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Indonesia - The challenges of World Bank involvement in forests |
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A review of World Bank assistance to Indonesia in the forest sector
since 1991 faces two challenges. The first is maintaining a distinction
between an assessment based on quick solutions to outstanding problems
and one based on long-term underlying objectives and historical facts,
and how they shaped government and Bank actions toward Indonesia ' s
forests until 1997. The second challenge is to assess the performance
of the Bank ' s 1991 Forest Strategy in a situation where, despite
largely adopting the principles that its strategy espouses, the Bank
has been unable to influence the rate of destruction of natural
forests. Following a brief discussion of the background and context to
the current forest sector situation in Indonesia, this review is
divided into two parts. The first part presents the state of the
forests and the forest sector and identifies the pressures on forests
and the key issues. The second part assesses the Bank ' s involvement
in the sector and concludes with the main findings of the review.
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