CONSERVATION EDUCATION WITH ETHNOBOTANY APPROACH FOR SUSTAINABILITY OF RATTAN JERNANG (Daemonorops) IN BENGKULU
NURWIYOTO NURWIYOTO
Bengkulu Muhammadiyah University (UMB), Education Doctoral Program Student UNIB
Abstract
This study aims to determine the type of rattan producer resin jernang, examines the growth habitat, jernang utilization, conservation efforts, and the process of inheritance jernang rattan knowledge to the next generation in Bukit Mangkekal, Village House Sako Village Kaur District, Bengkulu Province. Data collected by library research techniques, in-depth interviews, direct observation, and documentation. Jernang rattan made herbarium samples and identified in Bogoriensis LIPI Bogor Herbarium. The data were analyzed descriptively. The research found jernang quality rattan species namely Rattan Jernang Pulut (Daemonorops didymophyla). Habitat rattan jernang found growing in the valley and in the area around the overflow of river water, which is close to the trees to propagate. The ecological benefits of rattan jernang is subdued condition of the forest, the economic benefit is the price at the rate sap jernang local farmers between Rp. 500,000.00 - 1,000,000.00 USD per kilogram, medical benefits are as a cure wounds, toothache, medicine after childbirth, while the industrial benefits are as dye lacquerware, ceramics, tools of stone, wood, rattan, paper, paints, and pharmaceuticals. Resin jernang most sought after in the natural forest, and started there were cultivated in the community garden. Jernang fruit processed by extraction to obtain a resin, and sell them to buyers in the village. The conservation efforts are constrained by the ever-expanding land use change, jernang fruit pemanenen system unsustainable, lack of knowledge and jernang cultivation technology, and lack of public knowledge about the quality jernang. Inheritance rattan knowledge jernang done by parents to their children and the Chairman of the indigenous communities. The results of this study can be used as material in conservation education in the community and in the schools sustainability efforts jernang Rotan.
Keywords: Resin Rattan Jernang, Conservation Education, Ethnobotany Jernang
Topic: Biology Education