PERCEPTION AND ROLE OF THE COMMUNITY IN DEVELOPING URBAN FOREST IN PONTIANAK CITY
ABSTRACT: The Forest areas
around Bansir Laut village and Benua Melayu Darat village have ahigh diversity
of plants tree. Developing urban forests can be an alternative inaddressing
environmental problems. Urban forests can be used as a biodiversitycollection
that spread throughout the territory of the country and place for waterreserve.
This research aimed to know the perception and role of the community in developing
the forest in Pontianak city, West Kalimantan. The methods for datacollection
were conducted by interviews, questionnaire distributed to respondents. The respondent
were selected using purposive sampling method. The result showed that thepublic
perception of the urban forest was in the high category by 54 respondents or 58.07%,
in the medium category by 27 respondents or 29.03%, and in the low categoryby
12 respondents or 12.90%. The public perception of the urban forest was enthusiastic
and very supportive to its development in order to be used sustainably. The comunity
role to urban forest is utilize the urban forest according to the Law No. 32 / 2009
on the protection and management of the environment.
Keywords: Community Role,
Public Perception, Urban Forest Development
Penulis: Gunawan Frando Purba,
Fahrizal dan Sarma Siahaan
Kode Jurnal: jpkehutanandd170042
