TRUST BUILDING TO COORDINATE COLLECTIVE ACTION IN REFORESTATION PROGRAM
ABSTRACT: The study explores
the way trust among agencies is established to coordinate collective action in
rehabilitating protected areas, which have been utilized, commodified, and
settled. Using an ethnography approach, the fieldwork was conducted in the
villages surrounding 2 protected areas of West Lampung and South Lampung
Districts in Lampung Province of Indonesia. There are several factors which
hinder trust building process i.e. past
experiences in relation to eviction from protected areas, forest policies which
are not consistent, forest status which is protected areas, and the attitude of
forest officers which consider land users as has no responsibility for
conservation. Among those factors, forest policies which discursively and
materially incorporate trust-building are the main factors which may help
forest land rehabilitation process. Trust building process through negotiation
where prejudice is turned into understanding among agencies still offer the
possibility for forest rehabilitation efforts in the context of commodified
landscape, agrarian change, and migration. However, negotiation is established
through 'give and take' mechanisms, trial and error, and a learning process.
Landscape transformation where forest land rehabilitation occurs relies on the
'art' of 'negotiation' at a local level.
KEYWORDS: rehabilitation
efforts; negotiation; trust building; landscape transformation; the art of
negotiation
Penulis: Anna Indria Witasari
Journal Code: jpkehutanangg160021
