Rural development advocates are increasingly favouring policies that recognise community land rights in Indonesia, suggesting that recognition will protect forests and support livelihoods. In this article, we examine the effects of recognition by asking who benefits, and to what extent recognition impacts on livelihoods. Our case study focuses on an iconic site, the Kajang community of South Sulawesi, because advocates often point to that community as a model case. Based on over three years of field research on tenure and conflict among the Kajang, we highlight the discrepancy between the effects of recognition and existing livelihood realities. We show that communal territory in Kajang is a site of contestation, entangled in conflict over who can claim cultivation rights. We thus argue that representation of Kajang as harmonious forest communities governed by communal tenure is misleading. As advocates continue to promote similar policies elsewhere, we show that this kind of misrepresentation serves to further obscure the lingering land insecurity of rural Indonesians.

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印度尼西亚公有土地的误导性图标：苏拉威西省加影（Kajang）样地中的Adat森林识别意义

农村发展的倡导者越来越赞成承认印度尼西亚社区土地权的政策，这表明承认将保护森林并支持生计。在本文中，我们通过询问谁受益，以及认可在多大程度上影响生计来检验认可的效果。我们的案例研究集中于一个标志性站点，即南苏拉威西省的Kajang社区，因为拥护者经常指出该社区是一个典型案例。在对加影族的权属和冲突进行了三年多的现场研究的基础上，我们强调了承认的影响与现有生计现实之间的差异。我们表明，加影的公共领土是争夺的场所，在争夺谁可以要求耕种权的问题上纠缠不清。因此，我们认为，将加影作为由公有制管辖的和谐森林社区的代表具有误导性。当拥护者继续在其他地方推行类似政策时，我们表明，这种虚假陈述进一步掩盖了印度尼西亚农村地区挥之不去的土地不安全感。