How do the Customary Forest and Protected Forest Management Principles affect Ambon City Protected Forest Management between the Government and Indigenous Peoples? (Case in the Mount Sirimau Protection Forest Group, Ambon City, Maluku Province)

Abstract

Protection forests are state forests that are authorized by the government to be managed, but on the other hand, indigenous peoples already exist and manage forests that are claimed as customary forests (hak ulayat). How is the management of protection forests between the government and indigenous peoples? The purpose of this study is to examine the management of protection forests between the government and indigenous peoples and the collaboration in the management of protection forests between the two. The results showed that the management of protection forests by the government was not optimal at the site level based on the principles of protection forest management that had only been done with boundaries: only area boundaries, not blocks and plots, forest protection such as area patrols, installation of prohibition boards and appeals) and land rehabilitation (planting with woody plant species and Multi-Purpose Trees (MPTs). Management of protection forest by Soa-based indigenous peoples has touched the site level although there is no planning document, the principles of protection forest management are forest management, area utilization (planting with fruit trees), subsistence crops and plantations: cloves, nutmeg, coconut), land use (using land in the form of dusung/traditional agroforestry), forest protection (prohibition of logging in water sources and along riverbanks and sacred places), land rehabilitation ( have to replant if you cut down trees n unproductive fruits). The government and indigenous peoples can manage Ambon City's protection forests collaboratively.

Keywords

• protection forest
• management principles
• indigenous peoples
• agroforestry