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Reducing Illegal Logging through a Chainsaw Buyback and Entrepreneurship Program at Gunung Palung National Park

https://doi.org/10.24259/fs.v4i1.7707
Nurul Ihsan Fawzi
Alam Sehat Lestari
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0273-3908
Jackson Helms
Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, Michigan USA 49060
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6709-6770
Agus Novianto
Alam Sehat Lestari
Agus Supianto
Alam Sehat Lestari
Angela Meike Indrayani
Alam Sehat Lestari
Nur Febriani
Alam Sehat Lestari

Corresponding Author(s) : Nurul Ihsan Fawzi

nurul.ihsan.f@mail.ugm.ac.id

Forest and Society, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2020): APRIL

Abstract

Gunung Palung National Park in Indonesian Borneo, home to 2,500 Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus ssp. wurmbii), suffers from severe deforestation that is caused by illegal logging. This article aims to analyze the success of an innovative entrepreneurship program in reducing illegal logging in Gunung Palung National Park. This program combines voluntary chainsaw buybacks with capital investment for former loggers to launch a business of their choice.  To analyze the success of this entrepreneurship program, we measured two parameters: (1) transitions of former loggers to sustainable alternative livelihoods and (2) reductions in the number of loggers who log actively inside the park. The average monthly income for participating business partners was 2,923,333 rupiah or $209 USD for new partners who had participated for less than one year and 3,357,778 rupiah or $240 for established partners who had participated for more than one year. This income is about the minimum wage for the local area. The failure rate of the program—defined as the partners that returned to logging—was only 6%, or 3 out of 50 partners. Successful forest conservation, however, requires addressing additional factors beyond reducing the access to logging equipment.

Keywords

illegal logging deforestation chainsaw buyback program Gunung Palung National Park entrepreneurship
Fawzi, N. I., Helms, J., Novianto, A., Supianto, A., Indrayani, A. M., & Febriani, N. (2020). Reducing Illegal Logging through a Chainsaw Buyback and Entrepreneurship Program at Gunung Palung National Park. Forest and Society, 4(1), 151-161. https://doi.org/10.24259/fs.v4i1.7707
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Author Biographies

Nurul Ihsan Fawzi, Alam Sehat Lestari
Conservation scientist
Jackson Helms, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, Michigan USA 49060
Kellogg Biological Station
Agus Novianto, Alam Sehat Lestari
Community development
Agus Supianto, Alam Sehat Lestari
Deforestation Monitoring
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