Public Participation in the Implementation of Forest Fire Control Policy and Land in Rokan Hilir Distric The Province of Riau

Abstract

Public participation in forest and land fire control starts from the planning phase of land and forest fire control, fire prevention stage, the stage of fire suppression and phase refresive handling. Participate in fire control and forest land, meaning co-reducing impact of fire on the people residing around the area, such as the presence of smoke that interferes with health and their daily activities as well as the loss of their livelihoods in the region. Further, communities can monitor and supervise the area in the village and in fire-prone forests in the quest for the prevention of forest fires and land at a time when that will come. Public participation as an important role in achieving the goals and objectives of a development program. Community participation is a means to obtain information about the conditions, needs and attitudes of local people, if they feel involved in the process of preparation and planning and democratic rights. Society has the power to inhibit the activity if they are not involved in the decision making process. Catastrophic forest fire is a serious problem that must be faced by Indonesia almost every year during the dry season. Forest fires are the cause of forest destruction disadvantage because in a short time can cause both a loss in economic, ecological, aesthetic, and political. Riau forests and lands have huge potential to develop the plantation sectors, agriculture, settlement and forestry. According to Regulation (No. 10 of 1994), about Spatial Riau province of Riau's forest area was 9.5 million hectares (ha). Covering an area of 1.9 million reserved as protected forest and 4.9 million hectares (ha) is planned as a non-forestry cultivation area and the remaining 2.7 million hectares (ha) is plotted as an area of forestry sector development. Based on the resource potential of forest and gardens Riau Province Year 2008-2009 of the Ministry of Forestry and Plantations (of the Ministry) Riau mainland territory has been divided into Forest Tenure (HPH), the number is 3,481,868 hectares (ha), timber estates (HTI ) 1,621,693 hectares (ha). With a total area of 9.456 million hectares Riau province (Ha), the remaining land in Riau just stay 3,035,837 hectares (ha). Utilization of peatlands and forests for coal development, land clearing for plantations and agriculture and logging activities (logging), identified as the activities of surface fires. Forest and land fires or not it can occur naturally, but can also be caused by the combustion procedure ignores that area fires become uncontrollable. Land and forest fires in Riau are often starts 1997 with widespread forest fires 26153.466 hectares (ha) to 2009, the total area of land and forest fires in Riau Province reached 121,051.55 acres. Forest fires, but can cause economic loss, damage soil surface and damage the health, also can reduce Indonesia's image in the eyes of the international community. Forests are one of the life support system, welfare, genetic resources, regulating water management, ecosystems, and habitats of flora and fauna. Forest damage caused by theft, natural disasters including forest fires (approximately 50,000 ha / year, 90% due to human activity). There are several reasons that an activity to include the community in environmental and resource management including control of land and forest fires, it is possible to: (1) formulate the problem more effectively, (2) obtain information and understanding of the world beyond the reach of science, (3) formulate alternative problem solving be socially acceptable, and (4) establish a plan and a sense of belonging to the settlement, so as to facilitate the application. Although this participatory approach may require more time in the early stages of planning, but the subsequent processing that this approach would minimize or avoid any conflict.