Sustainable use and management of bamboo in Cijedil village, Cianjur, West Java as an efforts embodiment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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Abstract
Hanafi HR, Irawan B, Pertiwi DC, Litania A. 2017. Sustainable use and management of bamboo in Cijedil village, Cianjur, West Java as an efforts embodiment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Pros Sem Nas Masy Biodiv Indon 3: 230-235. Bamboo’s potency can be used not only in local life scale but also could be developing to an international scale. Bamboo has many advantages in ecological, economy, social, and culture sector as one of the renewed natural resources. Conservation of bamboo’s biodiversity needed for humans life. Cianjur, especially in Cijedil village, is one of bilik (house wall from the webbing of bamboo) craftsmen in West Java. Exploration for society knowledge potency about use and management of bamboo in Cijedil village is one of biodiversity conservation steps for an embodiment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The research method that used is a mixed method that connecting qualitative and quantitative data. The method using structural interview technique, semi-structural interview technique, and bamboo forest observation. Research step includes exploration of biodiversity species of bamboo and society knowledge about use and management of bamboo. The results are showing there are three species of bamboo in Cijedil village. They are awi tali (Gigantochloa apus (Schult. & Schult.f.) Kurz ex Munro), awi gombong (Gigantochloa pseudoarundinaceae (Steud) Widjaja), and awi hideung (Gigantochloa atroviolacea Widjaja) that used as bilik and ajir by Cijedil village’s people. People in Cijedil village manage bamboo with selective logging system when harvesting. Knowledge about the uses and managements of bamboo inherited from the ancestry then spreading around the community.