Local Governance of Peatland Restoration in Riau, Indonesia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Masaaki Okamoto, Takamasa Osawa, Wahyu Prasetyawan, Akhwan Binawan

   Pages 1-11Open Access

3. Contentious Politics of Mapping for (De)forestation in Indonesia: From the National to Provincial and Community Levels

   • Masaaki Okamoto, Made Ali, Kazuo Watanabe

   Pages 13-39Open Access

4. Selling Peatland for the Future: History, Land Management, and the Transformation of Common Land in Rantau Baru

   • Takamasa Osawa, Akhwan Binawan

   Pages 41-70Open Access

5. Inferring Recent Changes in Fish Fauna in the Middle Reaches of the Kampar River: Survey Results from the Fishing Village of Rantau Baru

   • Hikaru Nakagawa

   Pages 71-98Open Access

6. Fisheries of the Rantau Baru and Kampar Rivers, Sumatra, Indonesia

   • Nofrizal, Romie Jhonnerie, Thamrin, Tengku Said Raza’i, Zulfan Sa’am, Hikaru Nakagawa

   Pages 99-118Open Access

7. Rethinking the Local Wisdom Approach in Peatland Restoration through the Case of Rantau Baru: A Critical Inquiry to the Present-Day Concept of Kearifan Lokal

   • Takamasa Osawa

   Pages 119-145Open Access

8. The Dimension of Gender in Peatland Management in Rantau Baru Village

   • Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi

   Pages 147-168Open Access

9. Village Initiatives for Fire Prevention and Peatland Restoration in Riau After the Enactment of the 2014 Village Law

   • Takuya Hasegawa

   Pages 169-192Open Access

10. Willingness to Pay for Environmental Conservation of Peat and Aquatic Ecosystems in a Cash-Poor Community: A Riau Case Study

    • Wahyu Prasetyawan

    Pages 193-209Open Access

11. The Value of Participatory Mapping, the Role of the Adat Community (Masyarakat Adat), and the Future of the Peatlands

    • Akhwan Binawan, Takamasa Osawa

    Pages 211-237Open Access

12. The Inequity Implications of Peatland Conservation Policies

    • Maho Kasori

    Pages 239-260Open Access

13. Integrated Spatial Ecosystem Services Valuation Approach with Community Participation in a Social Forestry Scheme

    • Dheny Sampurno

    Pages 261-286Open Access

14. Conclusion

    • Takamasa Osawa, Wahyu Prasetyawan, Akhwan Binawan, Masaaki Okamoto

    Pages 287-292Open Access

15. Back Matter

    Pages 293-333

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This open access book is one in a series of four volumes introducing peatland conservation and restoration in Indonesia. It focuses on local governance, in particular on regional and local perspectives in Riau, the most peat-destructed province of Indonesia. The book fills a vital gap in the existing literature that overlooks social science and humanities perspectives. Written by authors from different disciplines and backgrounds (including scholars and NGO activists), the approaches to the topic are various and unique, including analysis of GPS logs, social media, geospatial assessments, online interviews (conducted due to the Covid-19 pandemic), and more conventional questionnaires and surveys of community members. The chapters cover an interdisciplinary understanding of peatland destruction and broadly offer insights into environmental governance. While presenting combined studies of established fieldwork methodologies and contemporary technology such as drones and geospatial information, the book also explores the potential of long-distance research with rural communities through online facilitation, which was brought about by Covid-19, but that may have long­term implications.

Readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of the complexities surrounding peatland conservation and restoration and recognize the significance of locally inclusive approaches that use contemporary but accessible technologies to sustainably govern the globally important resource of peatland. That approach would be useful for other environmentally fragile but important regions and give some ideas to achieve the United Nations’ SDGs for 1)No Poverty, 5)Gender Equality, 13)Climate Action, 15)Life of Land.

• Open Access
• Environmental governance
• Global warming
• CO2 emissions
• Rural community research
• Resource governance
• Peatland conservation
• Peatland degradation
• Peatland rehabilitation
• Peat swamp forest
• Peatland ecosystems
• Tropical peatland
• SDG 1
• SDG 5
• SDG 13
• SDG 15

• Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

  Masaaki Okamoto

• Institute of Liberal Arts and Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

  Takamasa Osawa

• Syarif Hidayatullah Islamic State University, Banten, Indonesia

  Wahyu Prasetyawan

• Perkumpulan Ara Sati Hakiki, Pekanbaru, Indonesia

  Akhwan Binawan

​Masaki Okamoto is a professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at Kyoto University in Japan. He received a Ph.D. in Area Studies from Kyoto University. He worked as a JICA expert on regional development in Sulawesi, Indonesia, from 2001 to 2003 and joined the CSEAS in 2003. He was a visiting senior scholar at Harvard Yenching Institute from 2011 to 2012 and a research fellow at Cornell University in 2012. He is a specialist in politics in Southeast Asia, especially in local Indonesia. The current research interest is the impact of digitalization on politics. He has published various articles and books on different issues in Southeast Asia. Books include Politics of Violence and Adaptation: Democratization and Local Political Stabilization in Indonesia (2015) (32^nd Ohira Masayoshi Prize), Local Governance in Southeast Asia: Quantitative Survey in Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia (co-edited with Fumio Nagai and Jun Kobayashi (2019) and Indonesia at the Crossroads: Transformation and Challenges (co-edited with Jafar Suryomenggolo) (2023).

 

Takamasa Osawa, Ph.D., is a lecturer at the Institute of Liberal Arts and Science, Kanazawa University, and was a full-time researcher of the Tropical Peatland Society Project at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature between 2017 and 2022 in Japan. He received an MSc from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh. He is a social anthropologist with a special interest in the relations between indigenous communities and the nation-state, the impacts of development and environmental policies on local communities, and inter-ethnic and inter-religious communications. He has conducted fieldwork with several local communities in Riau province, Indonesia, intermittently since 2006. The result is presented in At the Edge of Mangrove Forest: The Suku Asli and the Quest for Indigeneity, Ethnicity and Development (2022).

 

Wahyu Prasetyawan, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Syarif Hidayatullah Islamic State University (UIN) in Jakarta, Indonesia. He has been a visiting professor since 2007 at GRIPS (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies) in Tokyo, Japan. He received an MA degree in development studies from Leeds University, UK, and received Ph.D. in Political Economy from Kyoto University. He carries out research on the political economy of natural resources, economic growth, democratization, and identity politics. He has published journal articles in leading academic journals such as Indonesia (by Cornell University), Southeast Asian Studies (Kyoto University), Sojourn (by ISEAS), and Journal of Southeast Asian Affairs (by Hamburg University). His book includes Networked: Business and Politics in Decentralizing Indonesia 1998-2004 (2018) (36^th Ohira Masayoshi Prize).

 

Akhwan Binawan is a social activist in the field of environment and socio-culture in Indonesia. After completing his studies at Riau University, he chose to be active in social organizations, and now he works at an environmental NGO, Perkumpulan Ara Sati Hakiki. he is concerned with the issue of indigenous peoples and environmental conservation. Since 2005, he has been active in mapping indigenous territories and village boundaries, the results of which are used by the community for the planning of natural resource management in their areas. He is also actively advocating for the community’s right to land in Riau province, Indonesia.