Joseph A. Hutabarat

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the extent to which deforestation has been avoided as a result of the Indonesian government's community forestry scheme, Hutan Desa (Village Forest).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors applied a matching method to assess the extent to which deforestation has decreased and village well-being has improved as a result of Indonesia's community forestry scheme, Hutan Desa (Village Forest).

TL;DR: In this article, a practice-based review of policy implementation, impact evaluation of case studies and examples of counterfactual analyses from Indonesia, demonstrate that it is increasingly feasible to determine the conditions under which community forest management will most likely achieve its social and environmental objectives.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors applied social network analysis to a case study in Indonesian Borneo to better understand the evolution of interactions between organisational actors, and with communities, and found that organizations outside of communities play important roles in achieving multiple social and ecological objectives.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether an Indonesian government initiative for community-based forest management was positively associated with community members' participation in local decision making and support for conservation and sustainable management of forest resources, in the context of state-owned lands.