摘要：Wildfires in tropical rainforests and especially peat fires have abundant and wide-rangingnegative effects on the economy, ecology and human health. Indonesia has large areas of peat swampforests that recurrently burn. The use of fire is the most common method for land clearing in Indonesia.As a reaction to the devastating fire events of 2015, the provincial government of Jambi reimposeda more stringent version of the prohibition of burning land, delegalizing this land clearing methodfor smallholders. From a local perspective through qualitative research at the village level it becomesclear that this regulation is maladaptive as the underlying cause making land prone to fires, thesinking ground water table, remains unchanged by the ban. Further, the impacts of the new regulationvary for different groups of the local population, with severe land management restrictions for foodcrop farmers. The application of a framework on the political and material dimension of vulnerabilityreveals that the national policy unintentionally causes economic hardship and landscape changes atthe local level. Hence, smallholders have experienced a two-fold perturbation caused by the fires’impacts and the reinforced ban on burning land.
