Abstract. Dako FX, Purwanto RH, Faida LRW, Sumardi. 2019. Community’s social capital in the management of Mutis Timau Protected Forest in Timor Island, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 20: 2177-2187. The social capital of the community around Mutis Timau Protected Forest in Timor Island is unexplored. In fact, its social capital plays an important role to support sustainable management of the forest viewed from the ability of the community to work together in achieving common goals in groups and organizations. This study aimed to investigate the elements of community’s social capital (i.e. norms, beliefs, and networks) in nine villages located in and around Mutis Timau Protected Forest administratively managed by the Forest Management Unit of South Central Timor District using quantitative survey approach. The result of the study showed that two villages have strong social capital while seven villages have moderate category. Overall, the communities have strong level on the elements of trust in individuals and others, and knowledge and understanding on unwritten rules, but have moderate level on the elements of written rules/regulations, trust in institutions and regulations, organizational network, and participation network. Community participation increases the understanding of written rules, institutional trust and improves the development of social networks (organizational networks and participation) between groups. This results can be used as a reference for the Forest Management Unit of South Central Timor District when developing cooperation with communities that have traditional knowledge and local wisdom through norms, beliefs, and networks in managing and utilizing natural resources in Mutis Timau Protected Forest. Furthermore, the involvement of people with social capital in managing Mutis Timau Protected Forest can maintain forest sustainability and improve community welfare.
The existence of Mutis Timau Protected Forest (MTPF) has given a real contribution to the community by providing household energy needs and raw materials for building the houses. This preliminary study is aimed at knowing the contribution of M T PF in terms of firewood and carpentry wood consumption in the community. The study was conducted in 9 villages located in and around MTPF. This study used surveys and employed descriptive analysis with 353 families spread proportionally on every village as the sample. The results show that MTPF contributed to as much as 87.45% of the total firewood consumption of the community living in and around the protected forest, while the remaining 12.55% was supplied from the gardens. These percentages were calculated from the total firewood -1 consumption of 1,912,512 kg year . Meanwhile, every 15-20 years, MTPF contributed to 96.98% of the total 3 carpentry wood needs (1,177.3 m ) while the remaining 3.02% was supplied from privately owned gardens. This fact indicates that the dependence level of the community on the forest is high. Consequently, the pressure on the forest is also very high and may cause deforestation and degradation. To prevent deforestation and degradation, social participation in the sustainable management of MTPF is needed. The principles of social forestry must be implemented through social forestry programs such as community empowerment.
This study aimed to determined the consumption of various types of foodstuffs by the people in and around the Mutis Timau protected forest area, South Central Timor District Forest Management Unit. The method used was a survey method with a qualitative and quantitative approach with a sample of 353 farmer households distributed proportionally to each village which included Nunbena, Noebesi, Leloboko, Tunua, Ajaobaki, Nuapin, Nenas, Kuanoel, and Fatumnasi. The research was conducted through several stages which included the preparation stage, data collection and analysis phase. Methods of data collection in this study were conducted using structured questionnaires, in-depth interviews, field observations, and literature studies. The data obtained was processed by tabulating data and then analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively by a descriptive method. The results showed that consumption of various types of food per family per day varied in each village with an average consumption of rice 0.86 kg, corn 0.83 kg, cassava 0.25 kg, sweet potatoes 0.28 kg, green beans 0.10 kg and tourist nuts 0.09 kg. While the average consumption per capita per day for rice was 0.18 kg, corn was 0.17 kg, cassava was 0.05 kg, sweet potatoes were 0.06 kg, green beans were 0.02 kg and nuts were 0.01 kg. The number of households that consumed the type of food that was combined every time they cooked includes corn rice (BJ) 12.46%, sweet potato rice (BJU) 60.05%, corn sweet potato rice (BJUK) 24.92%, corn bean rice (BJK) 1.41% and sweet potato (BU) 1.13%. This combination of eating patterns showed that there were efforts made by households in the society to maintained family food resilience, and widely to maintained society food resilienceABSTRAK Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui konsumsi berbagai jenis bahan makanan oleh masyarakat yang berada di dalam dan sekitar kawasan hutan lindung Mutis Timau, Kesatuan Pengelolaan Hutan Kabupaten Timor Tengah Selatan.Metode yang digunakan adalah metode survey dengan pendekatan kualitatif dan kuantitatif dengan sampel 353 KK petani yang terdistribusi secara proporsional pada setiap desa yang meliputi Nunbena, Noebesi, Leloboko, Tunua, Ajaobaki, Nuapin, Nenas, Kuanoel dan Fatumnasi. Penelitian dilakukan melalui beberapa tahapan yang meliputi tahap persiapan, tahap pengumpulan dan analisis data. Metode pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan kuesioner terstruktur, wawancara mendalam, observasi lapangan dan studi literatur. Data yang diperoleh diolah dengan melakukan tabulasi data dan selanjutnya dianalisis secara kualitatif dan kuantitatif dengan metode deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa konsumsi berbagai jenis bahan makanan setiap keluarga per hari bervariasi pada setiap desa dengan rata-rata konsumsi beras 0,86 kg, jagung 0,83 kg, ubi kayu 0,25 kg, ubi jalar 0,28 kg, kacang hijau 0,10 kg, dan kacang turis 0,09 kg. Sedangkan konsumsi rata-rata per kapita per hari untuk beras 0,18 kg, jagung 0,17 kg, ubi kayu 0,052 kg, ubi jalar 0,058 kg, kacang hijau 0,02 kg, dan kacang turis 0,01 kg. Jumlah rumah tangga yang mengkonsumsi jenis bahan makanan yang dikombinasikan setiap kali masak meliputi beras jagung (BJ) 12,46%, beras jagung ubi (BJU) 60,05%, beras jagung ubi kacang (BJUK) 24,92%, beras jagung kacang (BJK) 1,41% dan beras ubi (BU) 1,13%. Kombinasi pola makan ini menunjukkan bahwa ada upaya yang dilakukan oleh rumah tangga di masyarakat untuk menjaga ketahanan pangan keluarga, dan secara meluas untuk menjaga ketahanan pangan masyarakat
Forest resources obtained by the community are used to satisfy family needs, and one is an additional family income. This study aimed at determining the contribution of Mutis Timau protected forest to community income. In order to knowing the income that the community earns from the forest, a survey was conducted in nine villages located in and around Mutis Timau protected forest that started from January to June 2018. Nine villages were purposively selected that Mutis Timau protected forest area is administratively under those villages whose communities directly interact with the protected forest. The technique of collecting data was a questionnaire with 353 respondents selected proportionally in each village. Also, observation and literature study were adopted. The data were descriptively analyzed. The results denote that Mutis Timau protected forest provide income to the community through non-timber-1-1 forest products of IDR1,637,510,566 year of the total income of IDR45,260,686,262 year. Community income earned from Mutis Timau protected forest is very low (3.62%) compared to the income gained from horticultural food crops (66.29%) and livestock (30.09%). The income is directly earned from the sale of non-timber forest products to the consumers without having product processes in particular for hunting wild animals, fungus, tubers, and honey. Honey delivers higher income besides other non-timber forest products, such as hunting wild animals, fungus, and tubers.
Critical land area in East Nusa Tenggara (ENT) comprises of relatively large area, which is 1, 512,934.77 ha (83.64%) of the total 1,808,900 ha of the forest area in ENT Province; the category of critical comprises of potential to be critical to critical. The targets of the critical land are lands with function related to rehabilitation and reforestation activities, which include protected forests, protected areas outside the forest areas, and cultivated areas for agricultural purposes. To prevent forest and land destruction and to renew the function of the critical lands, actual efforts on forest and land rehabilitation are needed. According to the Ministry of Forestry Decree Number 20/Kpts-II/2001, the aim of critical land and forest rehabilitation is choosing degraded land and forest resources to be function optimally so that they can provide benefits for the people, guarantee the balance of environment and watershed systems and support the sustainability of forest development. In creating of sustainable forest management, there is a need of a model of forest management as a part of forest and degraded land rehabilitation; one of the efforts is through development of community forests. Community forests are state forests with main benefits are put on community empowerment, especially for community who live in and around forest areas. The community empowerment could be seen as efforts in improving community abilities and independencies so that they can be benefited from the forest resources optimally and fairly through capacity development and accessibility for the prosperity of the community.
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