Implementasi Kearifan Lokal dalam Pengelolaan Hutan Berbasis Masyarakat di Kesatuan Pengelolaan Hutan (KPH) Wilayah IV Balige (Studi Kasus: Lphd Simanuk-Manuk dan KTH Lumban Lansang)

Abstract

Forests provide a medium of reciprocity between humans and other living creatures and the natural factors of the ecological process that support life's continuity. Forest damage in Indonesia is at 47%. Local community participation plays a key role in forest sustainability. Basically, there are forest management rules and systems established by local communities or commonly called "Local Wisdom." However, local wisdom for environmental management is under threat. The study aims to find out what local wisdom is like in the communities of forest use, the factors that cause local wifarism to shift, the strategy of maintaining local wisdom in the forest use in Village Forest and Community Forest. The population in this study were households in the villages of Jangga Dolok and Siantar Utara. The taking of the sample is done with a purpose sample. Research shows local wisdom found in the villages of Jangga Dolok and Siantar Utara, the beliefs and/or tabbing, ethics and rules, practices, land use techniques, and people's traditions. Factors that cause the loss of local wisdom are the inroads of religion, modernization, and population growth. A strategy that can be applied to maintaining local wisdom in the Village Forest of Simanuk-manuk is the SO strategy (strength/opportunity), that is, safeguarding and passing over local knowledge in forest management to younger generations, and preserving local peoples' rules for managing forests and collaborating with government policies. While a strategy that can be applied to maintaining local wisdom in the Community Forest of Lumban Lansang is SO (strength/opportunity), that is, increasing the role KTH plays in preserving local wisdom to preserve forest life.