Willingness-to-pay, A necessary condition for successful community development?
One of the target issues in Indonesia is to prevent de-forestation by people's participation. Nowadays, Government of Indonesia emphasizes community's participation in forest conservation programs. This means the premise that peoples are required to contribute nominal amount of money, time and labor force to forest conservation program.
Question
Are people willing to pay their own money for forest conservation program?
Are people willing to spend their time on forest conservation program?These two are the fundamental questions with regard to people's participation and forest conservation, so that it is necessary to understand the structure of willingness-to-pay in the targeted areas.
One of my tasks in Indonesia is to examine and understand people's willingness-to-pay in the forest depended communities. I will do my best and do contribute to policy issues in Indonesia.