Management and development of forestry human resources is very important on attaining the objectives of forestry development towards sustainable forest management (SFM) and prosperous society. Lack of proper policy on forestry human resources management and development may degrade the quality of forest governance. Good understanding of the dynamics of power, interests, knowledge, and networks of stakeholders affecting the structure and performance of forestry human resources and it can be done by using an institutional approach to stakeholder analysis framework. This study aimed to determine the parties' interests and influences in policy-making on forestry human resource management and development. The study was conducted using snowball sampling method both in internal and external of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. It is found that sixteen stakeholders involved in the policy-making on forestry management and human resources development, which can be divided into the groups of: subjects, key players, context setters, and crowds. The existing relationships are cooperation, complementary and conflict. It needs good understanding, clear rules and strong leadership in order to increase the optimal role of stakeholders and to determine human resource management policies and development.
Village forest is a managed state forest by village institution for the prosperity of villagers. Village that has granted village forest is responsible for its utilization and its sustainability. The development of village forest in Buntoi Village is still at the preliminary stage; therefore the identification of environmental services, policy, institutional arrangements, and sustainable potential livelihood need to be conducted. The purpose of this study is to identify and analyse the potential of ecosystem services and influencing factors in the utilization of the ecosystem services. The result showed that there was lack of water services in the Buntoi village since there was no spring water in the forest. Also did not have the beauty of potential landscape that can attract tourists. Moreover, the potential of biodiversity and carbon sequestration in the village had not been optimised. Low utilization of ecosystem services in Buntoi was due to: (1) perceptions of stakeholders that had not yet support the utilization of ecosystem services; and (2) lack of support from district and provincial in the utilization of ecosystem services in village forest. Activities that can be developed to utilize biodiversity, beauty of landscape, and carbon conservation in Buntoi are ecotourism and REDD+ scheme..
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