Abstract:
Environmental crisis that more worsening is a consequence of dominance of anthropocentrism that views the existence of nature only to meet human needs, so that its utilization is oriented to commodity production and ignores its sustainability. Tropical forests, which have a vital function in stabilizing the Earth's climate are also being targeted for exploitation. This research aims to describe and analyze the forms of Orang Mapnan's struggle in maintaining the sustainability of tropical forests in Long Ayap Village, Berau Regency, East Kalimantan. This study employed a qualitative approach with a case study. The results show that Orang Mapnan's consciousness increased based on the fact that deforestation has continue to increase. The forms of struggle carried out are maintaining the production type of hunting and gathering even though faced with the influence of indicators of progress and happiness that generated by anthropocentrism; reorganize the cultivation system so that clearing of primary forest for the concerns of community cultivation can be stopped; resist forest conversion for new palm oil plantations; establish
a collective vision that promotes environmental sustainability; promote a model of forest utilization by sustainable manner for economic purposes through coffee agroforestry program, which was established to be a utilization model that is permitted in APL forests in Long Ayap Village. Thus the struggle carried out began by resist the growth of the anthropocentric character within themselves, and then stemming the entry of external elements to carry out destructive utlilization of forests. The struggle carried out so far has been quite successful, although in the future it is predicted to face more complex challenges.
