The 7th International Symposium on Kuroshio Science. Summaries of Sessions Management of Forest Fire, Palm Oil Plantation, and Peat Soil

“Management System to Overcome Land and Forest Fire by Local Communities in the District of Sanggau West Kalimantan Indonesia” by Augustine Lumangkun and A. B. Tangdililing from Tanjungpura University. She stated that the land and forest combustion, intentionally or unintentionally, happened in shifting cultivation areas, forest land, and timber and estate plantations in the Sanggau District. This condition is very fearful due to environmental damage and forest degradation and deforestation. The team tries to find out the management system of overcoming land and forest fire associated with the effort, knowledge, commitment of local community’s mostly indigenous peoples, and the role of customs. The research used survey method with descriptive associative on 30 head families as respondents. The research conducted in three remote villages. The result showed that community efforts to address the fires are done with traditional wisdom but it is not significant. Local knowledge is done by considering the weather, helping each other, social gathering called ‘belale’, keeping their own fire, and paying of customary sanctions. The most responsible parties to overcome are local communities, government e.g. agricultural extension, and corporate. Their knowledge to anticipated fires by: preparing equipment, not burning and throwing cigarette, reporting to village officials, reducing cutting the forest and giving customary sanctions. Mitigation measures by them, namely: cooperated to create firebreaks, flushing with hand sprayer and extinguishing by banging. Their responsibility to protect the forests is relatively high. The tribal council is to handle conflicts among themselves as a mediator between local people and outsiders. If the problem can’t be solved in the village level up to the district level, it is raised to the government.