long-term system of ecological resource utilization viewed from reusing construction timber over generations in Indonesia

• Project/Area Number: 26760005
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Area studies
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Suzuki Haruka 京都大学, アジア・アフリカ地域研究研究科, 研究員 (40624234)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
• Keywords: 東南アジア / インドネシア / 地域研究 / 自然資源利用 / 熱帯材

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research is to clarify, from socio-economic and wood science perspectives, the factors establishing a long-term system of ecological resource utilization by analyzing the process of reusing construction timber over generations in Indonesia. The following results were obtained: (1) local people rebuilt their house when their head of family changed due to marriage or demise, (2) approximately half the volume of construction timber was reused in their new house or neighbors’ houses, (3) the factors producing this were the equality and scope of ecological resource, the construction and processing techniques of ecological resource, increasing private land, the frequency of relocation, kinship, marriage and demise, and livelihood.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Social Economic Aspects of Long-term Timber use for Sustainability of the Tropical Forest: The Inheritance of Wooden Stilt Houses in the Coastal Community of East Kalimantan, Indonesia. (2015)
  • Author(s): Haruka Suzuki
  • Journal Title: The proceedings of XIV World Forestry Congress Volume: XIV
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Presentation] Wood as Contractual Material (2016)
  • Author(s): Haruka Suzuki
  • Organizer: Common Lecture in Faculty of Engineering, University of Riau
  • Place of Presentation: University of Riau, Pekanbaru
  • Year and Date: 2016-09-17
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Peatland Restoration through ecological resource utilization and its distribution (2016)
  • Author(s): Haruka Suzuki
  • Organizer: National Seminar and Workshop on Peatland Restration
  • Place of Presentation: Arya Duta Hotel, Pekanbaru
  • Year and Date: 2016-05-31
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Long-term Timber Utilization in Wooden Houses in East Kalimantan, Indonesia (2015)
  • Author(s): Haruka Suzuki
  • Organizer: The Japan Forest Society
  • Place of Presentation: Sapporo
  • Year and Date: 2015-03-28
• [Book] Kosuke Mizuno, Motoko S. Fujita and Shuichi Kawai eds. Catastrophe & Regeneration in Indonesia’s Peatlands: Ecology, Economy & Society. (2016)
  • Author(s): Haruka Suzuki, et al. Outline of the Survey Area in Riau Province, Indonesia.
  • Publisher: NUS Press