Abstract

Forest destruction occurs due to low awareness in paying attention to the ecosystem, including illegal logging, theft of forest products, forest burning and poaching of forest animals. Efforts to conserve forests are carried out in various ways to arouse public awareness of the importance of forests for life. Forests will be threatened with destruction if the people living around the forest are not prosperous and are forced to destroy forests to meet their basic needs. A forest is a field of trees that as a whole is a communion of living organisms and their natural environment and which is designated by the government as a forest. Based on the provisions of Law Number 41 of 1999 concerning Forestry, the West Bali Forest Management Unit (FMU) is obliged to manage and regulate forest areas and products so that the forest areas in the Forest Management Unit in the West Bali FMU can be optimally useful. The author concludes as follows: first, the provisions on forest protection are contained in several Indonesian national legal instruments, including: 1. Law No. 41 of 1999 concerning Forestry Articles 49 & 50, Government Regulation No. 45 of 2004 concerning Forest Protection Article 10 paragraph (2) letter b, Government Regulation No. 4 of 2001 concerning the Control of Environmental Damage and Pollution related to forest and land fires and secondly in the context of forest protection in the UPTD area. The West Bali FMU is carried out through forest protection efforts, namely: Preemptive Efforts, Preventive Efforts, and Repressive Efforts.