Review of poverty alleviation and its indicators of forest-dependent rural poor Towards Wellbeing Monitoring Poverty in Kutai Barat, Indonesia Christian Gönner Ade Cahyat Michaela Haug Godwin Limberg TOWARDS WELLBEING: MONITORING POVERTY IN KUTAI BARAT, INDONESIA Christian Gönner, Ade Cahyat, Michaela Haug and Godwin Limberg © 2007 Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior permission of the publishers. Proper citation is requested: Gönner, C. et al. A portrait of household wellbeing in Kutai Barat, 2003–2006/by Gönner, C., Cahyat, A., Haug, M. and Limberg, G. Bogor, Indonesia: Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), 2007. ISBN: 978-979-1412-10-0 93p. CABI thesaurus: 1. rural communities 2. households 3. poverty 4. wellbeing 5. decentralisation 6. local government 7. natural resources 8. East Kalimantan 9. Indonesia. All photographs by C. Gönner, except where specified otherwise. Published by Center for International Forestry Research Mailing address: P.O. Box 6596 JKPWB, Jakarta 10065, Indonesia Office address: Jl. CIFOR, Situ Gede, Sindang Barang, Bogor Barat 16680, Indonesia Tel.: +62 (251) 622622; Fax +62 (251 62200 Email:
[email protected] Website: http://www.cifor.cgiar.org CONTENTS Glossary and Abbreviations v Acknowledgements viii Executive Summary ix Chapter 1. Introduction 1 The Problem of Poverty Assessment in Indonesia 1 The CIFOR–BMZ Poverty and Decentralization Project 3 Chapter 2. A Brief Overview of Kutai Barat 5 Ethnic Groups 5 Decentralisation and Poverty Alleviation Policy in Kutai Barat 5 Trends of Official Poverty Indices 9 Chapter 3.