How can communities be included in district land use planning? Experience from Malinau District, East Kalimantan
Year: 2005
Type: book
Abstract: When the village representatives of Sengayan (Kabupaten Malinau, East Kalimantan) were asked how they envisaged future land use in their village area they gave a clear picture.The village territory should be divided between agricultural use (upland rice and possibly irrigated rice and cash crop development), production forest and community forest and conservation of forest in the form of protected forest and forest for ecotourism.They have an interest in developing oil palm plantations in their territory, although the district government plans oil palm in a different area, the village is concerned about government plans to develop acacia plantation in their village area.In this policy brief we use the experience with land use planning gained in two locations in the Malinau district (East Kalimantan) to analyze the opportunities and the limitations to inclusion of village land use planning in district land use planning.Including inputs from village land use planning into the larger formal land use planning process faces several difficulties such as time and labor demand and inter-village coordination.We emphasize the potential benefits that can be achieved both for the local government and the communities from a better understanding of communities existing land use and resource potential and authority for enforcing agreements.By involving communities in planning, a district land use plan is based on a wider consensus supporting acceptance and implementation of the land use plan.We provide suggestions for ways to encourage local government to meaningfully involve communities in land use planning through mapping village land uses.
Authors: Limberg G., Iwan R., Wollenberg E., Moeliono M.
Language: English
Topic: Land Rights and Reforms
Subfield: Soil Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W420745832