Out of fifty established Essential Ecosystem Area up to 2020, six are located on mangrove forest. To support the government target’s achievement of ecological representative protection, at once to enhance the conservation of coastal environment and resources, what has been initiated by Pertamina RU II Sungai Pakning, communities of seven coastal villages on Bukit Batu district, and various actors to rehabilitate and conserve the environment need to be supported through the improvement status as one of wetland type of Essential Ecosystem Area (EEA). Apart from its biological diversity and the carbon stock potentials, this 281.86 hectares of mangrove forest has been developed as an integrated coastal management site which is integrating coastal disaster risk mitigation, protection of mangrove-based biodiversity, wise utilization of wetland through inland aquaculture, education-purpose tourism, the environmental-based communities institutionalization, and as a coastal resources-based alternative livelihood. The result shows that Sungai Pakning Mangrove Forest meets the indication of the essential area from the uniqueness, biodiversity, existing governance, and utilization aspects. The improvement status as Essential Ecosystem Area expectedly also improve the quality of coastal management and promote the wider collaborative management, and encourage sustainable utilization by communities surround mangrove forest.

<p class="ISI-Paragraf"><span lang="EN-US">Agrarian conflict in Pari Island of Seribu Islands, Jakarta has been undergoing for more than twenty years. The conflict involves main parties, in which the locals are diametrically opposed to local government-backed tourist corporations. This inductive qualitative study explores the historical information of the conflict and constructs a theoretical proposition at the mezzo level concerning the cause of this conflict by using an analytical tool from Lefebvre's concept of "production of space" and "accumulation by dispossession" by Harvey. The purpose of this study is to obtain a theoretical explanation at the intermediate level on the relation between abstract space production, dispossession and rural urbanization in favor of the tourism industry. The result shows, the production of abstract spaces, dispossession and urbanization located in a linear path for the production of capital space that turn social space into a space of capital accumulation, transforms agrarian resources into commodities and creates landless free labor for the future modern tourist industry. This study also shows that imbalanced contestation of spatial conflicts in Pari Island potentially marginalize local communities, furthermore, converting insular space into exclusively private-based industries is inappropriate because corporation has geographically expansive tendencies. Thus, policy makers are advised to support the life of differential spaces so that the diversity and particularity that exist in Pari Island can live together. It is this action that will overcome the damage caused by the production of abstract spaces and dispossession in the past and become the solution to the agrarian conflict in Pari Island.</span></p>

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Forestry-related conflict in Indonesia urgently requires a solution, and regional authority has failed to protect forest areas. This failure rooted on the unequal power relations and the discourse applied in governing the forest area. "Collaboration" only exists superficially. The ongoing narration shows that the management of forest resources became the arena of contestation, not for collaboration. Bureaucracy rises with policy and legal narration, private corporations rise with growth and welfare narration, and communities rise with resistance and exclusion narration. The respective narration is diametrically negating and compete to dominate each other, resulting the practice of "legal not legitimate" and "illegal but authentic" on the other side. Starting with that issue, the concept of Collaborative Management’s effectiveness should be levelled up through devolution based on local-users in a polycentric system. These three steps of the policy development are: 1) the formulation of collective narration based on knowledge and local multi-stakeholders discourse; 2) the creation of local actor web as authentic resource users, and 3) institutionalisation of forest resources management and the local resource mobilisation.

Until 2018, “aanslibbing” or channelbar at two coastal villages of Ujung Pangkah reached 4644,98 hectares with an average of 8-12 hectares per year increased. However, from satellite images, during the years of 2016-2018, this area declined by 115.87 hectares due to coastal abrasion.This research aims to analyze the landscape change and the occupation process of the channelbar until 2018 and identify the implication toward tenurial security and the sustainability of coastal environment of Ujung Pangkah, Gresik. The method used for the research were satellite image interpretation, groundcheck, and socio-juridical analysis related to social and juridical implication of the occupation of channelbar on two villages.  The research showed that the occupation of  channelbar in Ujung Pangkah implicated on two issues namely coastal landscape change including the loss of mangrove ecosystem due to pond extension and land conflict potential. In conclusion, the agrarian irregularity practice constitute an issue for the dynamic type of land existence like channelbar, therefore its tenurial security must be addressed as a priority issue for agrarian regulator in the region. Intisari: Hingga tahun 2018, “aanslibbing” atau “tanah timbul” di dua desa pesisir Ujung Pangkah mencapai 4644,98 hektar dengan rata-rata peningkatan luas lahan 8-12 hektar per tahun. Namun dari citra satelit pada periode 2016-2018 daerah ini mengalami penurunan luas hingga 115,87 hektar karena abrasi pantai. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis proses perubahan lanskap dan penguasaan tanah timbul di Ujung Pangkah sampai tahun 2018 dan mengidentifikasi implikasinya terhadap keamanan tenurial dan keberlanjutan lingkungan pesisir di Ujung Pangkah, Gresik. Metode yang digunakan adalah interpretasi citra,groundcheck lahan dan analisis deskriptif sosiologis yuridis menyangkut implikasi-implikasi sosial dan hukum dari praktik penguasaan tanah timbul di dua desa tersebut. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa penggunaan “tanah timbul”di Ujung Pangkah berimplikasi pada dua hal, yaitu perubahan lanskap pantai termasuk hilangnya ekosistem mangrove untuk perluasan tambak, dan potensi konflik pertanahan maupun konsentrasi lahan.Sebagai kesimpulan,praktik iregularitas agraria merupakan satu masalah bagi jenis lahan yang eksistensinya dinamis seperti tanah timbul, maka kepastian tenurialnya harus mendapatkan prioritas perhatian oleh regulator pertanahan di daerah.