Negotiating for community forestry policy: the recognition of damar agroforests in Indonesia.

Abstract This chapter focuses specifically on the negotiation process and the institutional context that surrounded the issuance of the KDTI decree. Based on both written and oral sources, it benefits from the experience of co-authors de Foresta and Fay, both of whom played an active role in the negotiations leading up to the KDTI decree. The main sources were documents related to research projects carried out since the early 1990s by IRD and the World Agroforestry Center with their research and NGO partners (CIFOR, WATALA, FORDA, LATIN and P3AE-UI). These documents include reports, correspondences, research publications and minutes of meetings. Oral information came from interviews with several key informants in local communities and local government. The chapter first describes the context and the process that led to the KDTI decree. Then, presents the main reactions to the decree, and concludes by drawing some policy lessons.