Direct Economic Use Value of Sungai Wain Protection Forest to Local Community East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Abstract

Sungai Wain Protection Forest (SWPF) is one among the protected forests in East Kalimantan. This forest ecosystem provides various economic benefits to support livelihoods especially for the local community.  The benefits include direct use of biological and ecological elements and farming. The objective of this study is to measure the economic value of SWPF to support household income. This study was conducted in sub-district of Karang Joang, an administrative territory of Balikpapan East Kalimantan. Respondent of this study is the local community extracting forest resources amounts to 175 respondents. The result shows that the economic value of SWPF for each household in year 2011 was average of Rp. 28,400,815 per household, or with income contribution equal to 54.18 percent. This value came from firewood, palm leaves, rattan and bamboo (biological elements), water (ecological element) and farming (swidden agriculture, fruits garden and mixed garden).

Keywords: economic value, biological element, ecological element, farming.