The Sonor Farming Tradition on Forest and Land Fire In Ogan Komering Ilir Regency South Sumatera

Keywords

The sonor farming tradition, peatlands, forest policies, forest fires and land)

Abstract

Societies around forests are closely related to forest resources and their livelihood depends on the potential of the forest. Forests become a place for life and as a provider of their subsistence needs. Therefore, the relation between the society and the forests have become the culture and identity of their communities, even their attitudes and actions reflect the ethnic culture of their society.These conditions make forest land used and managed as agricultural land and cultivation to meet the needs of the family economy.The sonor farm is a cultivation system during the long dry season in peatlands about 50 cm by slash, cut, burn, sow seeds and harvest. This research used qualitative research, with a critical theory paradigm approach to analyze and prove the implications of the sonor farm system on forest and land fires. The results showed that the disharmony of relations between the society and forests is disrupted when government policies permit private entrepreneurs to use and exploit the forest's natural resources on a large scale.This mastery eliminates the existence of local communities surrounding forests and indigenous peoples concerned and dependent on forest resources. The loss of people's living space to defend their lives, resulting in dehumanization, that the citizens are no longer fully concerned with forests. Behavior of forest burning based on environmental wisdom done by sonor farmer is imitated by various parties in uncontrollable and careless way against the environment. As a result, farmers with sonor farming systems are accused as the sources of fire.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Mulyanto
PY  - 2019/06
DA  - 2019/06
TI  - The Sonor Farming Tradition on Forest and Land Fire In Ogan Komering Ilir Regency South Sumatera
BT  - Joint proceedings of the International Conference on Social Science and Character Educations (IcoSSCE 2018) and International Conference on Social Studies, Moral, and Character Education (ICSMC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 131
EP  - 134
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125909987
ID  - 2019/06
ER  -