The story of how a government-owned organization and the community came together to solve an environmental problem in the uplands of Sumatra, Indonesia is now providing a model for similar projects across the country and internationally. The lush Bukit Barisan mountain range of Sumberjaya, Lampung Province is where the Way Besai watershed originates. It feeds one of Lampung Province’s three major rivers, the Tulang Bawang, and supplies a hydropower dam. While protection forest and national park dominate, coffee gardens now occur on around 70 percent of the total area. Believing that deforestation and conversion to coffee farms had increased erosion and was threatening the operation of the Way Besai hydropower dam, as well as reducing the amount of water available for irrigated paddy rice downstream, the government evicting thousands of farmers between 1991 and 1996
Publication year
2010
Authors
Language
English
Keywords
charcoal, energy
Geographic
Indonesia
