Village’s Forest Conservation Concept With Local Wisdom At Ensaid Panjang Village, Kelam Permai, West Kalimantan
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 3
Abstract
The purpose of this research are: 1) To describe and analyze the concept of Village Forest and local concept, 2) To describe and analyze the values of local wisdom in forest utilization. The study period started from 8th February to 11th November 2017. This research has been conducted in EnsaidPanjang Village, KelamPermai, Sintang District,West Kalimantan. The focus of the research is the form of strategy for conserving the village forest, human observation, nature, law and village forest located in EnsaidPanjang village in the management and utilization of village forest in Sintang regency of West Kalimantan province. While the tools used in this study consisted of a diary that is used to record all the information described by informants who are not summarized in the questionnaire, the stationery that is used to fill out the questionnaire and write an explanation of the informant, digital camera that is used to take documentation when filling out questionnaires or community activities related to forest preservation and customary law, the voice recorder that is used to record the interview of the researcher with the informant. According to Miles and Huberman data analysis is an effort to process the data into information so that the characteristics of the data can be understood and useful for solution problems especially problems related to research. The result of this research is that EnsaidPanjang Village is one of 16 villages in KelamPermaiSubdistrict, Sintang Regency, West Kalimantan with some forest area. Some protected areas such as Bukit Rentap are located in EnsaidPanjang Village. Rentap Bukit area has an important role for the village community at EnsaidPanjang Village and surrounding areas such as clean water sources, non-timber forest sourcesand natural tourist sites. Although the local community has taken some advantagesfromthose areasthey have not been able to fully manage the area because they have no management rights. Therefore, the village community of EnsaidPanjangvillage took the initiative to develop The Village Forest in several part of Bukit Rentap area to obtain legal management. Through the development of village forest, it is hoped that the community together with the parties can preserve the EnsaidPanjang Village Forest area not only in Bukit Rentapbut also in the Rawa Forest (Tawang) which is located on other status land of APL. The lessons learned from the development of Village Forest in Bukit Rentap area can be applied also to other forested areas in EnsaidPanjang village such as TawangMarsibung, TawangSerimbak and others. In addition, the development of Village Forest is one of the promotions of how people apply the sustainable use of forests based on their local wisdom.
Authors and Affiliations
Genopepa Sedia, Zaenal Fanani, Wieke . , Niswatin Hasanah
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