ABSTRACT
Forest Village Community Institution (LMDH) is one of the rural institutions serving as a means of channeling the rural community's aspiration in the attempt of protecting the forest and managing the forest productively without abandoning the ecological aspect. The programs of LMDS should have been implemented for the community. Therefore, the objectives of research were to find out the social life of rural community and the function and objective of LMDH in Forest Village Community, and to see the embeddedness of LMDH and community, particularly in the people of Tambak Hamlet, Berjo Village, Ngargoyoso Sub District, Karanganyar Regency. Grannovetter's embeddedness theory was used to analyze the data of research. The method of research used was qualitative with a case study approach, emphasizing on in-depth interview as the technique of collecting data. Generally, the result of research showed that the social life condition of community is inseparable from natural and geographic conditions of village making the community's primary economy focus on vegetable farming. Farming land ownership and cultivation takes place hereditarily in the community. In daily life, the community still holds tightly on traditions and rituals brought by its ancestors, including the means of cultivating and utilizing the forest. The embeddedness of LMDH and community in Tambak Hamlet, Berjo Village lies on the level of programs created by LMDH corresponding to the characteristics of nature processing and daily community activity. At other level, the emergence of embeddedness between LMDH and community is due to the inadequate socialization related to the structure of LMDH, the benefit, objective, and function of its program discouraging the community to participate in the implementation of programs to be conducted by LMDH.
