Identifying Land-Forestry Policy Levers from Participatory Understanding of Drivers of Forest Conversion

Abstract

Forest conversion in Indonesia is always considered as one the most important source of environmental services degradation in the country. Although a lot of effort has been conducted, ineffective action is often occurred because of failure to understand the right drivers of forest conversion. We use the Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework in a multistake holder-participatory processes to identify the most suitable responses to address forest conversion in three provinces of Indonesia: South Sumatra (SS), East Kalimantan (EK) and Papua