The Effect of Social Forestry on the Existence of Sustainable Forest Management in Indonesia

(Case Study: Bialo Forest Management Unit)

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10.2991/978-2-38476-293-4_7How to use a DOI?

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Forest; social forestry; land cover change; Bialo Forest Management Unit

Abstract

Social forestry is a sustainable forest management system in Indonesia that is implemented in forest areas managed by the community to improve their welfare and maintain environmental balance. In Indonesia, especially South Sulawesi Province, there is a unit of the Bialo Forest Management Unit, which is the first Forest Management Unit to have a special license for Social Forestry licenses for Village Forest Schemes, and Customary Forests, and to date there have been 26 total Social Forestry licenses. The fundamental thing related to the success of social forestry management is the existence of sustainable forest conditions in the area. The research method was conducted by interpreting the land cover at each location of the social forestry approval permit in 2000, the year of the Social Forestry License, and in 2023, using Landsat 7 imagery and Landsat 8 imagery. The results of this study found that from 2000 to the year of the Social Forestry License, the land cover that experienced the greatest change was an increase in mixed dryland agriculture by 7% and low-density forest by 5%, followed by a decrease in the area of high-density forest by 5%. When social forestry licenses are granted until 2023, there was an increase in mixed dryland agriculture by 3.5% and high-density forest by 2%. Changes in forest area in the Village Forest and Indigenous Forest schemes are better applied in Bialo Forest Management Unit than the Community Forest scheme in maintaining sustainable forests. Several factors influence land change in each social forestry license location, namely because the level of community dependence on cultivated land is quite high to meet economic needs and they consider the land they have been cultivating so far belongs to their ancestors who have been cultivated for generations.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Syamsu Rijal
AU  - Andi Yusnita
AU  - Munajat Nursaputra
AU  - A. Chairil
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/10/02
TI  - The Effect of Social Forestry on the Existence of Sustainable Forest Management in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Science Technology and Social Sciences – Social Science Track (ICONSTAS-SS 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 62
EP  - 73
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-293-4_7
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-293-4_7
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