Abstract:
Cinnamon forest garden are important income resource for farmer on Lok Lahung Village, Loksado
Subdistrict. Forest garden’s existence gives great impact on its surrounding’s life. Therefore,
strategic approaches should be done to support the management’s performance. Aims of the study
are to identify potency and distribution, analyze the management system, analyze stakeholder’s role
and influence on cinnamon forest garden’s management, and analyze local community forest
garden management’s performance on Lok Lahung Village, Loksado Subdistrict, Hulu Sungai
Selatan Regency, South Kalimantan. Based on the results, cinnamon forest garden in Lok Lahung
Village have average of trees on plot and cinnamon potency/ha are 38 trees and 394,726 m³/ha. All
farmer (100%) in Lok Lahung Village have cinnamon forest garden which are managed
independently with family, start by land preparation, seed preparation, planting, maintenance,
harvesting, marketing and post harvest land treatments. Identified stakeholders on cinnamon forest
garden’s management are: Hulu Sungai Selatan Local Government, KPH Hulu Sungai, Cinnamon
Farmer and Collector/ Merchant are key player, Lok Lahung Village Government, Farmer Group,
and Public Figure/Indigenous Public Figure are context setter, and University is crowd. Forest
garden management’s performance on Lok Lahung Village are good with total value 334.
