Sustainable Collaborative Forest Management: Meeting the Challenges of
Decentralization in the Bulungan Model Forest

Indonesia

Phase II of this project aims to support sustainable forestry in the Malinau District in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. It builds on the outcomes of Phase I. CIFOR and FORDA (Forestry Research and Development Agency) propose this Project and the Project will support long-term sustainable forest management by integrating social, biodiversity and improved forest land management information at the district and local levels. Phase II will involve actors at the larger district level to assess the values and uses of the forest resources and develop a common vision for district forest management. The Project will use the common vision to support the development of management practices for an area of the model forest. Results of the study and practices will provide a model for other areas which have similar forest situation. The ITTO guidelines on sustainable management and criteria for its measurement for conservation of biodiversity will be applied. The proposal incorporates the recommendations of the Mid Term Evaluation Mission and those of Panel Twenty-two.

Two specific objectives are proposed:

1. to improve district (kabupaten) coordination of forest management in the model forest through improved stakeholder participation, conflict management, land use planning and monitoring.
2. to implement sustainable forest management in the Inhutani II Malinau concession through enhanced-silvicultural practices, stakeholder coordination, planning and monitoring.

The major beneficiaries are managers of the forest concessions, planning staff, district heads and planning officers of the new district in which the model forest exists, and local communities.