Yuliani, Linda

Commons and Anti-commons in Kapuas Hulu, Indonesia
Moira Moeliono and Linda Yuliani
Can local communities resist the anti-commons processes as promoted by private sector and the state? In Kapuas Hulu, Indonesia, some communities are trying. People in the Labian-Leboyan watershed initiated a forum to rehabilitate the watershed by replanting the native tengkawang (shore sp) tree. Another forum is attempting to solve the waste problem whereby collaboration from upstream to downstream is needed to manage the water commons. In parallel communities are trying to regain the control over their resources though the national social forestry program.
These ‘commoning’ processes are gaining attention, especially in the face of privatization including privatization of public services. Even though Kapuas Hulu is in a remote area, the increasing dominance of neoliberal economics as well as of the application of artificial Intelligence in business as well as governance and education, will affect the human dimension of development.
In this paper we present the three cases and critically assess the effectivity of community efforts in the face of conscious as well as unconscious acceptance of the anti-commons.