Mapping the village forest of Pattaneteang through drone participatory mapping

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The Government of Bantaeng Regency, South Sulawesi Province is one of the first districts established policies to support community-based forest management and to adopt the Ministry of Forestry (Kemenhut) policy on Community Forests (CF – Hutan Kemasyarakatan HKM) and Village Forests (VF – Hutan Desa HD. There is one VF located in Pattaneteang, which has characteristics and great resource potential. In the VF management process, several problems arise in conflicts between villages over boundaries that increase with reducing the landscape as a resource. The utilization of a geographic information system (GIS) in landscape management is expected to provide complete information for managing the form of VF areas integrated with each other. This study aims to produce a precise map of the VF area based on the image map of the drone results. The latest methods are used to produce accurate delineation of the region through drone participatory mapping (DPM) technology involving several related parties. DPM is a group-based research method that gives participants the freedom to make discussions on topics with minimal intervention from researchers. Simply put, it is an activity in which villagers choose to location referencing and other features related to the topic given on the map. The participatory monitoring method was carried out through a Focus Group Discussion (FGD). The results showed that Pattaneteang Village which, has an area previously about 1303.81 ha after the village was carried out, participatory mapping reducing became 1107.79 ha, then participatory mapping was carried out based on the result of the drone, Pattanetang area was obtained to be 1109.92. While the extensive VF based on Decree of the Minister of Forestry No.55 / Menhut-II / 2010 dated January 21, 2010, Pattaneteang VF forest area was 339 ha after drone based-participatory mapping (DPM) to 429,71 ha related to three types of forest, namely Core Forests, Utilization Forests, and Dispute Forests are covering 48.15 ha, 198.12 ha. and 181.43 ha, respectively. The results of this study can be used as a reference in planning sustainable village forest management areas.