This paper explores the realities of forestry benefit sharing under joint forest management in a major teak plantation region of Java, Indonesia, with reference to empirical information about the uses and effects of monetary benefits in terms of stakeholder power relations. The authors intend to enrich current understandings of the pitfalls of benefit-sharing mechanisms at the local level. The analysis focuses on institutional designs of benefit sharing, recent statistical realities of shared benefits, the uses of monetary benefits in villages, and the livelihood and conservation implications of shared benefits through household surveys. The results confirm that the benefit-sharing system has been neither effective nor equitable economically (ineffective investment, a distribution policy preferring villages’ wants, and a lack of attempts to improve general farmers’ livelihoods and pro-poor arrangements), ecologically (little change in forest protection systems and continuing illegal logging and unofficial forestland cultivation), and in terms of governance (elite capture and a lack of downward accountability). Limited capacity, downward accountability of committee executive members and a laissez-faire attitude of forest administrators were also observed. A laissez-faire policy of forest administration under the frameworks of joint forest management can create room for elite capture as well as ineffective conservation and poor livelihood outcomes and should thus be avoided. Appropriate and supportive facilitation and collaboration from the outside to develop the capacity and downward accountability of village-level decision makers is needed. These issues are increasingly important in the context of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Plus (REDD+).

本文参考了利益相关者权力关系方面有关货币利益的使用和影响的经验信息，探讨了印度尼西亚爪哇主要柚木人工林地区在联合森林管理下林业利益共享的现实。作者打算丰富当前对地方利益共享机制陷阱的理解。该分析着重于利益共享的制度设计，共享利益的最新统计现实，村庄中货币利益的使用以及通过家庭调查得出的共享利益对生计和保护的影响。结果证实，惠益分享制度既没有有效，也没有经济上的公平（无效的投资，偏爱村庄需求的分配政策，以及缺乏改善一般农民的生计和有利于穷人的安排的尝试，缺乏生态的（森林保护系统的小变化以及持续的非法采伐和非官方林地种植）以及治理方面的努力（精英捕获和缺乏向下问责制） ）。还观察到能力有限，委员会执行委员的问责制下降以及森​​林管理者的放任态度。在联合森林管理框架下实行森林管理的放任政策可以为精英捕获，无效的保护和不良的生计结果创造空间，因此应避免。需要外部适当和支持性的促进与协作，以发展村级决策者的能力和向下问责制。