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Abstract. Safe’I R, Latumahina FS, Dewi BS, Ardiansyah F. 2021. Short Communication: Assessing the state and change of forest health of the proposed arboretum in Wan Abdul Rachman Grand Forest Park, Lampung, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 22: 2072-2077. Forest health is the fundamental of sustainable forest management. As such, forest health needs to be continually monitored and maintained. This study assessed the state and change of forest health of the prospective arboretum in Wan Abdul Rachman Grand Forest Park (Tahura WAR), Lampung, Indonesia, aiming that the arboretum can serve for integrated conservation and education forest (Tahura War). This research used the Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) method by combining the parameters of vitality (i.e., tree damage and tree crown condition) and biodiversity (tree species diversity) across four Forest Health Monitoring plot clusters. The results showed there was a change in the state of forest health of the prospective arboretum in Tahura WAR. The first measurement showed that 50% of plot clusters had a status of bad, while 25% was moderate and 25% was good. The results of the second measurement showed that 50% of plot clusters had a status of moderate, while 25% was bad and 25% was good. This finding suggests that the prospective arboretum experienced changes toward better conditions in health status. Even so, it is still necessary to carry out regular forest health monitoring activities to determine trends.

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The surrounding community widely uses mangrove forests as a fulfillment of life. This requires an efforts to preserve the mangrove forest so that no damage occurs. This study aimed to determine the internal factors that affect the health condition of mangrove forests. The research method used to obtain internal factor data is by measuring the ecological indicators of forest health using the Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) method, then the data is processed by the Multiple Regression Analysis method using SPSS 20 through data on internal factors of mangrove forest health which are analyzed for their effect on health conditions of the mangrove forest. The results showed that the significant value of the regression was 0.008 ((α = 0.05) > 0.008), this means that simultaneously the independent variables (tree damage, crown damage, Cation Exchange Capacity-CEC, and biodiversity have an effect on the dependent variable (mangrove forest health) at the level of = 5%. Furthermore, through individual regression coefficients from internal factor data, it is found that the internal factors of biodiversity indicators in measurements 1 and 2 and crown conditions in the second measurement do not affect forest health conditions. Therefore, this research concludes that the internal factors that affect the level of forest health in the first measurement are vitality indicators (tree damage/cluster Plot Index-CLI and crown condition) and site quality indicators (CEC). Meanwhile, in the second measurement, there was a change in the crown condition parameters, which did not significantly affect forest health.

Hutan Kemasyarakatan (HKm) adalah hutan negara yang pemanfaatan utamanya ditujukan untuk memberdayakan masyarakat di dalam dan sekitar kawasan hutan. Dengan adanya program HKm masyarakat dan pemerintah dapat bersama-sama menjaga kelestarian hutan. Masyarakat sebagai pelaku utama dalam pengelolaan HKm merasakan dampak yang besar. Dengan adanya program HKm masyarakat memiliki akses untuk dapat memanfaatkan hasil hutan non kayu yang dapat membantu masyarakat dalam meningkatkan pendapatan ekonomi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat pengaruh keberadaan gapoktan terhadap peningkatan ekonomi masyarakat pengelola lahan HKm serta melihat perbedaan tutupan lahan diareal kerja gapoktan sebelum dan sesudah terbentuknya gapoktan. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah observasi partisipan, wawancara mendalam, dan analisis dokumen. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa Pendapatan anggota di kedua gapoktan cenderung mengalami peningkatan. Pendapatan anggota Gapoktan Beringin Jaya mengalami peningkatan dari rata-rata Rp. 25.473.684/ha/tahun menjadi rata-rata Rp. 29.368.421/ha/tahun. Pendapatan anggota di Gapoktan Sinar Mulya juga meningkat dari rata-rata Rp. 31.416.66/ha/tahun menjadi Rp. 37.054.042/ha/tahun. Perubahan tutupan lahan di areal kerja kedua gapoktan mengalami perubahan yaitu semakin meluasnya areal pertanian dan lahan terbuka pada areal kerja gapoktan.

Community forest (HKm) is a social forestry scheme located in the country’s forests by empowering people around forest areas. Management carried out by communities around forests must enhance ecological aspects with sustainable forest management Forest health can be an option to support sustainable forest management. Through forest health assessment, one can find out the status, changes, and tendencies experienced by a forest. This research aims to find out the value of forest health status in community forest management Gapoktan Margo Rukun and Harapan Sentosa, KPHL Batu Tegi, Tanggamus Regency, Lampung. The stages of the implementation of this study are the determination of plot clusters, the collection of data on forest health indicators (productivity, biodiversity, vitality, and quality of the site), and the final assessment of forest health. This study obtained the value of forest health with a range of values of 3.30 – 8.75. The average health status value of the community is 5.95, which is in the moderate category. Thus, the value of health status community orangutans managed in the condition of medium forest health.

The BatuTegi KPHL controlled area has relatively high biodiversity, including tree species diversity. Therefore, the health of the KPHL BatuTegi forest can be assessed by considering the diversity of existing tree species and identifying them as a measure of the sustainability of the forest ecosystem. This study aims to clarify the diversity of tree species as an index for assessing the health status of KPHL BatuTegi forests. This study was conducted in the GapoktanHarapanSentosa KPHL Batutegiarea using the Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) method. The result obtained is that the average health of the forest inBatutegi KPHL is moderate at a value of 2.72. Therefore, the health of the BatuTegi KPHL forest is reasonably healthy (stable).

In Lampung Province, awareness of the importance of forest health in achieving sustainable forest management in various types of forests is still low so that forest health problems have not received serious attention so far. This study aims to obtain indicators of forest health assessment and the status of forest health conditions in various types of forests in Lampung Province. This research was carried out in mangrove and community forests in East Lampung District, and protected and conservation forests in Tanggamus District in 2018. The stages of this study consisted of formulating guarantees of forest health indicators, making measuring plots, measuring forest health, processing data, and forest health assessment. The results showed that indicators for assessing the health of forests in mangrove forests are vitality and biodiversity, in community forests are productivity, vitality and site quality, in protected forests are biodiversity, vitality and productivity, and in conservation forests are biodiversity and productivity. The status of health conditions in each cluster of plots in mangrove forest is bad and good, in community forests is good and medium, in protected forests is bad and good, and in conservation forests are bad and good.Keywords: indicator, forest health status, forest types, Lampung Province