Open AccessSocial forestry for improving environmental quality and community welfare: a case study of Pantar Island, Alor, East Nusa Tenggara Province
Author(s) -
Rahman Kurniadi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/487/1/012013
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , license , forestry , forest management , business , community forestry , work (physics) , welfare , social engagement , social welfare , quality (philosophy) , environmental resource management , environmental planning , political science , geography , economics , engineering , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology , law
Government has attempted to involve communities in state forest management to improve environment quality as well as generate the welfare of communities around the forest. However, local communities have low participation level in social forestry programs. This research aims to examine government’s implementation on social forestry programs in Pantar Island, East Nusa Tenggara Province using interview and focus group discussion methods. The result shows that two efforts are done to accelerate social forestry programs. Firstly, Government creates some groups to apply social forestry program. Secondly, Government hires Non-Government Organization (NGO) to assist community to propose state forest and to get forest management license. However, those efforts do not work properly, Consequently environmental quality and community welfare are not improved. Based our research, it is suggested for the government to supervise communities in state forest management and increase participation of communities in social forestry program through giving benefits from social forestry programs