I. A. P. Resosudarmo

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed REDD+ proponent activities to address tenure insecurity in light of actions required for effective and equitable implementation of REDD+, and found that REDD proponents addressed tenure insecurity by demarcating village and forest boundaries and identifying legal right holders, but were limited in their ability to resolve local tenure challenges that were national in origin and scope.

TL;DR: In this paper, a global comparative study on REDD+, led by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFR), was conducted to investigate how tenure concerns are being addressed at both national and project level in emerging REDD+ programs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the process of forestry sector decentralization that has occurred in post-Soeharto Indonesia, and assesses the implications of more recent efforts by the national government to recentralize administrative authority over forest resources.

Abstract: For over 30 years Indonesia's central government controlled its forests – the third largest area of tropical forests in the world. Driven by serious political, administrative and economic demands for reforms, the central government has begun to decentralise, transferring new powers to the district and municipal levels. Decentralisation in the forestry sector has included transferring income from permits, logging and reforestation fees, as well as the right for these lower levels of government to issue logging permits. This sudden, new access to Indonesia's lucrative timber market has led local peoples and governments to rush to take advantage of a resource to which they previously had little right. The result has included the proliferation of permits with little regard for the effect on forest resources. Large areas, including some protected areas, are being destroyed and threatened with conversion to other uses. Local peoples, however, appear not to have been the ones receiving the primary benefits; they...

TL;DR: More than 300 subnational REDD+ initiatives have been launched across the tropics, responding to both the call for demonstration activities in the Bali Action Plan and the market for voluntary carbon offset credits as discussed by the authors.