Sustainable Forest Management Principles on Community-based Area Management Concept

Abstract

In the last few decades, massive forest exploitation has occurred, negatively impacting all living things that depend on forests. Therefore, sustainable forest management (SFM) must be done so that forests can remain sustainable and benefit the environment and humans. WALHI, as one of the environmental organizations in Indonesia, offers the concept of Community-based Area Management (WKR) which is systematically structured to manage areas (including forests) sustainably. Therefore, this study attempts to analyze the WKR concept based on the SFM principles put forward by several experts. This research is qualitative research, where the analysis results are described descriptively. This research shows that WKR Concept has several similarities to the SFM Principles.