Legal Perspective of Forest Resources Management Community Based Study for Prosperity in the District Ngawi, East Java, Indonesia

Managing forest resources in Java during this run is centralized, policy decisions are top-down based state (state-based forest resource management) that Characterized the conflict and community action, especially during the reform, so it requires a new paradigm of forest resource comunity-based management (community-based forest resource management). The research objective to analyze the legal perspective and the community management of forest resources in Ngawi. The research method used is socio legal approach (socio-legal research) with qualitative naturalistic. The results Showed that the management of forest resources with the community (CBFM) in the perspective of the legal implications on the economic aspects of Reviews their Increased income of the rural community, the social aspect to an Increase in welfare and legal guarantees in the form of a cooperation agreement between the company and community forest village and ecological aspects in the which the function maintained forest preservation. Keywords: Forest, CBFM, and Prosperit