Integrating Community Forestry and Forest Products Based-Rural Industrialization for Enhancing Rural Community Welfare and Sustaining Forest Resources
ABSTRACT
Research on community forestry or social forestry (CF/SF) in Indonesia has been done on various topics, however mostly they did‘nt pay attention to linkage household forest and forest products industry in rural areas. Whereas forest products industries have very important role in rural socio-economic development. The objectives of this article are to describe wood based-industries in rural areas, to describe household owned forest (hutan rakyat) or private forest and wood based-industry relationship in rural areas, and to explain why integration of community forest and forest product based-rural industrialization is necessary to be developed. The research was done in Palabuhan Ratu, Bojong Genteng, Parungkuda and Kalapanunggal of Sukabumi District using a case study method. The results showed that household-owned forest and small scale or household forest products based-industry in rural areas (HFPI) have interdependent relationship. The HFPI could support forest resource management to be sustainable, while sustainable forest could support sustainability of the HFPI. Both could enhance absorption of rural labor force, rural labor productivity, and household income; strengthen social relationship, and supposedly will enhance circulation of money in rural areas and decrease urbanization.
Keywords: Community forestry, household forest products based-industry, rural industrialization, rural development.
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