THE DYNAMICS OF AGREEMENT WITHIN THE APPLICATION OF SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE (SFM) IN KEE WEHEA-KELAY, EAST KALIMANTAN PROVINCE

• Main Author: Dwi Aprillianno, Yoga
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/65768
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Humans have lived on earth for three hundred thousand years, leaving various traces. Environmental governance keeps evolving to design human habits that impact the earth's ecology. Started from the top-down approach to the bottom-up to the latest: ecological modernization. Environmental governance, which was previously dominated by the public sector, has been shifted by the power of the private sector. New methods have emerged. One of them is Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) certification, which is closely related to forest product concessions and plantations. Problems arise when 80 of the 199 companies holding IUPHHK-HA do not produce even though they already have SFM certification. Indications of problems arise because the actors involved in it are very diverse. Thus, the subjectivity and competition of the actors in determining the "best" justification continue to emerge. This study aims to explore the dynamics of justification in the application of SFM practices to environmental governance. The SFM practice applied at KEE Wehea- Kelay was chosen as a case study because the location offers a complexity that can meet the data needs. This research uses the descriptive qualitative method. Researchers use Convention Theory to gain an alternative interpretation in conceptualizing a different justification to analyze the collected data. The study results found that there were many experiments carried out by actors in KEE Wehea-Kelay in building agreements to govern the environment. The way is to challenge the status quo of justifications other actors hold. Even so, not all experiments lead to an agreement. Disagreements were found horizontally at the grassroots level and vertically with central government as regulators. Therefore, this study suggests a change in approach by actors to achieve the common good as aspired by Convention Theory.