The paper offers a critical discussion of resource use in a national park, Baluran, in
Indonesia. In general, an increasing accept of the need for livelihood security, also for
people living in or near natural conservation areas, are challenging traditional systems of
national park governance. Finding ways to balance the needs of local populations against
the necessity to secure biodiversity and environmental sustainability becomes important,
and the main question in our research is how to accommodate an existing society in Baluran …