The forest above the valley
Twelve villages in Cianjur wrote their own rules for the slope above them, then had to hold the line through a wet season.
A village regulation is a short document. It says where cultivation stops, what happens on the steepest ground, and who checks. Twelve of them now cover the upper catchment above this valley.
The rule is written in the village because the slope is above the village.
12regulations
Village regulations adopted
Rules only matter over the area they actually reach.
7,300ha
Upper catchment under village protection rules
The wet season test
Replanting steep ground is the visible part, and the part most likely to fail in the first heavy rains.
960ha
Steep slope replanted
What the villages are holding is not a planting target. It is an edge.
