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Focuses primarily on changes that have taken place in the Malinau area in East Kalimantan in recent years. The Punan Malinau, who inhabit the area, are former nomads who subsist on a wide range of forest-oriented activities, including swidden agriculture, hunting and the collection of and trade in forest products. During the past ten years, the growing number of powerful outsiders, including NGO's, timber and mining companies, has contributed to increasing competition for land and for various new sources of income. In the context of recent changes, local historical knowledge has become an increasingly important political asset. Such knowledge provides one way for local people to strengthen the legitimacy of their claims to land and forests

"In recent years governments in the South have transferred at least 200 million hectares of forests to communities living in and around them . This book assesses the experience of what appears to be a new international trend that has substantially increased the share of the world's forests under community administration. Based on research in over 30 communities in selected countries in Asia (India, Nepal, Philippines, Laos, Indonesia), Africa (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana) and Latin America (Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, Nicaragua), it examines the process and outcomes of granting new rights, assessing a variety of governance issues in implementation, access to forest products and markets and outcomes for people and forests . Forest tenure reforms have been highly varied, ranging from the titling of indigenous territories to the granting of small land areas for forest regeneration or the right to a share in timber revenues. While in many cases these rights have been significant, new statutory rights do not automatically result in rights in practice, and a variety of institutional weaknesses and policy distortions have limited the impacts of change. Through the comparison of selected cases, the chapters explore the nature of forest reform, the extent and meaning of rights transferred or recognized, and the role of authority and citizens' networks in forest governance. They also assess opportunities and obstacles associated with government regulations and markets for forest products and the effects across the cases on livelihoods, forest condition and equity."--Publisher's description

The activities in this workshop are designed to strengthen the role of REDD+ in the new Law, including potential scenarios for inclusion in climate change adaptive strategies. Senior editors, government officers and journalists will then share crucial scientific knowledge and research covered during the workshop that will be helpful for decision makers and practitioners at all levels involved in REDD+.

A history of the Kenyah Leppo' Ké and Nyibun in Pujungan subdistrict / by Njau Anau -- A history of the Kenyah Leppo' Tau in Kayan Hulu subdistrict, Apau Kayan / by Liman Lawai -- Archaeological survey and research in four subdistricts of interior East Kalimantan / by Karina Arifin and Bernard Sellato -- Kenyah Bakung oral literature / by C. Yus Ngabut -- Folk songs of the Kenyah Leppo' Ma'ut / by Daniel Lawing.