John F. McCarthy

TL;DR: The way successive policy interventions have worked with the specific characteristics of oil palm have cumulatively shaped the space where agrarian change occurs in Sumatra is concluded.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that analogous policy narratives have shaped the ways in which landholders have been engaged in the process of oil palm expansion in Malaysia and Indonesia, with the shift from state-led to neoliberal governance approaches to agricultural development, the "frontier" has been created and transformed through policy narratives that facilitate the conversion of whole landscapes into oil palm.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the processes of oil palm development in three oil palm districts in Indonesia and consider how policy models, regime interests, and agribusiness strategies shape local production networks, generate local outcomes, and affect the possibilities of tackling issues associated with this boom.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how political processes at the national, district and village levels have led to highly volatile socio-legal configurations that create insecurity and heighten resource conflicts, concluding that the politics surrounding decentralization in different domains have ensured that the patterns of governance inherited from the past remain precariously distant from the objectives of good governance.

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.