Forest for people : social forestry

For a long time local people reside in forest areas have been marginalized and even neglected by any system in forest management. Those systems however have been proven to be ineffective and have largely contributed to unfair use and unsustained forest resource. Many cases of illegal logging, in part, have rooted to this unfair uses of forest resources. Since the Forest for People was declared during World Forestry Congress in Jakarta in 1978, and become a new emerging paradigm for managing the forests, the Faculty has actively developed management strategy which put local people among as the most important stakeholder, emphasizing sociological and anthropological approaches and economic modeling toward better local people livelihood. So far concept on “ Community- based Forest Management” initially developed by the Faculty using teak plantation as pilot model, have been widely adopted by various management levels and become a new national paradigm to support sustainable forest management strategies.