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Customary Forests Proven to be More Sustainable

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PALU, KOMPAS – Recognition of customary forests by the state is a progressive move to ensure social justice. At the same time, this is an effort to recognize practices based on local wisdom to support environmental sustainability. The challenge moving forward will be safeguarding the 12.7 million hectares of community-managed forests.

“The recognition of customary forests signified a paradigm shift in the government’s policymaking,” Environment and Forestry Ministry Director General for Social Forestry and Environmental Partnership Hadi Daryanto said at Tadulako University in Palu, Central Sulawesi, on Wednesday (1/3).

Recognition of customary forests is part of the government’s efforts to overcome the nation’s increasingly high welfare gap signified by the Gini index standing at 0.41 from 2011 to 2015. “Therefore, between 2015 and 2019, the Working Cabinet is shifting its paradigm by aligning itself more with the local people and forest communities,” he said.

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