KAJIAN DAMPAK PERUBAHAN FUNGSI KAWASAN HUTAN TERHADAP MASYARAKAT SEKITAR

Abstract

Changes in the forest function is an agent change the function of that forest to the other function. The judicial cases in the implementation of the change refers to the article 19 paragraph (1) of law No. 41 of 1999 on forestry, namely " Changes in designation and the function of forest area are set by the government based on the result of integrated research " . The mechanism that regulated the changes is based on activity of Forestry Decree No. 70/Kpts-15/2000. The change in the function of forest is intended to optimize the utilization of forest sustainability for welfare of the society. Therefore, the orientation of change is more on the aspect of forest utilization. Based on data from agency of Forest Planning changes in forest production function to other forest function as a whole until January 2007 cover about 884860.36 ha spread across Indonesia. This research is intended to study the impact of changes of the function of Production Forest (HP) and Protection Forest (HL) to the area conservation forest namely National Park (TN). Research was conducted in 3 Provinces i.e North Sumatera Batang Gadis National Park (TNBG), Bukit Duabelas National Park (TNBD) in Jambi and The Sebangau National Park (TNS) in Central Kalimantan. This Study used qualitative descriptive approach on social, economic and environment and legal aspects. The results showed that the changes of production forest function mostly took placed in the area of abandoned concession. The communities around the production forest were not directly affected because their livelihood in the former concession were not one permanent. In contrast, the community living around protected forest were affected because most farmers that lived around the forest occupied part of the protected forest for their livelihood. The impact was different in TNBG only ± 10 % from 20 respondent felt affected as they were prohibited from hunting, especially in the protected area, while community in TNBD was prohibited to cut the trees and in TNS was prohibited from farming.