Certainty in the Management of Customary Community Forest Land in Western Seram District, Maluku

Abstract

The customary forest land-use system has changed because of changing land needs. Changes in the land make values and rules that apply to land weak. The purpose of this study was to describe the conventional land-use system for strengthening land rights. This study used the Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach by constructing a meaning construction together between the researcher and the community to produce explicit knowledge about the topic of this research. The results showed that various needs factors, values, norms, and customary rules, rights, and land access influenced the system of land use in indigenous peoples. The system is an inheritance that is utilized and maintained for the next generation to strengthen land rights and secure access to the sustainable use of forest land.