(04/03/2024). KTH Sumber Agung, Claket Village, Pacet District, Mojokerto Regency held a discussion with the theme of planting for a better future and about plants that can be planted in protected forests in social forestry (PS) areas.
This planting was also led directly by Timbul Susilo Hidayat who is the chairman of KTH Sumber Agung together with the management involving approximately 50 participants consisting of members of KTH Sumber Agung, PEMDES Claket, AP2SI, YBL and students of the Wilwatikta Arts College (STKW) Surabaya.
This activity is motivated by collective awareness of forest protection and preservation for the long term in the future. Apart from that, such things have indeed become our obligation in preserving forests through intellectual discussions to planting tree seedlings, especially in protected forests.
In its implementation, this activity has many impacts on the forest and also the sustainability of the surrounding resources, such as providing an understanding of the utilization scheme in protected forests. In addition, the addition of types or varieties of plants also greatly affects the biological wealth of protected forests. Then two other things that are no less important are that they can increase the economic value of the surrounding community and this planting also aims to mark the outer boundaries of the social forestry management area with living plants while waiting for the marking of the boundaries of the area from BPKH.
Several types of plant seeds that are the main commodities in planting are petung bamboo seeds, apus bamboo, yellow bamboo, petai seeds, durian and avocado with a total of approximately 100 plant seeds. The Indonesian social forestry association (AP2SI) also donated several seeds for this planting activity. AP2SI previously also often had dialogues and collaborated with other KTHs, such as KTH Sumber Agung for example.
At the end of the interview session, Cak T, who is familiarly called, also gave advice and hopes for the future to AP2SI, "We hope that the East Java AP2SI Provincial Management Board and the National AP2SI can play a more active role in this matter, then hopefully in the future AP2SI can always be present and provide support to farmers who want to improve the economy by making forests sustainable."
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