Abstract
This study is associated with the increased pressure on hill resources due to land conversion that causes environmental degradation and leads to environmental unsustainability. The evenly spread hill known as Bukit Sepuluh Ribu, is a source of community life. The hill formed by the eruption of a volcano, has a land cover, namely close to forest vegetation. The study location is in Bukit Sepuluh Ribu area that has ecological, hydrological, geological and aesthetic environmental function. The concept of community empowerment through Agro-ecosystem can be a solution, thus the utilization of the hill is economically profitable and environmentally sustainable. There are land use unsuitability referring to the existing spatial plan (682.9 Ha), namely high densely settlement area (264.67 Ha), other agriculture (359.21 Ha) and mining areas (58.51 Ha), Through the concept of appropriate community empowerment in accordance with the rules and typology of hill areas can provide the potential benefits of ecosystems and produce products of economic value without damaging them. The concept of empowerment through dryland agro-ecosystem by combining forest-based agriculture activities is one of the solutions to the problem of land management.
Highlights
The increased population in Bukit Sepuluh Ribu area caused massive change in the function of the hill land into non hill which lead to environmental unsustainability due to the living necessities and the economy of the surrounding community
Community involvement in natural resource management, in principle is as a form of integration of public participation into the development system in order to strengthen the economic, institutional and social community (Mukhtar 2010)
The results of the analysis indicate that there is deviation or unsuitability of land use to the area that exceeds the provision or planning in the spatial plan already defined, i.e 682.9 Ha for high densely settlement area (264.67 Ha), other agricultures (359.21 Ha) and mining area (58.51 Ha)
Summary
The increased population in Bukit Sepuluh Ribu area caused massive change in the function of the hill land into non hill which lead to environmental unsustainability due to the living necessities and the economy of the surrounding community This cycle needs to be limited by the implementation of sustainable development strategies in order to restore the environmental degradation, livelihood and primarily reduce poverty. The goal of empowerment is to ensure livelihoods of local communities in environmental conservation and conservation programs to pursue strategies that can address problems directly at both household and community levels (Kombo and Ekisa 2015). According to Pranadji (2015) the concept of dry land agro-ecosystem is one of the community empowerment strategies, by directing the environmental utilization economically without damaging it. Maintain the interaction between these biotic and abiotic components, a sustainable agriculture system is needed, namely agriculture that maintains the environmental quality and conservation of natural resources (Warren et al 2008)
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