"The spirit of Social Forestry is to give social justice to community inside the forest and at the same time make the forest sustainable" Joko Widodo, The President of RI.
A year ago, Jokowi had been committed to make prosperity for
forest community through social forest mechanism. He then created a policy to
actually aim for social justice for forest community and equal development. He noted
that there are many people who live inside the forest that still depend on
forest resources. Therefore, he allocated at least 12,7 million ha of land
forest to be used by that people.
Social forestry is sustainable forest management system in state
owned forest area or in community forest that the implementers are people
around the forest or indigenous people. The
purposes of the program are to increase prosperity, and to balance the environment
with social culture. The outputs of the social forestry are Village Forest,
Community Forest, Community Forest Plantation, Customary Forest, and forestry
partnership. Through this program the community around the forest have a chance
to manage land forest up to 35 years with agroforestry.
