title: Enhancing voluntary participation in community collaborative forest management: a case of Central Java, Indonesia.
abstract: This paper examines voluntary participation in community forest management, and characterizes how more participation may be induced. We implemented a survey of 571 respondents and conducted a case study in Central Java, Indonesia. The study's novelty lies in categorizing the degrees of participation into three levels and in identifying how socio-economic factors affect people's participation at each level. The analysis finds that voluntary participation responds to key determinants, such as education and income, in a different direction, depending on each of the three levels. However, the publicly organized programs, such as information provision of benefit sharing, are effective, irrespective of the levels of participation. Overall, the results suggest a possibility of further success and corrective measures to enhance the participation in community forest management.
authors.affiliation: Forestry Research Institute of Palembang, Ministry of Forestry, Indonesia.
authors.forename: Sri
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lestari
authors.affiliation: School of Economics and Management, Kochi University of Technology, 185 Miyanokuchi, Tosayamada-cho, Kami-shi, Kochi 782-8502, Japan. Electronic address: kotani.koji@kochi-tech.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kotani
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of International Relations, International University of Japan, 777 Kokusai-cho, Minami-Uonuma, Niigata 949-7277, Japan. Electronic address: kakinaka@iuj.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kakinaka
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D005260:Female; D065928:Forests; D006801:Humans; D007214:Indonesia; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Community collaborative forest management; Indonesia; Participation level; Voluntary participation