Potensi Pengembangan Mamar Sebagai Model Hutan Rakyat Dalam Rehabilitasi Lahan Kritis Di Timor Barat

Abstract

Rehabilitation of critical land in Timor Barat should be done with holistic approach considering socio economic and cultural aspect. The problems of forest and land rehabilitation effort in this area are: poverty, less job opportunity, and high dependency on dry farm agriculture and animal husbandry. The rate of critical land in several watershed such as Benain Noelmina in Timor Barat is very high. Therefore, the approach of land rehabilitation should integrated and more specific. This research is intended to gain the information on land rehabilitation alternative through the development of community forest based on mamar system. Methods used on this research were survey on biophysics of mamar and interview with villagers, village administrators, and custom leaders. The results showed that mamar system could be developed as a community forest model to support land rehabilitation program. The benefit of applying this system is that the management of critical land will be based on local inisiative which is suitable with land characteristics, socio culture and indigenous knowledge, therefore it can increase people participation to reach the purpose of forest and land rehabilitation.

Sustaining subsistence culture in Mamar agroforestry management in West Timor, is it possible?

“…The island of Timor is known as one of the areas in Indonesia that has a climate of type D or semiarid [4], [5]. Environmental pressures such as climate and land unsuitable for crop farming are dominant in limiting agricultural production in the region.…”

Land Suitability for Community Forestry to Poverty Alleviation in the Border Area at Timor Tengah Utara District

“…Berdasarkan hasil penelitian terdahulu, diketahui adanya manfaat hutan rakyat, antara lain berupa: tersedia potensi produksi kayu, penyerapan kredit usaha hutan rakyat yang untuk tahun 1997 sampai 2000 sebesar Rp 107,58 milyar (Nugroho, 2010), memberikan kontribusi pendapatan rumah tangga petani hutan. Hutan rakyat campuran dapat menjaga keanekaragaman jenis tumbuhan yaitu sekitar 43 jenis tumbuhan yang ditemukan di Tanah Laut (Soendjoto et al, 2008), membangkitkan inisiatif lokal dalam melakukan konservasi tanah dan air pada lahan kritis (Njurumana et al,. 2008).…”

POTENSI GAMAL (Gliricidia sepium) SEBAGAI BAHAN BAKU PEMBANGKIT LISTRIK TENAGA BIOMASSA STUDI KASUS : KABUPATEN MANGGARAI TIMUR (NTT)

“…Nusa Tenggara Timur termasuk pada daerah dengan tipe iklim kering (Pasaribu, 2007;Lassa, et al 2014) dan kondisi lahan kritis (Njurumana et al 2008) serta saat ini merupakan provinsi yang tidak memiliki potensi energi selain dari diesel, yang berdasarkan kajian ekonomi regional mengakibatkan biaya ekonomi tinggi (BI, 2009; Wolo dan Winahju, 2009;Rachmawan, 2014).…”