relevant documents, observations, and in-depth interviewing
of the 22 key informants consisting of 2 forestry
officers, 4 community leaders, 6 members of forest community
committees, 3 non-government organization
workers, 2 social scientists working at the study sites, and 5
community members using the community forest. Snowball
sampling-purposive sampling was used, linking from
one person to another. The research was carried out over 18
months from November 2011 to April 2013. The data were
analyzed using content analysis and accuracy checks were
made with relevant people until a common conclusion was
achieved, followed by synthesis by describing the contextual
relationship linkages.
The study sites were selected based on the following
criteria: 1) each community was legally approved, and 2)
each community had experience with situations or operations
that had required solving natural resource deterioration
by organizing a group to look after and regenerate
the natural resource based on the research assumption that
the community had potential in development and for
changes at the individual levelddevelopment from the
inside to the outside.