Kebijakan Pemerintah Pusat Dan Daerah Dalam Pengelolaan Hutan Di Provinsi Lampung

Abstract

Forest management in Lampung Province involves various strategic policies designed to maintain a balance between environmental conservation and the utilization of forest resources. One of the main policies is the social forestry program, which provides communities with legal access to manage state forest areas sustainably while simultaneously improving local economic welfare. The research problem approach uses a case study method with a normative juridical analysis, focusing on the review of legal principles, norms, and relevant legislation. This approach is employed to explore the meaning, objectives, and legal implications relevant to the issues under study. The results indicate that both central and regional government policies in forest management in Lampung Province still exhibit strong dualism and ambivalence. On one hand, there is a normative commitment to sustainability reflected in Regional Regulation No. 6 of 2022, environmental conservation policies, and the strengthening of the Social Forestry scheme as an effort to promote community access and management. On the other hand, development orientations driven by economic accumulation logic, as seen in the Job Creation Law, investment policies, and the expansion of space for extractive activities, often weaken conservation principles and shift priorities away from ecological protection. Regional governments tend to act as passive adopters of central norms and agendas without adapting them to local socio-ecological realities, resulting in many policies failing to fully address the complexity of on-the-ground issues. Meanwhile, community-based policies such as Social Forestry are often politically instrumentalized in practice, functioning more to mitigate tenure conflicts than to genuinely strengthen the capacity and independence of managing communities.