Will designation of new administrative districts lead to more deforestation in Indonesia?

Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com October 24, 2012 Deforestation for an oil palm plantation in Central Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A Butler. On Monday Indonesia's House of Representatives moved to establish "North Kalimantan", a new province in Indonesian Borneo. It also voted for four new districts: Pangandaran in West Java, South Coast in Lampung (Sumatra), and South Manokwari and Arfak Mountains in West Papua (New Guinea). While the moves aim to improve governance by boosting local autonomy, they could make it more difficult for Indonesia to meet its deforestation reduction goals if recent trends — detailed in a 2011 academic paper — hold true. The study, published last year by researchers at the London School of Economics (LSE), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and South Dakota State University (SDSU), linked an increase in political jurisdictions to a rise ...

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