociology at Kyoto University, and Ph.D on Anthropology at Universityof Chicago. He has been worked as Professor of Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto
University (1980-2001), Director of CSEAS, Kyoto University (1998-2001), and Professor of Graduate
School of Global Humanics, Chubu University (2001-2006). He also worked as Chairman, Resona AsiaOceania Foundation, Science Counselor, Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (1990-1998), Vice
Chair of Scientific Steering Committee, MOST Programs, UNESCO (1995-1997). He has written andedited numbers of publications including Global Area Studies and Field Work: GSID Discussion Paper
129 (2004) and “Touristic Impressions of Social Transformations in Melaka,” Journal of College ofInternational Studies 30:1-31(2003). He received The Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon fromJapanese Government (2003).

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Grand Session 1

In Search of New Direction of Development in Indonesia:
Possibility of Sustainable Humanosphere Type Development in Indonesia
Kosuke Mizuno
Director of Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
Introduction
Recent annual economic growth of 6% in Indonesia is fairly good performance; however, its
capacity for continued future growth is low, compared with neighboring countries, such as China andVietnam. Numerous reasons are evident as to why Indonesia can not grow strongly. Low levels of foreign
direct investment, and limited governmental investment in infrastructure, both central and local
governments, are only two of the reasons. The process of transition from authoritarian centralized regime
to democratized and decentralized system is another important reason why the growth potential is low.
However, we can point out the other important reasons. One of them is that the direction of theIndonesian economic development is not clear. Of course, the present development system is not like theone during the former regime of Soeharto, especially in 1970’s when the BAPPENAS (National
Development Planning Agency) functioned as the headquarters of national developmental strategy, andthe organization’s strategies determined the planned economic activities. Democratized Indonesia cannot
have that kind of headquarters. However, currently, economic orientation and strategy is not clear, both thegovernment, and also the people themselves.
This paper attempts to show a new direction for Indonesian development with particular referenceof the concept of the sustainable humanosphere that our research program intends to develop. Of course,
we see the historical and social context of Indonesian economic development, and not a mere application.
This concept can be used to understand the other countries’ development, especially tropical Asia andAfrican countries. However, it is important to develop awareness and understanding of the historical andsocio-economic, ecological and atmospheric conditions of each country, region and area.
This paper firstly sees the directions and strategies of economic development as well as theperformance both during the Soeharto era, and during the post Soeharto era. We discuss the advantages
that these strategies had afforded on a few limited factors of production. Secondly, we discuss thepossibility of sustainable humanosphere type development in Indonesia. Thirdly, we discuss thereinterpretation of growth and decline of some industries from the view point of sustainable humanospheretype development in Indonesia. Finally, we conclude this paper with a summarized discussion on theapplicability of sustainable humanosphere type development in Indonesia.

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Strategies of Development in the 1970’s
The authoritarian and centralized regime made use of ODA and foreign direct investment since
the end of 1960’s. The government cultivated an atmosphere favoring direct foreign investment, such as
removing foreign currency control, introducing the concept of independent central bank, controlling theactivities of trade unions, and so on. These policies had the characteristics of open door policy to foreign
direct investment, and these characteristics were totally different from the former Soeharto’s policy
characterized by the nationalistic policy of Socialism a la Indonesia.
The Malari riot in 1974 led to the open door policy being revised, and the introduction ofprotectionist policies for indigenous entrepreneurs that were thought of as victims of the open door policies.
However, its nationalistic policies financed by oil revenues oriented to import substitution boosted theChinese-Indonesian businesses that had close relations with the central regime, especially the circle
around the president.

These policies had negative effects such as dependency to ODA, andunsustainable logging of the forests of Sumatra and Kalimantan.
Structural Adjustment
Reverse oil schlock in 1979, decreasing of oil price, changed the policy drastically. In view of adeteriorating foreign balance, the Indonesian Government sought further assistance from the World Bank.
The World Bank (and IGGI) agreed to increase foreign assistance, however this time; the aid came withconditions attached, such as liberalization of financial market, lifting protections on domestic industry by
way of subsidies and tariffs. These conditions represent severe criticism by the bank of the Government ofIndonesia’s import substitution policies, and state intervention policies. The World Bank advocated theboosting industries that were suitable to the socio-economic climate and local production capacity.
Indonesia has plenty of labor; on the other hand capital is scarce, so that the industry promoted should belabor intensive rather than capital intensive.
In 1982, the first financial reform was implemented, the deregulation policy was followed in 198486, and the second financial reform was implemented in 1988. As a result, many new banks as well asbank branches were established. An investment boom has taken place since 1988, and a lot of foreign
direct investment has flowed from Japan and NIES countries, such as South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore.
Labor intensive industries such as garment and foot wear industries have flourished, creating many newjobs, and a large amount of foreign currency flowed into Indonesia.

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Habibie’s Policy
B.J. Habibie, who studied in Germany and got a position as one of executives at German
Airplane Company, went home in 1980’s. He criticized the World Bank’s policy and said “Why isIndonesian able to become only sawing workers?” He decided to develop the high-tech industry, such as
the airplane industry, and promoted scientific research and application at BPPT. The government
supported the industry intensively, often using non-budgetary funds, such as forestation fund (danareboisasi). He emphasized the importance of human resources development especially in the field of
science and technology. Huge numbers of Indonesian students were sent to foreign countries under thesystem of Habibie Program.
In the 1990”s he developed the Silicon Valley in the northern part of Bandung, West Java. He
advocated value-added intensive strategies, meaning that value-added creative industries can bepromoted with the technology intensive industries with huge investment for human resources development.
His airplane company could produce small and middle scale airplanes, and some where exported;
however, their export experienced many difficulties. Some times the government exchanged the airplanes
produced for foreign goods, such as proton national cars in Malaysia, or rice from Vietnam.
Labor Intensive Industry after Step-down of Soeharto
Although labor intensive industries, such as garment and foot wear, earn around 8 billion US
dollars and accounted for 11% of total exports in 2004, these industries seem to have lost growth
momentum. For example, labor intensive industries share of total exports decline from 14.5% in 1994.
Some researchers suggest that the textile industry in Indonesia is a sun set industry, with many companies
and factories moving out of Indonesia. According to Akamatsu theory, the textile industry within a country
will experience various stages, from the stage of import, the stage of import substitution, the stage ofexport, and finally to the stage of import again. This cycle of a product will take place for each industry of
spinning, textile manufacture, machine of spinning and textile, and mother machine to make the machinefor spinning and textile. With changes of each product cycle, textile related industries can sustain their
growth momentum, and diffuse the industry and technologies to developing countries [Akamatsu 1961].
From the point of Akamatsu theory, Indonesia has experienced the growth of export, especiallyfor garments, however facing a reduction in growth momentum for garment manufacture; Indonesia seems
to be failing to develop successor industries such as machinery industry for textile, or higher valued
product of textile related industry.
These weaknesses were caused by many factors, such as failing to enhance the humanresources to support the production of higher valued products. Organizations and institutions are needed
to support the enhancement of human resources, or skill formation. Of course, some industry succeeded
to support the skill formation of workers, such as motorcycle industry, or some sectors of the electronics

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industry.
If industries, such as the textile industry, fails to enhance the skill level of their workers companies
tend to move to foreign countries such as Vietnam, or Sri Lanka, for example, because recent wage hikes
would not be supported by the low endemic skill levels. These mobile industries could be said that they
rely on cheap labor only, and once wages increase, they do not make efforts to enhance the skill of thework base, but instead move the factories to areas where wages are lower, such as Vietnam, or other partof Indonesia.
High-tech Industry after Soeharto’s Step Down
LOI between the Government of Indonesia and IMF in January 1998 ordered the Government tostop the assistance to the Habibie related airplane company. The company, of course, experienced harshmanagement conditions. Because no more financial assistance was supplied from the government, thecompany faced major difficulties. The workers who were fired demanded that the company declarebankruptcy, because that way the workers could get severance pay, and compensation. The company
verges on bankruptcy. The court ordered the closure of the company bank account and ordered thecompany to go bankrupt.
Although the company now receives order from many companies for repairs, or the manufactureof spare parts, and partly for making small airplanes, the company apparently faces major financial
difficulties. During the restructuring of the company, it has relied on the resources of the government, andwithout governmental assistance the company could hardly continue operations.
Strategies of Present Government
After the step-down of Soeharto, various policies were made by the government.
Decentralization and Democratization were essential parts of the policies. Economically, policies
resembling laissez faire is applied; with each government taking similar policies. For example, the Wahid
Government tried to protect the textile companies that include the textile machine production. Howeverthese policies were inconsistent between administrations. The Congress of the Indonesian Economist
Association at Manado in 2006 declared the necessity of a “Back to the agriculture” policy. At that time thegrowth of agriculture was around 4 % per annum. Prof. Saragih, former minister of agriculture advocatedthe necessity of forest related industries and oil palm industries. However, since then agricultural
production has lost growth momentum, with the exception of oil palm and rubber production. The
government headed by Yudoyono issued the package of policies to attract foreign direct investment;
however, it lacked the impact in boosting investment.

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Possibility of Humanosphere Type Development in Indonesia
Conditions for a New Direction for Development Strategies in Indonesia
Two major direction and strategies mentioned above have relied on quite a few factors for theirsuccess. Labor intensive industry has relied on cheap labor only, whilst high-tech industries rely on
governmental assistance.
Based on the critique of the former directions and strategies, we can predict the following
conditions that can satisfy the present demands of the society, and be based on the lesson that can begotten from the former experience.
Firstly we need to think the factors endowed that are favorable in Indonesia. World Bank
recommended labor intensive industries because labor is abundant in Indonesia. This strategy succeeded
in boosting industry; however, the development of labor based industries has several limitations as noted
above. However, it remains important to consider the factors that are abundant in Indonesia.
Secondly we can extend our scope not only the conventional factors of productions, such as labor,
capital and technology, but also abundant factors in Indonesia; these are natural capital such as
biodiversity and landscape, and also social capital such as community-ties and local knowledge. Sunshine
is also abundant in Indonesia. However, solar power can not be accumulated so solar cannot be regarded
as natural capital. Despite this, Indonesia has many factors required for industrial development which areabundant. Why not we pay attention to these abundant factors such as natural capital, social capital andsolar power?
Thirdly, we should consider the demands of the present age. Decentralization, freedom of
association, and freedom of speech, guarantees people the right to make demands on the local
government, and to companies. Ideas of participation, community-based development, gender bias freepolicy, and so on are also factors that people should consider when they think about the direction of thedevelopment, and its strategies.
Sustainable Humanosphere Type Development
Chart 1 shows the schema of sustainable humanosphere type development. Each factor isrelated among them. Timber exploitation has linkages to carbon circulation, water circulation, condition of
habitat, and atmospheric conditions. Balance with these factors is always important. The more stable ofthe balance of timber exploitation, the more extensive the linkage, and vice versa. Deviation of acirculation will affect the balance of other spheres, for example deviations in carbon circulation causes
global warming, and will effect negatively on the conditions of human habitat. Under these conditions andcirculations, abundant factors of productions should be made use of in the new direction of thedevelopment, and strategies for development.

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As noted above, production factors that are abundant in Indonesia are solar irradiance, natural
capital (bio-diversity, landscape and so on), social capital (local knowledge, community tie, trader’s
networks, and so on), labor force, local based small businesses (entrepreneurship) amongst others.

Humanosphere
solar

Space

Atmos
phere
Water Circulation

Carbon circulation
ForestHabitat
Fossil Fuel

Under ground

Ocean

Chart 1. Sustainable humanosphere type development.
Natural capital is the factors that can be used for the production of goods and services. Biodiversity can be meaningful to this in two ways. One way is when it can be used directly for production.
The other is the potentials both for the production, and for maintaining ecological balance. The knowledge
and technology to make use of biodiversity can be developed, and can be accumulated. Thus, biodiversity is counted as natural capital.

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Industries that are included in the concept of sustainable humanosphere type development varylargely. Agriculture, forestry, and fishery, and related industries from upstream productions to downstream
production are of course included. Not only palm oil, rubber and bio-fuel but also newly born industries thatcan couple local knowledge with high-technology are also included. Carbon circulation related industries,
and water circulation related industries also were included. The manufacturing industry is not excluded, ofcourse. The important point is how the potential or capability of resources including human resources canbe increased. Organizations and institutions should be developed to enhance the capabilities of humanresources. These high level resources can be further developed with the way of making the linkage withother abundant factors to develop them further.
These sustainable humanosphere type industries can include various ecologically relatedindustries; for example, organic agriculture, eco-tourism, ethnithicy and locality emphasized industry suchas handy craft. Locality is important factor because family based small scale businesses and people’sorganization can play important roles. However the system is open, so that large scale company andforeign company can also develop, will their own role in society.
Mechanisms for making consensus decisions among the people are essential, because
democratization and decentralization are assumed to be conditions.

Reinterpretation of Growth and Decline of Some Industries from the View Point of
Sustainable Humanosphere Type Development in Indonesia
Sugar Industry
The sugar industry prospered during colonial times. It was one of the biggest producers of sugarin the world especially during 1920’s. Cultuur banken had extensive networks including the managementof sugar factories, insurance companies and trading houses. Syndicate of companies had an experimental
institute that could accumulate biological knowledge, and develop technologies to increase production
efficiency.
They developed the Reynoso stelsel which developed the cyclical land utilization system. They
made use of traditional labor mobilization systems and also made use of village control system to capture
the land on which the sugar was planted.
Here we can see that the sugar industry during the colonial time made use of not only labor andland, but also traditional rural organizations to mobilize the labor and land. They developed the technology,
and capital was accumulated.
The prosperous sugar industry, however could not survive during the Japanese occupations,
independent movement, and post colonial nationalistic periods. Many factors explained the decline, one of
the most important is that farmers prefer to plant rice rather than planting sugar cane. During colonial

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times, there was always some coercion by the company and state to plant sugar. Once coercion became
ineffective, people were reluctant to plant sugar cane.
Rubber Industry
Rubber was introduced to Indonesia at the end of 19th century. Initially, large scale plantations
were opened in Northern Sumatra. Along with the development of the car industry in the US, andEuropean countries, rubber production in Indonesia developed. The rubber plantations were managed byan agency house, especially using UK capital. The capital borrowed the land with long-term base, andbrought the labor from Java Island.
However at the 1930’s, the production of rubber by small farmers were developed. At the end of
Dutch colonial rule, a third of the export of Netherlands Indies was the production of estate crops by small
farmers, especially in Sumatra. The farmers used a diversified management system, combining the rubber
production for the market with the subsistence production of rice, casaba and so on.
The rubber industry survived the Japanese occupations, post colonial Indonesia, and even now
the export is growing, especially by small farmers. The deficiency is the weakness of manufacturingindustry using the rubber. This character is apparent even now.

Conclusion
Strategies of development during the Soeharto era partly succeeded in developing the economy
of Indonesia, especially the World Bank’s strategy; it developed the garment and foot wear industry andemploys a lot of workers, and brings in a stream of foreign currency. However, labor intensive industries
experienced some stagnation recently. Many factors explained the stagnation. One of the most importantfactors is that the companies fail to enhance the skills of the workers. Once wages increase, manyfactories move to other countries that can offer cheaper labor. From these phenomena, we can say that a
lot of labor intensive industry in Indonesia has relied on only cheap labor.
Habibie’s high-tech industry experienced far hard times after the step-down of Soeharto. Although
he made efforts to develop human resources, his main resource that industry relied on was government
assistance. After the decline in government assistance, the industry became unprofitable and bankruptcy
followed.
Based on this experience, the following three points were shown as the conditions when
considering a new direction for the development of Indonesia.
Firstly, the availability of resources is important. Abundant resources should be considered andutilized appropriately. Secondly, not only the conventional resources for industrial production, such as labor,
capital and technology, but also natural capital (bio-diversity, landscape and so on), and social capital

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(local knowledge, community tie and so on) should be considered. Solar is also abundant in Indonesia.
Thirdly, social and political factors are also important. New strategies should take into
consideration; democratization, decentralization, participation, freedom of association and communitybased development. In this environment, the recognition by the local community or harmonious
coexistence with local community is important for every strategy.
Considering these factors this paper proposed the concept of sustainable humanosphere typedevelopment. Carbon circulation and water circulation, balance among the atmosphere, forest and habitat
must be considered. Varied industries were posited as examples. Strategies should be oriented toenhance the potentials and capabilities of resources including human resources.
Experience of sugar industry provided a good example of an industry that had extensive
implications to social capital such as rural organizations, and natural capital such as biological andtechnological development. However, coercion was essential to the industry, that why the industry declined
after coercion was lifted.
Rubber industry was supported not only by the plantation capital, but also small farmers who madecombinations with subsistence crops. Social organizations were developed. The weakness is the lack of
powerful manufacturing industry that makes use of rich rubber supplies.

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Grand Session 2

National Park Management in Local Autonomy from the Viewpoint of Political
Ecology 1: A Case Study of Tanjung Puting (Central Kalimantan)
Herman Hidayat 2
Research Center for Society and Culture, Indonesian Institute of Sciences
Abstract
This paper analyses national park management from the viewpoint of political ecology whichemphasizes stakeholders’ perception. The role of national park is very significant as the last resort ofnatural forest existence. Because it has strategic functions as water catchments, hydrology, watersheds,
micro climate, carbon sink production, educational discourses to study biodiversity, eco-tourism, etc. There
are three main purposes for national park management: (1) the protection of ecological process in order toguarantee sustainable its function and role as ensuring systemic life; (2) to preserve various of natural
resources and its ecosystem in order to maintain genetic preservations; (3) and to generate sustainable
benefits for improvement social welfare for society who live in and around national park particularly andsociety at large in general. But, currently the real condition of national park Tanjung Puting is in a threat
because of two factors: namely illegal logging activities which have been carried out by wood traders andillegal mining which eventually affected of water contamination in the upstream. Therefore to anticipate
these critical problems the affirmative action such as collaborative management on reforestation program,law enforcement, hard sanction and empowering socio-economic of local people must be carried out by
stakeholders (central and local government and NGOs) in order to implement sustainable forest
management on national park in the long run.
It was occurred conflict of interest between central and local government on natural forest
resources particularly on national park management. The central government argues based on the Law
number 5/1990 article 14, which ‘highlights national park as natural forest preservation that owns
ecosystem life and managed with specific zone (core, forest and for research activities). The authority ofmanagement belongs to central government and the main mission is to defense national park for its
preservation, protection and utilization for research in the buffer. In contrast, local government’s argues
that the existence of national park in her district could be utilized natural resource to extent as originalincome for local government (PAD), for infrastructure building and society as large purposes, especially inautonomy era. In line with local government’s mission, local people also see ‘national park’ from viewpointof direct economic values. Therefore, the excess of illegal logging and mining occurred in Tanjung Puting
national park which subsequently affect on deforestation. In this context, both conflict of interest between
two actors of stakeholder (central and local as well) are fascinating to be elaborated.
Key words: national park management (ecology, economic and social), stakeholders, central and local
government conflict of interest, and collaborative management.

This paper is presented on “In Search of New Paradigm on Sustainable Humanosphere”, in The 1st Kyoto
University-LIPI Southeast Asian Forum, in LIPI, Jakarta on November 26-27, 2007. The data of Tanjung Puting
National Park management was carried out field research in May, 2006.
2 Researcher (APU) at Research Center for Society and Culture (PMB), Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI).
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Introduction
Forest is one of the renewable natural resources that could provide elements for human being to
produce and consume. Yet, forest has regeneration potential and limited assimilation, until during its
exploitation under the limited assimilation, forest resources could be utilized on sustainable. In contrast, if
it is exceeded, forest resources could be degraded and forest resources’ function as production andconsumption factors will be in a threat (Soemarwoto, 2001: 59). Therefore as potential resources, forest
are important, not just for the production of the timber, but also for many social and ecological functions
such as conservation of biodiversity, the supply of water, and the prevention of global warming (M. Inoue &H. Isozaki, 2003: xi). On the other hand, forest resources often become a capital that could be utilized fornational development in any country, as done for timber industries (plywood, sawn wood, pulp and paper,etc.) in New Order (Soeharto regime) period and became the second largest foreign exchange earnings
after of oil boom in 1980s-1990s.
National parks in Indonesia which are currently (2007) accounted more than fifty units (at least
23.5 million hectares) is one of the last resort for forest conservation in order to prevent forest degradationand to keep sustainable natural forest which their specific ecosystem and biodiversity on flora and fauna.
As it was well-known in Earth Summit June, 1992 in Rio de Janeiro that ‘forest conservation’ was one of
the key issues in this Summit meeting. Although countries adopted Agenda 21, which called actions toprevent ‘deforestation’, and the Forest Principles, the Earth Summit failed to conclude with the creation of
a Forest Convention.
After the Earth Summit, a number of international initiatives emerged, such as theIntergovernmental Panel on Forest (IPF), the World Commission of Forests and Sustainable development(WCFSD), and others; in order to find ways to halt worldwide deforestation and degradation of all types offorestlands. And its development at the Special Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations to
Review and Appraise the Implementation of Agenda 21, in June 1997, was agreed that work should becontinued in order to reach an international consensus on forest conservation.
Obviously, in the past, most debates regarding various aspects of forests tended to focus on theforest sector and the direct causes of deforestation and forest degradation and not on the cross-sectoral
aspects of the underlying causes linked to them, such as the connection between forests and societies.
After the UN Special Session, non-governmental organizations took the initiative on one of the mostpressing agendas and started researching the underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation.
In recent years, the world’s forests have been affected by over exploitation, over harvesting, overgrazing, pests and diseases, climate changes, global warming, floods, soil erosion, droughts, storms, air
pollution, forest fires, as well as economic crisis in Asia and other regions-all leading to an overall
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timber supply to forest industries in Japan and others, have been strongly impacted. A number of initiatives
have suggested forest policy reforms, reforestation program, against illegal logging actors, and the needfor the sustainable managements of forest has been widely recognized and encouraged. Because
implementation of reforms at the local level has been insufficient, it is imperative that local people begin toeffectively participate in forest planning and management as well as in protected-area management.
This paper discusses the role of Tanjung Puting National Park in Central Kalimantan from political
ecology perspective which emphasizes the role stakeholders/actors in the collaborative management andits implication on various ecological issues.

This paper also will analyze conflict of interest between

central and local government on the policies of natural forest resources particularly on national park
management.

Theoretical Review
This study uses “political ecology” as an analytical framework which emphasizes on stakeholders
movement (Figure 1). 3 Now we must clarify, what political ecology means. Many scientists (Paterson,
2000; Bryant, 1992; Vayda, 1983; Blaikie and Brookfield, 1987; Abe Ken-ichi, 2003) define it differently.
(Paterson, 2000) notes that, "political ecology as an approach that combines the concerns of ecology andpolitical economy to represent an ever-changing dynamic tension between ecological and human change,
and between diverse groups within society at scales from the local individual to transnational as a whole."
Other scientists define it as, "political ecology” a framework to understand the complex interrelations
between local people, national and global political economies, and ecosystems" (Blaikie and Brookfield,
1987). The concept has been adapted in a variety of ways, such as Third-World political ecology, where(Bryant, 1992) notes that: "political ecology may be defined as the attempt to understand the politicalsources, conditions and ramifications of environmental change." Most current political ecology tends tooverlook ecological dynamics and focus upon the structure of human systems (Rocheleau et al., 1996).
Abe Ken-ichi (2003) defines political ecology, as “a collective name for all intellectual efforts to criticallyanalyze the problems of natural resource appropriation and political economic origins of resource
degradation, be they for the purpose of academic study or practical applications”. 4 In other words, political
ecology is concerned with the political dimensions of natural resource use and subtleties of those politics.
Apparently, the scope of political ecology has been referred to as ‘a method of analyses, rather than a

3 See Bryant, R & Bailey, Sinead (1997). Third World Political Ecology. London: Routledge Press. Further the

implementation for political Ecology concept, see Yoshiki Seki, “The Political Ecology of the Philippine Restoration
Program: ODA, Government, and Local People”, in Philippine Political Science Journal, Vol 22, Number 45, 2001,
pp. 79-93.
4 Abe, Ken-ichi (et.al). The Political Ecology of Tropical Forests in Southeast Asia ; Historical Perspectives, Kyoto
University Press, Japan, 2003, pp. 3-4

39unified scientific discipline or sub-discipline, which is usually characterized by a set of related ideas,
premises, and theories.
National Park in Autonomy Era:
Ecological baseSocio-Economic base
Collaborative Management

Stakeholders:
Direct actors:
Central Government(Forestry Department)
Local Government(Province & District)
Indirect Actors:

Degradation
Deforestation

NGOs(Local/International)
Private Company
Donor Agencies
Local Society

Ecological Implication:
Soil Erosion
Flood
Drought
Climate Changes
Global Warming

Figure 1. Stakeholders on National Park Management and its Implication (Source: improvement from
Bryant and Bailey’s Concept of Political Ecology, 1997).
Meanwhile, (Vayda, 1983) commented: political ecology is similar to a method applied by humanecologists analyzing policy-relevant environmental questions that is ‘progressive contextualization’. Thisapproach starts with actors, in this case direct resource users, and considers the contexts within which
they act or do not act in a particular way towards a resource. This approach also intends to explain why
people use the environment in particular ways, sometimes causing resource decline or degradation
detrimental to their own and others’ uses of the resources (Peluso, 1992).
From the above definitions, apparently, Bryant’s definition, which emphasizes ‘putting politics first’on the political ecology of sustainable development aspects is more operational on reviewed Tanjung
Putting National Park. There are two reasons for this condition. First, that ‘political and economic
pressure’ from the Soeharto government was predominantly colored on forest management since three
decades. Second, the implication of political and economic pressure upon ‘ecological’ perspective wasignoring by forestry bureaucrats, which subsequently affect into forest degradation and deforestation.

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‘Political ecology’ is a framework to approach to the subjects mentioned. It is a generic term used
for the field research connecting two types of studying by bringing the point of view politics into the studyof environmental disruption. It includes a small-scaled study centered on local society (e.g., cultural
anthropology, applied anthropology) and a large-scaled study from national and worldwide standpoint (e.g.,political economy).

Description of Tanjung Puting Area
Tanjung Puting National Park initially established and consisted on two conservation areas,
namely Kotawaringin areas which width 100,000 ha based on Zelfbestuur van Kotawaringin number 24
June 13, 1936 and Sampit conservation areas 205,000 based on letter decision by Governor General of
Dutch colonial number 39 August 18, 1937. Both conservation areas in Kotawaringin and Sampit
eventually merged to become Tanjung Puting, with totally covered 305,000 ha. 5 This national park is veryrich in flora and fauna, etc. It categorized fauna such as twelve various birds and 38 mammalian. Fouramong famous mammalian are Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), Owa-Owa (Hylobates agilis), Beruang
Madu (Helarctos malayanus) , and Bekantan (Nasalis larvatus). In case of birds such as Sindanglawe(Storm stork, Ciconia stormil), etc. From the vegetation perspective, Tanjung Puting areas are the centerfor biodiversity storage. For example Dipteocarpus forest type which covers 50-60 percent and wet forest(10 percent) from all areas. It contains valuable trees such as Meranti (Shorea spp), Gaharu (Aquilaria
malaccensis), Kayu Ulin (Eusideroxylon zwageri), Ramin (Gonystylus), Rattan, Damar Batu, etc.
In 1978 through the decision from Ministry of Agriculture number 698/Kpts/Um/II/1978 on
November 13, 1978, which excluded 30,000 ha areas between River Serimbang and Segintung. Then,
total width of Tanjung Puting National Park was reduced to become 270,040 ha. And its development in
1981 Tanjung Puting National Park declared as ‘world heritage’ for Biosphere Conservation by UNESCO.
It means that from the management perspective, the responsibility of Tanjung Puting maintenance not justIndonesia government through Department of Forestry (Directorate General of Forest Protection andNatural Conservation) but also international community actively involved on NGOs formation such as
Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) and World Education (WE) that sponsored by UNESCO andIllegal Logging Response Centre (ILCR) which sponsored by European Community (EC). 6
Ecotourism Potential
Besides, as storage of flora and fauna, National Park Tanjung Puting familiarly well-known as
5 See Book two on Planning and Tanjung Puting Management: 1999-2024, published by Department of Forestry and

Plantation, Directorate General of Protection and Forest Conservation, Tanjung Puting National Park Institute, p. 510.
6 Hidayat, Herman (eds.) (2006). Conflict Potential between Central and Local Government on National Park
management in Local Autonomy (A Case Study of Tanjung Puting and Kutai), Jakarta: LIPI Press, p.44.

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recreation resort for domestic and foreign tourist. There are three driving factors Tanjung Puting appointed
destination by visitors: (1) the status of Tanjung Puting National Park as ‘world heritage’ for the biggest
Orangutan habitat in Kalimantan since the middle of 1990s; (2) it was occurred film shooting making about
Orangutan condition. This film has been told the bad condition of Orangutan because some factors suchas forest fires, deforestation, catches up by hunters and sold them by traders to the third parties (black
market). This film used as campaign tools to change international views on Orangutan as be an
extinguished animal in Kalimantan; (3) the positive support by local and central government because it
has been provided by good access to the location, infrastructure, security, safety and social and politicalstability in the district level.
Some eco-tourism areas which mostly visited by visitors:
1) Tanjung Harapan area which has been designated as utilization and research and it wellequipped with resort home for tourist, location for Orangutan Rehabilitation Center, tracking andOrangutan Meal Exhibition in certain time every morning at 8.00 o’clock and afternoon at 14.30.
2) Tanggui Camp used for specific utilization for tracking in night visiting and Orangutan
rehabilitation activities and might to see to feed up at 8.00 o’clock. This location is the habitat for
deer, forest pig, and various birds such as Rangkong, Paruh Bangau, and others.
3) Leaky Camp was designated as specific utilization zone since 1970 for research and protection ofOrangutan. This camp could find out wild Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) rehabilitation and OwaOwa (Hylobates agilis). In the upstream of Sekonyer River in Leaky camp could find out Buaya
Muara (Crocodilus porosusu) and Buaya Senyulong/Sapit (Tomistoma schlegelli) which wellknow very wild.
There are visitors as well domestic and foreign in 2004 (Table 1). For example visitors based on
their nationality derived from United States 115, United Kingdom 101; Australia 51, Germany, 50, Japan 12.
Mostly foreign visitors visited in September and October and domestic tourists in July and September.
From the incomes perspective, totally received in 2004 Rp. 226.922.000 and slowly reduced in 2005 to
become Rp. 178.827.000. The factors of income reduction related to the national security in terms
terrorism issue and boom in Indonesia in 2000s.
After the realization of local autonomy since January 2001 the income from visitors’ fees
US$ 5/one day for foreign visitors and domestic Rp. 5,000/day/person. 7 The distribution of income divided
80 percent for local government and Tanjung Puting National Park Office received 20 percent.

7 The decision of ticket fee to Tanjung Puting National Park based on PERDA (Local Government Regulation)

number 11, 2002 and Head of District (Bupati) Kotawaringin Barat, July 2002.

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Table 1. Visitors to Tanjung Puting National Park in 2004
No

Activities

Foreign/man

Domestic/man

Foreign/days

Domestic/days

1.

Visitors

580

444

4,380

1,479

2.

Research

3

17

148

366

3.

Film Shooting

11

-

-

75

4.

Volunteer

24

-

-

432

5.

Official

-

-

-

Total

618

461

5,528

2,352

Source: Tanjung Puting National Park Office’s Statistic, 2004.

Stockholder’s Perception on National Park
Central Government
National Park (such as Tanjung Puting) has the significant role and strategic function forconservation and protection for biodiversity, flora and fauna. To achieve this role, central government andother stakeholders have task strategic function to maintenance for catchments area, hydrology resources,
watershed, to produce O2 (carbon sink) and micro climate, and as educational and research facilities,
eco-tourism and ecological services, etc. 8 There are three main purposes of national park management: 1)
the protection of ecological process in order to guarantee sustainable its function and role as ensuringsystemic life; 2) to preserve various of natural resources and its ecosystem in order to maintain genetic
preservations; 3) and to generate sustainable benefits for improvement of social welfare for society wholive in and around national park particularly and society at large in general. 9 Obviously, three purposes ofnational park established are appropriate with the law number 5, 1990 about “Natural Conservation and its
Ecosystem “which highlighted that central government has responsibility to manage the national park. In
line with these purposes, national park management in any districts in Indonesia, the National Park
Officers (as representative of Directorate General of Forest Protection and Natural Conservation) must
always pay attention of three dimensions namely ecological, economic and social. Hopefully thisdimension has positive implication to other stakeholders’ especially local people. Therefore to realize thisdimension should make strategic step by establishing internal zone (core zone, forest zone and researchzone) and external zone, so called “buffer zone” as the border line with society’s land.
In fact to prevent national park management from against of crime among society who enter
national park and make illegal logging and mining activities, the active role of local government (province
8 See Wiratno, et.al (2004). Berkaca di Cermin Retak: Refleksi Konservasi dan Implikasi bagi Pengelolaan Taman

Nasional. Dephut dan Gibbon Foundation, hal. 200-202.

9 Interview with Ady Susmianto, Director of Conservation area, Directorate General of Forest Protection and Natural

Conservation (Department of Forestry), May 27, 2005, in Jakarta.

43and district) in autonomy era on establishing “Buffer zone” (zona penyanggah) is very necessary. The
function of this zone that used by Agro-forestry program could be facilitated by local government andNational Park Officer. The role of Agro-forestry which could be planted leading local species trees andplantation (such as Potatoes, Kayu Manis, Albazia, Durian, Rambutan, Kemiri, Jengkol, etc.) could bepositive implication for income generating of local people. But, the reality until now none of ‘buffer zone’
was established by local government cooperated with national park officer.
Local Government
Although local government has not real ‘authority’ to manage national park, based on the law(number 5/1990), but the co-management with central government is very necessary. As told by head offorest agency in local government (district) that the function of Tanjung Puting national park is very
strategic and significant such as for hydrology resources, watershed, catchments area for the purposes ofagricultural water supply. Therefore, in order to maintain this national park, local government has moral
obligation to cooperate with National Park Office. For example, for increasing local people’s income
generating, local government (districts) had been established four (4) resort homes for tourist in Sekonyer
village. The management of resort home was organized by local people. The charge of average room Rp.
120,000/per day, plus breakfast for foreign and Rp.80,000 per day for domestic tourist. While this researchcarried out in May 2006, 4 persons tourist from Belgium came and spent for tow days. The distribution ofincome divided, namely 80 percent for local people and 20 percent for local government.
In crushing illegal logging activities such as Balak Telabang Operation One which was held on
December 5-24, 2000 and continuously launched with Balak Telabang Operation Two from January 22
until February 10, 2001. The synergic operation between local government, National Park Officer and local
people could capture 50 men in jail and more 1.500 m3 mix forest trees and 1.176 m3 Ramin trees. It was
six driving factors caused deforestation in Tanjung Puting areas: 1) economic crisis occurred in 1998-2001;(2) the change of political order from centralization power to decentralization (local autonomy) since
January 2001; 3) the weakness of coordination between law officers and the function of court in central
and local as well; 4) the KKN practices (corruption, collusion and nepotism) happened between
government officers and private business); 5) the weakness of forest security system and the inspection offorest products; 6) and the price of illegal logging is cheaper than the formal wood from HPH (Logging
Forest Concession) holders. 10
Collaborative Management
There were shift paradigms from government based management to become collaborative
10

Interview with Tanjung Puting National Park Officer was held on May 4, 2006. And Forester, staff of Forest Agency
in District, West Kotawaringin, May 11. 2006.

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management which involve other stakeholders. 11 It means there is indication to realize effective
management on protection area, social justice and democratize on natural resources management.
Moreover, because Indonesia categorized as a member has ratified Biological Diversity Convention.
Therefore, Indonesia must loyal to realize this convention related with biodiversity conservation. NGOs’s
perception on national park is very strategic function for conservation areas, and it should be maintainedon the principles of sustainable forest management.
Related with Tanjung Puting National Park have been carried out collaborative management withother NGOs such as OFI (Orangutan Foundation Indonesia), FNPF (Friends of National Park Foundation),WE (World Education), Yayorin (Yayasan Orangutan Indonesia) and ILRC (Illegal Logging Response
Center) on establishing of journal about program and national park activities.
Friends of National Park Foundation (FNPF)
It was made cooperation with Tanjung Puting Office in 1997. The fund rising came from national
and international agencies such as Gibbon foundation and local private companies who has responsibility
on forest and environmental conservation and empowering on social economic of local people. Actually
FNPF in Kotawaringin is branch office and the head office is located in Denpasar, Bali. In realizing the
program FNPF supported with other volunteer staff and local people worker. As previously told that
Tanjung Puting areas was 65 percent forest degradation because of illegal logging practices and forest
fires in 1990s and the early 2000s. FNPF seriously involved for conducting rehabilitation and landconservation program in many areas with provided by self preparation of local trees seeding such as
Meranti (Shorea sp), Gaharu, Ulin (Eusideroxylon zwageri), Keruing (Dipterocarpus sp), Jatimas, Jelutung,Tengkawang, Ramin (Gonystylus), etc. In 2004 was carried out rehabilitation or reforestation program
about 24 ha width and slowly reduced to become 16 ha in 2005, and in 2006 increased to become 29 hain Camp Pesalat and Beguruh. According to Basuki, alumni of Mulawarman University, Samarinda, Headof Rehabilitation program, that he is very optimistic on acceleration of reforestation program with provided
by local trees seed and actively supported by other volunteers from high school pupils and local people,
etc. Mostly pupils who actively engage on reforestation program campaign and previously taught
conservation subject as extra curriculum in High Scholl (SMA 2) in West Kotawaringin. But, a criticalproblem regarding the limited fund from other parties (international and local agencies) to carry out
reforestation program in large areas.
Meanwhile FNPF cooperated with local people to carry out empowering socio-economic program.
This NGO launched on buying 6 female cows and two goats for breeding program in 2005-2006. The
11

The practice of collaborative management among stakeholders on national park management program especiallyon forest rehabilitation and empowering socio-economic program of local people was familiarly carried out in1990s.

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target of these breeding activities after several years will be fruitful. Other activities, FNPF also established
Demplot (agricultural and fishery practices demonstration) area. This training of Demplot invited local
people to train their capacity and knowledge in order is able to increase fishery and agricultural products
by using technical and mechanical tools, and excellent seeds. As told by FNPF field officer that actually
agricultural was very potential sector from the viewpoint of width area, quality of land, irrigation from
Sekonyer River and manpower. On the other hand, on the improvement of skill, FNPF officer gave
facilities among 2 persons from Sekonyer village to attend training of curving statue and Batik printing
about one month (2003) in Bali. Hoping, after returned home, they actively involved teaching statue andBatik on technical knowledge to local people. Based on the village report (2006), eventually obtained
about 20 persons who practiced as statue and Batik trainees. Mostly their products such as Orangutan
statue, garment products (kaos/sport clothes) and kitchen tools- made by local people as souvenirs andsold to tourist. The income generating from these activities such as souvenirs to become best selling fordomestic and foreign tourists as well and could improve their social welfare.
World Education (WE)The WE is categorized as international NGO, because it has some programs on conservationand empowering local socio-economic in many countries. The head office of WE is located in Boston,
United States of America. The WE has MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) with Doctorate General ofForest Protection and Natural Conservation (PHKA) and it represented by Balai Taman Nasional (National
Park Office).
There are two principles aims for developing WE on the promotion of ICDP (Integrated
Conservation and Development Project) namely: 1) to improve process of planning and decision making
from stakeholders movement in terms of forest conservation, reforestation program in Tanjung Puting
National Park; and 2) to launch empowering socio economic program through improving agricultural andpoultry products.
In general the achievements target in period October 2003 and February 2006, among of them:
1) The fix establishment of WE operational office in Pangkalan Bun for Tanjung Puting Integrated
Conservation and Development Project (TPICDP);
2) Intensively cooperate with Tanjung Puting National Park Office and other stakeholders on
synergic constructing program;3) The food endurance and empowering economic program through implementing of paddy rice,poultry, fishery, agro-forestry products;
4) And improvement of Group organization.
We could realize about fifty up sixty percent the above program. For example, the endurance offood in twelve villages to give service about 1.000 poor farmers, namely 5 villages located in East46

Kotawaringin (Seruyan) and 7 villages located in Pangkalan Bun (Figure 2). As told by WE symbol:“because we learn together and produce excellent products.” WE develop leading program such as fishery(fish pool, breeding), agricultural products (paddy rice, fruits, vegetables, etc.), poultry (hen, a leadingchicken/ayam buras) in some villages in Kumai sub-district. 12 For example, in terms of agricultural
products, the intensification of mechanism through using various leading seeds (punggur, mendawa,
martapura, etc.), technical instructions, participation of local people eventually produce good results. In
2005 the production of rice increased to become 4.5 ton/per ha, which previously produced average 2
ton/per ha in 2004. This condition has positive impacts to improve social benefits for local people,
particularly to provide their food sustainability stock in the future. The response from local people also
positive, as told by informants (Yd) that cooperation between NGOs (such as WE, FNPF, etc.) andNational Park Officer and local people to promote socio-economic and ecological environments could
impact on increasing benefits for their incomes generating.

Empowering
Empowering
Community
Community

ICDP
ICDP

Technical
Technical
aspects

Fishery
FisheryAgro-forestry
Agro-forestry
Agriculture
Agriculture
Poultry
Poultry

Education
Education
Group
Group
Networking
Networking

Civil
Civilsocietysociety
Endurance
Endurance

National
National
regulation
regulation

Laws
Laws
Department
DepartmentRegulation
Regulation
Local Regulation/Perda
Regulation/Perda
PolicyPolicy Implementation
Implementation

Figure 2. Grand Operational Program of World Education (Source: Booklet of WE (World Education),2005).

Conflict of Interest Central and Local Government
The spirit of reformation (1998-2005) in autonomy era was strongly demand on positive values
such as democratization, accountability and transparency. As we know that ‘democratization’ ischaracterized by “conflict interest among stakeholders. Therefore, freedoms of expression eventually
12 See Quarterly report of WE program Period October 2003 to February 2006, Pangkalan Bun.

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cause freedom to criticize other parties who has different ideas. 13 In context the relationship between
central and local government have been occurred ‘conflict interest’ particularly on forest resources andnatural resources in general. Centralization which had been carried of by central government in Soeharto
regime has been shifted into a new paradigm of ‘decentralization’. It is because local autonomy is one of
the formations of the real practice of democracy to guarantee individual, group, community rights andfreedom in society. In line with central and local government relation, democracy demands freedom for
local government to manage their affairs in many aspects. On the other hand, autonomy era hoped by
local government to develop self reliance and independence and to promote many things to be moreprogress and subsequently drive local people to be more welfare and prosperity. Related with “nationalpark management” happened” conflict of interest.
Local government sees national park is very potential resources, minus conservation, economic
orientation and could be exploited from timber and non-timber exploitation in order to expand their PAD(original income of local people). But so far this planning just reach into intellectual discourse among
political elites and still not yet publish Perda (local government regulation) as regulation from theassociation decision of executive (head of district) and legislative institutes (local parliament). Thiscondition based on interpretation on law No. 32/2004 about “Local Autonomy”. Even if local government’s
land occupied more than half, it is worth to ask “Special Compensation Fees” (DAK) from central
government. This DAK can be used to establish infrastructure and empowering socio-economic of local
community who live in and around the border of national park (Figure 3). From this point, actually there isa plan to manage national park by their authorities. But, because of the real condition suffered by local
government namely limited of manpower and allocation of local budget beyond their capacities. As a result,local government (Kotawaringin Barat) just want to cooperate with central government (through National
Park Officer) and other stakeholders for this areas, based on consideration as follows: (1) strategic
function of Tanjung Puting National Park as asset for local, national and international and its function forbio-diversity conservation, protection of fauna and flora especially Orangutan and other animals; (2) it is as
ecotourism area for domestic and foreign tourists; and (3) to improve socio-economic program for local
people.
Central government’s perspective highlighted that conservation in national park areas is verysignificant. 14 The area categorized as its strategic function as catchments area, hydrology resources, biodiversity storage, flora and fauna conservation, eco-tourism, etc. Therefore any illegal activities such as
illegal logging and mining, land encroachment, land cultivation by local people and others s intolerable andMaswadi Rauf, “Local Government and Horizontal Conflict” in Syamsuddin Haris (eds.), Decentralization,
Democratization and Accountability: Local Government, Jakarta: AIPI and Partnership for Government Reform inIndonesia, 2002, p. 145.
14 Interview with Bappeda staff (Local Planning Agency) in Kotawaringin Barat, on May 4, 2007. See, Hidayat,
Herman (ed.) (2006). Op cit. p. 77.
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actors must be captured in jail. For this purpose, the authority rights to manage still belong to ‘central
government’, based on Law No. 5/1999 about “Natural resources conservation and Its Ecosystem”).

Central Gov:
Conservation (+)
Total Economic
Value (TEV)International
Cooperation with
NGOs and other
International
Forest Agency
under scheme:
CDM
REDD
VCM (Voluntary
Carbon market)

Conflict ofinterest on
National Park
Management

Implication:
Intensive oppression on
national park (Illegal logging,plantation, mining, shifting
cultivation, etc.
- Forest degradation anddeforestation- Forest recovery

Local Gov:
Conservation (-)
Original Local income- (PAD)
Direct economic
value (DEV)
Special Fund
Allocation (DAK)

Buffer Zone
Agro-forestry

Figure 3. Conflict of interest on National Park and Other Co operations (Source: Data improvement (2006).
Currently happened that increasing of global warming which eventually affect into climatechanges as indication of fail the ‘Kyoto Protocol’ agreement in 1997. There are many affects of global
warming: (1) from 1974-2004 the effect of green house (rumah kaca), CO2 increases 70 percent (from28,7 billion ton to 49 billion ton CO2); (2) the sea level increases about 18 cm until the end of 21 century;(3) the provided clean water decreased in Asia; (4) in Africa until 2020 about 75-250 million of people
suffer the lack of water; (5) and intensity of heating wave as the affect of climate change happened inSouth Europe and other part of Europe (Kompas, November 19, 2007). Underlying factors of Kyoto
Protocol fail, because of three critical rationales. First, United States of America (USA) and Australia which
considered significant contribution on gas emission do not agree to make signature. Second, the conceptof CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) which highlighted on reforestation and afforestation programamong developing countries who especially own ‘tropical forest’ reluctant to perform this program. The
concept of CDM is unrealistic which emphasizes that critical forest land before 1960s must be carried out
for reforestation program. Even the practice of logging industries (HPH) among developing countries,
including Indonesia began in the early 1970s. The consequence of HPH’s practice emerged forest49

degradation and deforestation mostly occurred in 1980s, which do not properly perform a sustainable
forest management. Third, the emerging of China, Brazil and India as industrialized countries which
greatly contribute carbon dioxide must ratified ‘Kyoto Protocol’ agreement on reduction of gas emission.
What is the role on national parks Indonesia which own about 23.5 million ha? Its role is verysignificant for production carbon sink to protect global warming. Actually the real challenge how central
government which represented by Department of Forestry encourages with international foundation
agencies whether among advanced countries, OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)
international NGOs (Greenpeace, World Education, WWF, etc.), United Nations on Climate Changes, etc.,
cooperate for maintaining national park management. In contrast advanced countries (include G-8) whichmastering science, technology and wealth must cooperate with developing countries, especially who own
tropical forest for realizing reforestation program and empowering of socio-economic local people.
Vice President, M. Jusuf Kalla launched idea that oil for education and oil for forest in Summit
OPEC meeting on November 17-18, 2007 in Riyadh. Oil for education considered to become significant,issue, because oil consumer countries (include Indonesia) really suffered heavy burden as oil’s price up to
spend their budgets. Meanwhile, oil for forest related to environmental issue, because oil is the greaterpart to produce (fossil elements) that cause CO2 and finally affect into global warming. The Conference
subsequently agreed the idea and finally established ‘fund rising’ to take US$ 50 cent/per barrel fromOPEC members. This fund intends to sustainable forest development and to overcome global climatechange and educational program in developing countries (Kompas, November 19, 2007). And even King
Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz in closing of summit OPEC meeting gave donation about US$ 300 million forcarrying out an initial energy research, environment and climate change issue to developing countries(Media Indonesia, November 19, 2007).
Currently, Department of Forestry launches concept of REDD 15 (Reduction Emission on forest
degradation and deforestation) on November 6, 2007 while held national workshop on reduction ‘gas
emission’ in Jakarta. This concept highlights to maintain a sustainable forest and could continuously
contribute its benefits to local people and other parties. But, global responsibility must be performed byadvanced country’s contributions for giving ‘incentives’ as fund raising scheme to this program. In fact thisconcept will be adopted in UNFCCC (on climate change) in Bali on December 3-14, 2007. But in case ofIndonesia, REDD concept schema has examined in three areas. First, it has done on ‘forest hope’ areas
101,000 hectares (Hutan Harapan) as forest production restoration project that located in the border ofJambi Province and South Sumatra in 2006. Actually allocation of concession from Department Forestry
for 100 years to restore the forest areas done by Restorasi Ekosistem Indonesia Company (Kompas,
November 7, 2007). According to Sukianto Rusli, Director of Wild Bird Conservation that “forest hope
15 See Wahyudi Wardojo, “about Forest and Climate Change Anticipation”, in Tempo, Edisi Khusus 3 Tahun SBY-JK.

29 Oktober-4 November 2007. Wahyudi Wardojo, “about Forest and Climate Change Anticipation”, pp.137.

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(Hutan Harapan) is tropical forest in low land which a final rest areas about 500, 000 ha and previously
existed 3 million hectares. This forest land contains rich of mammalian species in Sumatra.” Second,
Malino district in East Kalimantan efforts to categorize its protected forest areas about 325,416 ha tovoluntary carbon market (Kompas, November 9, 2007). The cooperation of three parties initiates byBorneo Tropical Forest Rain Forest Foundation (BTRF) with Malino district and Global Eco Rescue(Ecological Service Company) from Nassau, Bahamas Caribbean Archipelago. This cooperation for forest
utilization under schema of voluntary carbon market (VCM) to protect forest areas and maximally its
benefits to improve social welfare of people. The VCM schema is one of carbon trade scheme out of CDM(Clean Development of Mechanism). According to John Alexander Embiricos, CEO of Global Eco Rescue(GER) said that economic values considered uncertain from this project cooperation for two years. But the
GER will give 1 Euro/per ha of forest land which covers of its agreement. That amount of money will beutilized to identification process of carbon sink production from this forest absorption. Marthin Billa, head ofMalino district said that carbon trade scheme could not get benefits anymore. But at least, he is very
optimism, that this project could elevate social welfare of his people and maintain of forest areas. Third, toprevent global climate change until 2025, Emmy Hafild, Executive Director of Greenpeace Southeast Asia
cooperates with Local government Riau to protect peat swamp forest (Hutan Rawa Gambut). As known
that Riau owns 4 million ha from 22 million ha of peat swamp forest Indonesia could produce 14.6 billion
ton carbon dioxide which currently saved in 4 million ha. This cooperation between both parties (local
government of Riau and Greenpeace), if Riau could manage 4 million peat swamp forest ha from forest
fires and conversion forest land into plantation will be paid US$ 5 until 20 per ton/carbon dioxide
Another example of ‘carbon emission reduction’ scheme trade between Japan and Indonesia
Power and Fajar Futura Company with supported by BPPT Agency (Technology Assessment andApplication Agency) highlights of five project of micro hydro in Indonesia (Cilencak, West Java with 1
megawatt/MW, Siteki and Blumbungan in Banjarnegara, Middle Java 1.2 MW and 1.6 MW, Ketenger in
Purwokerto 0.5 MW and Rante Bala, South Sulawesi 2.4 MW) (Kompas, November 10, 2007). This
cooperation to reduce carbon emission bought by Japan about 30,000 ton carbon dioxide per year under
the scheme of CDM (Clean Development of Mechanism) under the Protocol Kyoto mandatory. 16 According
to Irhan Febijanto, Coordinator of CDM Team in BPPT that “electric power Engine by using micro-hydroenergy is well know ecological friendship and low investment compared with other renewable energy
resources”. But this scheme is actively engage local people on managing of electric distribution and get
benefits of energy and encourage local people to maintain ecological conservation by protecting rain waterin catchment’s areas.

16 The estimation of carbon emission reduction market currently cost US $ 5-20 per ton.

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Its Implication
There are two ecological impacts which eventually affect on Tanjung Puting areas in the near
future. First, illegal logging practice by local people and big wood traders who own company for woodtrading in local and export to overseas. Second, illegal mining which affect on water contamination.
Illegal logging means as exploitation forest products (timber) from forest product, conservationand protected areas), through illegal log cutting and its wood process networks. 17 The intensive illegal
logging occurred in 1998 and the early 2000s in reformation era. While happened economic crisis inIndonesia which seriously affect in hard difficulties of life among local people, unstable of social andpolitics, less of security and law sanction. This condition cause driving factors on illegal logging in Tanjung
Puting National Park. The protected trees such as Ramin (Gonystylus bancanus), Ulin (Eusideraxylon
zwageri), Meranti (Shorea sp), Keruing (Dipterocarpus sp), etc., were seriously cut by local people andnew comers. The big wood trader as well-known from Tanjung Lingga Group, which leaded by Abdul
Rasyid, actively involved as actor of illegal logging. The illegal logging products after shipping from
Seknyer River to Kumai port subsequently exported to Singapore, Malaysia, China, Hongkong, andTaiwan. 18 Obviously, illegal logging practice in field, could be identified actively by six main actors:(1) woodtraders (cukong), capital holders, and bureaucrats and military); (2) local people and new comers; (3)factory holders (plywood, sawmill, molding, pulp and paper, etc.); (4) HPH holders or IPKH as thief andtimber collectors; (5) government officers from forest agency; and (6) and foreign businessmen.
The six actors above eventually support in the operation by various parties such as Indonesianbureaucrat, soft sanction and regulation, and collusion between bureaucrats and businessmen. The
ecological impact from serious illegal logging eventually affect into forest fires in 1998-1999, flood in
Sekonyer River in rainy, drought in summer season, soil erosion, loss of biodiversity, extinction of flora andfauna such as Orangutan and other animals.
It happen ‘water pollution’ in Sekonyer River because of Indo Turba Factory Company withpreviously running for CPO of oil palm. This factory initially process CPO from oil palm plantation which islocated in upper Sekonyer River and eventually got damage on water treatment. It was happened ‘waterpollution that seriously affects animals in river such as Crocodile, turtle, various fishes in Sekonyer Riverwere among them died. The water pollution also affect into local people which previously use water for
their needs such as agricultural, take bath, kitchen water utilization, clothes washing, etc. The effect ofmining activities which produce Pasir Zirkon (Zirko sand) and Pasir Puya’ (Puya sand) as raw material for
ceramic and asbes. According to Bappeda staff in Kotawaringin, there was no legal ‘permission’ on mining

Riza Suarga, Pemberantasan Illegal Logging: Optimisme di Tengah Praktek Premanisme Global, Tangerang:
Wana Akasara Press, 2005, p. 6-7.
18 See Illegal Logging in Tanjung Putting National Park: And Update on the Final Cut Report, by Telapak and Ela
NGOs (ELA: Environmental Investigation Agency), 2000, p. 13-19.
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exploration. Obviously this mining exploration which carried out by migrant workers from Java, Banjar,
Bugis, Madura and some local people seriously affect local government income loss, ecological damage:soil erosion, forest degradation, water pollution, etc. This condition encourages ecological and tourist costbecause of water pollution toward local people from their primary and secondary subsistent, supply water
for their households affairs (take bath, clothes washing, etc.)-which finally obliged local people to buy
water for their needs. Focusing on tourism section income’s loss happened in the resort places
surrounding in Kumai and Sekonyer village. The domestic and foreign tourists that usually visited in Julyand September annually decreased just reached 865 persons for foreign and 393 for domestic in 2002, if
compared with tourist visited in 2001 reached fantastic 2,380 foreign and 506 domestic. The income fromticket fees reached Rp. 7,144,000,-.

Conclusion
The impacts of human activities on utilizing of fossils (oil and gas) species and land changes(forest land conservation into plantation areas) have been causing ‘global warming’. This phenomenon
currently happened on ‘climate change’ which eventually affects on reducing food products, water
distribution constraint, flood, drought, sea water tide, and plantation diseases, etc. According to Stem
Review report that deforestation in developing countries such as Indonesia, Brazil, India, etc.’ contributed
gas emission (CO2) about 20 percent from global gas emission. Meanwhile, carbon sink which currently
saved in forest ecosystem considered to produce greater amount compared with saved in the atmosphere.
From this perspective, in order to establish conducive sphere, international support is very significant toprotect existed forest areas.
Actually Indonesia owns 23.5 million hectares of forest conservation (national park, Suaka
Alam/natural forest for flora and fauna, etc); from total Indonesian forest areas 123.4 million hectares. Thiscondition, actually contribute to produce carbon sink (O2) to protect ‘global warming’. Therefore,
implementation of gas emission reduction through concept of REDD (reduction on forest degradation anddeforestation) could eventually give positive ‘incentive’ into developing countries who own ‘tropical forest’.
This incentive from advanced countries by paying REDD (per ha/1 Euro) could be intensively utilized forforest conservation through huge reforestation program and empowering socio-economic program for local
people. As told by Susilo Bambang Yudoyono, Indonesian President in the seminar on ‘Climate Change
Convention’ in New York, in September 2007 that he launched positive idea which supported by otherdeveloping countries ‘on the necessary to cooperate between developing and advanced countries on
managing environmental issues’. Therefore, this cooperation will be established on forest sustainable
management and even to formulate developing countries position together who own tropical forest to
realize affirmative action on forest conservation. Hopefully the ‘financial mechanism scheme on RADD’53

eventually agreed by participants in the COP-13 in the international seminar on UNFCCC (United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change) in Bali December 3-14, 2007.
Currently forest degradation and deforestation which causing by illegal logging, forest landconservation to plantation and mining activities, etc., occurred in many districts in Indonesia. Based on thereport from Department Forestry officer that deforestation reached 1.5 million ha annually. Certainly thereal phenomenon of flood, drought, soil erosion, climate changes, global warming, etc., provide us asserious impacts on ecological disaster from forest degradation and deforestation. Therefore to overcome
this serious threat ‘political ecology’ concept that actively engaged stakeholders’ movement from central
and local government and private sector as direct actors and NGOs whether local and international as well,academician, and local people as indirect actors are very significant to be involved as integrated solution
for national park management.
‘Collaborative management’ which currently promoted in reformation era as alternative concept tobe implemented on national park management is very fascinating. It occurred on conflict of interest ofnational park management between central and local government. This concept highlights among
stakeholders role on promoting rehabilitation or reforestation program and empowering socio-economic
local people, apparently looked at as ‘positive solution’ to recover forest degradation and deforestation in
the near future. Therefore the commitment and consistency to perform ‘affirmative program’ among
stakeholders such as the central government on encouraging international donation agencies cooperation,
National Park Office and NGOs which invited local people and the serious attention to establish “bufferzone” for agro-forestry program by local government as means of incomes generating for local people isvery necessary to be realized in autonomy era.

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HIDAYAT Herman is Senior Researcher of Political Ecology at the Research Center for Society andCulture, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jakarta. He received his Doctorate Degree in Department
of Forest Science, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of TOKYO in January
11, 2005. He took Ronpaku Program (Ph.D) under the sponsorship of JSPS (Japan Society for the
Promotion of Sciences), Tokyo from 2000-2005. The topic of his dissertation entitled:” Dynamism of Forest
Policy in Indonesia: Focusing on the Movement and Logic of Stakeholders under the Soeharto
Government and Reformation Era.” He was received IDE-JETRO scholarship for six months (August
2006-February 2007) in Makuhari, Chiba Prefecture to carry out research and published his manuscript
entitled:” Pulp and Paper Industries in Japan and Indonesia: from the Viewpoint of Political Ecology (2007).
His major publications include: Hidayat, Herman (eds.), National Park Management in Local Autonomy
Era: Conflict Potential between Central and Local Government: A Case Study of Tanjung Putting (Central
Kalimantan) and Kutai (East Kalimantan) (2006); National Park Management in Local Autonomy Era: A
Case Study of Kerinci Seblat (Jambi) and Buki Tigapuluh (Riau) (2005); National Park Management in
Local Autonomy Era: A Case Study of Bogani Nani Wartabone (North Sulawesi) and Rawa Aopa
Watumohai (Southeast Sulawesi) (upcoming publish 2008) “Coffee Plantation from the Viewpoint ofTraders: Local to National: A Case Study in Kepahiang, Rejang Lebong Districts, Bengkulu, South
Sumatra in AB Lapian et.al, Taufik Abdullah 70 Years Commemoration: History and Civilization Dialog(2006).

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Grand Session 3

Seeking Sustainable Society through Science and Technology
Shuichi Kawai
Director of Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University
Abstract
Humankind is now facing the serious crisis such as the population explosion, energy crisis, andglobal warming. Interdisciplinary research with broader perspective view is highly requested to solve such
critical issues. Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH) lays special emphasis on the
new concept of Humanosphere where human activities interact to the surrounding environments. Thus,
humanosphere science covers a wide range of research fields on the humanospere from ground to theatmosphere and space- all of which are vital to human existence. RISH acts as a core research institutefor inter-university and international collaboration, provides eight research facilities and equipment and avariety of databases on the humanosphere, and also holds research conferences/symposia to promoteinterdisciplinary and exploratory research programs.
Since the tropical region receives the highest concentration of solar energy which is the ultimate
energy source of all organisms of earth and is the driving force of global atmosphere dynamics and of the
production of plants, RISH has been collaborating with the National Institute for Aeronautics and Space,Indonesia (LAPAN) for equatorial atmospheric observation, and with the Indonesian Institute of Sciences(LIPI) for the research on sustainable production and utilization of tropical trees, respectively, for morethan 20 years.
RISH installed the Equatorial Atmosphere Radar (EAR) at Koto Tabang in West Sumatra,Indonesia and has investigated the atmospheric circulation and waves closely related to environmental
changes by satellites and high performance radars being designed for the accurate monitoring of minor
components such as carbon and water in the atmosphere.
Reforestation of fast-growing tree species from the devasted inperata grassland seems torecover the vegetation and to contribute to the CO2 fixation, supply the wood resources/biomass energy
and vitalization of the regional economy, though it may introduce the degradation of the biodiversity with its
mono-cultural plantation and socio-economic conflicts in the region. We chose the industrial plantation
forests of tropical trees in South-East Asia as research sites, and organized inter-disciplinary research
projects that included the evaluation of the tree biomass production by both, tree growth analysis andremote sensing technology, environment monitoring and assessment by atmosphere and biodiversity
observations, and biotechnology for enhancing tree functions. The purpose of these projects is to develop
the academic and technological solutions and to establish the cyclical system of resource and energy inthe region, which supports the harmonization of the ecology and economy of the country.

Introduction
The rapid expansion of world population, shortage of resource and energy, and degradation ofenvironment has created many concerns which may endanger these indispensable regions and become agreat threat of the survival of mankind. Continuous growth of world population and economy will
accelerate the aggravation of these problems.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report of Working
Group I clarified the role of human activity in climate change, resulting in the following conclusions; 1)
Climate change is accelerating and its effects are becoming manifest, 2) Human impact is clear. It is likely

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that the warming of global temperatures observed in the second-half of the 20th century is attributable toincreases in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, 3) Continued emissions at this pace will engendera crisis
Advanced science and technology has been specialized recently and each discipline is tended tobe disconnected with each other. The network of the information and integrated knowledge based on the
broader view is required to give the solutions to such critical issues on the global environment.

Figure 1. Perspective view in space-time-society (from B Tomita).
From this point of view, the Japan Perspective published by the Science Council of Japan in 2002
pointed out the importance of perspective view in space-time-society as shown in the Figure 1. It alsoemphasizes the social responsibility of the scientists to address critical issues to the public, what we know
from our research and what we need to do. The most important of all is to return outcomes of our research
to the societies for their benefits. In this paper I would like to discuss the role of science and technology inestablishing sustainable society based on the research activities of the Research Institute for Sustainable
Humanosphere (RISH), Kyoto University.
Humanosphere Science
Taking into the consideration on such idea of science for society, the RISH sets its primaryobjective to explore the innovative sciences and technologies which will contribute to establishing a solar

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energy-dependent sustainable society amenable to the environment. RISH lays special emphasis on the
new concept of Humanosphere where human activities interact to the surrounding environment. Thus,
humanosphere science covers the research fields on the humanospere from ground to the atmosphereand space- all of which are vital to human existence for establishing the sustainability of both the humansociety and eco-system on the earth. Humanosphere science is an interdisciplinary field of study whichassesses the conditions of this humanosphere, foresees its needs, and provides with the academic andtechnological solutions to the critical issues.
The objectives of RISH are to understand the conditions of humanosphere as accurately as
possible (diagnosis), and to provide solutions to its problems (remedy).
RISH acts as a core research institute for inter-university and international collaboration, provides
eight research facilities and equipment and a variety of databases on the humanosphere, and also holds
research conferences/symposia to promote interdisciplinary and exploratory research programs. The
eight research facilities and equipment at RISH are shown in Figure 2. Some of the facilities are locatedand operated outside the Kyoto University campus.
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Figure 2. Eight Collaborative Research Facilities and Equipment (yellow) and Databases on thehumanosphere (pink) (RISH pamphlet 2007)58

Since the development of technology for renewable energy such as solar and biomass energies
is an interdisciplinary new research field of transformation and utilization of solar energy, RISH has
conducted research on Solar Power Satellite (SPS) which directly converts the solar energy to electricenergy, and transfers to the earth through microwave. SPS can provide a large capacity of power
generation without fossil fuels resulting in the reduction of CO2 emission while meeting the increasingenergy demands. Microwave Energy Transmission Laboratory (METLAB) is composed of an anechoic
radio wave chamber and experimental rooms especially designed for microwave power transmission
experiments.
The social infrastructure based on renewable resources rather than non-renewable ones can beachieved through the extensive utilization of renewable wood resources. The technical base for thepractical utilization of biomass energy leads to the reduction of CO2 emissions.

The conversion

technologies of wood biomass to ethanol, chemicals and advanced carbon materials by using biologicaland thermochemical processing is intensively carried out as wellCollaborative Research Activities of RISH in Indonesia

Figure 3. Equatorial Atmosphere Radar (EAR) in Indonesia (RISH pamphlet 2007)59

Since the tropical region receives the highest concentration of solar energy which is the ultimate
energy source of all organisms of earth and is the driving force of global atmosphere dynamics and of the
production of plants, RISH has been collaborating with the National Institute for Aeronautics and Space,Indonesia (LAPAN) for equatorial atmospheric observation, and with the Indonesian Institute of Sciences(LIPI) for the research on sustainable production and utilization of tropical trees, respectively, for morethan 20 years..
RISH installed the Equatorial Atmosphere Radar (EAR) at Koto Tabang in West Sumatra,
Republic of Indonesia, as shown in Figure 3, and has investigated the atmospheric circulation and waves
closely related to environmental changes by high performance radars being designed for the accuratemonitoring of the global environmentThe sustainable forest management is getting more and more
important especially in the South-East Asian countries, which supports the harmonization of the ecology
and economy of the countries. Reforestation of fast-growing tree species from the devasted inperata
grassland seems to recover the vegetation and to contribute to the CO2 fixation, supply the wood
resources/biomass energy and vitalization of the regional economy, as shown in Figure 4, though it may
introduce the degradation of the biodiversity with its mono-cultural plantation and socio-economic conflicts
in the region.

Figure 4. Sustainable Society through reforestation in Indonesia (RISH 2007)

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A Case Study of the Acacia Plantation on Sustainable Forest Management,
Forest Products and Regional Environment
We chose the industrial plantation forests of tropical trees in South-East Asia as research sites,
and organized inter-disciplinary research projects that included the evaluation of the tree biomass
production by tree growth analysis and remote sensing technology, environment monitoring andassessment by atmosphere and biodiversity observations, and biotechnology for enhancing tree functions.
Figure 5 illustrates the holistic view of the project which shows the technical and analytical elements aswell. The purpose of these projects is to develop the academic and technological solutions and toestablish the cyclical system of resource and energy in the region, which supports the harmonization of theecology and economy of the country.
Acacia mangium is one of the major plantation species in tropical region since it is fast-growing indegraded soil conditions.

A large-scale Acacia mangium plantation could be a key strategy forestablishing a sustainable society by fixing carbon dioxide and thus contributing to both the global
environment and the local community. However, many concerns with the sustainability of the forest interms of monocultural management, regional economy, and limited usage of its wood products have notyet been resolved.
In this context, a large-scale Acacia mangium plantation forest of PT Musi Hutan Persada (MHP)in southern Sumatra has been chosen as a case study which will integrate the various fields of researchsuch as forest science, radio science, atmospheric science, materials science and bioscience in acollaborative research project.
Total concession area of the field investigated is ca 300,000 ha of which plantation forest
provides the area of 190,000 ha. An area of 80,000 ha of them is preserved for natural (secondary) forest.
An example of the projects is the analysis of biomass production of the plantation forest at Unit V (ca.
9,000 ha) of MHP. The annual biomass production with a 6-year rotational harvesting system is estimatedby the data of the biomass production at the permanent sample plots in the year of 2000-2006, area ofplantation, and so on. Tree biomass annual production is calculated by various organs, such as leaves,branches, stem and bark, and root as well. We found the total tree biomass is highly correlated by the tree
diameter and height, which suggests that those factors will be the measure of the estimation of tree
biomass production. Such evaluation of the tree biomass production leads directly to confirm thesustainability in the forest management and to evaluate the carbon-sink function of the plantation forest
based on the data of biomass production.

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Figure 5. Sustainable forest management, forest products and regional environment (RISH 2007).
KAWAI Shuichi is professor of Sustainable Materials at the Research Institute for Sustainable
Humanosphere (RISH), Kyoto University. He received his PhD in Wood Science from the Graduate
School of Agricultural Science, Kyoto University (1980). He was an instructor (1980-1990), associate
professor (1990-1995), and professor (1995-2004) of Wood Research Institute, Kyoto University. His
fields of interest cover Plant fiber composites, Timber engineering, Mass flow analysis of wood products,
Preservation of wooden cultural properties and Aging of wood and prediction of its service life. His major
publication include Low-Density Particleboard, Steam-Injection Pressing Technology, Laminated Veneer
Lumber and Composite Beams Produced with Thinning from Tropical Hardwood Plantation, Current
Japanese Materials Research, Vol.11, ed. N. Shiraishi, et al, 1993, Elsevier Applied Science, Self-bonding
characteristics of binderless kenaf core composites, Wood Science Technology 39 (2005).
<skawai@rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp>62Grand Session 4

Improvement of Potency and Rehabilitation of Degraded Forest throughCommunity Forest Management
M. Bismark
Forest and Nature Conservation Research and Development Centre, Ministry of Forestry
Abstract
Potential of natural forest in Indonesia during the last five years decreased as amount of 65%, but
by substitutions of community forest, plantation forest, and conversion forest, the log production was stilldecrease as amount of 51%. Forest benefit which could be used currently is still 9.86% dominated bytimber benefit, while erosion prevention benefit, water arrangement benefit is at the small portion. The
reduction of potential forest due to forest degradation is about 0.42% to 2% per year, with utilizations
beyond the carrying capacity. The community forest developed as a result of governmental building andcommunity participation have reached the area of 1,570,000 ha where 780,000 ha areas are located inJava. Although having high timber potential, the contribution of community forest on timber production is
only 0.6%, but the function of forest community is very important as a forest conservation tool, forest
rehabilitation, and community economy improvement especially agro forestry which is located at the bufferzone of conservation areas.
Key words: Forest potency, community forest, buffer zone
Introduction
Forest as biological natural resources currently begins to be worried due to the reduction of theirpotential and function. The gap between forest productivity and utilization rate is more and more high,where during five years (1999-2003) the reduction of natural forest potential was 65% from 10.4 million m3
in year 1999. To reach timber needs, it is supplied from convertible forest, community forest, plantation
forest, and industrial forest, nevertheless the round timber productions in Indonesia still decrease as
amount of 51% (Baplan, 2004)
The reduction of forest productivity will be related with the impact of forest exploitation on
environment, among others erosion increase, land use changes, and water arrangements as ecological
function and socio-culture value. The change of community attitude from conservationist based on custom
system applied to become illegal forest utilization to increase economy has triggered degradation process
and deforestation, so that reducing forest value as life buffer.
Related to various important problems on forest potential decrease, community socio-economy
aspect, and forest function as life buffer, therefore the priority policy of forestry development during theyears of 2005-2009 (five priority policies, Decision Letter of Forestry Minister No. SK 456/Menhut-VII/2004),
among others rehabilitation and conservation of forest resources and empowerment of community
economy inside and outside forest area. The direction of long term forestry development program (2006-

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2025), among others to realize welfare and active role of community in forest management, so that
community forest development becomes the most strategic national program in Indonesia, because
supporting the aspects of ecology, socio-culture, and community economy.
Forest Management and Degradation
During the last three decades, forest resources have become the capital of national economy
development giving positive impact on foreign exchange receiving, labor absorption and motivate region
development and economy growth. As of year 1997 their contributions reached 3.5 percent of the state
foreign exchange. The main contribution of forestry sector is timber yields. In year 2001 there was 351
production forest management companies with the managed areas of 36.4 million ha and in year 2003
reduced to become 267 companies with the areas of 28.1 million ha (Baplan, 2004). It means that 8.3
million ha potential forest areas are not good managed. Therefore, it will give the opportunity of theoccurrence of illegal logging; even at the active areas including at conservation areas the illegal logging is
still occurred. In one year it is predicted that illegal logging could reach 50 million m3/year causing the stateloss of Rp. 30 quintillion/year (Kaban, 2006). Non active companies could be caused by less balance ofthe yields, or reducing forest potency, fault management, and increasing illegal logging at the region.
The other types of forest management are managements of convertible forest, community forest,
plantation forest and industrial plantation forest. Log productions during 5 years are presented on Table 1.
The decreases of natural forest potency as above indicate that forest degradation has been occurred. The
occurrence of degradation was also triggered by the decreases of biodiversity, fault management of forest
utilization, forest land use, illegal logging, low efficiency of timber use, and less handling on environment.
Table 1 shows that all timber yields from each forest sources during 5 years (1999-2003) were decreaseas amount of 51%.
Table 1. Log productions during the year of 1999-2003 (Baplan, 2004)
No

SourceVolume m3/year (x 1000)
1999/2000

2000

2001

2002

2003

1

Natural Forest

10,373.9

3,450.1

1,809.1

3,019.8

3,652.3

2

Conversion Forest

7,271.9

4,564.6

2,323.6

182.7

956.5

3

Community Forest

895.4

488.9

0

0

59.6

4

Plantation Forest

1,890.9

1,511.0

1,455.4

1,599.1

967.8

5

Industrial Plantation Forest

187.8

3,783.6

4,463.4

3,898.4

4,411.1

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According to reality: 1) stand stock and timber production ability decrease sharply which could not
be renewable in the short time; 2) the role of forestry economy will decrease if optimal utilization of
economy potential of ecosystem is not conducted; 3) the various conditions of production forest
ecosystem and social environment require various management systems as well (Darusman, 2006).
Therefore, the changes of utilization orientation of forest yields from timber to non timber and environment
services should be done. The contribution of directly and indirectly forest benefit could be seen on Table 2
where in the next 10 years the forestry economy growth is hopped to increase as amount of 143-327%
from the condition of year 2004.
Table 2. Scenarios of the direction and the frame of industrial forest resources utilizations (Darusman,2006).
No
1

2

3

Benefit Types

OptimalContribution

Future Contribution (Year)

Contributionof Year

5

10

15

20

30

2004

Direct benefit• Timber and energy

4.1

9.46

5.0

2.0

3.0

3.5

4.1

• Non timber

5.7

0.04

0.1

0.5

1.5

3.0

5.7

• Erosion prevention

2.0

0.28

0.5

1.0

1.5

2.0

2.0

• CO2 absorption

77.9

0.00

1.0

5.0

10.0

15.0

25.0

• Flood control

0.8

0.00

0.1

0.4

0.6

0.8

0.8

• Water transportation

1.2

0.08

0.2

0.5

0.8

1.2

1.2

Optional benefit

8.2

0.00

0.1

0.5

1.0

2.0

5.0

100

9.86

7.0

9.9

18.4

27.5

43.8

Indirect benefit• Flora fauna• Tourism
Total

The increase of productivities and management of production forest with various sources throughecosystem restoration activities which are appropriate with economy benefit will be options for the future
management, such as creations and arrangements of regions which have high eco-tourism values, limited
hunt areas, and agro forestry development at the areas surrounding community in order to trigger
community participation in forest conservation to increase planned forest function and value (Bismark,2006).
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environmental problems viewed negatively, the forest areas in Indonesia have been decreased such as
2% per year in Sumatra, 0.42% per year in Kalimantan, and 1% per year in Sulawesi. In addition, theindication of degraded forest ecosystem could be seen from the management of critical lands reaching
23.2 million ha (year 2000), 8.1 million ha inside forest regions (Kaban, 2006). As of year 2003, the effortsof new land rehabilitation reached 1.1 million ha (4.7%) (Baplan, 2004).
Social Forestry
Social forestry development which is community forest involving community in forest
management constitutes the change of forest management paradigm to reach ecological and social
functions in balance. It is a part of Indonesian forest management scenario to increase contribution value
from the direct and indirect benefits (Table 2), especially carbon absorption and conservations of soil andwater at critical lands, because the two forest models are planted with rapid growth plantations.
The activities of social forest, researches on carbon potential at plantation forest and seedlings
supporting the activities have been much conducted previously by cooperation with researchers ofJapanese government including their funds (JBIC, JICA). In relation with increasing critical land
productivities, community socio-economy, and food security, BAPPENAS – JBIC programs have realized
19,000 ha social forest in 10 provinces in year 2001. Generally, as of year 2003, the potential ofcommunity forest in Indonesia has reached 1,570,000 ha where 780,000 ha (50%) were located in Java
(Mindawati et al., 2007).
Log productions from the yields of community forest as shown on Table 1 were still relative low i.e.
0.6% in year 2003, but the existence of community forest is the most important to show active participationof community in forest conservation especially in inhibiting critical land rate. According to Decision Letter ofForestry Minister No. 49/Kpts-II/1997, year 1997, community forest is a forest belong to community withminimum area of 0.25 ha, canopy coverage of timber plantation is 50% or at first year planting has 500
plants/ha. The effort of community forest is aimed to increase community welfare, to supply material forindustries, and to improve environment quality (Baplan, 2004).
Historically, community forest development was started in year 1951 and organized by Dinas
Pertanian Rakyat to plant bare lands in order to protect the land from erosion and to increase soil fertility.
This activity became the forestation and critical land rehabilitation programs by Jawatan
Kehutanan/Forestry Agency in year 1956 (Mindawati et al., 2007). As of year 2003, community forest has
been conducted in 31 provinces with the various areas from 3,500 ha to 213,000 ha. Provinces having
community forest more than 100,000 ha are shown on Table 3.

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Table 3. The areas and potential of community forests having more than 100,00 ha *) and critical lands insome provinces.
Community forest
Potential
Critical land areas outside regions
Province
area (ha)m3 (x 1000)(ha) in year 2000 **)West Java

166,524.14

6,476.8

362,828

Central Java

325,729.41

11,058.4

349,725

East Java

213,371.65

3,536.3

953,211

East Nusa Tenggara

161,745

3,362.5

1,057,466

South Kalimantan

108,436.50

2,021.6

221,602

South Sulawesi

164,583.64

4,981.9

451,505*)

Modification from Mindawati et al., 2007**) Baplan Dephut, 2004

From the above Table, six provinces with the largest area of community forest are located in Java,so that the community forest activities have role and potential to be organized in the critical land
rehabilitation program. From the aspect of economy benefit, the vegetations growth of community forest
are dominated by fast growing species, such as riap (Paraserianthes falcataria) with 37.4 m3/ha/year in 5
years cutting rotation, mahogany with 16.7 m3/ha/year in 15 years cutting rotation, teak with 10.9m3/ha/year in 60 years cutting rotation, Eucalyptus deglupta with 24.5 m3/ha/year in 9 years cutting
rotation, pine with 19.9 m3/ha/year in 15 years cutting rotation, and resin with 27.4 m3/ha/year in 25 years
cutting rotation (Mindawati et al., 2007). Forest land productivity could be increased by planting horticulture
crops using agro forestry system. At agro forestry system, for timber production between 50 – 150 m3/ha
there are also yielded 2.5 tons/ha rice, 4 tons/ha corn, 7.5 tons/ha cassava, 1.5 tons/ha peanut, 0.5
tons/ha chili, 1,500 banana plants/ha/year, 4,000 pineapples/ha/year, and 1,500 papayas/ha/year (Widiarti,2003).
Table 4. The building of economy efforts of community forest (HR) *)Year

Model area establishment,

Nursery establishment

Institutional building and

HR (ha)(million of seedling)training (people)

1999

350

2.15

450

2000

100

0.7

4,102

2001

2,210

1.98

3,011

2002

4,385

1.07

1,464

2003

1,279

1.20

1,280

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The research results on productivities of timber and horticulture plants are clearly seen that theforest management involving community or active participation of community has given economy andecological values for the efforts of controlling and rehabilitating critical lands, therefore the Forestry
Department needs to increase the participation through community building of social forest management
as presented on Table 4.
According to Table 1 and 3, the recorded low timber yields of community forest show that thecommunities prefer forest yields of non timber from agro forestry system. It is very positive for soil andwater conservations, critical land rehabilitation, as well as biodiversity conservation of flora and faunaliving at the community forest. In Central Java, the community could harvest birds to be sold so that getting
added yield from the benefit value of fauna (Bismark, 2005).
Buffer Zones and their Arrangement
The strategic policy of Forestry Department in supporting forest as life buffer, in UU No. 5 year
1990 about natural resources conservation and their ecosystem among others states to sustain forest
function as life buffer through efforts to increase community welfare and life quality by realizing natural
resources preservation and ecosystem balance. For community of forest village, forest area becomes
living sources. At some conservation regions, community activities to open forest land become a quite
serious problem and could trigger illegal logging.
In line with the efforts to prevent community intervention to forest region, it is needed a pattern ofland utilization and increasing land productivities outside region. Management and arrangement of lands
outside forest region or conservation region are meant as buffer for forest region and to increase
community economy. Management of buffer zones could be divided into zones appropriate with the formof region safety based on ecosystem i.e. green belt zone, interaction zone, and culture zone (Bismark,2002). As discussed above, that social forest, community forest with objectives of forest preservation andcommunity welfare increase, so that one of the management models of buffer zone is development ofcommunity forest.
The research results at buffer zone of Gunung Ciremai National Park showed that distribution
frequency of community forest at buffer zone was quite high on the utilization of other lands, it was 44.7%
in 0.5-5 km distance from boundary of forest region of national park, where 22.6% in green belt zone and22.1% in interaction zone. It shows that the communities of forest village have quite high dependence on
forest land, but it is persisted to be managed as a forest by agro forestry pattern (Bismark et al., 2007). At
this region, the community planted 33 trees and fruits species with tree densities about 120-300 trees per
ha and becoming the habitat of 20 birds species including rare birds.

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Research Application
The researches to overcome critical lands through development of social forest in the forms ofland rehabilitation, carbon contents (Heriyanto and Siregar, 2007), seedlings, pests, diseases, bacteria,
and soil fertilizer micorhiza conducted at Badan Litbang Kehutanan (Forestry Research and Development
Agency) have got many supports and cooperation with the government and Japanese researchers (JICA
and JBIC). These research activities need to be improved in the form of larger applications.
Conclusions
Timber needs are not in balance again with natural forest productivities. The decrease of naturalforest productivities as amount of 65% during the last 5 years followed by the decrease of forest land
quality as an impact of the environment of forest utilizations which are beyond carrying capacity causing
the occurrence of forest and land degradations.
Community forests which have been established outside forest region with the areas of 1,570,000
ha to subsidize timber needs are still relative small (0.6%), but the extensive areas of community forest
especially in Java (778,000 ha), the vegetation function is more to the stand value, while the functions assoil conservation and critical land rehabilitation as well as economy value are obtained from agro forestry
system. Community participation to develop social forest is very potential to be promoted to raise theiractive roles in land rehabilitation and economy improvement of forest village communities.
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dalam pengelolaan kawasan konservasi [Integration of conservation importance and the need ofcommunity income sources in management of conservation regions]. Proceedings. Diskusi hasil
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Development Program (JBIC-INP 22, 1999-2002); Team Leader of CIFOR-ITTO Project (R-LIV-021-2ITTO 6/200) (2004; Team Leader of Study on Growing Stock and conservation of Ramin (ITTO Project
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Prospect of Bio-energy Development in Rural Area
Supiandi Sabiham and Syaiful Anwar
Department of Soil Science & Land Resource, Faculty of Agriculture,
Bogor Agriculture University

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Lignocellulosic Biorefinery for Sustainable Society in Southeast Asia
Takashi Watanabe, Takahito Watanabe and Rudianto Amirta
Laboratory of Biomass Conversion, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH),
Kyoto University
Abstract
Biorefinery is a production system for fuels, energy, and chemicals from biomass in integrated
chemical and energy industries, and it provides a new concept to change the petrochemical industry
developed in 20th century. There is a growing demand to establish biorefinery to solve the problems ofglobal warming and deficiency of fossil fuels. Biorefinery boosts rural development because biomass
feedstock is widespread in rural region. Production of biofuels and chemicals from biomass feedstock
creates employment and stimulates regional economy. The region-based system is in sharp contrast to oil
refinery which needs large-scale investment to oil-producing countries, transportation of oil, and oil-refining
factories located in coastal industrial zone.
Because biomass is our only “carbon-based” renewable resources, biorefinery plays a key role toreplace oil-based chemical industry. Oil refinery is based on chemistry of hydrocarbons, such as ethylene
and propylene. In contrast, biorefinery is based on the building blocks derived from plant components
such as carbohydrates, lignin and lipids. The striking differences in the platform compounds bring
revolution of chemical industry.
Among the potential industrial biorefineries, lignocellulosic biorefinery has immense potentials to
replace oil refinery, due to large quantities of lignocellulosics, non-competitiveness in food supply andavailability as plant wastes. Production of biodiesel from oil crops such as palm oil and Jatropha inSoutheast Asia has received international attention. Lignocellulosic biorefinery in conjunction with thebiodiesel production has a great potential to accelerate regional economy growth and the establishment ofbiomass-based societies in Southeast Asia. However, consumption and production of biomass must be
carefully analyzed by assessing positive and negative impacts to the communities, to introduce adaptive
measures that will maintain and enhance sustainable forest management, ecosystems including
biodiversity, culture, health, disaster prevention, food supply, local economy and employment. The
present article describes a vision of a lignocellulose-based biorefinery in Southeast Asia.
Key words: Biorefinery, biomass plantation, bioethanol, biodiesel, Acacia mangium, Jatropha curcas

Introduction
The energy and chemical industries that make use of fossil resources such as oil and natural gas
developed in the 20th century have made our lives easier. On the other hand, they have also caused
depleted energy problems and serious environmental issues such as global warming. Fundamental
problems such as accelerating global warming and depleting fossil resources caused by massconsumption have led to a strong recognition that these are real issues we are facing. Today, to solvethese problems humankind faces and to build sustainable societies, a shift is required to change ourmaterials and energy basis from fossil resources to recyclable resources including biomass.
Principally, the carbon balance comes to zero with plant biomass. This is because acorresponding amount of carbon dioxide is maintained by photosynthesis when carbon dioxide is released77into the atmosphere by combustion and decomposition. In other words, plant biomass has a carbon
neutral nature. In reality, fossil resources are often used in biomass conversion, thus, the balance ofcarbon dioxide is not equilibrated. However, compared to manufacturing energy or chemical products only
from fossil resources, it is possible to reduce carbon emissions by developing efficient biomass conversion
processes. Based on these perspectives, creating an industry that produces chemical products, fuel andenergy from biomass is attracting wider attention.
In contradistinction to a petroleum refinery, the process of maximizing the added value ofbiomass by systematically producing chemical products, fuel, and energy from biomass is called a“biorefinery.” Especially, the inedible lignocellulose-based biorefinery is expected to play a major role in the
21st century’s chemical industry [1,2].

Impact of Creating a Biorefinery
The suppression of global warming and depletion of fossil resources are being emphasized as
the background to establishment of a biorefinery. Moreover, a number of other important factors are
involved, such as the creation of a new industry, energy security, revitalization of the local economy, andre-energization of agro forestry. These factors are discussed below.
Although plant biomass has a carbon neutral nature, it uses fossil resources to grow and convert
biomass. This has caused lively discussion on whether or not the use of biomass would suppress the totalbalance of greenhouse gas emissions [3]. For example, bioethanol is now widely recognized as restraining
carbon dioxide emission, applying LCA analysis based on the latest technology level of biomass growthand conversion [4]. Wang, from Argon National Laboratory, compared the suppressant effect of thegreenhouse gas between cellulose-based ethanol and starch-based ethanol. He found that cellulosebased ethanol had a suppressant effect of 64% compared to 17–23% for starch-based ethanol, whencomparing E85 to gasoline (gasoline with 85% ethanol) [5]. That is to say that the amount of carbon
dioxide emission from bioethanol decreases more with lignocellulose-based materials than with starchbased materials produced from grains. In the case of lignocellulose, the amount of its emission is further
decreased by using waste resources and unused resources that are not controlled or cultivated because it
requires no fossil resources that are necessary for plant cultivation and management.
The impact of creating a biorefinery as a new industry is significant, and it is being called theindustrial revolution of the 21st century. The 20th century was the era of petrol chemistry, where
systematic chemical industries were constructed to mainly manufacture products based on hydrocarbon
materials including ethylene, propylene and benzene. On the contrary, sugar and lignin (biomass
materials) include many oxygen atoms as well as carbon and hydrogen. Because the material structure
and chemical characteristics are completely different, and because fermentation is a significant tool for78

conversion, the production system for biorefinery-based chemical products is fundamentally different froman oil refinery. This indicates that the country or company that determines basic chemical products placed
upstream of the biorefinery and has the production technology for those basic chemical products plays aleading role in the new industrial structure: biorefinery. That is to say, it becomes possible to develop
products strategically from platform compounds and to obtain patents; due to the fact that once the basic
chemical products (platform compounds) are determined the corresponding minor chemical products arealso defined. Based on these perspectives, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) selected 12
platform compounds for biorefinery and presented the relative chemical products immediately [6] after that.
A number of American companies have already entered the production of platform compounds, andcompetition has been intensifying [2]. Europe has also been active in biorefinery, establishing theEuropean Biofuels Technology Platform as a framework for biorefinery research in June 2006. The Vision
Report shows roadmaps for the first generation of biofuels such as sugar, beets, bioethanol, vegetable oiland fats, waste-based biodiesel, biogas and ethyl tertiary-butyl ether (ETBE); and for the second
generation biofuels such as cellulose-based ethanol, hydro-treated biodiesel, lignocellulose-based
synthetic biofuels, biogas and hydrogen [7]. By 2030, the goal is to meet up to one quarter of theEuropean Union (EU)’s transport fuel needs using clean and CO2-efficient biofuels. Under the five-year
Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), the EU has also implemented the research and development project“BIOCOUP” in 2006 to produce liquid fuels by thermal decomposition using existing petroleum refinery andchemical processes [8].
In the biorefinery concept, lignocellulose is mainly used instead of the starch and sucrose thatwere used to produce ethanol before. Commercial production of lignocellulose-based ethanol is planned tocommence in a few years. The Department of Energy (DOE) also plans to cover 80% or more of fuelethanol used in the U.S. with cellulose-based ethanol by 2025. Currently in the U.S., bioethanol is cornbased, however, corn grain can only supply 10–20% of gasoline consumed in the country. On the other
hand, lignocellulose has a supply amount of 1 billion tons per annum in the U.S., comparable to alternating
50–70% of gasoline consumed in the country [2].
The biorefinery also contributes to energy security. Most oil producing countries are located in the
Middle East, and not many of these countries have stable political situations. If these countries are nonfriendly nations, it is crucial to maintain a certain power through diplomacy and possibly military force inorder to stably import crude oil. In the U.S., the gap between supply and demand for transportation fuel iswidening and it has become a top priority to stably secure transportation fuel. The self-sufficiency of theenergy supply in Japan is only 4%, excluding nuclear power generation. Therefore, energy security is asignificantly important issue in Japan, as well.
In the oil refinery industry, investment is concentrated on oil producing countries, crude oil
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contrary, except for biomass from waste, biomass is widely dispersed generally in rural areas, not in urban
areas. Thus, small-scale biomass conversion factories linked with agriculture and forestry are to be built inrural areas. Consequently, biorefinery investment can be spread across regions, activating local
economies and employment. The era of using fossil resources made a clear distinction between industry
and agriculture. However, in biorefinery, biomass is produced by agriculture and forestry, and is usedcomprehensively as materials for food, forestry products, chemical products and fuel. That is to say, theera of producing farm products for the sake of food production is shifting to an era of growing farm crops to
produce food, chemical products, and energy simultaneously. The economic system will change
significantly, as seen in an example of the increased market price of corn triggered by the bioethanol boom.
The benefits of natural resources will be widely shared by making the most of the earth’s
sustenance to grow plants through biorefinery. To do so, it is essential to create a system where thoseengaged in farming and forestry can make a profit. Appropriate forestry management can contribute to theforest environment, flood control, and disaster prevention. On the other hand, land use in the pursuit ofindividual or company interests will lead to large-scale environmental destruction. In fact, due to the shift tosugarcane and soybean farmlands in the Amazon rainforest, there is concern about reduction of therainforest. An international framework is required to lead the growth and use of biomass from a long-term
view. In the growth of biomass, taking nutrients from the land is also an important issue. Especially, there
is concern that the cycle of phosphorus and nitrogen may be destroyed. Phosphorus is produced by acidtreatment of phosphate rocks. The amount of high-quality phosphate rocks, however, has been decreasing
since the 1990s and is predicted to be depleted by the middle of this century. The depletion of phosphaterocks is directly connected to the food crisis.

Perspectives on Biorefinery Development in Southeast Asia
Biofuels, one of the core substances of biorefinery, will be discussed using the example ofbiofuels in Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia. Bioethanol is usually produced from hydrolysis andfermentation of plant carbohydrates such as sugarcane or corn, followed by distillation refinement.
Biodiesel refers to a fuel alternative to light oil produced from plants and animal oil and fat for diesel
engines. It consists of fatty acid methyl esters. Bioethanol can be either directly mixed in gasoline or mixed
after conversion to ETBE (ethyl tertiary-butyl ether – synthesized from ethanol and isobutene). On theother hand, biodiesel can be used as liquid fuel itself for diesel engines or can be used by mixing with lightoil. Countries around the world have already recognized the usability of biofuels and have been making
efforts to promote biofuels as a national strategy.
In the current bioethanol production, sucrose-based materials including sugarcane extract
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to each country’s climate. For example, in Indonesia—tropical Asia, there are a number of corporations
and oil companies that carry out sugarcane plantation. Waste molasses and starch-based cassava aremainly used as raw materials. Furthermore, sucrose-based materials can all be used for ethanol
production or can be used for sugar production while producing ethanol with the co-produced molasses.
While waste molasses is used to produce ethanol in the sugarcane-based sugar refineries, bagasse,
which are strained sugarcane lees, are largely co-produced. Approximately 90% of the bagasse can beused as a heat source or fuel to generate power in the sugar refineries, while the rest of the bagasse iseither discarded or used as fertilizer after conversion into added-value products. There are reported casesof using bagasse for pulp and boards. Recently, there is a tendency that the amount of unused bagasse
increases with improvement in boiler efficiency.
In tropical Asia such as Indonesia, leguminous acacia that can grow actively by its own nitrogen
fixing activity is widely introduced. The total planting area of acacia reaches 1,000,000 hectares just inIndonesia. At the same time, since the 1970s Japanese paper companies have dedicated themselves toestablishing woody biomass plantations of fast-growing tropical trees, in order to revitalize forests andsecure woody biomass resources. Some advantages of acacia are that it is fast-growing, that it completes
large carbon fixation in a short period of time, and that it is able to grow in oligotrophic soil. The
disadvantage of acacia is that nutrients are taken from the forest land as a result of repeated logging andharvesting in plantation, leading to impoverished soil. However, fast-growing tropical trees such as acacia
are said to be promising resources for biorefinery because they are a cellulose-based biomass that does
not compete with foods and can grow in hostile environments.
Acacia is used as a raw material to produce paper/pulp, ingredients, fuel, fertilizer, and chemicals.
Regarding fuel and fertilizer, fast-growing tropical trees are commonly used as fuel materials in parts of thecountryside except for urban areas in Indonesia. One of the reasons for this is because the calorific valueof acacia is relatively high. Moreover, acacia has high ash content, an inorganic substance (Ca, K, P, Mg,
Si, Al, Ba, Fe, Ti, Na, Mn, and Sr). Therefore, it is possible to apply the remaining ash after burning theland. Because chemical fertilizer is manufactured from fossil resources, acacia-based fertilizer is useful forthe recyclable biomass production cycle [9]. Meanwhile, there are reported cases where the amount ofcrop for corn and peanuts increased after applying the charred bark of Acacia mangium, co-produced inpulp production, to the earth as fertilizer [10]. Furthermore, pH, total nitrogen, and available phosphorus
are effective in improving the chemical compound of impoverished tropical soils with high precipitation.
Acacia mangium is also a valuable tree species in that it is able to adapt to altisol soil with high Al
saturation [11].
In Indonesia, the aim is to increase the national ratio of biofuels to 10% by 2010. The country
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Elaeis guineensis (palm) oil and Jatropha curcas oil [12]. In the case of Jatropha curcas, the national oil
and gas company, Pertamina, formed the Jatropha curcas Biodiesel Project Development in 2005 and has
been working on Jatropha cultivation and biodiesel production from Jatropha [13]. Jatropha is a fastgrowing perennial plant that can be easily established. It is also strong against drought and insects, andcan survive with an annual precipitation of 400 millimeters or less. It can be planted in impoverished soil
such as a desert, and a small amount of agricultural chemicals and fertilizer is required. Although theamount of oil of raw materials extracted from seeds accounts for approximately 35% of the same amountfrom the palm tree, it accounts for 5 times as much as soybean and 3 times as much as cole-seed.
Jatropha is characterized with being able to provide an on-site supply at an inexpensive price, withoutcompeting directly with cooking oil [14].

Conclusions
In early March 2007, the EU approved a 20% reduction in greenhouse effects by 2020, and set atarget of 10% of all vehicle fuels to be biofuels. The EU has the world’s largest biodiesel production andhas begun moving toward palm-based/derived biodiesel imports, due to the popularity of biodiesel
produced from palm oil, which is cheaper than coleseed. The development of Elaeis guineensis
plantations by exploiting the tropical rainforest has the potential to influence communities in various ways,
such as destruction of the ecosystem or decreased biodiversity, disruption of the forest culture and the
local economy living on forestry, increased flooding and fire disasters caused by deforestation, andpesticide pollution. Moreover, it is pointed out that back-breaking work with low wages and child labor
could increase. On the other hand, biomass plantations on degraded land provide an opportunity togenerate more green and new employment on such land. One should take into account both the positives
and negatives of using biomass. It is important to consider the production and use of biomass after
carefully examining influences on local communities and on the environment multilaterally.

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Current Status of Research and Development on Biofuels in Indonesia
Gede Wibawa, Didiek Hadjar Goenadi, Tjahjono Herawan, and Yahya Kurniawan
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Novel Thermal Conversion Process for Bio-energy by Microwave Heating
at Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), Kyoto University
Taro Sonobe*, Hiroaki Suzuki, Tomohiko Mitani, Naoki Shinohara, and Kozo Hashimoto*Center for Exploratory Research on Humanosphere
Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), Kyoto University
Abstract
Microwave (MW) heating is today a mature and familiar technology which finds wide application
in food processing, domestic cooking and material processing as well as in chemistry. MW heating works
by passing non-ionizing microwave radiation, usually at frequency of 2.45 GHz, through the substance.
MW heating has a lot of advantages such as fast and selective hating as well as high efficiency comparedwith conventional heating by conduction. On the other hand, the use of MW heating has also limitation inapplicable heating temperature which is around boiling temperature of water under atmosphere. Therefore,technological innovation for the wider application of MW heating at higher temperature is required for
current our society so as to develop the high-efficiency thermal conversion process for energy saving in
the various sectors such as industry, domestic, power generation.
At RISH, we have been also developing the several thermal conversion processes for renewablebio-energy production through MW heating techniques. As pretreatment of the enzyme saccharifcation of
woody biomass for bio-ethanol production, the effect of MW irradiation has been investigated so as toimprove the enzyme saccharification rate. 3D electromagnetic wave simulation is applied to develop a MW
irradiation cavity which can perform highly-efficient MW irradiation pretreatment. Currently, MW direct
heating of woody biomass as well as metal oxides at higher temperature is also investigated. In this paper,
recent progress of research and valuable potential of MW heating for environmentally friendly thermal
process are summarized.
Key words: Microwave heating, Bio-Energy, Energy Saving, Global warming

Introduction
It is recognized that the technical, social, economic, and environmental challenges of global
warming as well as energy security through “New Energy Initiatives” are the most principal issues forsustainable development and the future our planet. In many economics, particularly in Asia Pacific region,
where rapid economic growth in recent years, the demand for new energy resources and services aredramatically increased. Figure 1 shows the forecast for trends in world energy demand by region.
Dramatic increase of energy demand in Asian-pacific region in next 20 years is predicted. According to theforecast, by 2030, Asian-pacific region will occupy the 36 % of world energy demand and its total demand
will be increased to 2 times larger compared with that of 2002. So, in near future, Asian-pacific region is
supposed to be the largest energy consumer in the world.

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Fig. 1 Forecast for trends in world energy demand by region (cite: Energy in Japan 2006)
Table 1. Energy Consumption and CO2 emission per GDP [2]Country

ENERGY CONSUMPTION

CO2 EMISSION per GDP

per GDP (Mtoe / BUSD) in 2003

(MtC / BUSD) in 2003

Japan

0.106

0.069

Korea

0.350

0.212

Thailand

0.526

0.408

Vietnam

0.543

0.433

Indonesia

0.702

0.539

Singapore

0.240

0.151

Philippines

0.373

0.227

Malaysia

0.542

0.410

India

0.618

0.539

China

0.865

0.82

Also, low energy-use efficiency in the same region is serious problem for energy security andglobal environment issues.

Table 1 shows the energy consumption and CO2 emission per GDP(MtC/BUSD) in 2003 of Asian Countries. As can be seen in this data, Japan has successfully achieved thehigh energy efficiency, however, the other countries show still quite low energy efficiency, particularly in91

China, India, and Indonesia. In addition, the lower efficiency is corresponding to the higher CO2 emission.
As seen in Fig. 1, these Asian countries are supposed to be big energy consumer by 2030. So, it will bevery serious for our environment unless we can improve the energy efficiency as much as possible in thisregion. Therefore, further improvement of energy efficiency is very important so as to reduce theenvironmental impact.
Due to the above concerns over excessive fossil fuel usage, renewable biomass resources havegrown in importance as partial alternatives to fossil resources. Biomass including agricultural residues is
one of the main renewable energy resources available especially in an agricultural country. Biomass canbe converted to energy and clean fuels via thermo chemical and biochemical processes. However,technological innovation to improve the biomass conversion process is required in order to reduce the lossof biomass resources and prevent from excessive usage. For this purpose, MW heating is one of thepromising techniques to improve the energy efficiency for biomass thermal conversion process.
MW heating is today a mature and familiar technology which finds wide application in foodprocessing, domestic cooking and material processing as well as in chemistry. MW heating works bypassing non-ionizing microwave radiation, usually at frequency of 2.45 GHz, through the substance. MW
heating has a lot of advantages such as fast and selective hating as well as high efficiency compared withconventional heating by conduction. On the other hand, the use of MW heating has also limitation inapplicable heating temperature which is around boiling temperature of water under atmosphere.
Therefore, technological innovation for the wider application of MW heating at higher temperature is also
required for current our society so as to develop the high-efficiency thermal process for energy saving.
At RISH, we have been also developing the several thermal conversion processes for renewablebio-energy production through MW heating techniques. As pretreatment of the enzyme saccharifcation of
woody biomass for bio-ethanol production, the effect of MW irradiation has been investigated so as toimprove the enzyme saccharification rate. 3D electromagnetic wave simulation is applied to develop a
MW irradiation cavity which can perform highly-efficient MW irradiation pretreatment. Currently, MW direct
heating of woody biomass as well as metal oxides at higher temperature is also investigated. In this paper,
recent progress of research and valuable potential of MW heating for environmentally friendly thermal
process are summarized.

Microwave Heating
Brief History [3]Rapid heating by microwaves was discovered by Percy Spencer while building magnetrons forradar sets at Raytheon. He was working on active radar set when he noticed a strange sensation, and saw
that a peanut chocolate bar he had in his pocket started to melt. Although he was not the first to notice this92

phenomenon, as the holder of 120 patents, Spencer was no stranger to discovery and experiment, andrealized what was happening. The radar had melted his candy bar with microwaves. The first food to bedeliberately cooked with microwaves was popcorn, and the second was an egg, which exploded in theface of one of the experimenters.
By the late 1970s the technology had improved to the point where prices were falling rapidly.
Formerly found only in large industrial applications, microwave ovens (often referred to informally as
simply "microwaves") were increasingly becoming a standard fixture of most kitchens. Rapidly falling priceof microprocessors also helped by adding electronic controls to make the ovens easier to use. By the late1980s they were almost universal in the US and had taken off in many other parts of the globe. Current
estimates hold that nearly 95% of American households have a microwave.
Principle
A microwave oven works by passing non-ionizing microwave radiation, usually at a frequency of
2.45 GHz (a wavelength of 12.24 cm), through the food. Microwave radiation is between common radio
and infrared frequencies. Water, fat, and other substances in the food absorb energy from the microwaves
in a process called dielectric heating. Many molecules (such as those of water) are electric dipoles,
meaning that they have a positive charge at one end and a negative charge at the other, and therefore
rotate as they try to align themselves with the alternating electric field of the microwaves. This molecular
movement creates heat as the rotating molecules hit other molecules and put them into motion [3].
Recent Progress of MW heating development
Recently, MW has become paying attention to be as a clean, highly effective energy source.
Shortening arrival time up to the setting temperature and achieving the uniform heating can be realized byusing the micro wave energy. This makes a new application to not only a high-speed sintering ceramics
technology but also the high purity synthesis of the exotic material and the chemical reaction. The
technology of electromagnetic energy application will become greatly contribute to the field of theenvironmental, medical, and welfare fields [4].
M. Sato et al recently developed the microwave iron making process, which enable to produce thehigher purity of pig iron compared with conventional method. Also, there are many research conducted toinvestigate MW induced meaningful chemical reactions, MW heating effects in the presence of inorganic
materials such as functional ceramics. In order to promote the information exchange and knowledge
spread for science and technology in the field of electromagnetic wave energy application, Japan Societyof Electromagnetic Wave has been newly established in 2007.

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Development of the microwave thermal conversion process toward fossil resource free society
This research aims at exploring the wider application of microwave heating at higher temperaturefor bio-refinery process as well as material processing of functional ceramics. Today, the microwave
heating technique has been a mature and familiar technology as Microwave oven in domestic cooking,however, its applicable heating temperature is limited and heating mechanism is not understood well.
Utilization of biomass is considered as carbon neutral and renewable energy resources. So,
further innovation on energy saving for bio-refinery process by microwave is big challenge and expected toreduce much environmental impact. In order to compete with conventional bio-refinery process such ascarbonization, liquefaction, and gasification, it requires achieving high temperature at above 400oC at least.
Through the numerous trials at our laboratory, we have done the feasibility study for this purpose well andbench scale investigation is carrying out at present.

Fig. 3 Concept of microwave thermal conversion process toward fossil resource free society
In addition, we have also tried to apply the microwave heating to material processing of functional
ceramics. This aims at investigating effects of microwave irradiation on the catalytic material as well as
investigating microwave heating mechanism of inorganic materials. Microwave heating of inorganic has
been considered to correlate closely with its dielectric property as well as structural property such as
porosity, grain size, crystal structure, and so on. In this study, we are investigating the correlation factor of94

microwave heating to understand heating mechanism and wider application for ceramics preparation suchas calcinations and annealing process by microwave heating.
Finally, microwave heating is noted again recently due to its high potential for energy saving andcreating new kind of thermal process. In order to achieve the fossil fuel free society, the technologicalinnovation for more highly efficient bio-refinery process and material processing within limited resources isneeded.
Study on a microwave irradiation cavity for pretreatment of ethanol production from woody biomass
It is known that we can improve enzyme saccharification rate by irradiating woody biomass withmicrowave as pretreatment of the enzyme saccharification. The objective of the present study isdevelopment of a microwave irradiation cavity which can perform highly-efficient microwave irradiation
pretreatment.
Since MW heating efficiency and behavior depend on the electromagnetic field in the reaction
cavity, so we have to carefully design the irradiation cavity. However, try and error by building real cavity is
not effective and much costly, so in our group 3D electromagnetic wave simulation is applied to develop a
MW irradiation cavity which can perform highly-efficient MW irradiation pretreatment. This technique candesign the various types of MW irradiation cavity on the computer and check the behaviors of MW
electromagnetic field.

Fig. 4 Microwave irradiation cavity (left: real, right: simulation)

Role of Technological Innovation for Social Community
For achieving the sustainable energy and environment society in the future, there are required
actions in energy side. In supply-side of energy, diversification of fuels is required so as to prevent fromthe energy crisis or energy security issues. For that, to increase the choice of an appropriate fuel portfolio95

is needed, such as development of new energy source, biomass energy use, solar energy, wind energy,
and so on.
On the other hand, in utilization side of energy, reduction of loss (improvement of efficiency) isneeded to reduce the environmental impact. Japan has achieved the high energy saving society so that
we can extract those technology through the cooperation based on their demand and requirement.
In such situation, the role of bio-energy is one of the options for each community so as to reduce
the environmental impact and to prevent from the energy crisis. As we can notice currently some strange
climate and increase of oil prices so on, our community is facing global warming and energy security
issues.

Thus, our community is requiring the some new energy resources which can be lessenvironmental impact and capable to energy diversification. In new energy resources, there are several
options such as bio-energy, solar energy, wind energy, and nuclear energy. However, what the important
points are how it can be used as long as sustainable for each community and whether it is really requiredby each community or not. From technological aspect, improvement of efficiency in both utilization andproduction is very important to enhance the sustainability of energy system for each community.

Conclusion
In many economics and societies, particularly in Asia Pacific region, where rapid economic
growth in recent years, the demand for new energy resources and services are dramatically increased so
as to solve the common issues of global warming and energy security. Bio-energy is one of the options for
New Energy Resources but how it can be used as much as sustainable is very important. Therefore,technological innovations for improving the efficiency are required to reduce the loss of valuable resources.
Microwave heating can provide the effective thermal conversion process due to its rapid heating, selective
heating, and direct heating. Microwave heating can contribute to the energy saving in the various thermal
conversion processes for bio-energy production.
What is the important point is how it can be used as much as sustainable for each community.
For that, there has to be two kinds of parameters should be achieved. One is (1) technological innovation
for improving efficiency (reduction of loss) and the other is (2) Appropriate option for community or not; it
has to be required by each community as a desired option.

Acknowledgements
The authors would like to acknowledge Professor Takashi Watanabe and Dr. Masafumi
Oyadomari from RISH of Kyoto University and Mr. Takahiko Tsumiya from Japan Chemical Engineering &Machinery Co, Ltd.

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References[1] Energy in Japan 2006: Agency for Natural Resource and Energy, http://www.enecho.meti.go.jp/[2] Y. Nishikawa, plenary lecture, International Conference of Sustainable Energy and Environment 2006,
Bangkok, Thailand.
[3] Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_heating[4] Japan Society of Electromagnetic Wave: http://www.jemea.org/
SONOBE Taro is Mission Research Fellow at Center for Exploratory Research on Humanosphere of
Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), Kyoto University. He received his Master
degree in energy science from Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University. He received his Ph.
D degree in energy technology from the Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment (JGSEE),
Thailand. He was also 21 COE Research Fellow (2004-2007) during his staying at Thailand. His major
publications include “Study on Pyrolysis Behaviors of Agricultural Residues by TG-MS technique (2007)” in
Journal of Analytical Applied Pyrolysis and “Kinetic Analysis of Biomass Pyrolysis Using the Distributed
Activation Energy Model (2007)” in Fuel. <sonobe@rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp>

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Biotechnology of Tropical Fast-growing Trees
Toshiaki Umezawa
Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), Kyoto University
Abstract
Forest biotechnology will play a very important role in establishing systems for sustainableproduction of Acacia spp., which are among the most important tropical plantation trees. Now that the
genome sequence of Populus has been completely sequence, tree bioscience and biotechnology haveentered into a “post-genomic era”. In the modern tree bioscience and biotechnology, a holistic approachthat includes genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics in combination with targetedstudies on wood formation is becoming prevalent. However, although tropical Acacia is one of the mostimportant tropical plantation trees in Indonesia and Malaysia, its biotechnology is still at a primitive stage.
Because the construction of an Acacia mangium genome sequence database is far beyond the ability ofuniversity laboratories, it is important to construct expressed-sequence tag (EST) databases for thisspecies. In addition, establishment of efficient systems for in vitro regeneration of transformed Acacia andidentification of genes and metabolites responsible for commercially important traits are indispensable forsuccessful genetic modification of the species.
Key words: Wood formation, Tropical fast-growing trees, Acacia, Biotechnology
The fossil resource-based industrial society that was established in the 20th century has provided
us with prosperity, especially in developed countries. However it has also had serious negative impacts on
the global environment due to increasing in the atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, and anumber of other pollution problems. Therefore, it is becoming important to establish a sustainable societythat depends on renewable resources. Among renewable resources, wood or lignocellulosic biomass isthe most abundant, thus, it is important to establish sustainable production and utilization systems forforest biomass resources.
To establish systems for sustainable production of tropical forest biomass that harmonize with theenvironment, a large research and development group including many scientific sectors must be
established. These should include tree bioscience and biotechnology, environmental assessment of
tropical forests, forest management, social science of sustainable maintenance of tropical plantation
forests etc., in addition to advanced total utilization of forest resources. In particular, tree bioscience andbiotechnology provide us with the basic information on wood or forest biomass formation. Such information
is indispensable for developing methods to genetically modify trees. There is wide-spread interests ingenetic modification of trees because of the potential commercial benefits, such as increased wood
production or improved wood quality, resistance to insects and disease, reduced production andprocessing costs of chips, and reduced chemical costs for pulping and so on [1].
Acacia has been planted extensively in Indonesia and Malaysia for pulping purposes. In addition,98

naturally occurring clones of the Acacia hybrid, Acacia mangium × Acacia auriculiformis, which is superior
to A. mangium in terms of wood-based material production, are found in northern Sabah, Malaysia, andhave now been planted commercially in Sabah [2]. Thus, because of their commercial importance, there
are increasing demands for sustainable management systems for Acacia spp. that are also compatible
with environmental conservation. In this context, the Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere(RISH) at Kyoto University has initiated a mission-oriented project across the whole institute that is
focused on sustainable production and utilization of tropical Acacia. To establish environmentally
sustainable systems, it is necessary to breed Acacia trees that have characteristics meeting thesedemands.
Forest tree species including Acacia are characterized by low levels of domestication and highlevels of variation. Thus, selection in breeding populations with a broad genetic base has been the mostcommon approach to forest tree improvement. However, due to the long life cycles, long generation times,
and late sexual maturity, traditional tree breeding programs are very slow. Economic growth in developing
countries will increase wood demand with decreasing land areas available for forestry. Hence, tree
plantation for wood and wood products will have to be more intensive, while being more environmentally
sustainable. Thus, there is a need for better tree improvement programs in which modern biotechnology
may play an important role [1,3].
Generally, biotechnology of commercial plants requires several basic resources, such astransformation and regeneration systems, gene sequence information, and isolation of genes responsible
for the target traits. These basic resources are not yet established for A. mangium, and its biotechnology istherefore still at an early stage.
First of all, to my knowledge, only two papers have been published on genetic transformation of A.
mangium [4] and its hybrid [5]. Hence, more efficient transformation and regeneration systems for Acacia
spp. must be established. Once these systems are established, we can immediately proceed to metabolicengineering of Acacia spp. to improve various attributes by modifying expression of genes that affectcommercially important traits. For example, down regulation of the cinnamate/monolignol pathway genes
can modify the compositions and contents of lignins and heartwood substances in Acacia spp., which is
expected to result in financial gains from pulp processing improvements. There have already beenpromising results in this area reported for Populus [6,7].
Next, gene sequence databases must be established. A genome project is far beyond theresources of a single academic laboratory, but an expressed-sequence tag (EST) database can beestablished with a very much smaller budget. EST is a collection of short sub-sequences of transcribedgenes that represent a snapshot of what is expressed in a given tissue at a given developmental stage.
We have started to prepare an EST data base for A. mangium developing xylem tissue (Suzuki S, Sakurai
N, Suzuki H, Shibata D, and Umezawa T, unpublished), since this information has not been published99

elsewhere.
It is also very important to identify genes that are responsible for commercially important traits,
such as insect and fungi resistance, drought resistance, fast growth, low tapering, circular cross section,less growth stress, less distortion during timber drying, optimal fibril angles, good heartwood coloration,high content of bark tannins, and so on. To identify these useful genes, intensive and time-consuming
research must be carried out using differential analyses of each trait in populations of given tree species
and/or other plants including model plants. To do that, both holistic (or non-targeted) analyses (i.e.
genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and/or metabolomics) and targeted analyses are necessary.
A. mangium EST databases are useful for identifying genes that are possibly involved in theexpression of a given trait in combination with transcriptomics, especially using microarray techniques. In
addition, metabolomics or comprehensive analysis of metabolites is a powerful tool to identify compounds
that are responsible for important phenotypes, such as disease resistance, etc. Two strategies can be
adopted to study metabolomics. One strategy is to carry out a non-targeted and high-throughput analysis
with Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR MS), which can cover a larger
number of compounds than any other type of mass spectrometry. However, FT-ICR MS instruments are
expensive and are therefore not widely distributed. Besides, this technique is weak at quantitative
metabolic analysis, and is therefore better when complimented by a targeted analysis. For precise
metabolite analyses are needed, it is necessary to analyze rather limited but significant numbers of
metabolites precisely using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and liquid chromatographymass spectrometry (LC-MS) with stable isotope-labeled internal standards [8,9].
When the genetic modification approach is pursued, social acceptance is very important. For
example, pollen and seed dispersal causes widespread public concern over transgenic trees. One solution
might be to plant triploid trees, which are expected to be sterile. This could be achieved via the productionof tetraploids followed by backcrossing with diploids. Tetraploid A. mangium and Acacia dealbata havebeen produced using colchicines treatment [10]. In addition, illegal logging of Acacia has also become apressing issue, for example, the proportion of illegal harvest in 2001 in Indonesia was estimated to be up
to 83% [11]. In this context, the target traits must be determined with due consideration for the welfare of
local communities. This indicates that tree biotechnology research and development activities must be
conducted in collaboration with social sciences, especially tropical area studies.
In conclusion, forest biotechnology will play a very important role in establishing systems forsustainable production of Acacia spp. Acacia biotechnology is still at an early stage, and several basic
research resources must be established, such as transformation and regeneration systems, genesequence information, and isolation of genes responsible for the target traits. In addition, Acacia tree
biotechnology research and development activities must be conducted in collaboration with social
sciences, especially tropical area studies.

100References[1] Umezawa T, Suzuki S, Shibata D (2008) Plant Biotechnology, in press.
[2] Matsumoto Y (2002) Report of Acacia Hybrid Plantation in Sabah, Malaysia. Abstract of International
Symposium on Sustainable Utilization of Acacia mangium, pp. 124-127.
[3] FAO, 2004. Preliminary review of biotechnology in forestry, including genetic modification. Forest
Genetic Resources Working Paper FGR/59E. Forest Resources Development Service, Forest
Resources Division, Rome, Italy[4] Xie DY, Hong Y (2002) Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation of Acacia mangium. Plant Cell
Rep, 20: 917-922.
[5] Kao YY (2001) Genetic transformation of Acacia magium cross Acacia auriculiformis and molecularcharacterization of phenylalanine ammonialyase in quaking aspen. PhD Thesis, Michigan
Technological Univ., Houghton, MI, USA (CAN 137:366571)[6] Li L, Zhou Y, Cheng X, Sun J, Marita JM, Ralph J, Chiang VL (2003) Combinatorial modification ofmultiple lignin traits in trees through multigene cotransformation. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA, 100: 49394944.
[7] Hu WJ, Harding SA, Lung J, Popko JL, Ralph J, Stokke, DD, Tsai, CJ, Chiang VL (1999) Repressionof lignin biosynthesis promotes cellulose accumulation and growth in transgenic trees. Nature
Biotechnology, 17: 808-812.
[8] Sakakibara N, Suzuki S, Umezawa T, Shimada M (2003) Biosynthesis of yatein in Anthriscus
sylvestris. Org Biomol Chem, 1: 2474 - 2485.
[9] Sakakibara N, Nakatsubo T, Suzuki S, Shibata D, Shimada M, Umezawa T (2007) Metabolic Analysisof the Cinnamate/Monolignol Pathway in Carthamus tinctorius Seeds by a Stable-Isotope-Dilution
Method. Org Biomol Chem, 5:802–815[10] Blakesley D, Allen A, Pellny TK, Roberts AV (2002) Natural and induced polyploidy in Acacia dealbata
Link. and Acacia mangium Willd. Annals of Botany, 90: 391-398.
[11] Tacconi L, Obidzinski K, Agung F (2004) Learning Lessons to Promote Forest Certification andControl Illegal Logging in Indonesia, Center for International Forestry Research, Jakarta.
UMEZAWA Toshiaki is Professor of Metabolic Science of Forest Plants and Microorganisms at ResearchInstitute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), Kyoto University. He received his Doctor of Agriculture in
Wood Science and Technology from Kyoto University (1987). He was appointed as an assistant professorof Wood Research Institute in 1982, an associate professor at the same institute in 1993, and a professor
at RISH in 2005. He was Monbusho Visiting Fellow (1989-90) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University, and Visiting Scholar at Michigan Technological University (1999). His major publications include
Metabolic Analysis of the Cinnamate/Monolignol Pathway in Carthamus tinctorius Seeds by a StableIsotope-Dilution Method, Org. Biomol. Chem., 5, 802-815 (2007) and the subunit composition ofhinokiresinol synthase which controls geometrical selectivity in norlignan formation (2007).
tumezawa@rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp.

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Man-made Forest as Humanosphere Component
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Human Security in Peat Swamp Forest
Kenichi Abe
Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University
Introduction
Historically, tropical forests have been thinly populated. Health and hygienic problems arisingform a climate of high temperature and high humidity has prevented people from inhabiting in the forest. In
addition, the tropical forest has been the least “tamable” forest. High tropical forests with large trees are
un-manageable and it is difficult to transform them into agricultural lands with simple and primitive tools. In
this sense, the innovation of modern technology such as the introduction of chain saw was decisive tochange the forest physiognomy and to attract the people to come in the tropical forests.
The introduction of chain saw and other heavy machines to cut down the timbers and carry thelogs drastically changed the tropical forests. Not only those who worked for the logging, but other people,
with various motives and intentions, began to enter tropical forests, which gradually deteriorated anddisappeared under their pressure. Some people entered forests for new agricultural lands. Some lookedfor valuable forest products to make money. Refugees of war and ethnic conflicts migrated into the forest.
They entered forests because they had no choice but to live in the untamable forests. Logging roads
become access points for those migrants into forest.
Migration patterns vary. For example, either they are voluntary or forced, or ether they arepermanent or temporary, or ether organized or ad hoc. The impacts of immigrants on forests are diverse
according to the migration patterns. Tropical forest also varies ecologically. Tropical forests in Southeast
Asia differ from those in Latin America and those in Africa. Whitmore (1984) classified 13 tropical forest
types as “formation” in Southeast Asia alone. Of the various combinations of migration patterns andtropical forests, this paper focuses on self-motivated immigrants to the peat swamp forest (PSF
hereinafter) of Sumatra.
First of all, the paper will introduce the characteristics of PSF in Sumatra. PSF was the mostformidable of the many tropical forests. Agricultural development of PSF was particularly difficult becauseof the unique characteristics of peat. As a result, peat swamp forest has been uninhabited, unexploitedand unutilized until quite recently compared with other forest types.
Secondly, the paper will explain the changing pattern of immigration into PSF in Sumatra. The
immigration became considerable in 1960’s, and expanded in 1980’s for the cultivation of commercial
crops. Ecological problems related to the conversion of PSF to farmland are also discussed later.
Following these somewhat introductory parts, the main topics of this paper is the developing, or“maturing”, process of the immigrant society in PSF, based on two separated field surveys. In 1993, thewhole household census on social structure, family history, economic conditions and so on taken in two
immigrant settlements. In 2001, the researcher revisited these two settlements in order to obtain the same
sets of data for comparison. The comparison will highlight the changes of life and social developments
within eight years.
Finally, the paper examines the future prospects of the immigrants and their community, and thenexamines the future PSF from “micrological” or micro-historical viewpoint. The future can best be seenfrom a holistic global perspective, but best understood at the local level.
In conclusion, PSF is an area where the immigrants are incapable of feeling “attached” to thecommunity. Immigrants desire to leave PSF as soon as they get enough money to resettle outside PSF.
The frontier communities in PSF, thus, can be termed a “meta community” or “pseudo-community” rather
than a true or real community.

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Peat Swamp Forest: Settings and History
PSF can be found exclusively in archipelagic Southeast Asia (Whitmore 1984). One of its uniqueecological characteristics is that, on peat, not on “soil”, forests exceeding 40 m in height are formed. Peat
was thought to be distributed only under cold climate where plant residue remains to be un-decomposed.
But if the humidity is high enough with high precipitation throughout the year, the decomposition of plant
residue is also prevented even in tropical climate area.
PSF is a delicate ecosystem [note 1] and was “formidable” for human beings. The special
environment of PSF had long resisted human activity throughout the history of mankind (Abe 1993). It isappropriately called the “land of miasma” especially for its extraordinary high humidity.
The areas surrounding PSF in Sumatra were not utterly devoid of habitants, however. There werefishing settlements of Malay people along seacoasts and riverbanks. They built houses on piles andearned a living by fishing in small boats (Photo 1). They did go to mangrove forests to obtain Nipa palm forroofing and logs for stakes, but dared not go deep into the recesses of the peat swamp forest. PSF was adesolate no-man’s land.
In the history of PSF in Sumatra, the only people who entered PSF for forest products were
probably Chinese logging worker called Panglong (Erman 1994). During the period from the late 19th
century to the early 20th century, the Panglong entered PSF to harvest timber to meet the growing
demand for building materials for the rising port of Singapore. Many of them, however, became exhausted,
sick, and died in the unhealthy and poor working environment (Pastor 1929). Records of their activity
attest to the fact that PSF is unsuitable for human activity.
The impact of Panglong on PSF was not crucial. Despite the fragility of PSF, extraction of thetimber with primitive tools and manual labor has left little damage on the forest. PSF at this time resisted
the human activity and remained largely unchanged.
The un-reversible deterioration or destruction of forest in Sumatran PSF started when peoplecame into forest and settled down there to convert PSF to agricultural lands.
The first migration to PSF in Sumatra was incidental and didn’t live long. In 1940’s, flocks of
Banjarese people evacuated from turmoil in their homeland Kalimantan, and found PSF in Sumatra as
harbor. In fact, Banjarese lived in the same natural surroundings, PSF in Kalimantan and traditionally knew
how to convert PSF into agricultural lands.
Conversion of PSF needs a special technique. Sulfuric acid soil is commonly found below thepeat layer. When exposed to the air after the loss of the upper peat layer, sulfuric acid soil emits strongly
poisonous sulfuric acid. It is, however, possible to create relatively stable farmland by constructing canals
through which fertile river water is let onto the farmland at high tide and sulfuric acid is rinsed out at low
tide. This is a technique known as Pasang surut or tidal irrigation.
The Banjarese adopted this technique in their new home. They cleared forests, dug canals,
planted rice in the paddies and harvested coconuts on the mound in the paddy fields primary for selfsufficiency. Tidal irrigation is effective in the area where total variation is large and a large river is available.
The immigration of the Banjarese was basically limited to peripheral peat area such as vicinity of rivers
and never extended their activities deep into PSF. Thus the larger part of PSF was still left unchanged.
The second wave of immigrants started in the 1970s and continues ever since. This time, peoplecame for money. In addition to Banjarese, Buginese came from the island of Sulawesi, Javanese from theislands of Java, and even local Malays, who had been living in villages on piles along the Malacca straits.
They immigrated not for subsistence but for the cultivation of commercial products, especially coconut
trees. Coconut price was then high in the international market in 70s. After harvesting matured coconuts,
immigrants took out inner white flesh, dried them and made them into copra for the international market.
The newcomers planted coconut deep in PSF free from the influence of the tides because these
coconut plantations need no irrigation unlike paddy. So, they did not disturb the old migrants who had
utilized the peripheral peat area for rice cultivation by tidal irrigation. They do dig canals, but not for
irrigation purposes, solely for draining excess water contained in peat. Virtually no capital or technology
was needed for the conversion of the forest to coconut plantations. What the new migrants did was simply
to cut down trees, dig canals, and plant coconut trees.

112Agriculture incorporating irrigation using the tides is relatively stable, although in the long run the
paddy fields can be eroded and subject to the floods. In contrast, coconut cultivation located deep in peatcauses more serious problems related to the physical and chemical characteristics of peat.
The physical characteristics of peat are associated with the decomposition of peat. After the lossof the tree cover and continued drainage of water by canals, the peat dries and gradually shrinks anddecomposes. Consequently, ground subsidence occurs, causing coconut trees to be easily felled by winds,leaving their roots exposed above ground. The subsiding ground is vulnerable to floods, in which case,immigrants have no other choice than to abandon their coconut plantations.
The problem derived from chemical characteristic is that peat is originally obligotrophic, lacking
minor elements in particular, which are essential for plant growth. The tidal irrigation practiced in the
peripheral peat area can supplement the shortage of nutrients by drawing nutrient-rich river water throughcanals. But commercial coconut plantations are located beyond the coverage. Without any fertilization, theyield of coconut decrease sharply after consuming out the nutrients contained in peat.
Peat, unless tidal irrigation is applicable, is ecologically unfit for sustainable cultivation.
Establishing coconut plantations is technically easy with little capital, but maintaining them is difficult when
the plantations are located deep in PSF. Consequently, coconut cultivators are, after getting some profits,
obliged to leave their plantations, and seek other forest to convert again to coconut plantation, leaving
waste land behind (Abe 2002). PSF are disappearing gradually but steadily while migrants repeatedly
wander or resettle in the forest for the lands. The point is that these migrants, unfortunately, just think
about the profits that they get from PSF and never care and worry about the sustainability of PSF.

Micrology of Communities in Peat Swamp Forests
Following the ecological settings of PSF and history of migration outlined and summarized above,
this section deals with the real life ordinary immigrants in PSF, which is little understood and little exposed.
Thick description on the immigrant communities helps us to understand the relationship between theimmigrants and the forest in PSF. Micrology, going into particular aspect, of communities may count.
“Logic” and Dynamic of the Frontier Community
Generally speaking, settlements in peat swamp forest characteristically extend along canals. First
pioneering immigrants approach the peat swamp forest from the river or the sea. They communally dig
canals into the forest. Tenderfoots are allotted a forest plot at the far end of the canal. Eventually old
migrants settle at the base and newcomers at the tip of canal. The allotted forest is defined by a certain
length along the canal. The length differs in each canal or settlement, but usually baris, planting space of
coconut is used as a unit. Eight baris, for example, means the length where eight coconut trees can beplanted in a line. The length of baris accordingly differs in settlements depending on “fertility” of peat eventhough each baris equals with 7 or 8 depa or fathoms in general. The houses are built in roughly equalintervals along the canal. Immigrants are allowed to clear forests “without limit” in a direction perpendicular
to the canal. As immigrants grow in number, the canal extends further and further into the forest.
Immigrants virtually need no capital or high technology. What they need is the work force to cut
trees, to dig canals, and to plant coconut seedlings. They can create coconut plantations solely throughtheir own labor. Thus, PSF has attracted immigrants eager for money, who have less capital but have lotsof labor at their disposal.
In the beginning, there was no formal landownership in the area. Once accepted by the pioneer
settlers, anyone who wants to establish a coconut plantation can get access to forest and convert it intoplantation. There were still vast forests to be exploited and more and more immigrants came into PSF in
accelerated pace. Those who came first got the better share.
For security and daily convenience, immigrants prefer living together to living separately in thecoconut plantation. Immigrant workers firstly began to move into the base of canal, where otherimmigrants settled, too. Once the forest was cleared and coconuts are planted, there was little work in113

coconut plantations before harvesting. Weeding was only done once in three months together withharvesting. They further move, then, to bigger settlements or traditional Malay villages on piles for moresocial and religious services, such as primary school, madrasah or Islamic school, mosque and kiosk.
Their mobility was quite high and it can be well exemplified in the census of the settlement A andB that the researcher revisited [note 2].
Many people had emigrated from the peat forest in the eight years since the first census (Table 1).
Nineteen families, or half of the 38 families, emigrated from settlement A. Furthermore, four families
moved their houses to the base of the canal within the settlements. Among those emigrated, four families
returned to the island of Sulawesi, their home land. Two households moved to a big town on the island of
Sumatra. They left the settlements, selling off their coconut plantations. Many of the people who emigrated
from settlement A moved to live in traditional villages on pile within the same sub district. Their plantations
and former houses that they use when they visit the plantations still exist. They visit their plantations only
for harvesting or weeding purposes, their lives being based now in villages with a mosque and schools.
The peat swamp is a place for making money, not for living.
Similar trends of emigration, although small in number, are also observed in settlement B. Twelve
households (22.2%) of 54 have emigrated. None of them returned to their home land. Five households
left the peat swamp after selling their plantations. Three household moved to the town after saving
sufficient money to live while there were sawmill workers in other two households and they worked in ruralarea. Another five households maintain their coconut plantations, but have moved to a nearby village on
piles.
Table 1. Social Movement in Studied Settlements Between 1993 and 2001

Total number of Household in 1993
Emigrated out

Settlement A

Settlement B

No of Household

No of Household

38

54

19

12

Move to village on pile

13

5

Move to town

2

5

Return to homeland

40

Unknown

02

Move within settlement

4

5

Newly recruited

10

12

29

54

Total number of Household in 2001

During the same period, ten families have immigrated to settlement A. All, except one, were
Buginese from other settlements in Sumatran PSF. One Buginese came directly from homeland Sulawesi.
Nine new immigrant families came to settlement B, three are Banjarese, five are Malay coming fromadjacent settlements, and one Javanese of Sumatra origin. Three branch families from the same
settlement are added. The total number of households has decreased by nine in settlement A, while insettlement B the number of households has not changed.
It is a startling fact that the heads of four households (11%) out of 38 household have died insettlement A, whereas the heads of nine households (16.7%) have died out of 54 households in settlement
B. This fact, firstly, illustrates the physically demanding life conditions on peat swamp. Secondary it
illustrates that medical condition is still poor in the area. Among the social infrastructure, medical treatment
facility, such as clinic, is the last to set up. The fact also evokes the miserable life of panglongs nearly acentury or more ago.

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The life in PSF has been simple and humble as before and seems neither improved nor
developed. The population of immigrant settlements in PSF does not change substantially as well.
However, a concentration of the population does occur in villages of pile dwelling and a sort ofdevelopment is realized there. The old villages on piles now become the core of development andprogress in the area.
The KS village is one of such centers and the Malay came first to settle there [note 3]. KS
villagers have been living from fishing. Today fishing, especially prawn-fishing for export, is still the mostimportant economic activity. Fishing people catch prawns using bag nets called gumbang and sell thecatch to the resident Chinese brokers who grade prawns according to their quality. Expensive high quality
prawns are packed in ice and carried to Singapore.
The census of KS village in 1992 showed fifty-eight households of 98 in total owned fishing boats,varying in size from motorized boats of about 1.5 tons to rowboats. Those who did not own boats were
hired out as laborers and worked on fishing boats. Thus, most villagers were somehow dependent on
fishing at that time.
The population of the KS village increased rapidly with the influx of immigrants from the canalcommunities. The number of households reached 223 in 1997 and further increased to more than 400 in
2001. Those newcomers still possess coconut plantations deep in PSF and periodically visit them for
harvest. They came not for new livelihood or business but for education and other public services.
The number of pupils at KS primary school increased from 160 in 1994 to 289 in 2001. The
schoolhouse with only three classrooms was already crammed full of increasing number of pupils fromnearby villages. Private Islamic schools or Madrasahs were built to supplement the public primary school.
In 2001, two Madrasah Ibtidaiyah equivalents to primary school, and one Madrasah Tsanawiya equivalent
to secondary school were established. Though KS became an independent village officially in1999, KS
has not had a secondary school.
As the population became denser, a fair was started to open once a week on a fixed day. This
weekly fair, one of social formation, symbolizes and crystallizes the prosperity and development of thearea. On the fair day, people come from neighboring settlements, some in boats with vegetables and fruits
that they have grown. The village unusually becomes enlivened on the fair day. Some hawkers come withsweets and beverages hoping to sell them to the people. Dentists and barbers open their business. The
fair is a place of information exchange for the surrounding communities.
Table 2 shows what goods were sold at the regular fair. An overwhelming number of merchants
trade clothing. In 1993, there was only one circuit of weekly fair in the area. But in 2001, the circuit was
doubled to meet the increasing demands of ever increasing population for commodities.
Most merchants traveling to and fro for regular fairs are Minankabau. Trading is the typicaloccupation of migrant Minankabau. They are called Pedagan Belok here or, Manggaleh Balbelok meaning‘trading around’ in other places (Kahn 1980). They purchase and sell goods individually. Used clothes fromSingapore have been one of the most popular goods in regular fairs, but the class of goods always
changes over time. Cassette tapes, for example, were old-fashioned by 1993 and they were replaced by
CD. They learn business skills at regular fairs and save some money in order to open their own shops in
the future. They seldom work as Pedagan belok for more than 5 years. The job of Pedagan Belok is a
stepping stone for the better future.
The location of regular fair moves over time. Fairs are held where large numbers of households
congregate. However, traveling merchants tend to avoid a village that has developed enough to havegeneral stores. In 2001, KS villagers talked about the possibility of the end of regular fairs because thevillage developed enough to have 18 shops, three kiosks, one coffee shop, and three restaurants.

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Merchants are all Minankabau otherwise mentioned
Name of village
Commodities
KS (1
KS (2
used clothes
32 (2 Banjarese, 1 Malay)
14
underwear and dress for
1
3
women and children
shoes
2
4
unused clothes22 (1 Bugis)
cosmetics/ toilet article
32
accessories
13daily utensils(plastic)
2
2
daily utensiles (bamboo)
00
pictorial poster/book/toy
3
1
ironware4
1
cassette tape
1
0
VCD
0
1
medicine(traditional)
3 (2 Javanese, 1 Banjarese)
2 (1 Javanese)
medicine
3 (1 Malay)0
goldware1
2 (1 Bugis)
dried goods
3 (2 Banjarese)
2
watch
2
3
coffee powder
02
vegetable and fruit
3
1
snacks03(dentist)
1 (Batak)
0
TOTAL
67
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Notes:
1) 13 August 1993

PC (3
11 (1 Malay)
1
3
1
3
3
0
1 (1 Banjarese)
3
1
0
0
1
1
0
3
2
0
0
1
0
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3) 2 September 2001

Characteristic and Prospect of Immigrant Community
Increasing number of immigrants came to PSF. In the sub district or kecamatan that includes thesettlement A, for example, the population increased 10.9 percent from 60,797 in 1999 to 67,436 in 2000
(Interview with Camat, head of sub district). With the population increase, various social infrastructures,such as schools and clinics, were built [note 4].
Their motivation to come to PSF is to get a better life than at home. But not all immigrants had
better life in PSF. The labor is the only capital that they owned. If a household lost its breadwinner due toillness or injury, the household would become destitute. No choice would be left for them but to sell theirplantation and leave the PSF. On the other hand, some immigrants could become big plantation owners bybuying up the coconut plantations of those unfortunate households. But most of immigrants are neither too
rich nor too poor materially. Mediocre immigrants might be satisfied with their life if they could leave PSF
and settle in a village on piles where they can enjoy public facilities. But what are they expecting further?
What is the prospect of them? The micrological approach gives some hints on them.

116Religion: Social Bond and Last Resort
The immigrant community is socially characterized with its great mobility and weak relationships
among the inhabitants. In many cases, immigrants do come relying on kinship and/or birthplace relations.
As a result, people from the same birthplace or of the same ethnic background tend to form a settlement.
Nonetheless, their relationships are loose by nature. Immigrants come and go frequently one after another.
The membership in settlements is neither fixed nor stable. It is not rare for people of different ethnicity tolive together in a settlement along a canal. Settlement A was originally opened and dominated by
Banjarese in early 1970’s, but in 1993 the 54 households in the settlement was ethnically mixed,
consisting of 28 households of Banjarese, 14 Javanese and 12 Malay.
In a heterogeneous community, each household tends to open and manage a coconut plantationindividually. There is no communal work as often observed among Buginese and Javanese in their
homeland.
The communal work can only be seen when they gradually build mosques or small praying
houses with donations. The mosque serves as a meeting place that unites them. As the life in PSF is hashin unhealthy condition and the coconut production is unstable and risky, the immigrants tend be morepious Muslim. The people are often seen devotedly kneeling and bowing down for praying. At night, theelder instructs the younger about the way to read the Koran under the faint light of a homemade kerosene
lamp.
Some successful men choose to spend money they have earned less on consumer products andcapital goods but more on the pilgrimage to Mecca. The Indonesian government sets the cost of the
package tour every year. In 2000, the pilgrimage cost 20,500,000Rp (some 2000 US dollars) per person,
and this cost is not affordable for ordinary immigrant. Even ordinary immigrants dare to go to Mecca andreturn to the settlement as haji by selling their means of living such as coconut plantations and pongpongboats. It seems that they have little hope in this world and expect a better life in the next world. Five andseven people became haji in settlement A and B respectively.
Anticipation for Next Generations
The immigrants are concerned with the education of their children as well as with religion. The
primary reason that they move their place of residence form PSF to villages on piles is for the convenienceof their children’s commute to school. They do not want their children to manage coconut plantations in
PSF like themselves. They wish their children to attain the highest possible education in villages.
Even though the immigrant farmers try to give their children educational opportunities if they havesome extra money, many of the poor families cannot afford pay for an education for their children, however
and put their fifth or sixth grade children to work as valuable labor resource. In 2001, only 6 pupils out of
64 graduated from the primary school in settlement B. Nonetheless.
Any education-minded household leaves the settlement when the children reach school age.
Those remaining in the settlement are from poor households with less educational opportunity.
Table 3 shows the whereabouts of those who were children at the time of first survey insettlement B in 2001 (Table 3). Their whereabouts are possibly indicative of the future of the PSF
population. In the case of boys, twenty-one boys kept staying in the village. Eight of them helped his
parents and/or established their own coconut plantations. Twelve were engaged in boards production inforest, which to be discussed later. One was a student of a madrasah within commutable distance. Three
died.
Twenty-six boys left the village. Two were working to establish coconut plantations in a different
canal. Ten became local recruits of government organized immigration project nearby and worked atcoconut plantation that the government prepared for the ready to plant. Tree became construction workers
in Batam, an island near from Singapore that was designed for special industrial zone in early 1990’s. Fourbecame trawler men based in the sub district and two became workers at a lumber mill. One was arickshaw driver and another was a warehouseman in the district capital. Three were taking higher
education while living in school dormitory.

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Table 3. Occupation and whereabouts of second generation in settlement B

Remained in the settlement

Boy's CaseGirl's Case

No

No

21

31

Establishing coconut plantation

8-

Producing board

12

1Higher education

10

Helping Housework-

15

Housewife-

15

Emigrated out

26

17

Establishing coconut plantation

2-

Joined government Project10-

Construction worker

30

Trawler men

40

Sawmillｌ worker

20Worker in town

2

3

Higher education

30

Helping Housework-

2

Housewife-

11

Unknown

0

1

1)

Note:
1)

Some of the girls joined Project following her husband, but not counted here

It should be noted that only ten boys (21.3%), both in and outside the old settlement continued
working on their coconut plantations like their fathers.
In the case of girls, sixteen unmarried girls were still at their homes. All were helping their parents
in household duties except one who was engaged in board production. Six unmarried girls left their homes.
Two of them were caddies at a golf course and one was working at a supermarket in Batam. The
whereabouts of one girl was unknown. Two were at their relatives’ homes in the same sub district, helping
them do their household duties.
Married girls number twenty-six. Many of them were housewives with no jobs outside theirhouses. Fifteen have remained in the settlements after marriage. Husbands of five of them had coconut
plantations. On the other hand, husbands of eight were working on board production. The husband of one
was a fisherman. Another ran a small general store.
Eleven married girls left the village. Husbands of only three were establishing conventional
coconut plantations. The jobs of other girls’ husbands were diverse. Two were agricultural workers, one a
construction worker, one a sailor, one a speedboat diver, and three were sales clerks in the capital town.
More diversified job opportunities of younger generation gave the glimpse of future life in frontiercommunity. Among them, those highly educated went out from PSF. They did exactly what their parents
expected of them, breaking away or “escaping” from the frontier community in peat area for better careers.

118Timber Extraction: Another Income Generating Opportunity
Many children who have grown up in PSF leave the PSF. Of those who have remained there, thenumber of coconut plantation owner is gradually decreasing. There are, instead, an increasing number ofpeople who are engaged in timber extraction.
Under the decentralization policy, following Indonesia’s economic and political crisis in 1997-1998,
forest resources, formerly controlled and regulated by the central government, have become accessible tolocal population. Local governments, expecting revenue from forest, basically tend to grant license on
small-scale logging and timber-related enterprise to local communities. But local people usually lack therequired capital, expertise and even desire to operate forestry businesses. They just work physically as
loggers supplying timbers for sawmill owned by outside investors or “partners” and they act like panglongs.
As shown in Table 4 and Figure 1, small scale sawmills have been constructed one after another in large
numbers since 1996 and scattered in the area. The decentralization laws pertinent to the usage of natural
resources, such as Law 22/1999 on regional governance and Law 25/1999 on the fiscal balance between
the central government and the regions have been implemented since 1999. De facto decentralization,
however, occurred more quickly than de jure decentralization.
By 2001, some of sawmills went bankrupt, or moved, after having harvested profitable logs, tomore forest-rich site. Instead of supplying logs to sawmill, board production in the depleted forest havebecome a major source of income (Photo 5). Although it is prohibited by law, local people make the boardsby themselves using chain saws. Boards are carried through canals to the base of canals to be loaded on
pongpong boat. As logging and board production allow them to earn money more quickly than coconuts,
people prefer logging to working for coconut plantation. They had no chain saws eight years ago. At
present, twenty-one households (38.9%) own chain saws, the strong weapon against forest. Today,
immigrants are cutting trees not for coconut plantation but for timber and board.
Table 4 Forestry enterprises registered in Indragili Hilir Regency.

1

2
3
4
5
6
7

8
9
10
11
12
13

Investment(thousand rupiah)

Facultyno. of employee

saw millwood working
wood chip
dry timberchip mill
saw millsaw millsaw millmoulding
saw mill
chip wood
saw on timber
dry timber
saw millsaw millsaw millsaw millsaw millsaw mill

365

2,720,000

300
11
30
20
18
70
148

5,316,084
50,000200,000
2,154,000
143,000
11,617,000

36
24
31
35
25
25

295,150
521,700
600,500
140,000
142,100
148,150

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Capacity (m³/yr)
18,0005,400
96,00020,800
2,400
1,500
1,000
1,800
1,600
180,000
18,00010,800
5,000
2,400
3,000
1,100
1,500
1,200

Year
established
1988

1986
1993
NA
1994
1994
1994

1995
1996
1996
1996
1996
1996

Faculty
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40

no. of employee

saw millsaw millsaw millsaw millmold dowel
saw millsaw millsaw millsaw millsaw millsaw millsaw millsaw millsaw millsaw millsaw millsaw millsaw millsaw millsaw millsaw millsaw millsaw millsaw millsaw mill
pencilsaw mill
Source: District Office

8
10
35
35
328
25
25
10
28
24
13
35
12
16
14
10
10
175
28
18
12
15
16
6
10
12

Investment(thousand rupiah)
4,800
61,000120,625
190,000
3,330,000
660,000
670,000
445,000
241,000
140,000
100,000
74,00070,010350,000
95,50078,000161,000
941,000
244,500
707,200
395,000
230,000
170,500
300,000
98,000213,000
215,000

Capacity (m³/yr)
1,000
900
1,000
1,100
1,500
1,250
1,250
4,500
1,200
3,000
2,400
7,200
2,500
1,750
2,100
1,500
2,400
3,000
2,500
2,100
1,250
1,500
1,600
1,200
2,500
5,000
1,800

Year
established
1996
1996
1996
1996
1997
1997
1997
1997
1997
1997
1997
1998
1998
1998
1998
1998
1998
1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
2000
2000
2001

Conclusion
The characteristic encompassing the immigrant community is that of frontier. Progressive anddemocratic sprit of frontier communities has been discussed widely, but it is only recently that theecological consequence associated with social characteristics of frontier has begun to be described.
Generally, the destructive and expedient management of resources in the frontier is replaced by amore sustainable management of resources as time elapsed. But it is not the case for PSF. Long
uninhabited peat swamp forest has become populated with anticipating immigrants for better lives. The
forest was converted into seemingly prosperous plantation of coconut. Social infrastructures are stillinsufficient, but are being improved rapidly. But this frontier community formed in peat swamp area everremains as frontier. Immigrants continue to be immigrants or strangers in the area. The community issimply miscellany of immigrants without s sense of solidarity. It has never developed into a matured
community.
Uncertain and precarious nature of production system in PSF, both ecologically and economically,is the main reason of formation of this superficial community, to be named meta-community or pseudocommunity. PSF is biologically fragile system lacking buoyancy and stability. And immigrants are counting
their livelihood on commercial coconut production which is affected directly by the international market or
more and more on timber logging and board production.

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In this community, nobody considers the sustainable resource management or care for the forest
over-exploitation. They secure only short-term economic gains with little attention to long-term
environmental consideration. The concern of immigrants is to earn much profit as possible from forest
resources, without investing money to forest or land rehabilitation. The immigrants have no attachment to
the land or community and expect nothing for its future. PSF cannot become their retirement homes. They
do want to escape from the area after getting enough. Nobody desires to settle permanently in PSF.
Consequently, nobody considers the future of PSF. They exploit PSF at most and left it depleted anddestructed. What happens afterwards is of no concern to them.
Sustainable and sound forest management can be most efficiently and consistently realized by
the local community in and around that particular forest. So far, the new communities in PSF are not real interm of indigenousness. There is no attachment to the land by immigrants. The most of community
member feel themselves as strangers or alien to the PSF.
For the sound and sustainable future for PSF, it is important to “vernacularizing” or rooting theimmigrant community. Let the immigrants to feel their surrounding, including forest, to be their own. Thevernacularization can be realized by building the sound and sustainable community in the ecological,
social and economic sense. But the forest is really disappearing and more immigrants are still coming for
already limited resources. It is now on the point of reconsidering this never-ending and fundamental issue
between immigrants and forest. Particular concerns are to be paid on the special characteristic of PSF andcommunities in it. It is the “local” community of new immigrants or original residents that could be a reliablesteward of the forest there.

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Notes
1. Biologically, PSF is very vulnerable. As with other tropical forests, once deforested it is very hard
to regenerate. Particularly, PSF has a specific problem associated with peat itself. Clearance offorest cover invites drying of peat exposed in the sunlight, which then causes decomposition ofpeat. Deforestation, thus, implies the loss of peat and loss of forest foundation. Furthermore, peat
is made up of organic contents that are extremely flammable when dried. In 1997, when the El
Nino phenomenon occurred, wet peat was subjected to unusual dryness, resulting in fires atmany locations in peat area by anthropogenic combustion. Peat swamp area has become one of121the “hot spot” for forest fire.
2. The anonymous two settlements are administratively located in the regency of Indragiri Hilir, Riau
Province. Settlement A consisted of mainly Buginese immigrants and settlement B, of Banjarese
immigrants. Besides ethological differences, two settlements differ in some ecological, social andeconomic aspects. But here in this paper, those tendency or feature common among them areshown and discussed. Details of such difference are to be discussed elsewhere.
3. A significant change occurred in this period. In addition to spontaneous immigrants, immigrants
organized in a government project have also mobilized into conversion of PSF into coconut
plantation. The project, called PIR-Trans, employ large machines to clear the forest, to prepare
the land for plantation and to make wide canals. Canals are systematically arranged from widest
primary canals with 22 m in width to tertiary canals. Houses for immigrants are also constructed.
This development is carried out on a completely different scale from that performed by selfmotivated immigrants. The immigration project has changed the whole situation of PSF. This
report refrains from stating details of the major trends of PSF development which has alreadyappeared (Abe 2003). This resulted in the demarcation of areas for one of the leading stateorganized trans-immigration projects, the Perkubunan Inti Rakyat (PIR; “Nuclear Estate andSmall-holders Project”). PIR projects’ stated aims are to increase production of plantation crops
and raise the incomes of participating “farmers” as well as to contribute to regional development.
4. KS, anonymous, village was located in the same sub district as settlement A, and surveyed in
1992 and 1997. In 1992, native Malays form the majority, numbering 48 households. Twelve
households are Buginese, fourteen are Banjarese, and two are Javanese. Nine Chinesehouseholds are all brokers. Some of them own more than one boat for renting. Orang Laut(literally, “people of the sea”), referred to as “sea gypsies”, have settled in the village, numbering
ten households. There are three Minankabau households, running a restaurant, general store,
and rice mill, respectively.

Figure 1. Location of study site and registered forestry entrepreneur
Photo 1. View of KS, a village on piles projecting to the sea.
Photo 2. Batak “dentist” at periodical fair. See a pile of extracted teeth displaying of his skill.
Photo 3. Collective logging work in 1997. Logs are sold to sawmill nearby.
Photo 4. Collective logging work in 2001. Logs are sawn to boards in the forest at this time.
Photo 5. Draining canal become a means of transportation

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Scientific Session 2 - 4

Empowering Local Institutions for Sustainable Forest Management:
Lessons from “Facilitative Research” on Community Forestry in Sumber
Agung Village, Lampung Province
Keron A. Petrus* and Motoko Shimagami***University of Indonesia**Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University
Pendahuluan
Pengelolaan hutan berbasis masyarakat terus bergulir setelah berbagai pengalamanmembuktikan, paradigma pengelolaan hutan berbasis negara (sentralistik) memperlihatkan banyak
kegagalan. Kerusakan hutan terus meningkat dari waktu ke waktu, konflik sosial merebak di mana-mana,
demikian juga kemiskinan masyarakat lokal terus bertambah pula. Kondisi demikian, menggambarkan
bahwa sesungguhnya permasalahan kehutanan terikat erat dengan persoalan sosial.
Pengalaman ini telah mendorong pemerintah, dalam hal ini departemen kehutanan untuk
mengeluarkan berbagai kebijakan pengelolaan hutan yang memberikan kesempatan kepada masyarakat
lokal untuk terlibat aktif dalam pengelolaan hutan. Masyarakat diberikan kesempatan menjadi pelaku
utama di dalam mengelola dan memanfaatkan hutan di lingkungan mereka sebagai sumber penghidupan.
Sejauh ini pemerintah telah mengeluarkan kebijakan yang disebut hutan kemasyarakatan (HKm)melalui SK Menhutbun No. 677/Kpts-II/1998 dapat ditempatkan sebagai langkah awal bagi pelibatan
masyarakat sebagai pelaku utama. Kebijakan ini membuka peluang kepada masyarakat untuk
mengembangkan praktik-praktik pemanfaatan hutan sesuai kondisi sosial dan fisik (hutan). Namun,
persoalan kemudian muncul bahwa dalam kenyataannya tidak semua masyarakat lokal telah memiliki
kemampuan untuk mengembangkan praktik pengelolaan dan pemanfaatan hutan secara berkelanjutan.
Ada sekelompok masyarakat memperlihatkan adanya kemampuan, sementara ada sekelompok
masyarakat yang lain memperlihatkan ketidakmampuan itu. Oleh karena itu, diperlukan persiapan kepada
masyarakat untuk membuat pengaturan-pengaturan bagi masyarakat yang belum ada, sementara bagi
masyarakat yang sudah mempunyai pengaturan perlu didorong agar mulai berperan sebelum
mendapatkan kesempatan tersebut.
Poinnya adalah jika kesempatan telah dibuka dan benar-benar diberikan maka tidak menciptakan
kehancuan (meskipun dalam kenyataan terdapat kegagalan) yang lebih luas terhadap sumber daya hutan,
sebaliknya menciptakan tertib dan perbaikan terhadap fungsi kawasan. Dengan kata lain, pengaturan
yang efektif dapat menjadi jembatan bagi interaksi masyarakat dengan sumber daya hutan agar saling123

memberi manfaat. Kehidupan ekonomi masyarakat setempat menjadi lebih terjamin, dengan demikian
akan mendorong mereka untuk menjaga, memelihara agar fungsi ekologis hutan tetap terjaga pula.

Kawasan Hutan Gunung Betung dan Akses Masyarakar Sumber Agung
Kawasan hutan gunung Betung adalah sebuah kawasan konservasi di provinsi Lampung, dalamstatus terakhirnya sebagai Taman Hutan Raya Wan Abdurahman 1. Kawasan ini seluas 22.244 hektar dari
1.004.733 hektar luas keseluruhan kawasan hutan di provinsi Lampung 2. Sebagai kawasan konservasi
dengan fungsi pengatur tata air bagi kehidupan masyarakat kota Bandar Lampung dan sekitarnya,
Pemerintah Daerah Lampung, dalam hal ini pihak dinas kehutanan telah mengeluarkan berbagai
kebijakan pengelolaan hutan. Kebijakan-kebijakan yang ada memperlihatkan secara jelas pengabaian
peran, bahkan penutupan akses masyarakat di sekitar kawasan hutan gunung Betung, yang terdiri dari 36
desa, termasuk masyarakat Sumber Agung. Akibatnya, kerusakan kawasan hutan terus meningkat, konflik
sosial antara masyarakat, demikian juga antara masyarakat dengan aparat kehutanan lapangan pun tak
dapat terhindarkan 3.
Menurut sejarah pengelolaan hutan, masyarakat Sumber Agung mulai mengelola dan
memanfaatkan kawasan hutan gunung Betung sejak tahun 1940-an. Sebagai masyarakat migran dari
Jawa dan Sunda, mereka membuka dan menjadikannya sebagai lahan pertanian sekaligus membangun
beberapa pusat pemukiman di dalam kawasan hutan. Keberadaan mereka masa itu relatif masih aman.
Jauh dari kontrol pemerintah karena pihak dinas kehutanan memberikan izin pemanfaatan kawasan
hutan kepada masyarakat dengan pola tumpang sari 4.

1 Kawasan ini ditetapkan menjadi

Kawasan Hutan Lindung Gunung Betung Register 19 oleh pemerintah Belanda
berdasarkan Besluit Residen Lampung nomor 307 tanggal 31 Maret 1941. Penetapannya didasarkan atas
pertimbangan fungsinya sebagai pengatur tata air (hydrology) bagi masyarakat kota Bandar Lampung dan
sekitarnya. Dalam perkembangannya, Menteri Kehutanan melalui surat keputusan nomor 472/Kpts-II/1992,
tanggal 12 Juli 1992 mengubah fungsinya menjadi Taman Hutan Raya (Tahura). Kemudian, melalui Keputusan
Menteri Kehutanan nomor 408/Kpts-II/1993 tanggal 10 Agustus 1993, ditetapkan kembali dengan nama Taman
Hutan Raya Wan Abdul Rahman.
2 Data Dinas Kehutanan Provinsi Lampung menjelaskan kawasan hutan di provinsi Lampung seluas 1.004.733
hektar atau 30,43% dari luas daratan 35376,5 km2 berdasarkan Perda nomor 5/2001 tentang Penataan Ruang
Provinsi Lampung dan SK Menhutbun nomor 256/Kpts-II/2000. Luasan hutan tersebut terdiri dari: suaka alam =462.030 ha, hutan lindung = 317.613, hutan produksi terbatas = 33.358 ha, dan hutan produksi tetap = 191.732 ha(Materi presentasi UPTD Tahura: Kebijakan Umum Pengelolaan Tahura, 2007).
3 Menurut catatan yang dikeluarkan Dinas Kehutanan Provinsi Lampung, tingkat kerusakan kawasan hutan gunung
Betung hingga saat ini telah mencapai 70% dari luasan 22.244 hektar. Keruskan ini akibat perambahan lahanhutan oleh masyarakat, penebangan liar, pengklaiman hak oleh masyarakat. Bentuk-bentuk kegiatan seperti ini,selain dilakukan oleh masyarakat di 36 desa/kelurahan yang mengelilingi kawasan Tahura, tetapi juga dilakukan
oleh masyarakat pendatang dari daerah lain (Materi Presentasi Kepala Dinas Kehutanan, 2006).
4 Kusworo (1997) melaporkan kebijakan memberikan izin pembukaan hutan oleh masyarakat untuk dijadikansebagai lahan garapan di Provinsi Lampung mulai berlangsung pada tahun 1964. Izin ini diberikan berdasarkan
Instruksi Kepala Dinas Kehutanan Tk.I Lampung nomor 7 Tahun 1964. Kusworo juga menggambarkan kebijakan
pemberian izin penggarapan selanjutnya melalui Pengumuman Kepala Dinas Tk.I nomor 250/V/5 Tahun 1968
tentang izin tumpang sari. Secara umum, implikasi luas dari instruksi atau kebijakan memberi akses kepada

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Tahun 1979 dan 1982/1983, dinas kehutanan mengeluarkan kebijakan menutup semua aktivitas
pertanian dan pemukiman di dalam kawasan hutan termasuk di kawasan hutan gunung Betung. Lahanlahan pertanian dan beberapa pusat pemukiman dilarang. Pusat pemukiman dibongkar dan lahan-lahan
garapan mereka terkena program reboisasi. Masyarakat sebagian memilih mengikuti programtransmigrasi lokal yang diadakan pemerintah, sebagiannya lagi memilih bergabung di pemukiman yangsekarang, Sumber Agung.

Kelurahan Sumber Agung terletak di wilayah Kecamatan Kemiling, Kota

Bandar Lampung, dan terletak sekitar 7 km sebelah barat pusat Kota Bandar Lampung.

Jumlahpenduduk sampai dengan Desember 2004, sebanyak 751 Kepala Keluarga atau 2892 jiwa, terdiri darilaki-laki 1098 jiwa dan perempuan 1794 jiwa.
Namun, karena terbatasnya sumber pendapatan di luar kawasan maka masyarakat tetap
berusaha masuk ke dalam kawasan hutan mengambil hasil-hasil dari kebun yang mereka kembangkan.
Kondisi ini mempengaruhi strategi pengelolaan dan pemanfaatan hutan. Lahan-lahan pertanian yangsudah dikonversi menjadi kebun-kebun dengan berbagai jenis tanaman perdagangan (masyarakat
menyebutnya dengan kebun campuran), sebagian dikonversi kembali menjadi lahan-lahan pertanian.
Masyarakat mengembangkan strategi pengelolaan hutan yang berorientasi eknomi jangka pendek, diantaranya mengembangkan tanaman semusim (padi, jangung) dan sayuran-sayuran. Supaya merasa
aman mereka juga menempuh strategi pemberian ”upeti” kepada oknum petugas kehutanan lapangan(polisi kehutanan) yang mau bekerja sama.
Pada masa krisis ekonomi dan menjelang reformasi, pihak dinas kehutanan semakinmemperketat pengamanan hutan. Mereka melakukan operasi pengaman ke dalam kawasan-kawasan
hutan. Keadaan ini telah memicu tidak sedikit dari warga Sumber Agung tertangkap dalam operasi aparat
kehutanan (jpolisi kehutanan). Permasalahan, konflik/sengketa antarwarga maupun warga dengan aparat
kehutanan di lapangan pun terjadi.
Kondisi semacam ini telah mendorong masyarakat Sumber Agung mulai melihat pentingnya kerja
sama antarwarga. Kerja sama perlu dilakukan secara organisatoris untuk membantu menyelesaikan
permasalahan yang dihadapi dalam mengelola dan memanfaatkan kawasan hutan. Negosiasi-negosiasi
akan lebih memungkinkan untuk mendapatkan respon jika itu dilakukan melalui kelembagaan, daripada
dilakukan perorangan seperti yang dikembangkan selama ini dan terbukti tidak efektif.

masyarakat untuk memanfaatkan hutan diketahui, telah mempercepat laju kerusakan hutan dan meningkatnya
pusat pemukiman di dalam kawasan hutan. Situasi ini telah mendorong pemerintah daerah untuk mencabut semua
SK tesebut di atas melalui SK Gubernur nomor G/48/III/TU/72 tanggal 8 Desember 1972. SK Gubernur
ditindaklanjuti oleh Kepala Dinas Kehutanan Tk.I Lampung melalui SK nomor 169/I/3/75 tanggal 20 Nopember
1975 bahwa semua izin pembukaan dan penggarapan yang diberikan kepada masyarakat sebagai tindak lanjut
dari berbagai kebijakan pengelolaan hutan yang pernah dikeluarkan, termasuk Instruksi Kepala Dinas Kehutanannomor 7 Tahun 1964 dan Pengumuman Kepala Dinas Kehutanan Tk.I nomor 250/V/5 Tahun 1968 dinyatakan tidak
sah.

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Membangun Kelembaga Pengelola Hutan bersama Masyarakat
Terhitung sejak pertengahan 1998 melalui fasilitasi pihak luar (P3AEUI, UNILA dan LSM Watala)masyarakat Sumber Agung mulai mengembangkan pengaturan bersama di tingkat lokal. Mereka
difasilitasi untuk menemukenali secara bersama permasalahan-permasalahan dan/atau pengalamanpengalaman yang diperoleh selama mengembangkan praktik-praktik pemanfaatan hutan untuk dicari
solusi bersama. Melalui media ini pula mereka belajar mengembangkan organisasi, aturan dan
mekanisme penyelesaian konflik baik internal maupun eksternal secara demokratis. Komunikasi dan
jaringan sosial dengan pihak luar, seperti pemerintah, LSM, dan masyarakat yang mempunyai
pengalaman mengembangkan pengelolaan hutan melalui kelembagaan yang ada pun dibuka.
Dari aspek proses, fasilitasi membangun organisasi dan aturan (kelembagaan) pengelolaan
hutan secara simpel dapat dikategorikan dalam beberapa tahap, antara lain tahapan pembentukan
kelompok, pembuatan aturan-aturan, dan menetapkan mekanisme penyelesaian permasalahan atau
konflik/sengketa. Kelompok (organisasi) sebagai wadah mengembangkan kerjasama warga dalammelakukan berbagai aktivitas pemanfaatan hutan sekaligus menyelesaikan berbagai persoalan atau
konflik/sengketa yang dihadapi. Aturan-aturan, digunakan sebagai acuan, pedoman dalammenyelenggarakan praktik pemanfaatan hutan berdasarkan fungsi dari kawasan hutan. Sedangkan,
mekanisme penyelesaian masalah atau konflik/sengketa disepakati berbagai prosedur atau langkahlangkah yang harus ditempuh pada saat menghadapi persoalan-persoalan atau konflik/sengketa dalampengelolaan hutan.
Melalui pendekatan proses belajar bersama, masyarakat membangun tiga kelembagaan lokal
dalam mengembangkan praktik pengelolaan dan pemanfaatan hutan (Figure 1). Kelembagaan lokal
tersebut, antara lain: Pertama, Kelompok Pengelola dan Pelestari Hutan (KPPH), adalah kelembagaan
tingkat basis, yang beranggotakan warga penggarap lahan kawasan hutan. Berdasarkan kebutuhan,masyarakat terbagi dalam 7 KPPH. Kedua, Gabungan KPPH, merupakan kelembagaan payung (asosiasi)
yang beranggotakan 7 KPPH. Ketiga, Forum Musyawarah Kelompok (FMK), adalah kelembagaan yangberanggotakan berbagai unsur (komponen) masyarakat untuk menyelesaikan

permasalahan dan

konflik/sengketa yang tidak dapat diselesaikan di tingkat KPPH dan Gabungan KPPH.
Tiga kelembagaan lokal ini merupakan satu kesatuan dalam mengembangkan praktik
pengelolaan dan pemanfaatan hutan. Misalnya dalam upaya penyelesaian permasalahan. Jika di tingkat
KPPH tidak dapat diselesaikan maka akan dilimpahkan ke tingkat Gabungan KPPH. Apabila di tingkat
Gabungan KPPH pun tidak dapat diselesaikan maka akan ditingkatkan ke FMK. Di tingkat ini pun tidak
dapat diselesaikan maka permasalahan tersebut akan dilimpahkan ke pihak dinas kehutanan sebagai
mekanisme terakhir.

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Gabungan KPPH

KPPH

KPPH

KPPH

KPPH

FMK

KPPH

KPPH

KPPH

Figure 1. Structure of Local Institution for Forest Management in Sumber Agung Village
Mendapatkan Izin (Kepastian Akses) Pemanfaatan Hutan Kemasyarakatan dan Manfaat-manfaat yang
Diperoleh
Bertepatan dengan dikeluarkannya kebijakan hutan kemasyarakatan dari departemen kehutanan,
maka kelembagaan yang ada menjadi salah satu alat negosiasi masyarakat Sumber Agung untuk
mendapatkan kepastian. Selama kurun waktu + 1, 6 tahun menjalani proses fasilitasi membangun
kelembagaan pada tanggal 19 November 1999 warga Sumber Agung mendapatkan ijin Pengelolaan
Hutan Kemasyarakatan dari Menteri Kehutanan. Ijin diberikan atas nama Gubungan KPPH ini bersifat
sementara selama 5 tahun dengan luas 492, 75 hektar (Table 1).
Table 1. Management Area and Number of Members of Each KPPH in Sumber Agung Village
Name of KPPH

Area (ha)Number of the members

Average area (ha) per
member

KPPH TM

143.50115

1.25

KPPH UK

105.2590

1.17

KPPH SK

94.00

75

1.25

KPPH MA

43.75

51

0.86

KPPH CT

40.50

60

0.68

KPPH PM

53.50

72

0.74

KPPH PG

12.25

20

0.61

Total

492.75483

1.02

Source: Interview with the KPPH leaders in 2006
Pada saat ini usaha-usaha kebun yang dikembangkan adalah “kebun campuran”, artinya dalamsatu areal ditanami dengan berbagai jenis tanaman (pohon). Apabila dilihat dari struktur vegetasi, makaterdapat tiga tajuk yakni tajuk tinggi, sedang dan rendah. Bervariasinya jenis tanaman dan perawatan
yang lebih intensif terhadap kebun-kebun yang ada telah menyumbang pada peningkatan penghasilan

127ekonomi rumah tangga masyarakat yang bersangkutan. Berikut disajikan dua manfaat positif yangdidapatkan masyarakat Sumber Agung setelah mendapatkan kepastian melalui izin HKm.
Peranan HKm dalam Pelestarian Hutan (Keanekaragaman dan Jumlah Vegetasi)
Pengalaman mengembangkan kebun campuran bukan merupakan hal baru bagi masyarakat
Sumber Agung. Mula-mula masyarakat mengkonversi lahan pertanian menjadi kebun monokultur
terutama kebun kopi dan dadap sebagai pohon pelindung serta sedikit tanaman umur panjang seperti
durian. Dalam perjalanan waktu pengetahuan dan pengalaman mengembangkan kebun campuran terus
meningkat, demikian juga terhadap berbagai jenis tanaman umur panjang (perdagangan) yangmempunyai prospek bagus di pasaran. Karena itu, masyarakat mulai secara bertahap membudidayakan
berbagai jenis tanaman lainnya pada areal kebun kopi atau pada areal-areal pertanian lainnya. Proses ini
terus berkembang sehingga dalam satu areal kebun dapat ditanami dengan berbagai jenis
pohon/tanaman perdagangan. Dengan kata lain masyarakat mengkonservasi kebun monokultur menjadi
multikultur.
Menurut catatan satu areal kebun dapat ditanami berbagai jenis tanaman perdagangan dalamjumlah yang berbeda-beda bagi setiap warga. Perbedaan pilihan sangat tergantung pada pengetahuan
dan pengalaman mengembangkan jenis tanaman tertentu termasuk prospek pemasaran hasil kebun.
Misalnya, pada saat ini sejumlah warga Sumber Agung lebih memilih membudidayakan tanaman coklat
dari pada tanaman kopi, dengan pertimbangan tanaman coklat lebih mudah mendapatkan penghasilan
ekonomi rumah tangga. Sejak dipanen hingga dipasarkan membutuhkan waktu 3-5 hari pengeringan
setelah itu sudah dapat dipasarkan. Sedangkan, kopi membutuhkan waktu pengeriang hingga pemasaran
1,5 – 2 bulan. Contoh kasus yang lain, masyarakat lebih memilih tanaman karet dari pada melinjo.
Tanaman karet jika sudah berproduksi dapat memberikan penghasilan harian, dalam jangka waktu setiap
3-4 hari getahnya dapat diambil. Sedangkan, melinjo hanya dapat memberikan penghasilan musiman.
Sejak mendapatkan ijin pengelolaan HKm, 15 informan warga Sumber Agung yang dipilih secaraacak ini membudidayakan 27 jenis tanaman mulai dari tajuk tinggi, sedang hingga rendah. Jumlah dan
jenis taman yang dibudidayakan sejak mendapatkan ijin pengelolaan hutan kemasyarakatan di akhir
1999 sampai tahun 2004 sejumlah 46.895 pohon. Sampai dengan Maret 2006 jumlah tanaman
meningkat menjadi 52.278 pohon. Dengan demikian telah terjadi peningkatan tanaman sebanyak 5.383
pohon atau 11,48 %. Dari jenis tanaman yang ada tanaman kopi yang lebih mendominasi, tetapi dalamperkembangan tidak mengalami peningkatan yang berarti. Berbeda dengan tanaman coklat dan karetyang terjadi peningkatan yang signifikan. Selanjutnya lihat Appendix 1.
Peningkatan Kehidupan Ekonomi
Izin pemanfaatan hutan telah mendorong masyarakat Sumber Agung merasa lebih yakin atas128

hasil-hasil yang dapat diperoleh dari kebun-kebun mereka di dalam kawasan hutan. Pola dan stratgei
pemanfaatan yang lebih mementingkan aspek ekonomi jangka pendek semata mulai beralih ke polakebun campuran (mananam berbagai jenis tanaman dalam satu areal kebun). Perubahan ini telah
berkontribusi pada perubahan (peningkatan) kehidupan ekonomi masyarakat yang bersangkutan.
Data yang diperoleh dari 15 informan warga Sumber Agung yang sama, menjelaskan bahwa dalamlima tahun terakhir telah terjadi peningkatan pendapatan secara signifikan yang bersumber dari dalamkawasan (areal HKm). Seperti nampak dalam Figure 2 dan Appendix 2 tahun 2001 total pendapatanyang diperoleh sejumlah Rp. 53.578.500,- meningkat menjadi Rp. 82.372.500,- atau meningkat 53,74%
pada tahun 2002. Tahun 2003 meningkat menjadi Rp. 92.029.000,- atau 11,72%. Tahun 2004 meningkat
menjadi Rp. 130.557.250,- atau 41,87%. Tahun 2005 meningkat menjadi Rp. 176.822.000,- atau 35,44%.
Terlihat jelas bahwa pendapatan yang bersumber dari dalam kawasan masih jauh lebih tinggi
ketimbang yang bersumber dari luar kawasan hutan. Namun perlu ditegaskan bahwa usaha di luar
beberapa di antaranya sesungguhnya tidak terlepas dari usaha yang dikembangkan dari dalam kawasan,
misalnya pedagang pengumpul hasil kebun, pakan ternak dan lain-lain.
Dari gambaran ini memperlihatkan bahwa kepastian akses dan kelembagaan berkorelasi positif
di dalam mengembangkan praktik pengelolaan dan pemanfaatan hutan. Kepastian akses telahmendorong warga untuk membudidayakan berbagai jenis tanaman, melakukan perawatan yang lebih
intensif sehingga terjadi peningkatan kesejarhteraan masyarakat. Tentu saja, hubungan timbal balik,,masyarakat dan hutan akan menjadi lebih harmonis ketika dirasakan manfaatnya. Masyarakat akan
merawat, menjada hutan dengan baik karena merasa yakin bahwa hutanlah kehidupan ekonominya
terpenuhi.

250

million rupiah

200
150

Income from other sources

100

Income from the forest area

50
0
2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

year
Figure 2. Total Income of 15 Informants in Sumber Agung Village Gained from 2001 to 2005 (Sources:
Interview by Petrus in Feb.- Mar. 2006)129

Dinamika Kelembagaan Pasca Ijin dan Berakhirnya Ijin Sementara
Kebijakan pengelolaan hutan yang menempatkan masyarakat sebagai pelaku utama tidak
pernah sepi dari diskusi dan perdebatan oleh berbagai kalangan. Oleh karena itu, meskipun SK
Menhutbun No. 677/Kpts-II/1998 (tentang Hutan Kemasyarakatan) sudah memasuki tahap implementasi
tetapi sikap pro dan kontra masih terus berlangsung. Bagi kalangan pemerintah (Departemen Kehutanan)yang sudah menyadari pentingnay pelibatan masyarakat dalam pengelolaan hutan, melihat kebijakantersebut sebagai sebuah terobosan baru karena memberikan kesempatan kepada masyarakat untuk
mengelola dan memanfaatkan hutan. Berbeda dengan kalangan Lembaga Swadaya Masyarakata (LSM),
misalnya masih terus mempersoalkan kurang lengkapnya substansi kebijakan.
Lepas dari sikap pro dan kontra kebijakan ini telah membangkitkan antusiasme masyarakat didalam dan sekitar kawasan hutan yang selama ini hidupnya dalam ketidakpastian dan ketidaktenangandalam memanfaatkan hutan melakukan penataan diri. Penataan bagi masyarakat Sumber Agung
dilakukan melalui membangun kelembagaan (organisasi, aturan-aturan dan mekanisme) yang dibangun
dan disepakati secara demokratis.
Diakui bahwa kelembagaan yang ada tidak langsung membuat warga Sumber Agung menjadi
lebih tertib dan bertanggung jawab dalam memanfaatkan hutan. Mereka diterpa berbagai permasalahanseperti konflik antar warga, penebangan tamanan reboisasi dan sebagainya. Pengalaman ini telahmembuat mereka belajar bagaimana pengelola organisasi dan aturan main secara lebih baik dan
konsisten. Berbagai permasalahan, seperti pengamanan kawasan dari penyerobotan pihak luar maupun
dilakukan warga sendiri secara perlahan dapat dihentikan melalui mekanisme kelembagaan yang ada.
Pasca mendapatkan izin pemanfaatan hutan kemasyarakatan dari pemerintah (Departemen
Kehutanan) masyarakat Sumber Agung merasa lebih tenang dan yakin akan hasil yang diperoleh dari
upayanya membudidayakan berbagai jenis tanaman umur panjang di dalam kebunnya. Di tengah
antusiasme masyarakat berupaya mengelola dan memanfaatkan hutan yang telah memberikan manfaat
ganda secara ekonomi dan ekologis, lahir surat keputusan Menteri Kehutanan No. 31/Kpts-II/2001 yang
merevisi Kepmenhutbun No. 677/Kpts-II/1998. Jika SK Menhutbun No. 677/Kpts-II/1998 membolehkan
masyarakat mengelola kawasan hutan produksi, lindung dan konservasi, sedangkan SK Menhut No.
31/Kpts-II/2001 hanya membolehkan kawasan hutan produksi dan hutan lindung, dan tidak untuk
kawasan TAHURA yang masuk kategori sebagai kawasan konservasi.
Kondisi semacam ini telah menimbulkan keraguan bukan hanya pada masyarakat Sumber Agung,melainkan seluruh masyarakat di sekitar gunung Betung terhadap komitmen pemerintah untuk benarbenar membuka akses masyarakat dalam pengelolaan hutan. Celah ini teleh mendorong oknum petugas
lapangan kehutanan mulai kembali melakukan tindakan-tindakan yang cenderung mengabaikan
keberadaan kelembagaan yang telah dibangun oleh masyarakat.

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Meski demikian, semangat masyarakat Sumber Agung nampaknya masih tetap kuat dan terus
membenahi diri melalui kelembagaan yang ada. Meskipun belum berjalan optimal, tetapi mereka tetap
berusaha membangun kerja sama, menyelesaikan permasalahan atau konflik/sengketa secara dinamis.
Komunikasi dan koordinasi dengan pihak dinas kehutanan baik melalui saluran formal maupun informal
terus dilakukan oleh para pengurus. Upaya-upaya yang dilakukan sesungguhnya ingin mencapai satu hal,yakni meyakinkan pemerintah bahwa mereka mempunyai kemampuan untuk mengelola dan
memanfaatkan hutan yang tidak bersifar merusak. Fungsi kawasan hutan tetap terjadi di satu sisi,
kehidupan ekonomi mereka tetap terjamin pula.
Sejauh ini pihak dinas kehutanan mulai menujukkan perubahan pendekatan, yakni mulai
membuka diri atas upaya-upaya yang dilakukan oleh warga Sumber Agung. Terlepas, sejauh mana
respon pemerintah (dinas kehutanan), tetapi banyak hal positif yang diperoleh dari pengalaman panjang
tersebut. Kesadaran masyarakat tentang pentingnya kerja sama di dalam mengembangkan kelembagaan
terus tumbuh. Tindakan pelanggaran seperti penebangan tanaman reboisasi, pencurian hasil kebun mulai
menurun, penanaman berbagai jenis tanaman umur panjang secara swadaya pun terus dilakukan olehmasyarakat Sumber Agung. Kerja sama antarwarga bila menghadapi berbagai permasalahan internal ataumenerima berbagai program-program dari luar pun dapat berjalan dengan relatif lancar.
Perkembangan ini menunjukkan melalui kelembagaan yang ada tingkat kepedulian warga
terhadap keberadaan fungsi kawasan dan keberlanjutan kehidupan ekonomi tidak dapat dipisahkan,melainkan satu kesatuan yang utuh. Kehidupan ekonomi membaik, akan mendorong masyarakat Sumber
Agung untuk menjaga lingkungan hutan secara lebih baik.

Penutup
Kebijakan pengelolaan hutan sudah bergeser dari paradigma yang berpusat pada negara ke
paradigma yang berpusat pada masyarakat. Perubahan ini ditandai adanya kebijakan hutankemasyarakatan (HKm) yang menempatkan masyarakat sebagai pelaku utama dalam pengelolaan hutan.
Terlepas dari berbagai kendala di lapangan ketika kebijakan ini diimplementasikan, tetapi kebijakan ini
telah menambah pengalaman empirik bagi masyarakat bukan hanya soal bagaimana mengembangkan
praktik-praktik pemanfaatan hutan secara lebih tertib melainkan juga bagaimana membuka diri untuk
bekerjasama dengan berbagai pihak yang mempunyai kepentingan langsung maupun tidak langsung
terhadap hutan.
Sumber Agung dua adalah sebuah desa hutan gunung Betung yang mendapat kepercayaan
pemerintah (Departemen Kehutanan) untuk mengelola dan memanfaatkan hutan melalui ijin pengelolaan
hutan kemasyarakatan. Sejak itu mereka merasa lebih tenang dan yakin mendapatkan hasil-hasil atas
usaha-usaha pertanian/kebun di dalam kawasan. Pola pemanfaatan lahan yang berorientasi pada131kepentingan jangka pendek (ekonomi semata) secara perlahan berubah menjadi pola pemanfaatan yangberorientasi jangka panjang. Perubahan pola ini telah pula membawa peningkatan kehidupan ekonomi
masyarakat, peningkatan keanekaragaman vegetasi dan fungsi ekologis dari kawasan hutan gunung
Betung, minimal di wilayah kelola Sumber Agung.
Bila mencermati lebih jauh perubahan-perubahan yang dicapai oleh masyarakat Sumber Agung,ada dua hal pokok yang dapat dipelajari dari proses ini. Pertama, adanya kepastian akses masyarakat
mengelola dan memanfaatkan hutan. Kepastian akses merupakan spirit bagi masyarakat untuk
mengembangkan praktik-praktik pemanfaatan hutan secara lebih tertib dan bertanggung jawab. Kedua,
dukungan kelembagaan masyarakat yang kuat. Kuat dalam pengertian melalui kelembagaan yang ada
masyarakat dapat secara mandiri mengambil keputusan-keputusan penting yang terkait upaya-upaya
mendorong, menegakan aturan dan mekanisme kelembagaan yang ada demi kepentingan hutan dan
kehidupan ekonomi mereka.
Dalam praktik dua hal ini tentu tidak bisa berdiri sendiri. Adanya kepastian akses tanpa dukungan
kelembagaan yang kuat dari masyarakat maka legitimasi yang ada tidak banyak artinya. Sebaliknya,
kelembagaan masyarakat yang kuat tetapi tidak adanya kepastian akses tentu akan sia-sia, sebab
kepastian akses bukan hanya terkait dengan kepastian wilayah kelola melainkan terkait pengakuan
terhadap kelembagaan masyarakat yang ada. Oleh karena itu, diperlukan upaya kolaboratif dari berbagai
pihak agar dua hal ini (kepastian akses dan kelembagaan masyarakat yang kuat) dapat berjalan seiring
dalam kerangka menyelesaikan permasalahan di tingkat lokal (masyarakat).
Korelasi fungsional antara dua hal ini telah memperlihatkan masyarakat Sumber Agung dan
lingkungan hutannya dapat saling memberikan manfaat. Kehidupan ekonomi atau kesejahteraan semakinmeningkat di satu sisi, dan fungsi kawasan hutan terus mengalami perbaikan di sisi yang lain.

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Appendix 1. Plants that have been Planted by the Community Forestry Groups in Sumber Agung Village
from 1999 to 2006.
A
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20

Kind of plants
Tajuk Tinggi
Alpukad
Aren
Asam
Dadap
DurianDuku
Jambu Bol
Jengkol
Karet
KemiriKayu Manis
KelapaKetupaManggaMelinjo (Tangkil)
NangkaPetai
PinangRandu
Sonokeling (kayu)

1999-2004

2005

2006

Total

751
21
1
396
1307
23
31
40
306
344
81
56
5
33
1094
53
400
94
155
118

35
0
0
0
56
0
0
0
300
0
0
0
0
0
75
0
13
0
0
0

45
0
0
0
34
0
0
0
1464
0
0
0
0
0
7
0
9
0
0
0

831
21
1
396
1397
23
31
40
2070
344
81
56
5
33
1176
53
422
94
155
118

B
21
22

Tajuk Sedang
Bambu
Rambutan

74
12

0
0

0
0

74
12

C
23
24
25
26
27

Tajuk Rendah
Kopi
Cengkeh
CoklatPisangVanili
TOTAL

21550
78
15352
4420
100
46895

70
60
1865
0
0
2474

0
200
1150
0
0
2909

21620
338
18367
4420
100
52278

Sumber: Penelitian Lapangan, Pebruari - Maret, 2006133

Appendix 2. Income of 15 Informants in Sumber Agung Village Gained from 2001 to 2005
(Unit: Rupiah)Householdnumber
2001
2002
1
1,340,000
1,150,0002
350,000
200,000
3
3,283,000
3,997,000
46,585,000 13,375,000
53,000,000
3,750,000
603,600,000
Income7
1,280,000
1,400,000
from theforest area
800,000
1,300,000
8(Community
94,850,000
3,794,000
Forestry)103,600,000
3,600,000
11
5,950,000
7,800,000
12
6,090,000
5,940,000
13
9,235,500 19,776,500
14
4,915,000
9,590,000
15
1,800,000
3,600,000
Total (A)53,578,500 82,372,500
13,060,000
4,800,000
2
800,000
1,000,000
35,400,000
5,400,000
40057,200,000
7,200,000
600
75,040,000
5,040,000
Income84,000,000
500,000
from othersources
9525,000
0
10
0
0
11
0
0
12
15,000,000
013
100,000
805,000
14
0
0
15
0
0
Total (B)41,125,000 24,745,000
Total (A+B)
90,703,500 106,617,500
Source: Interview by Petrus, Feb.-Mar. 20072003
3,600,000
2,420,000
4,055,000
11,410,000
2,970,000
2,400,000
3,544,000
4,600,000
4,820,000
2,100,000
5,750,000
5,440,000
26,425,000
9,185,000
3,310,000
92,029,000
4,800,000
1,300,000
5,400,000
07,200,000
05,040,000
1,500,000
5,017,000
00
20,000,000
1,005,000
0051,262,000
141,791,000

2004
4,215,000
1,914,000
4,335,000
6,830,000
3,450,000
1,971,250
4,054,000
6,900,000
10,857,500
12,500,000
18,250,000
5,490,000
31,522,500
13,868,000
4,400,000
130,557,250
4,800,000
1,000,000
6,400,000
07,200,000
05,040,000
500,000
1,440,000
0002,060,000
0028,440,000
158,497,250

2005
5,150,000
2,347,000
5,050,000
8,347,500
5,760,000
3,466,000
7,105,000
7,145,000
13,300,000
18,100,000
30,020,000
3,257,500
44,219,000
16,965,000
6,590,000
176,822,000
4,800,000
700,000
5,400,000
07,200,000
05,040,000
01,755,000
002,230,000
2,120,000
0029,245,000
206,067,000

PETRUS Keron A. is Ph.D candidate at the University of Indonesia. He received his M.A. in anthropology
from the University of Indonesia (2000). While continuing his study, he served as public servant of
Department of Forestry (1985-2002) and Nusa Tenggara Timur Provincial Government (2003-present). He
also engaged in various activities related to community-based forest management as facilitator as well as
researcher, including the community forestry program in villages in and around Mt. Betung forest,
Lampung Province (1998-2002). His major publication include “Partnership Building in Forest Resource
Management: Experience Sharing of Facilitation for Building Partnership in Implementing Social Forestry”

134and “Empowering Local Institution of People Managing Forest”, papers presented at the training forcapacity building of forestry officials organized by Department of Forestry (2004).
SHIMAGAMI Motoko is a researcher at Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University. She
received her M.A. in Human and Environmental Studies from Kyoto University (1996). Her major field ofinterests is village autonomy and community governance in Indonesia and Japan. Her major publications
include “Decentralization and Village Autonomy: The Revitalization of Adat in Tana Toraja District”, inKazuhisa Matsui ed., Decentralization in Indonesia: Central-Local Dynamics and the Realities, Institute ofDeveloping Economies (2003) [in Japanese], “Linking Experiences: Community-based Resource
Management Practices in Mountain Villages in Indonesia and Japan”, Journal of the Socio-Cultural
Research Institute (2006) [in Japanese], and Kokki, Goto (edited, annotated, and with an introduction by
Shimagami) “Iriai Forests Have Sustained the Livelihood and Autonomy of Villagers: Experience ofCommons in Ishimushiro Hamlet in Northeastern Japan”, Afrasia Working Paper (2007).
<motoko55@r4.dion.ne.jp>

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Wrap up Session

Resolution and Future Perspectives
Wahyu Dwianto
Research and Development Unit for Biomaterials
Indonesian Instititute of Sciences

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Closing Remarks

Kosuke Mizuno
Director of Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

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Report on Proceedings

Retno Kusumaningtyas
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
Date : November 26th – 27th, 2007
Venue : PDII Building 2nd floor, LIPI, Jakarta Indonesia
This two day forum can be seen as the first concrete activity of the research collaboration between Kyoto
University and LIPI. The forum explored the concept of a “Sustainable Humanosphere” as well as related
themes such as “Bio-energy for Community” and the “Forest as Humanosphere”.
Day one (November 26th, 2007)
Opening ceremony [09.30-10.00]
The forum was opened by 4 delegates from the participating organizations. Three of the addresses weredelivered at the Forum by: the vice president of Kyoto University, Mr. Masato Kitani; the president of HAKU
(Kyoto University Alumni Association in Indonesia), Prof. Supiandi Sabiham; and the deputy chairman ofLife Science, LIPI, Prof. Endang Sukara. The representative of CSEAS, Prof. Yoko Hamami, finally,
addressed the forum via a live Internet connection from the CSEAS office in Kyoto.
Keynote speech [10.00-11.30]
The morning session consisted of three keynote speeches.
1. Prof. Kaoru Sugihara from CSEAS Kyoto University addressed the forum on the topic of: The
humanophere-sustainable path of economic development; a global historical perspective. His
speech outlined some of the key ideas behind the Global COE research program on sustainability
in Asia and Africa and suggested that one of the key topics for Asian and African area studies
today is to combine area studies with frontier science and to create an interdisciplinary framework
under which to promote sustainability of the humanosphere in concrete terms.
2. Prof. Endang Sukara (Deputy of Life Science, LIPI) talked on the subject of: Mainstreaming forest
biological diversity. His speech highlighted that the biodiversity richness in Indonesia is in manycases yet to be documented properly, and as such unexplored. He also outlined the threats to theexistence of this biodiversity, such as forest conversion to support short term economy benefit,
illegal logging, poaching, fires, etc.

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3. Prof. Narifumi Tachimoto from the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature lastly, discussed:
Futurability of humanosphere; Toward global humanics of the Environment. In his speech hesought to approach environmental-humanic global research from a philosophical standpoint. He
argued that the global nature of humanity’s relationship to the environment makes it possible todraw up a plan in building future societies’ potential.
Grand session: Towards harmony between environment and economy: in search of sustainablehumanosphere in Indonesia [12.30-14.00]
Four panelist delivered presentations on related topics.
1. Prof. Kosuke Mizuno, director of CSEAS, Kyoto University delivered a presentation with the title:
In search of new direction of development in Indonesia; Possibility of sustainable humanospheretype development in Indonesia. In his presentation he attempted to show a new possible
direction for Indonesian development, referring in particular to the concept of sustainablehumanosphere that the G-COE research program intends to develop.
2. Prof. Herman Hidayat, from the Research Center for Society and Culture, LIPI, delivered apresentation with the title: National park management in local autonomy from the viewpoint ofpolitical ecology (case study of Tanjung Puting, Central Kalimantan). His presentation discussed
the conflicts occurring between central and local authorities in managing the national parks ofIndonesia. He also looked at the fascinating prospects of “collaborative management”, currently
promoted as an alternative concept in managing national parks, as a solution to these conflicts.
3. Prof. Shuichi Kawai from the Research Institute of Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), Kyoto
University, delivered a presentation with the title: Seeking Sustainable Society through Scienceand Technology. In his presentation he showed the various activities undertaken by RISH in
Indonesia (in the field) and Japan (in the laboratory). RISH conducts research in industrial
plantation forests of tropical trees in Southeast Asia and organizes inter-disciplinary research
projects.
4. Prof. M. Bismark from the Forest and Nature Conservation Research and Development Center
held a presentation entitled: Improvement of potency and rehabilitation of degraded forest
through community forest management. Against the background of community forests in Java, heargued that the function of the community forest is very important as a forest conservation tool,
for forest rehabilitation, as well as for improving the economy of the communities involved,
especially in agro-forestry located in the buffer zones of conservation areas.

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Comments [14.30-15.00]
Prof. Kaoru Sugihara and Dr. Anita Firmanti commented on the presentations given during the mornings’
Grand Session.
Prof. Kaoru Sugihara:-

Looking at nature from man’s perspective, it is still primarily seen as capital in land and as ameans to create labor, thus nature is changed through differing land-use and labor. Thereremains a need for comprehensive revision of the economical situation in order to create better,and better sustainable, development.

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In the role of small business versus large-scale business: historically this debate has taken the
direction where smaller units may perform better in integrating the welfare of the people and thewelfare of the environment.

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In the management of national park management, the approach of political ecology and theinteraction of many stakeholders hold interesting possibilities. In general, central and local
governments need to institute a “clean” form of government, and to put in place transparent anddemocratic mechanism to make people agree in issues such as biodiversity. More collaboration
efforts are a necessity.

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The conclusions on community forests are positive, but the question remains as to what extent
this solution can actually encounter the massive forest destruction as a whole.

Dr. Anita Firmanti:-

The most important issue is the need for Indonesia to clarify the direction of the country’s future
development, taking into consideration matters of decentralization and democratization. The roleof these concepts in further development need to be discussed in greater detail to make possible
the drawing up of a grand scenario for a clearer direction of the country’s development.

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Kyoto University (RISH) has made a progressive step in research development and technology.
The question remains however, what benefits these activities hold for local communities.

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In community involvement in forest management, research activities should be transferred more
to address practical issues, with a need to emphasize the importance of the people/local
communities.

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This event is to develop better cooperation between LIPI and Kyoto University, to improve
capacity building among the Indonesian-Japanese scientist society and to make a better grandscenario for forest development.

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Panel Discussion [15.30-17.00]
Moderated by Prof. Bambang Subiyanto (LIPI) and Prof. Kenichi Abe (Center for Integrated Area Studies,
Kyoto University).
Two questions/comments were raised by CSEAS participants from Kyoto (via a live internet connection).
1. Prof. Ikrar Nusa Bhakti: why is the research activities of RISH conducted in acacia forests? Why
do they not extent to other areas such as natural forests and swamp forests? Indonesia has
many other types of landscape that are believed to have sufficient potential for exploration.
2. Dr. Dewi S Sitepu furthermore remarked that poverty problems caused the environmental
problems.
Day two (November 27th, 2007)
Scientific session 1: Bio-energy for community [09.30-12.00]
Moderated by Ms. Nuengnam Navaboonniyo (Kyoto University Alumnae from Thailand) and Prof.
Bambang Prasetya (Research Center for Biotechnology, LIPI).
Four panelists delivered a presentation:
1. Prof. Supiandi Sabiham from Bogor Agricultural University held a presentation entitled: Prospectof bio-energy development in rural area. In his presentation he argued that the development of
bio-energy for rural communities is in part solving the problem of energy scarcity, and that thedevelopment of bio-energy is expected to have multiple effects in enhancing rural economic
activities.
2. Prof. Takashi Watanabe (RISH, Kyoto University) delivered presentation entitled: Lignocellulosicbiorefinery for sustainable society in Southeast Asia. He discussed the potential of lignocellulosic
bio-refinery to replace oil refinery. It has a great potential to accelerate regional economic growth
and to generate biomass-based societies in Southeast Asia.
3. Prof. Gede Wibawa (Indonesian Oil Palm Research Institute) delivered a presentation entitled:
Current status of research and development on bio-fuels in Indonesia. He presented theachievements to date of research and development of oil palm and sugar cane based bio-ethanolindustries in Indonesia.
4. Prof. Taro Sonobe (RISH, Kyoto University) held a presentation entitled: Novel thermal
conversion process for bio-energy by microwave heating at Research Institute for Sustainable
Humanisphere, Kyoto University. He presented his research on microwave heating as apretreatment of the enzyme saccharifcation of woody biomass for bio-ethanol production.

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Comments [12.00-12.30]
Prof. Kosuke Mizuno commented on the presentations held during scientific session 1.
1. Within the development of bio-energy, a number of issues should be given further consideration,such as:-the global environment, national energy security, and the continuation of economic
development;-

the enhancement of rural economies;-

the relationship between the high potential of biomass resources and the increase of (fossil)
oil prices;-

are energy crop monocultures consistent with the sustainable humanosphere?

3. Local supply of rural energy. Bio-diesel and bio-gas are conventional technologies for generatingenergy locally. However we should not forget to look at the economic feasibility of thesetechnologies in the setting of the local economy.
4. Who actually needs these alternative energy-sources? It is quite necessary to consider the point.
Scientific Session 2: Forest as Humanosphere [13.00-16.00]
Moderated by Prof. Kono Yasuyuki (CSEAS, Kyoto University) and Dr. Dorothea Agnes Rampisela(Hasanudin University).
Four panelists held a presentation:
1. Prof. Toshiaki Umezawa (RISH, Kyoto University) gave a presentation entitled: Biotechnology oftropical acacia.
2. Prof. Parikesit (Padjajaran University) delivered a presentation entitled: Man made forest as
humanosphere component. He illustrated many of the important roles that man-made forests canplay and the challenges that man-made forests face through a case-study conducted at the
Citarum Watershed, West Java, Indonesia.
3. Prof. Kenichi Abe (CIAS, Kyoto University) held a presentation entitled: Human security in Peat
Swamp Forest. He argued the importance of “vernacularism” for the principally immigrantcommunity of the peat swamp forests.
4. Mr. Keron A. Petrus (University of Indonesia) and Ms, Motoko Shimagami (CIAS, Kyoto
University) gave a presentation entitled: Empowering local institution for sustainable forest
management: Lesson from “facilitated research” on community forestry in Sumber Agung Village,
Lampung Province. They presented the participatory research experiences at Sumber Agung
Village and found that in order to make local institutions function effectively in managing the146forest, it is crucially important that the state officially recognizes local community’s rights to theforest.
Wrap up session: Resolutions and future perspectives [16.00-17.00]
Moderated by Dr. Masaaki Okamoto (CSEAS, Kyoto University).
In this session Prof. Kono Yasuyuki (CSEAS Kyoto University), Prof. Takashi Watanabe (RISH Kyoto
University) , and Dr. Wahyu Dwianto (Research and Development Unit for Biomaterials, LIPI) report on thefindings from the scientific sessions.
The objectives defined from the forum were listed as follows:-

to seek a new Indonesia;-

to define what is national development;-

to explore the concept of a sustainable humanosphere;-

to anticipate global warming, climate change and MDG’s;-to develop a forest model for a sustainable humanosphere;-

to intensify the number of studies on biodiversity of flora and fauna.

What is understood to comprise a “humanosphere” was identified as follows:-

Human activities and how they interact with their surrounding environments.

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A humanosphere is not only a term to refer to the scientific study of material, energy flows andconversions, but should also include all interactions between man and nature, including humanand social responses to the environment.

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Kyoto University’s Global COE Project (2007-2012) is to create an interdisciplinary framework
under which to promote sustainability of the humanosphere in concrete terms.

Problems and solutions from socio-economic & environmental perspectives
PROBLEMSSOLUTIONS

Two critical problems face the Tanjung Puting National Park Management: (1) collaborative
National Park: (1) illegal logging and mining management of reforestation programs, (2) law
activities; (2) conflicts of interest between central enforcement, (3) hard sanctions, and (4) socioand local governments (H. Hidayat)

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Benefits from forests are currently still dominated The function of community forests located in theby benefits from timber, while erosion prevention buffer zones of conservation areas is very
and water arrangement benefit only in small important as (1) a forest conservation tool, (2) for
measures (M. Bismark).

forest rehabilitation, and for (3) community
economy improvement (M. Bismark).

State-based centralized forest policy neglects the In community forestry policy the forest is a basis ofrole of local people living in and around forest area communities’ livelihoods, therefore they utilize theand has shown many failures (K.A. Petrus & M. resources in a way that seeks harmony with the
Shimagami).

characteristics of the forest (K.A. Petrus & M.
Shimagami).

The crisis facing mankind: population explosion, Interdisciplinaryenergy crisis, and global warming (S. Kawai).

researchwithabroader

perspective is urgently required to solve such
critical issues (S. Kawai).

The scope for science and technology was identified as follows:-

The tropical region receives the highest concentration of solar energy which is the ultimate
energy source of all organisms of earth and is the driving force of global atmosphere dynamics
and of the production of plants (S. Kawai).

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Humanosphere science covers a wide range of research fields on the humanospere, from theground, to the atmosphere, and the space for human existence (S. Kawai).

Research fields should:-

organize inter-disciplinary research projects that include (1) the evaluation of tree bio-mass
production by tree growth analysis and remote sensing technology, (2) environmental monitoring
and assessment through atmosphere and biodiversity observations, and (3) bio-technology forenhancing tree functions.

-develop the academic and technological solutions to establish a cyclical system of resources andenergy in the region, and which supports the harmonization of ecology and economy.

Problem and resolution from the science and technology perspective
PROBLEMSRESOLUTIONS

Global warming and deficiency Lignocellulosic bio-refinery plays a key role in replacing the oil-basedof fossil fuels (T. Watanabe).

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resource with large quantities of lignocellulosics (T. Watanabe).
The biodegradation in combination with thermo-chemical and physicaltreatments can be applied to the production of bio-methane, bioethanol and feed for cattle (T. Watanabe).
Technological innovation: the effect of MW irradiation has been
investigated to improve the enzyme saccharification rate of woody
biomass for bio-ethanol production (T. Sonobe et al.)Bio-fuel development in Indonesia should involve:(1) empowerment of rural communities to produce bio-fuel for their own
energy consumption/needs.
(2) empowerment of small and medium scale enterprises (SME) to
produce bio-fuel for local markets.
(3) encouraging big scale companies to produce bio-fuel for its own
use/needs.
(4) encouraging private enterprises (national and foreign) tocommercially produce bio-fuel for domestic and export markets.
A number of observations add background to the perspectives identified during this 2 day forum. Theseobservations are:
1. There remains a big gap between bio-diversity conservation and large-scale plantation
development;
2. The quick answer is to give up on conservation efforts and continue to do both in the present way,
so we must jump at this challenge;
3. Environmental conservation requires reconsidering the basics such as talun, vernacularism, andCF;
4. Tree plantation and bio-technology have still to mature;
5. Our thoughts on the humanosphere are still limited and we have to expand them to include thebio-sphere and geo-sphere;
6. The time-scale for developments is a basic issue within the discussion; energy prices ultimately
decided the feasibility of bio-fuel production by large-scale plantations;
7. CF expires after 5 years, but there is a need to develop good forest for a longer period;
8. Nobody thinks about the future of PSF;
9. How to synthesize the differences in time-scale between the humanosphere, bio-sphere and geosphere may be a serious question.

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The following perspectives for the future will be possible when supported by the Government politicallyand through law enforcement:-

Intensified biodiversity studies (E. Sukara);-

The development of sustainable humanosphere industries (K. Mizuno);-

Reforestation by forest-based communities (H. Hidayat; M. Bismark; K.A. Petrus & M.
Shimagami).

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Bio-mass production from plantation forests (S. Kawai) and man-made forests as humanospherecomponents (Parikesit);-

The development of appropriate bio-energy (S. Sabiham; T. Watanabe; G. Wibawa; T. Sonobe)and tree bio-technology (T. Umezawa);-

Stopping the exploitation of timbers from natural forests, and more utilizing lesser known woodspecies for different purposes (W. Dwianto).

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