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Regulation, formalization, and smallholder timber production in northern Central Java, Indonesia

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Forest Law Enforcement, Governance, and Trade agreements between the EU and countries that grow tropical timber aim to complement, alter, or generate new regulatory mechanisms that ensure the legality of timber products. These regulatory changes affect pre-existing policies and practices within timber production networks. The Indonesian-EU Voluntary Partnership Agreement was signed in 2013, and legality verification is scheduled to become mandatory for all smallholders by the end of 2017. Using grower surveys conducted in the Jepara regency of Central Java (n = 204), we generate information on who Jepara smallholders are, what timber species they are growing, and how programs that provide free and discounted seedlings contribute to STP. We use these data to understand how STP operates and how Sistem Verifikasi Legalitas Kayu (SVLK), the Indonesian method for timber legality verification, will affect STP networks and producers. We find that resource provision and oversight of source documentation increase formalization within STP. Our discussion details four policy-relevant insights for promoting STP amid continued formalization.

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  1. Exchange rate at the time of data collection was 9650 IRP/1 USD.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge funding from Worcester College, Oxford University and the project “Mahogany and teak furniture: action research to improve value chain efficiency and enhance livelihoods (FST/2007/119) 2008–2013,” made possible through funding from the Australian Centre for International Agriculture Research (ACIAR). This research was made possible by the generous contributions of numerous farmers in north Central Java, and it was improved by the insights and comments from two anonymous reviewers. The corresponding author presented this work at the World Congress on Agroforestry through a grant made possible by the World Agroforestry Centre and the Indian Council of Agroforestry Research. All opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of their institutions.

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    James Thomas Erbaugh

  2. Bogor Agricultural University, Jl. Raya Darmaga, Kampus IPB Darmaga, Bogor, 16680, Indonesia

    Dodik Ridho Nurrochmat

  3. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, 16000, Indonesia

    Herry Purnomo

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Erbaugh, J.T., Nurrochmat, D.R. & Purnomo, H. Regulation, formalization, and smallholder timber production in northern Central Java, Indonesia. Agroforest Syst 91, 867–880 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-016-0037-6

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