Rethinking Indonesian forest policy: Beyond the timber barons

Asian Survey

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 453-469

  Poffenberger, Mark ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Asia Forest Network   (United States)

^c Working Grp Comm Involvement F   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FOREST PRODUCTION; FORESTRY POLICY; POLICY STRATEGY; TIMBER INDUSTRY;

INDONESIA;

EID: 0031429640     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2645521     Document Type: Article

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1. Mark Poffenberger, "The Evolution of Forest Management Systems in Southeast Asia," in Mark Poffenberger, ed., Keepers of the Forest (Hartford, Conn.: Kumarian Press, 1990), p. 15.
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3. Richard Robison, Indonesia: The Rise of Capital (North Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991), p. 258, 186.
4. Walhi, 1993, p. 4.
5. World Bank, Indonesia Forest Sector Review (Jakarta, April 1993), p. 27.
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8. ibid., p. 44.
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10. Robert Repetto, Forest for the Trees, p. 45.
11. Personal communication from Mark Leighton, 1986.
12. Walhi, 1993, p. 9.
13. World Bank, Indonesia Forest Sector Review, 1993, pp. 63-66.
14. Personal communication from two Honolulu base carpenters, February 13, 1995.
15. Robert Repetto, The Forest for the Trees, pp. 45-46.
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18. ibid., January 13, 1995.
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20. World Bank, Indonesia Forest Sector Review, 1993, p. 38.
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25. ibid., p. 63.
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31. ibid., pp. 72-73.
32. Cited in ibid., p. 71.
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34. Reuters, Jakarta, September 7, 21, 1994.
35. Jakarta Post, "Most Concession Holders Still Exploit the Forest," December 23, 1994.
36. Indonesia Forest Sector Review, 1993, p. 93.
37. ibid., p. 47.
38. Richard Robison, Indonesia: The Rise of Capital, p. 258.
39. John McBeth, "A Year of Living Dangerously," Far Eastern Economic Review, February 15, 1996.