Endang Hernawan
Nature tourism activities for healing forest in the Gunung Geulis Educational Forest KHDTK are an educational model for the utilization of ecosystem services in the culture category and are included in the ITB KHDTK Management Plan for the Gunung Geulis Educational Forest. In preparing for the implementation, it is necessary to organize tourism objects, it is necessary to organize and prepare forest farmer groups, BUMDES and village officials. The service activity method used was desk study and assistance of BUMDES and Forest Farmers Group in preparing for cooperation in the management of natural tourism for healing forest in Cinanjung Block, Gunung Geulis Educational Forest, ITB. The steps for the activities carried out are identifying and arranging tourism objects in support of the healing forest, developing tourist route routes, preparing tourism management and institutionalizing tourism management. By having prepared these steps, it is hoped that tourism activities in the KHDK Gunung Geulis Education Forest tourism area can be started, with a collaborative management system between ITB and BUMDES. With this tourism activity, it is hoped that it can increase the value of KHDTK for the Gunung Geulis Educational Forest as well as provide employment and increase the income of residents around tourist sites.
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Since 2017, ITB has obtained the management rights of the Gunung Geulis Educational Forest KHDTK based on the Decree of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number SK.663 / Menlhk / Setjen / PLA.4 / 11/2017 dated 10 November 2017 concerning the Determination of Special Purpose Forest Areas (KHDTK) as Educational Forest of 338.31 (Three Hundred Thirty Eight and Thirty One Per Hundred) hectares in the Gunung Geulis Protected Forest Area in Tanjungsari District, Cimanggung District and Jatinangor District, Sumedang Regency, West Java; where according to Amar Third that the Ministry of Environment and Forestry handed over the management of KHDTK to the Bandung Institute of Technology. Nature tourism activities for healing forest in the Gunung Geulis Educational Forest KHDTK are an educational model for the utilization of ecosystem services in the culture category and are included in the ITB KHDTK Management Plan for the Gunung Geulis Educational Forest. In preparing for the implementation, it is necessary to organize tourism objects, it is necessary to organize and prepare forest farmer groups, BUMDES and village officials.