Protection Law Forest Tradition Reviewed from Rights Traditional Legal Communities

Customary forests are not customary forests but private forests that have been owned by customary law communities for generations as long as their existence can be proven, which can raise great hopes for customary law communities to obtain guaranteed legal protection for customary forests which have so far been designated as State forests. The existence of customary law communities together with their customary rights is still respected, respected and recognized as long as they are still alive and in accordance with community development, national interests and the principles of the Republic of Indonesia. This is stated in various statutory regulations, for example Article: 18 B paragraph (2) of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia, UUPA, Human Rights Law, and so on. However, in this article this recognition is still weak because there are no operational regulations that regulate further, so this article aims to optimize what is their right in occupying their position as a customary law community. The research in this article uses two approaches, namely the statutory and normative juridical approaches.