The land of dedication to Mother Earth, the Republic of Indonesia, which is played by another YPI and is included in the very important category is in the field of Social Forestry. One of the designs to develop Indonesia from the periphery is by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK), which is labelled with Social Forestry.

Empirically, the definition of Social Forestry itself can be said as a sustainable Forest Management System implemented in State Forest Areas or Private Forests/Customary Forests, which are implemented by local communities for their welfare, environmental balance, and socio-cultural dynamics. The government has allocated 12.7 million Ha for Social Forestry (2015-2019), which includes Village Forests, Community Forests, Community Plantation Forests, Customary Forests, and Forestry Partnerships. (PP. 23 of 2021).

At a glance, from a historical point of view, Social Forestry has been promoted since 1999. However, Indonesia's condition, which at that time was arguably still uncertain after the reform, inevitably made this big agenda less serious. The pluses and minuses were eight years later, namely: in 2007 the Social Forestry program began to be implemented.

It's just that, in its journey of more or less seven years (read: until around 2014), this program faltered. The calculation recorded by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry is that during the period 2007-2014, the forest that is accessible to community management is only 449,104.23 hectares.

This figure is a trigger, that after that period, acceleration or acceleration steps are carried out. During the three-year period of the Working Cabinet, an area of ​​604,373.26 hectares of the forest area has been recorded, legally opening access to be managed by the community.

The positive trend and the rising graph of the realization of Social Forestry are starting to show results. In its implementation to date, a total of 239,341 heads of household (KK) have legal access to manage forest areas of the archipelago, and so far socialization and facilitation have also been carried out to 2,460 groups, where the facilitation provided is in the field of Social Forestry Business Development.

From the very beginning, it was realized that the implementation of this program would require many assistants who were in the field. For example: providing knowledge and identifying potential forest areas, business development, and marketing of community business products – which are often discussed as economic access, to legal strengthening, so that communities are able to advocate for themselves. For this reason, it is clear that multiple parties, including non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are needed to participate. Well, this is where YPI comes to take the role.

One of the implementations, YPI is willing to cooperate with the Indonesian Social Forestry Community Association (PERMAPSI). This institution is an association of social forestry observers and managers who are independent, integrated, and responsible for the existence and sustainability of social forests.

This organization has a mission: to create a prosperous, socially just and sustainable Indonesian social forestry community. While the mission:

(1) Improving the capacity of the social forestry community in managingall livelihoods in the social forest environment;

(2) Creating social forestry industry governance that is just and sustainable.

The scenarios installed for cooperation between YPI and PERMAPSI, namely: supporting the vision and mission of the PERMAPSI. The implementation description includes:

o Encouraging the community's economy through empowerment programs

o which can spur community contributions to the formation of added value and economic growth, with a focus on development priorities in the economic sector (through social forestry), supported by improvements in infrastructure facilities and infrastructure to support quality business continuity of local forestry communities;

o Increase equal opportunity to get decent work

o and driven in groups, along with the provision of good quality public services, including increasing awareness of the local forestry community which is balanced by an adequate funding system for their social security and economic development;

o Consolidating overall development in various fields of social forestry with a focus on achieving competitiveness and a competitive business based on the capabilities of natural resources, human resources, and science and technology developed and owned by PERMAPSI and its network.
This is great work. The reason is, the estuary of Social Forestry is the time for the forest for the people. It also describes the implementation of the sixth Nawacita, which aims to increase people's productivity and competitiveness at the international level, so that they can compete with other ASEAN countries. Realizing an economically self-sufficient community through strategic domestic economic sectors is also the basis of this Social Forestry program being implemented.