POLICY BRIEF PERHUTANAN SOSIAL_EN

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STRATEGY FOR ACCELERATED EXPANSION OF PUBLIC'S ACCESS TO UTILISATION OF STATE FORESTS Policy Brief

SUMMARY In support of the Government's efforts to achieve the target of allocating 12.7 million ha of forest lands into Social Forestry scheme, it is necessary to change the paradigm of policy makers so as to make the community a subject, instead of an object. One of the first steps to take is evaluating numerous social forestry related policies which are effective both at national and regional levels. The Government needs to provide certainty regarding utilisation area to the people who live in and around state forest lands in order to ensure their livelihood. This requires mainstreaming of villages and village structures into the subjects of social forestry policies. It is suggested that the Government adopts a Forest Management Unit (FMU) scheme in making efforts to ensure allocation of people's utilisation area within state forests. FMU can play an important role to support such efforts because of its site-based institutional establishment, and it is simultaneously integrated into the structures of policy and planning from the local to the national level in addition to a mandate of state forest management under the applicable legislation. Consequently, it is necessary to make several efforts to reform and strengthen the capacity of FMU so it can play an effective role in ensuring public access to state forests through socio-economic mapping, integration of activities in developing and protecting the presence of people's utilisation areas and FMUs developed together with the community, as well as facilitation of community institutions and licensing processes for ensuring public access to forest resources.

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