Development strategy of social forestry by the forest village community institution in the kayutangi forest management unit

Abstract

Social forestry is the answer to poverty alleviation and also to mitigate climate change. Through the HKm (community forest), Village Forest, HTR (community forest plantation) and Partnership schemes, so we will get the implication and the community will gain economic benefits by proposing surrounded forest area to become a Social Forestry area in Rantau Bujur Village and Pakutik Village. The purpose of this research is to describe the implementation of social forestry, identify the role of forest village community institutions in social forestry, and also formulate a strategy of social forestry development in the kayutangi forest management unit. The method that has been used in this study is likert scale, qualitative descriptive analysis and SWOT analysis. This study had an identification of village communities by using 28 respondents and 4 key informants. Implementation of LMDH (Forest Village Community Organization) Asuhan murni is 77.14% and LMDH (Forest Village Community Organization) Sinar baru is only 56.42% because of the lack of information on social forestry and the lack of counseling from the Office/KPH to the community, and also the lack of community experience in organization. .The strategy that was chosen in the Rantau Bujur Village is Strength-Opportunities/SO (Strength-opportunities), which the strengths that we have can be used optimally, while in the Pakutik Village used Weakness-Opportunities /WO (Strength-opportunities), to maximize the opportunity factors to reduce weakness. This study produced each of three social forestry development strategies.