Management and Environmental Conservation Based on Local Wisdom

Environmental destruction recently has been uncontrollable, because of two factors classified as natural factors, namely natural disaster and human error such as illegal logging. Management and environmental conservation in Indonesia is regulated in Laws Number 32 in 2009 on the conservation and management of environment. In certain regions already have their own rules relating to the management and conservation of the environment. This order is always sustainable environment and one of its functions is to utilize the potential of local of each area. This is needed, because they have a reciprocal relationship, natural supplies needed by the people sometimes take more of a conservation area. The role of local wisdom applied in environmental conservation aims to harmonize the implementation of environmental conservation. Also required the participation of the government in the form of policies relating to the management and conservation of nature based on local wisdom. This research aims to look at how the role of local wisdom in the management and protection of the environment so that a new model could in policy formulation. Data were collected using the method of literature studied from several supporting literature. The results of this study show you some examples of local wisdom used to preserve the environment e.g., local knowledge awig awig in North Lombok, the oral tradition in Wakatobi and kosmoligis Malay traditional with the intention that the same thing can be done by other areas in accordance with the potential of local wisdom each region in environmental conservation. As input is that the values of local wisdom should be the regulation of its own or along with government policies in the management and protection of the environment.