Environment and Ecology Research 9(5): 261-270, 2021 http://www.hrpub.org DOI: 10.13189/eer.2021.090506 Land Use Policy of Agroforestry: Case Study of Protected Area Changes in Sekaroh Forest, East Lombok West Nusa Tenggara Aminah, Nur Adhim, I Gusti Ayu Gangga Santi Dewi * Faculty of Law, Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia Received July 28, 2021; Revised August 31, 2021; Accepted October 6, 2021 Cite This Paper in the following Citation Styles (a): [1] Aminah, Nur Adhim, I Gusti Ayu Gangga Santi Dewi , "Land Use Policy of Agroforestry: Case Study of Protected Area Changes in Sekaroh Forest, East Lombok West Nusa Tenggara," Environment and Ecology Research, Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 261 - 270, 2021. DOI: 10.13189/eer.2021.090506. (b): Aminah, Nur Adhim, I Gusti Ayu Gangga Santi Dewi (2021). Land Use Policy of Agroforestry: Case Study of Protected Area Changes in Sekaroh Forest, East Lombok West Nusa Tenggara. Environment and Ecology Research, 9(5), 261 - 270. DOI: 10.13189/eer.2021.090506. Copyright©2021 by authors, all rights reserved. Authors agree that this article remains permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License Abstract The condition of existing forest use in Sekaroh, East Lombok is dominated by forest change function to increase the production of corn, leading to the massive deforestation. The research is to analyze the deforestation and land use conversion in Sekaroh, East Lombok. It is also to analyze local government policies in facing the rampant conversion of forest function to corn plantations in East Lombok. The research was conducted using the socio legal method with a qualitative approach with evidence-based data analysis to demonstrate the deforestation and economic interest of corn production in local level. The results showed that forest protection is part of forest management which falls under the authority of the central government and local governments. The implementation of forest protection aims to protect the forest area and its environment so that the protection function, conservation function and production function can be achieved optimally and sustainably. Moreover, the policy also needs to consider the limited production forest and geographic conditions in local context considering that the function of production forest is limited to maize plantations. Keywords Land Use Policy, Natural Resources Management, Deforestation, Agroforestry, Law Enforcement 1. Introduction Forests as part of national natural resources have an important role in various aspects of economic, social and environmental life [1 -3]. In an international agreement, it is stated that forests, which have an important function for the life of the world, must be developed and protected from various damages to the world's ecosystems. Development on renewable natural resources must be managed in such a way that the main function of the forest can always be maintained [4]. Non-renewable natural resources should be used as economically as possible with the most optimal results. Forestry development to increase forest utilization for Indonesian domestic industries must generate added value and create jobs. On the island of Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), many protected forest areas have turned into corn plantations. The production forest area is part of the cultivation area, namely limited production forest and permanent production forest. In protected forest, there is a high forest function change with a percentage above 50%, based on latest data from NTB Agriculture and Plantation Office (Table 1). Table 1 showed that protected forest areas with an area of 15,881.65 hectares are scattered in East Lombok-NTB Regency. From data from the NTB Agriculture and Plantation Office, in 2014, the corn area was 126,577 hectares. It significantly increased to 310,990 hectares and production of 2,127,324 tons in 2017. In 2018, the