Abstract
＜Abstract＞
Indonesia, the 8th largest forest nation in the world, is facing a critical crisis of its forest environmental resources due to years of disorderly development, illegal logging, conversion to agricultural land, and frequent wildfires, making it urgent to establish a path towards sustainable forest management. This paper focuses on the village of Pedawa in Bali, where the residents’ selfgoverning organization activates are encouraging the potential motivation for forest management. It then reports on practical activities to promote reforestation in logged areas, protection of the water source forest where Hindu gods live, and forest fire prevention, and points out that these activities may open new prospects for forest administration in Indonesia. It also examines the process by which the combination of university education with social education programs can revive the local traditional culture of mountain ethnic minority-A ｇａ and prevent the ongoing destruction of the local forest ecosystem.
