Analysis the role of cooperative in community forest management in Kebumen

Abstract

The farmers of comunity forestry tend to get losses in timber marketing because of the need for cutting and price information that not run well. Economic institutions are required to provide services within the community timber business and provide information needed by farmers. Cooperative becomes one of the appropriate alternatives in accordance with the institution at the site level in community forest development. One of the farmer organizations that manages the human resources in the form of cooperatives is a Taman Wijaya Rasa Cooperative (Kostajasa) located in Kebumen. This study aims to analyze the role of Kostajasa in community forest management in production and marketing subsystem. The analysis used descriptive analysis is based on measuring the role of Kostajasa in production subsystem and marketing subsystem which is done using Likert scale. Kostajasa has played a good role in both subsystems. In the production subsystem, there are still less roles in the determination of timber products to be managed, and setting the harvesting regulation. In the marketing subsystem, Kostajasa also play a good role among others, shorten the marketing chain of wood products from community forest and offering a better price outside Kostajasa.