Community forest : Government Management for Community

Abstract

This article aims to explain the transformation of forest management methods from public forest management to people management.The humans use benefits from resources in forest areas for a long time. Forest products have valuable and price. The government has look the forest in pattern of products to make money, therefore they have monopolized forest management. Including forest management with the concept that forest be free from human, communities and person come to seek to benefit from forest areas are seen as the destroyer of forests. Which these communities have a way of life and process management their own forests according to the concept and belief in the holy thing of the community while the government uses laws to manage forests under budgetary and personnel of limitation when compared to the size of forest areas. So the government have idea that they had given certain powers to communities to manage forests under compensation is a community right to exploit forest resources in the form of community forests.