Judul: Efektivitas komunikasi pembangunan pada masyarakat sekitar hutan konservasi Taman Nasional Gunung Halimun Salakunderstanding of community
Abstrak: Nowdays, the conservation forest of National Park of Mt. Halimun Salak (NPMHS), which is managed and utilized by the people surrounding the conservation forest, is beginning to deteriorate because of encroachment and illegal logging, illegal gold mining, violation of management zone, development and illegal land use as a result of the lack of public understanding concerning the utilization and conservation of the forests on NPMHS. The objectives of this research were to (1) analyze the communication effectiveness in improving the understanding of communities around the forest, (2) identify the factors that determine the effectiveness of communication in delivering conservation messages, (3) analyze the relationship between factors that determine the understanding of forest communities and communication effectiveness, and (4) analyze appropriate communication strategies. The results of the study showed that the knowledge of the forest communities in improving physical productivity was in the category of understanding. Their knowledge about land optimization was in the category of very understanding. Their knowledge about the improvement of environmental quality was in the category of very understanding. Also, their knowledge concerning maximizing income was in the category of very understanding. The factors that determined the people's understanding of the use and conservation of forest at NPMHS were the capacity of forest officials, information, communication channels, individual characteristics, and cosmopolitan knowledge of individuals (All of these factors were of good categories). As a whole there were some relationships between the factors that could improve the public understanding and the communication effectiveness: (1) the relationship between the capacity of forest officials and communication effectiveness, (2) the relationship between the information about NPMHS forest conservation and the communication effectiveness, (3) the relationship between communication channels and the communication effectiveness, and (4) the relationship between individual characteristics and the communication effectiveness. The resulted communication strategies were among others, the accuracy, availability and facilities of choices of communication channels for forest communities to select and use to get information about forest utilization and conservation; providing facilities and opportunities for forest communities to access available sources of information and communication channels; forming discussion groups and giving opportunities to the surrounding communities to engage in managing the NPMHS forest conservation.
Keyword: Effectiveness communications, utilization and conservation of forest, understanding of community

Judul: Pengetahuan masyarakat tentang konservasi sumberdaya hutan: studi kasus pada masyarakat Desa Cipeuteuy, Kecamatan Kabandungan, Kawasan Taman Nasional Gunung Halimun Salak, Sukabumi Jawa Barat
Abstrak: Halimun Salak Mountain National Park in accordance with the Decree of Ministry of Forestry No. 282/Kpts-II/1992 covering area of 40.000 ha. TNGH area was enlarged on 2003 become Halimun Salak Mountain National Park (TNGHS) according to the Decree of Ministry of Forestry No. 175/Kpts-II/2003. The extension of TNGHS area changed the status of production forest become one entity of Halimun Salak Mountain National Park area with total area as 113.357 ha. The focus of this research is community knowledge of conservation that realized in prohibition contained in the community and the influence to the utilization activities of community such as agricultural cultivation, tree felling, firewood collecting, and grass taking. Those community activities are conducted in order to meet the economic needs of community. In the other hand, the area status as a national park restricts the community access in conducting those activities because it’s considered can damage the forest. Therefore, it needs to review more deeply the community knowledge about forest resources conservation. This research was conducted by using case study method. Respondent consist of community leader and community members living in five hamlets of Cipeuteuy village that directly or indirectly involve in managing the National Park. It was conducted in five hamlets on one village. The data from field observation and deep interview with communities was classified and analyzed. The result is shown as narrative text and figure, and explained descriptively. This research result shown that Cipeuteuy communities have rules on interacting with forest including prohibitions. The rules arose as a result of learning process on community and socialization of regulation by National Park thus the regulation was gradually adopted in the rules of Cipeuteuy communities. In addition, Cipeuteuy communities’ still conduct utilization activity in National Park area such as agricultural cultivation, logging, collecting fuel wood and collecting the grass for animals feed. Generally, the communities try to avoid utilization that has been prohibited by National Park according to existing regulation or statue, but because of they do not have substitute, the community still continue the activities while trying to minimize the forest damage.
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