CHALLENGES IN GAME RESERVE PLANNING IN INDONESIA: CASE STUDY MASIGIT KAREUMBI GAME RESERVE, WEST JAVA

• Main Author: Nugraha Andrian, Yusuf
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Subjects: Karya Umum
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/47948
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Game reserve is a forest area designated as a regulated hunting ground. Indonesia currently has 11 game reserves that all have not been able to carry out regulated hunting. Masigit Kareumbi Game Reserve (Taman Buru Masigit Kareumbi/TBMK) is the only game reserve on the islands of Jawa and Bali and is the largest captive deer breeding ground in Indonesia. Currently there are 41 Javanese deer (Rusa timorensis de Blainville, 1822) in TBMK captivity. The purpose of this research is analyze the feasibility of TBMK as game reserve, determine the challenges in planning TBMK as game reserve, and offering management recommendations compliant to hunting and game reserves policies, relevant to stakeholders involved in hunting and game reserves, and adjusted to the biophysical suitability of the area. This study uses an Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework with a qualitative approach (narrative inquiry and semi-ethnography). Data collection methods included literature collection, semi-structured interviews with PERBAKIN and Wanadri, and participant observation for 6 months. The analysis used in this study is discourse analysis and stakeholder analysis. Analysis results showed that regular hunting is one of multiple conservation efforts. Policy analysis shows that although regulations and legislation for game reserves is available, there is some vacancy and inconsistency in the derivative regulations, especially related to what you can or cannot do and the Park Management Permit (IPTB). This underlies the complexity of IPTB submission in TBMK. Stakeholder analysis shows that there are four parties involved in managing TBMK namely, KLHK, West Java BBKSDA, Wanadri and local communities. Meanwhile, there are currently two parties involved in hunting matters, namely PERBAKIN and the Police. The interaction between game reserves and separate hunting grounds is one of the main problems in game reserves planning. Optimal communication and legal certainty are needed so that the game reserves can run sustainable hunting tours until illegal hunting does not happen again. On the other hand, hunting tourism consumers are very specific, where only PERBAKIN members who have hunting weapons and deeds can hunt in the game reserves. The model of hunting tourism in TBMK is considered as not feasible to run. This research offers recommendations for diversification of other business fopportunities such as ecotourism and the use of non-timber forest products to financially support the area, the establishment of a special management unit that focuses on hunting and game reserves, as well as changing the status of the Taman Buru (Game Reserve) to Taman Wisata Alam (Ecotourism Park) or Taman Hutan Raya (Forest Park) if investments in hunting is considered not promising.