Abstract
The rural forestry business had shown a good economic feasibilty and worthed to develop in the rural economy. However the business income cannot to improve the standard of living worthy and have a low attractiveness. The attractiveness increase can be done with increasing profitability of rural forestry business and enhance the role of forestry graduates. Forestry graduates in Indonesia, with their title as Sarjana Kehutanan (S.Hut) had been scarcely involved in rural and traditional forestry based business. Such anomaly had not been becoming neither governmental nor profesional concerns. This study tried to explore the perspective of the S.Hut, concerning their understanding and interest in the business, to see how far their potential capacity to be entrepreneurs. This study differentiated the respondences into S.Hut working in forestry and S.Hut working in non-forestry job. With qualitative and quantitative approach, and total respondents of 158 persons, consisting 122 persons as forestry jobs and 38 persons as non-forestry jobs, this study found out that the S.Hut in Indonesia had ample or good perspectives based on the parameters of higher interests, attractiveness, knowledge, and effications. It meant that they were worthed to be involved as the business entrepreneurs.
Highlights
The rural forestry business had been traditionaly managed by rural people, either personally or communally, utilizing many kind of benefits from forest ecosystems, as raw material as well as products of small scale industry
The rural forestry business had shown good economic feasibility and worthed to develop in the rural economy, at least based on many research conducted in many places, such as in Bogor (Hardjanto et al 2012), Ciamis (Ahmad & Purwanto 2014), Maluku (Salaka et al 2012), Riau (Rochmayanto & Supriadi 2012), Lampung (Wulandari et al 2014), and Sulawesi (Wurangian & Putra 2013)
The research collected data and information of (1) characteristics of the respondents, (2) perspective of their understanding on rural forestry business: potential and opportunities market of forest products, forestry business position compared to other sectors, the main actors in forest management, business scale and a willingness to collaborate with the community, (3) perspective of their self potential to becoming entrepreneurs: interest, attraction, knowledge, and capacity to develop the business
Summary
The rural forestry business had been traditionaly managed by rural people, either personally or communally, utilizing many kind of benefits from forest ecosystems, as raw material as well as products of small scale industry. Such kinds of business management, referring to the forest ecosystem management, had been expected to contribute significant economic welfare to the community, as well as to the sustainability of forest ecosystem (Suhendang 2013). The kinds of the expected forestry based business could be in the form of privately managed forest (HR or HTR), community nursery (KBR), community forest (HKm), and village forest (HD). The rural forestry business had shown good economic feasibility and worthed to develop in the rural economy, at least based on many research conducted in many places, such as in Bogor (Hardjanto et al 2012), Ciamis (Ahmad & Purwanto 2014), Maluku (Salaka et al 2012), Riau (Rochmayanto & Supriadi 2012), Lampung (Wulandari et al 2014), and Sulawesi (Wurangian & Putra 2013)
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