EXPLOITATION OF SMALL ISLAND FOREST RESOURCES IN THE REGIONALAUTONOMY PERSPECTIVE IN MALUKU PROVINCE

The small islands in Maluku Province have enormous and strategic potential for social, cultural, economic and environmental development and buffer peoples sovereignty. These small islands have unique and distinctive characters such as biophysics, geography, inhabitants, culture and carrying capacity of the environment. This area provides productive natural resources, one of which is forest resources. However, the reality of exploiting the forest resources of small islands in Maluku is still not optimal, making it vulnerable to environmental damage that impacts on society and ecosystems. Therefore management and operations need to be done in a different format from other regional areas, especially those on the mainland which favor the community fairly, evenly while taking into account the sustainability of ecological, social, cultural and economic functions that are priorities main in the paradigm of community-based forest resource exploitation development.