POVERTY ALLEVIATION OF FOREST FARMERS IN A PARTICIPATORY PERSPECTIVE (CASE STUDY ON SOCIAL FORESTRY COMMUNITY IN GROBOGAN DISTRICT, CENTRAL JAVA)
Djumari- Bonaventura Ngarawula

Universitas Merdeka Malang

Abstract

Community involvement into forest management become an important factors, because community intensity interactions along with forest area is very important in all various regions in Indonesia. In addition, generally the condition of forest farmer face a poverty and uneducated as well. Regarding this condition government encourage the guidance program on land management for the forest farmers especially in Grobogan Regency area, Central Java province aiming to poverty reduction and increasing income for the farmers itself in this area. This program consist of forest land area ministration that aim to be managed and conserved both of facility and infrastructure in increasing income through forest farmer activity, for example: timber planting, coffee seed planting and other daily aliment necessity. This research uses descriptive qualitative by involving forest farmer community in Grobogan Area as an research^s object. The government wishes with the existence program able to empower forest farmer live and giving an soft skill training relate to daily aliment management through farmer activity in addition they are able to increase both of income and prosperity for their own family. Poverty alleviation program has been planned by the governments in various sector especially in the farmer sector and Industry therefore they are actively give a training on the business sector and fund loaning for the business actor. These farmers generally come from uneducated background therefore they don^t understand about business management on how they have to manage farmer^s harvest with the high price. Contrary the harvest price determined by the middleman with the lower price then they will sell to the market with the high price surely this conditions are unfair for the farmer. Therefore, through this training the farmer are going to able determine their own harvest price and sell to the market directly with the high price in addition, they will be able to gain a prosperity^s live.

Keywords: Forest Farmer- Grobogan Regency- Poverty- Government Program- and Farmer Activity

Topic: Democracy, Local Politics and Protecting Natural Resources