0521-B1 DON`T CUT THE FOREST, JUST MAKE THE NON WOOD FOREST PRODUCT AS DOMINANT COMMODITY Liris Lis Komara 1 1 Member of Center for Bandung Forestry Studies, Indonesia http://www.fao.org/docrep/ARTICLE/WFC/XII/0521-B1.HTM ABSTRACT The Unbalance capability of Indonesian forest potention (30,93 million m 3 /years) with constant raw matterial needs (63,48 million m 3 /years), Forestry industry suprisingly went bankrupt. And that causes illegal loging and threats sustainable tropical forest. The export of pulp and wood product increase would also become a causes and its add by deforestation. Another uses/benefits of forest product are the non forest product which are bigger, the general potention get an a special care. Wood vallue only 0,5% to 1% from the total wealth and another 99% is non wood product. Wood product industries needs a lot of employee but unbalance with its raw matterial capabilitty suply. Those number would increase unemployment and reach about 50.000 people and the covers of wood industry productis become a dilematics steps. Reorientation and forest product industries directed to non wood forest product reminding its big potention become forest main commodity. Forest can be definitely and totally destroyed if the areas used to be full of trees diplete.Undirectly, special feature of "plasma nutfah" which belongs to those areas will disappear too. If so, the chances of human to take the challenge of foreat cultivation will never be done optimally. The increase of export value of wood products which has been forced to get balance with oil and gas sector becomes the major cause of increasing deforestation. A policy of the Indonesian government in forest cultivation, in this century, is forest for life support. For instance, this show in the development of forests in non-wood product oriented ways. Mengkudu is one of useful tropical plantation. Its leaf, stem bark, root and fruits are financially more valueable then the wood because of its chemical subtance. Long time ago, this plant was used for conventional medical treatment. The leaf of Mengkudu has special virtue for sore bodies and rheumatism. The extract of stem bark is used for malaria disease, its root has a special ability to accelerate menstruation and the fruit can heal lots of disease such as cough, asthma, headache, hypertension and cancer. Keywords : forest product, non wood, forestry