What is happening to our forests in Indonesia?
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“populist/ democratically elected government” acquired new meaning: how to mobilise the citizenry for causes that have little to do with social reproduction or the interest of the peoples agrarian reform should be investment- friendly 5-yr ritual of democracy turned into a cycle of financial extraction at the national, provincial and district levels regional autonomy and fiscal decentralisati on became the new space for the old and new local/regional oligarchy to play key role in the new 1965-1998 the regime of economists- with-gun controlled the money from logging, mining, oil and gas industry for state-building and sustaining the regional oligarchies Sukarno’s call for agrarian reform was turned upside down, opening up and turning the forests (State land) into large- tracts of concessions the military fabricated a showcase electoral politics, fashioned a handful political parties, virtually financed by the state Jakarta became the shorthand for thought- control, vacating the desa (village) from any political mobilisation
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“populist/democratically elected government” acquired new meaning: how to mobilise the citizenry for causes that have little to do with social reproduction or the interest of the peoples
agrarian reform should be investment-friendly5-yr ritual of democracy turned into a cycle of financial extraction at the national, provincial and district levelsregional autonomy and fiscal decentralisation became the new space for the old and new local/regional oligarchy to play key role in the new extractivism
1965-1998the regime of economists-with-gun controlled the money from logging, mining, oil and gas industry for state-building and sustaining the regional oligarchies
Sukarno’s call for agrarian reform was turned upside down, opening up and turning the forests (State land) into large-tracts of concessionsthe military fabricated a showcase electoral politics, fashioned a handful political parties, virtually financed by the stateJakarta became the shorthand for thought-control, vacating the desa (village) from any political mobilisation
± 300 million people
Tropical rainforests, large land mass
Tropical rainforests, islands± 250 million people
both regions were part of the same landscape in the past geological era both regions belonged to closely related cultural regions, languages and modes of subsistenceboth regions experienced different expressions of colonialism and decolonisation processesboth regions are now “reunited” by the global capital expansion
maritime (“islands”) southeast Asia
mainlandsoutheast Asia
The key problem for the people is the bankruptcy of the islands’ waterscapes
3-4 GW
3-4 GW
Power supply of JAKARTA Power supply of the whole island of SUMATRA
±300 MWof electricity
THE MAHAKA
M WATERS
HED,EAST
KALIMANTAN
6.3Km of FINANCIAL HUB of JAKARTA
Power supply of East Kalimantan Province Power supply of 6.3km-long financial hub of Jakarta
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2016: Report of the IFC, part of the World Bank Group
EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC
how much money should be invested across sectors of investment
THE WORLD BANK is now dictates how public expenditures for development should be formulated, implemented and
evaluated
Indonesia is now a laboratory for “green growth assessment process
