The Roles and Sustainability of Local Institutions of Mangrove Management in Pahawang Island

Abstract

Local institutions along with community participation are crucial things in a sustainable development. Collective actions performed by a community in managing natural resources have led to success, but local institutions are also facing challenges to institutional sustainability. This research aimed to elucidate and explain the roles and sustainability of local institutions of mangrove management. This research is a qualitative research, using a case study method Research results showed that the majority of community support and admit that mangroves in their region as Mangrove Preservation Area under controlled by management of local organization with agreed rules. Nevertheless, the inability of local organizations to enforce such rules when facing investors and politics in the local level has caused these organizations to elude their support and institutional status. It is for this reason that local institutions need to be strengthened through collaboration among local institutions, local, national and international NGOs, universities, research institutions, and many others. Such collaboration can improve bargaining position of local institutions, so that finally can promote regency government policies which favoring more to local institutions. Mangrove management in a sustainable way by local institutions will help regency government in rural development.

How trust influence social capital to support collective action in agroforestry development?

“…Local institutions play an important role in resource management, as communities take an active role in implementing legislation for collective action in sustainable resource management (Febryano et al 2014). Collective action for the natural resource management shapes by individuals and its transformations within groups and individuals.…”

“…Koutsou et al (2014) showed farmers' trust tend to increase at individual level, particularly for farmers who take collective action as well as allowing farmers to be flexible in adapting to new conditions. Febryano et al (2014) explain that the high level of trust, understanding, and compliance can be seen from the support and active participation of the community against the agreed rules in forest management.…”

Bound by debt: Nutmeg trees and changing relations between farmers and agents in a Moluccan agroforestry systems

“…Moreover, the absence of organizational support for farmers and other parties related to the bargaining position of farmers is very low. According to (Febryano, Suharjito, Darusman, Kusmana, & Hidayat, 2014) collaboration between local institutions, local NGOs, national and international universities, research institutions, private companies through CSR, and others can improve the bargaining position of local farmers and their institutions, and could advocate to encourage local government policies that favor local farmer institutions.…”

Status of sea turtle populations and its conservation at Bird’s Head Seascape, Western Papua, Indonesia

“…This has been enlightened before by Agrawal (2000); Memon and Chandio (2011);Datta et al (2012) and Febryano et al (2014) who revealed that involving communities and other stakeholders having close relationship and high dependence on the existence of mangrove resources would be the important key to carry out collective action in management of mangrove ecosystem in one area. Subsequently Datta et al (2012) explains that sustainable management of mangrove ecosystems will eventually rely on the cooperation among governmental bodies and local stakeholders (including local community) struggling for a common goal i.e., the protection and conservation of mangrove ecosystem.…”