Abstract
This study aimed at examining what kind of people would support conversion of farmland to tree plantations under the framework of National Movement of Rehabilitation of Forests and Land, a nation-wide afforestation program started in 2003. Wonogiri district, an agricultural marginal area, was selected as the case and interviews to randomly selected participants of the program in 2003 were conducted at three villages. The results revealed that the differences in geographical conditions at village level, either flat easy-access or mountainous hard-access, did not much affect the performance of the program. Significant relations were found at the household level in: (1) gross income from non-agricultural sector and motivations and (2) motivations and arrangement of seedlings. And, it was clarified that the stakeholders, who could create private forest, were people who aimed at plantation itself and who planted according to "government's manual". From these results, we concluded that to increase the rate of getting mature forest, it is necessary to decrease given incentive in order to exclude people who do not aim at plantation itself.
