(a) Initial contradictionThe community forestry approach was set up based onthe definition and suggestion that “community forestimplies ‘community-resource’ relations, commonlyknown as [the] ‘indigenous system of forest management’’’ (Fisher 1989). Yet, simultaneously, it was initiated with Western influences through scientifically-trained foresters (Houster 1993). Therefore, indigenous forestry practices that included local knowledgewere reconsidered as an essential factor for care of theenvironment and the development of the community.Such an assumption has helped to empower local peoplethrough the study of their relationship with nature andtheir traditional system of managing natural resources.And, at the same time, political interventions in forestmanagement were introduced by the state, ones that utilised scientific knowledge and methods, including education and training.