Institutional Analysis of Sesaot Forest Area Management West Nusa Tenggara Province

Abstract

Sesaot forest area has been inhabited space shared between the parties. There are institutional HKm, either already use or not licensed. In the same space, there is a forest botanical garden institutions (Taman hutan raya/Tahura) who also did most of the management of Sesaot forests. Of the status of forest areas, there have been changes over several times, ranging from the status of a limited production forest to protected forest and later some areas became of conservation forest. This study aims to (1) analyze institutional of stakeholders involved in the management and / or utilization of Sesaot forest area, (2) determine the policy options and strategies for the resolution of conflicts over Sesaot forest resources, (3) analyze the implications of the conflict on Sesaot forests and institutional stakeholders who utilize Sesaot forest. The results showed that (1) the results of an evaluation of the institutional community (“Kelompok HKm” and “Forum Kawasan”) and UPTD Tahura known that these institutions are still not able to achieve sustainable forest management, (2) institutional development of Sesaot forest management and utilization can not be negated the role of one of the parties, in particular the community, (3) deals with policy inconsistencies occurred over the function and status of forest Sesaot and shape policy and utilization management that implies a change in forest management authority between provincial and local governments and changes in people's access to forest resources. This triggers further conflict over forest resources, (4) the conflict is structural, because the implementation of forest management and utilization policies which are inconsistent, the conflict is no longer latent but already sticking out and being open, (5) Forest areas that have been utilized by communities more appropriately be defined for community forest work area, moved to shift the location Tahura untapped forests, (6) conflict resolution efforts have produced the document "Piagam Kesepakatan" signed by the parties who are involved in the management and / or utilization of Sesaot forest.