THE FOREST MANAGEMENT PARTNERSHIP MODELLING TO PREVENT THE CONFLICT IN PRODUCTION FOREST OF MERANTI, SOUTH SUMATERA, INDONESIAYayat Hidayat, Alfitri, Dadang Hikmah Purnama and RiswaniAbstract Conflict resolution in forestry sector has become the main issue in Indonesia which is initiated by the disharmony between the community living in the neighborhood and the company which have the authority to utilize the natural resource or making it as the production forest. However, the conflict potentially initiates forest destruction and is detrimental to the community. Therefore, there should be a way to interconnect the community and company to build a similar understanding to obtain sustainable forestry management. The proper communication could be fulfilled by knowing what is the pretension of all the stakeholders including the community. This present research proposed a partnership model of forest management partnership which potentially obtains the successful way in forest management. The study was conducted on the Production Forest area as an Industrial Plantation Forest (HTI) concession of PT Sentosa Bahagia Bersama (SBB) in Musi Banyuasin Regency, South Sumatra Province, Indonesia. To obtain the data, the study was conducted using a pragmatic approach using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods where qualitative was gone through in-depth interviews with predetermined informants and the quantitative method by distributing questionnaires to randomly assigned respondents and tested using the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) test. The results showed that community welfare has an important role in determining the success of social forestry partnerships. The further investigation using SEM obtained 5 aspects that played the main parameters which were openness, trust, legal certainty, profit, and participation. The proposed model was generated using those important aspects to achieve both parties goals and made it clear that the sustainable production forest management can be achieved. |