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When the State Brings Itself Back into GVC: The Case of the Indonesian Palm Oil Pledge

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Title When the State Brings Itself Back into GVC: The Case of the Indonesian Palm Oil Pledge
 
Creator Dermawan, A.
Hospes, O.
 
Subject oil palms
supply chain
governance
deforestation
 
Description During the last decades the role of the state in governance of Global Value Chains (GVC) for sustainability has been largely ignored. This paper contributes to the re‐centering the state in GVC analysis. We provide an analysis of the rise and fall of the Indonesian Palm Oil Pledge (IPOP). IPOP is a commitment of some biggest palm oil companies towards zero‐deforestation in Indonesia, but was dissolved after serious critique from the Government of Indonesia (GoI). Our question is: why and how did the GoI decide to put an end to the IPOP? We show that the GoI orchestrated the IPOP's demise by framing it as a danger to smallholder development, as not acknowledging public standards, and as an illegal cartel. The GoI's counter‐framing re‐asserts its sovereignty over producers, rule‐making and economic organization. We argue that when a state perceives that when non‐state‐driven GVC governance threatens its sovereignty over producers, rule‐making and economic organization, it will engage in discursive power struggle with non‐state actors. More specifically, collective action of non‐state actors can particularly trigger a state to engage in discursive power struggle with non‐state actors.
 
Date 2018-10
2021-03-08T08:16:28Z
2021-03-08T08:16:28Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Dermawan, A., Hospes, O. 2018. When the State Brings Itself Back into GVC: The Case of the Indonesian Palm Oil Pledge. Global Policy, 9 (S2): 21-28. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12619
1758-5880
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/112017
https://www.cifor.org/library/7059
https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12619
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Publisher Wiley