英文摘要 |
Forest ecosystem provides multiple ecological services that their importance might be perceived differently to the various community types implementing Community Forest (CF) program in Indonesia. The purpose of the study was to (1) establish a foundational information for CF in Indonesia; (2) understand residents' perspective toward the importance of community forest; and (3) compare residents' perspective among different community types. This study was conducted from 12th July 2019 to 24th August 2019 through questionnaire survey administered to 186 family members of four communities implemented CF program in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia. The importance of 14 forest values for different community types were examined through analyses of variance (ANOVA) and least significant difference (LSD) method, respectively. These results showed that 11 forest values were significantly different while 3 forest values were not significantly different among the different communities. The insignificant items included ''Community forest provides handicraft materials'', ''Community forest provides materials for cultural services'', and ''I go to forests to do recreation/relaxation activities''. Persamot Community Group and Mandiri Community Enterprise Cooperative perceived highly the importance of timber, food, meat, and fodder material from forest, while Jangga Dolok Community and Mekar Community valued highly the importance of water resources, tourism value, flood and drought prevention, landslide prevention, biodiversity protection, and climate change mitigation of forest value to the local people on their villages. |