Having a good Regional Spatial Land-use Planning (Rencana Tata Ruang Wilayah = RTRW) maybe the only opportunity to achieve low (carbon) emission development. Institutionally, as a formal ‘rule of the game’ in providing guidance to regional development, RTRW is very often weak and failed due to the processes involved in its birth. RTRW is not just a legal document to legalized utilization and allocation of natural resources. It depicts, more importantly, rights and access to different component of natural resources. This brief contains opinion of the writer to first identify and understand issues on distribution of natural resources benefits depicted in RTRW of Tanjung Jabung Barat Regency. Theory of Access was used as a framework to map out allocation and distribution of benefits of land and forest resource to achieve low-carbon-emission development
Publication year
2022
Authors
Language
English
Keywords
agriculture, deforestation, economics
Geographic
Indonesia
