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Acknowledgements
This study is based on research that was funded by the Australian Center for International
Agricultural Development (ACIAR) and by the United Kingdom’s Department for
International Development (DFID). The editors gratefully acknowledge this support.
It is noted, however, that the information and analysis presented in this study do not
represent an official position held by ACIAR or DFID.
The editors also extend their sincere gratitude to the many government
agencies at the central, provincial, district, and village levels within Indonesia that
have assisted CIFOR and its partners in conducting the research summarized in
this study. Special thanks are extended to the Ministry of Forestry, where numerous
individuals have graciously shared their time and made information available. In
addition, the editors are grateful to those individuals and agencies (who are too
numerous to list individually) who have provided assistance at the Ministry of Home
Affairs; Ministry of Environment; Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Forestry, the
Provincial Governments of Riau, Jambi, West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, East
Kalimantan, South Sulawesi, and Papua; and the District Governments of Indragiri
Hulu, Kuantan Singingi, Kampas, Pelalawan, Tanjung Jabung Barat, Kapuas Hulu,
Sintang, Ketapang, Kotawaringin Timur, Barito Selatan, Kapuas, Malinau, Bulungan,
Berau, Kutai Barat, Luwu Utara, and Manokwari.
The editors would also like to thank CIFOR’s decentralization research partners
who have collaborated on much of the research that is synthesized in this volume.
These include School of Resources, Environment, and Society, the Australian
National University (ANU); Environmental Management and Development Program,
Crawford School of Economics and Government, ANU; Asia Research Center,
Murdoch University; Department of Geographical and Environmental Studies,
University of Adelaide; Anne Casson; Lesley Potter (ANU); Simon Badcock; Tony
Djogo (RECOFTC); Njau Anau (Bappeda Kabupaten Malinau); I Made Sudana
(ProAir); Endriatmo Soetarto and MT Felix Sitorus (Institut Pertanian Bogor);Yusup
Napiri; Gusti Z. Anshari, Syarief Ibrahim Alqadrie, Ngusmanto, and Erdi Abidin
(Universitas Tanjungpura); Tri Budiarto (Bapedalda Kalimantan Barat); Zulkifli and
Afifudin (Dinas Kehutanan Propinsi Kalimantan Barat); Ngakan Putu Oka, Amran
Achmad, and Kahar Lahae (Universitas Hasanuddin); Ahmad Tako (Lapal), Max J.
Tokede, Widodo, Yosias Gandhi, Christian Imburi, Patriahadi, Jonni Marwa, Martha
Ch. Yufuai (Universitas Papua); Sudirman and Nely Herlina (PSHK-ODA), Samsu
(Pioner-Bulungan), Dt. Iman Suramenggala (Dinas Kehutanan Kabupaten Bulungan),
and Yan Ngau (DPRD Kabupaten Bulungan).
The editors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of numerous colleagues
within CIFOR, each of whom has contributed to the completion of this study: David
Kaimowitz, Doris Capistrano, Carol Colfer, Moira Moeliono, Bambang Setiono,
Sian McGrath, Yurdi Yasmi, Heru Komarudin, Krystof Obidzinski, Lini Wollenberg,
Godwin Limberg, Ramses Iwan, Nugroho Adi Utomo, Gideon Suharyanto, Ahmad
Yusuf, Ambar Liano, Yunety Tarigan, Dede Wiliam and Yulia Siagian.
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