The performance of forest partnership scheme management in the Walanae protection forest management unit

Abstract

Walanae Protection Forest Management Unit (KPHL) is one of the early Forest Management Unit (KPH) that implementing a forest partnership scheme. There is a community empowerment program through the agroforestry partnership group in the Minangatellue village, Maniangpajo district, Wajo regency with an area of 25 ha. KPH has not often experienced problems in the development of institutional partnership of farmer groups. Many things cover the birth of these obstacles. One of them is how to focus on the agreed principles in the management of the forest partnership scheme. The objective of this study is to analyze the performance of the forest partnership scheme management in the KPHL area. The data obtained were identified and reviewed through a table of criteria and indicators developed by researchers based on four partnership criteria formulated by Piltan and Sowlati and reviewing the text of the cooperation agreement between partners. The results of the performance evaluation show that the value of the average index of the process, the product and the result is 1.9. The value of the index is in the middle category, which means that the implementation of the agroforestry forest partnership scheme management is not good enough. We identified some root problems such as the absence of direct communication with the district government, the absence of decision-making related to the operational activities of the partnership, the absence of an agreement to share unexpected risks and lack of improvement in human resources capacity.