PARTISIPASI MASYARAKAT WANA (TAU TAA WANA BULANG) DALAM MENGKONSERVASI HUTAN BERDASAR KEARIFAN LOKAL DI PROPINSI SULAWESI TENGAH

There were some important functions of forest in the life of surrounding people , especially those of state forest which the management system was conducted to empower local communities in handling the forest without disturbing the main functions. Therefore, it was conducted a program of community forest as one of the efforts of the government to encourage the communit y to give their participation actively in forest handling. It was a pity that before this program would be conducted, the surrounding people had already some local wisdoms that hereditarily motivated the people to be involved voluntarily and collectively in forest conservation that was already became the region where they lived. The community has the conservation concepts of their own region that allowed the implementation of conservation steps at the same times, even it allowed to support the forest conservations efforts that were currently campaigned by the government. It was important because there would be a tendency of illegally forest clearing by the reason of illegal selling of commercial forest commodities if there was not any forest conservation. This tendency of participation based on local wisdom was also happened in the community of Tau Taa Wana Bulang in the province of Central Sulawesi. This study was conducted to achieve four main purposes: (1) to reveal how the local wisdom practiced by the community of wana in exploiting the forest and their cultural participation based on local wisdom in order to make conservations of surrounding forest