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Carbon and Watershed Functions as Conditionality for Community Forest

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• The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) collaborates with KONSEPSI to conduct research on the biophysics and socioeconomics of the buffer area of Sesaot protected forest. The research focuses on three topics: agroforestry and carbon sequestration; assessment of watershed conditions and; livelihoods.• The protected area in Sesaot, West Lombok, NTB, is managed by the local community as an important source of livelihoods and has potential for greater poverty alleviation. About 5950.18 ha of forest area, located in the upper part of Jangkok and Dodokan watershed, plays an important role in the supply of water to the city of Mataram and West and Central Lombok districts.• Community forest (HKm) is forest management by local communities based on the forestry minister ‘s regulation No. P37/ Menhut-II/2007. Sesaot is a reserved area with an area of 185 hectares and is part of a regional HKm program based on ministerial decree No. 445/Menhut-II/2009, August 4.

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