Strategy of agrarian-forestry crisis management: Participation, collaboration, and conflict

Abstract

The presence of communities in conservation areas provides chronic and systemic problems on land and biological resources and potential to become agrarian-forestry conflicts.The existence is often interpreted as a threat that will impact on the occurrence of ecosystem crisis with the increasing intensity and scale of natural disasters that led to social-economic and environmental catastrophe.This paper deals with dilemma questions from the Dongi-dongi community, Sigi Regency, Indonesia on social justice or conservation, human or environment?The research employed a qualitative descriptive method to decompose the source and root of the conflict, while the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to examine the implications of land conflict on socio-economic and environmental aspects.SWOT analysis directly directed to determine a strategy for reducing conflict and agrarian-forestry crisis.The results show that agrarian-forestry disputes can be reduced by prioritizing community-based forest management regarding participation and collaboration (socio-economic and ecological aspects) through clarity of forest management structures and institutions, land tenure and utilization systems.Also, avoiding conflicts through border setting and legitimacy.In this case, there should be a clear understanding that conversion of forest land to economic and environmentally insecure causes not only forest destruction but also natural disasters such as floods, drought, land erosion and socio-economic problems (declining quality of life, destruction local cultural arrangements and the loss of endemic flora and fauna species).

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