BIODIVERSITAS ISSN: 1412-033X Volume 19, Number 3, May 2018 E-ISSN: 2085-4722 Pages: 1054-1065 DOI: 10.13057/biodiv/d190338 The local management and sustainability of swidden farming in the Villages of Bojongsalam and Sukaresmi, Upper Cisokan Watershed, West Java, Indonesia IRA ROBIBATUL CHOIR1, JOHAN ISKANDAR1,2, PARIKESIT1,2, RUHYAT PARTASASMITA2,♥, TEGUH HUSODO1,2, JOKO KUSMORO2, ERRI NOVIAR MEGANTARA1,2 1Postgraduate Program in Environmental Study (PSMIL & DIL), Universitas Padjadjaran. Jl. Sekeloa Selatan I, Bandung 40132, West Java, Indonesia. 2Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Padjadjaran. Jl. Raya Bandung-Sumedang Km. 21 Jatinangor, Sumedang 45363, West Java, Indonesia. Tel./fax.: +62-22-7796412, ♥email:
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[email protected] Manuscript received: 26 March 2018. Revision accepted: 15 May 2018. Abstract. Choir IR, Iskandar J, Parikesit, Partasasmita R, Husodo T, Kumoro J, Megantara EN. 2018. The local management and sustainability of swidden farming in the Villages of Bojongsalam and Sukaresmi, Upper Cisokan Watershed, West Java, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 19: 1054-1065. In the past, the swidden farming (huma or ladang) system had been predominantly practiced by village people of West Java. Nowadays, however, the huma farming has rarely been practiced by the village people of West Java due to the government policy, and environmental and socioeconomic changes. The local community who reside in the Villages of Bojongsalam and Sukaresmi, the upper stream of Cisokan, West Java, Indonesia, has still practiced both the wet rice field (sawah) and the huma farming in the private land, production forest of a state-owned forest company (Perhutani), and a state-owned electric company (PLN) project land.