Decentralization of Forest Administration in Indonesia, Implications ...

Contents
List of Editors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Glossary
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Chapter 1
Forests and Decentralization in Indonesia: an Overview 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 What is Decentralization? 3
1.3 Decentralization and Forests 6
1.4 Decentralization of Forest Administration in Indonesia 9
1.5 Organization of the Book 15
Chapter 2
Forest Administration and Forestry Sector Development Prior to 1998 18
2.1 Introduction 18
2.2 Forest Administration from Independence through
the Soekarno Era, 1945-1966 19
2.3 New Order Timber Policy and the Basic Forestry Law of 1967 22
2.4 Banjir Kap and the Timber Boom of the Late-1960s 24
2.5 Centralized Control and Log Exports in the 1970s 25
2.6 Growth of Domestic Wood Processing in the 1980s and 1990s 26
2.7 Indonesia’s Forestry Crisis 28
Chapter 3
Origins and Scope of Indonesia’s Decentralization Laws 31
3.1 Introduction 31
3.2 Momentum for Decentralization 32
3.3 Designing the 1999 Regional Autonomy Laws 34
3.4 Law 22/1999 on Regional Governance 37
3.5 Government Regulation 25/2000 41
3.6 Decentralization and Recentralization in Forestry Legislation 43
3.7 Law 41/1999 on Forestry 44
3.8 Government Regulation 34/2002 46
3.9 Revision of the 1999 Regional Autonomy Law 51
Chapter 4
Fiscal Balancing and the Redistribution of Forest Revenues 58
4.1 Introduction 58
4.2 Regional Government Finance during the New Order Period 59
4.3 Distribution of Forestry Revenues before Decentralization 62
4.4 Fiscal Balancing Under Decentralization 64