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Pengelolaan Hutan Kemasyarakatan Berdasarkan Modal Sosial Di Nagari Indudur Kabupaten Solok
The local practices of forest management or generally called as community based forest management (CBFM) are still becoming a scientific discourse in related to the community capacity and sustainable forest management. Some studies on CBFM identified a gap of theory and practice which caused the different assessment to CBFM performance. Then, some scholars suggested that sociology and anthropology studies are able to strengthen previous studies on CBFM. The concept of social capital is a concept which could describe the performance of CBFM because this concept is able to explain the socio-economic and socio-ecological aspects of CBFM holistically.
This research aimed to describe CBFM by using the social capital concept in the context of cognitive categories (norms, values, beliefs, and attitudes) and structural categories (roles, rules, procedures, precedents, and networks). The research paradigm is a constructivism and the research approach is a qualitative research. The method is a case study of parak and rimbo practices of Indudur communities, Solok Regency in West Sumatra Province. The data were collected through unstructured interviews, observations, and document studies. Data analysis included categorisation and codification, historical analysis, document analysis, spatial analysis, socio- economic analysis, and descriptive policy analysis.
Parak and rimbo are local practices based on local knowledge and wisdom as well as recognized by communities as a local governance. By elaborating the attributes of local ecological knowledge and traditional ecological knowledge, parak and rimbo have been initiated in the long term, changed over time (dynamic), proved the holistic insight, characterized the local specificity, contained the historical values, embedded from generation to generation, and contained moral and spiritual values in the concept of customary based on sharia and sharia based on Al-Qur’an (adat basandi syarak dan syarak basandi kitabullah). The local knowledge and wisdom gave the cognitive and instrumental foundations to the social capital construction of the local forest resources management.
The cognitive and structural social capital of Indudur communities have constructed in the adat system of Minangkabau. The cognitive social capital contains norms, values, beliefs, and attitudes which could be categorized in the context of sustainability, equity, capability, security, profit, opportunity, and welfare. The cognitive social capital rationalized the structural social capital in term of roles, rules, procedures, precedents, and networks. Both categories of social capital are represented in any networks of forest resources management, especially parak and rimbo. Networks are generated by the expectations to sustain their livelihoods, utilize the forest products, ensure the benefit sharing, increase the land productivity, and protect their community. Networks
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developed in trust which strengthens the kinship relations, development relations, and local economic relations.
Based on the results, it can be concluded as follows:
1. The existence of parak and rimbo in the management community has changed from time to time. Change occurs based on local knowledge and wisdom built by the community from generation to generation. By using the concept of local ecological knowledge and traditional ecological knowledge, the existence of parak and rimbo as knowledge-based practices and local wisdom can be explained through attributes that describe these practices occurring over time and are cumulative, experiencing changes (dynamic), historical value, characterizing local, has a holistic viewpoint, is embedded through culture, and contains moral and spiritual values. This proves the existence of parak and rimbo based on local knowledge and wisdom from the community. The elaboration of these attributes also provides a cognitive and instrumental basis for building social capital in forest resource management.
2. This study proves the building of social capital in the management of parak and rimbo according to community customs with a set of norms, values, beliefs and attitudes as cognitive social capital and roles, rules, procedures, and precedents as structural social capital. Cognitive and structural aspects underlie the construction of networks in the management of forest resources that involve kinship, development relations, and local economic relations. Networks are a representation of social capital that is generated by expectations and flows through a trust mechanism. Networks with built relationships encourage collective action to ensure sustainable forest resource management. This collective action takes place in organized activities that involve decision-making, resource management and mobilization, communication, and conflict management3.
3. These organized activities ensure a clear level of forest resources, have a management concept and implementation to ensure the conservation of biological resources, pay attention to forest health and vitality, consider the production function of forest resources, ensure the protection function of forest resources, provide socio-economic benefits for supporting welfare, and building legal, policy and institutional frameworks according to the concept and implementation of community customs. This proves the relationship between social capital construction of a community and sustainable forest management.
Keywords: cognitive social capital, collective action, local knowledge and wisdom, structural social capital, sustainable forest management
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