Agriculture Beyond Food: Experiences from Indonesia

The ABF programme addresses one of today’s major societal challenges, how to achieve a sustainable and inclusive biobased economy, with high-level scientific research on the thin lines between food and non-food, commodities and waste products, livelihood opportunities and risks, and local and global economy. This book provides insights into the main issues and key questions relating to the biobased economy, reflects on the objectives of the ABF programme, and offers policy recommendations. It summarises the projects conducted within the three major clusters at the heart of the programme: migration and forest transformation, breakthroughs in biofuel production technology, and the commoditisation of an alternative biofuel crop. The book ends with a number of lessons learned from the ABF programme on interdisciplinary programming

Sociocarbon cycles: assembling and governing forest carbon in Indonesia

As Indonesia’s REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) program unfolds, it is transforming people and places in unexpected ways, and reconfiguring human and non-human processes. In this paper we recognize that forest carbon governance is about much more than carbon. Reflecting on observations from research in Indonesia, we develop the concept of sociocarbon cycles in an effort to move beyond the human-nature dualisms that characterize much work on REDD+. We see carbon governance as emergent sets of arrangements that are continually tested and challenged through the agency of diverse human and non-human actors. Drawing on insights from the literature on socionatures, and in particular on work on hydrosocial cycles, we approach carbon as a socionatural achievement, constituted through relations among institutions, carbon technologies, and C atoms. Our approach recasts REDD+ as an inherently political program, rather than a techno-scientific response to climate change. This, we contend, opens up new ways of conceptualizing and approaching carbon. A sociocarbon lens highlights the importance of social research in reconceptualising biophysical carbon cycles; brings questions of justice and power to the fore (who wins and who loses from carbon initiatives); and aids in understanding what carbon is, how it is made known, and how competing carbon claims are sustained. We suggest that a sociocarbon lens provides multiple points of entry to pursue more just geometries of power

USAHA MEMPERTAHANKAN KELOMPOK: DINAMIKA INTERNAL DAN EKSTERNAL DALAM KEBERLANGSUNGAN KELOMPOK PENGUSUL HKM SEPAKAT, PANGKALAN BUN, KALIMANTAN TENGAH

Tesis ini bertujuan untuk memperoleh pemahaman tentang proses yang membuat suatu kelompok dapat terus bertahan. Penelitian dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif dan etnografi ini mengangkat studi kasus satu kelompok masyarakat di Kalimantan Tengah yang dibentuk untuk memperoleh ijin perhutanan sosial dengan skema Hutan Kemasyarakatan. Penelitian ini menelusuri dinamika internal dan eksternal yang berkontribusi nyata pada kemampuan kelompok untuk dapat bertahan, terlepas dari kenyataan tantangan kelompok ini untuk memperoleh dukungan dari pemerintah daerah setempat. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa sejumlah faktor berperan penting untuk mempertahankan keberadaan kelompok seperti peran dari ketua kelompok, motivasi dan makna kelompok bagi anggota, serta bagaimana aktor-aktor di luar kelompok seperti lembaga swadaya masyarakat dan lembaga pemerintah terkait yang berkepentingan dengan keberadaan kelompok. Saya berharap hasil penelitian ini dapat meningkatkan pemahaman pihak-pihak yang tertarik untuk mendukung kelembagaan masyarakat dalam pengelolaan hutan

Trajectories of Land Acquisition and Enclosure: Development schemes, virtual land grabs, and green acquisitions in Indonesia's Outer Islands

Rule of Law and Development: Formation, Implementation and Improvement of Law and Governance in Developing Countrie

Research on relationship between cutting conditions and chip formation during end milling of aluminium alloy 6061

This paper studied chip morphology in end milling of aluminium alloy 6061 by various cutting parameter such as feed rate, cutting speed and depth of cut. Slot milling operation were conducted. The analysis consists of chip morphology, chip weight, chip thickness and chip length. Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) were used to obtain and examine the chips. Result shows that, end milling with higher cutting speed, feed rate and depth of cut generated short, small and light weigh of chips