Community-Based Forest Management In Indonesia: A Dual Objective for Climate Change and Social Justice

Community-based forest management (CBFM) schemes in Indonesia were initiated in 1995 with the goal of providing greater access to communities to manage forests sustainably and to increase their socio-economic welfare. CBFM schemes are mostly managed by using multi-purpose vegetation systems or agroforestrysystems. CBFM has also been recognized in recent years as a mechanism to effectively mitigate climate change while involving forest-dependent communities. The CFBM schemes objectives are therefore twofold: 1), contribute to climate change mitigation and forest protection and 2), improve social justice.
Can these two objectives go along hand in hand or create problems?