Sustainability Status of Social Forestry Management in Yeh Sumbul Village Forest, Jembrana District, Bali Province

Abstract

This study investigates the sustainability status of social forestry management in Yeh Sumbul Village forest, Jembrana Regency, Bali Province. Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) technique was employed through RSI^TM (rapid sustainability index) software. The findings indicate a highly sustainable level of 55.48%, 68.40%, 52.75%, and 52.76% for the environmental, economic, socio-cultural and legal/institutional dimensions respectively. Also, the leverage analysis (sensitivity) outcome revealed three most sensitive management attributes out of 31, with capacity to impact sustainability status, consisting of 1) agricultural fields supplementation from the forest with 27.43 as value, 2) understanding, concern, and community responsibility for the forest of 27.43 value and 3) cross-sectoral and inter-regional cooperation technique in forest resource management with 26.23 as value