Production Forest Utilization Strategy as Ecotourism for Community Empowerment in East Java

Abstract

Production Forest Utilization Strategy as Ecotourism for Community Empowerment in East Java is one way in which the Ministry of Forestry through Perhutani to help communities around the forest production, in order to be helped welfare. Through the utilization of production forests for community development in East Java is one of the regional development priority which aims to develop the socio-economic potential and improve the lives of people in the region.In connection with that in mind, the results of this research report is an effort to assess the Production Forest Utilization Strategy as Ecotourism in managing the natural resources available in the region to support the success of community development in East Java. From these results it can be concluded that the government expected can provide socialization, supervision, monitoring and evaluation of routine and active against forestry programs that have been or are being implemented in production forest areas in East Java. In addition, socio-economic sensitivity of society around production forest in empowering families who can not afford to be more instrumental in providing knowledge on how entrepreneurship-based utilization of forest utilization as ecotourism for community development in East Java.

Keywords: Strategy, Production Forest, Ecotourism, Empowerment