KEBERLANJUTAN EKOLOGIS HUTAN DALAM KEARIFAN LOKAL PANGLIMA UTEUN PADA MASYARAKAT NAGAN RAYA PROVINSI ACEH

This study aims to know how society defines and understands about forest and also how the impact of the society's cultural behaviour changes (local wisdom) on ecology sustainability in Nagan Raya regency. Fenomenology qualitative was used in this study and the data was collected through deep interview. Purposive sampling was used to determine the subject of this study. The result of study showed that nowadays the society has different understanding from before. This difference lead to behaviour changes of Nagan Raya society in using the forest. This is affected by society's experience, norm, value, economic needs toward the woods. Thus, the changing behaviour toward the forest gived the positive and negative impact. In one hand, for short term period this could be the life resources for the society's need. however, on long term period, it lead to individualistic life. The decrease function of tradition collective wisdom peulara uteun lead to forest damage.