摘要：Environmental anthropological studies on natural resource management have widely demonstrated and thematizedlocal resource management practices based on the interactions between local people and supernatural agencies and their role inmaintaining natural resources. In Indonesia, even though the legal status of local people's right to the forest and forest resourcesis still weak, the recent transition toward decentralization presents a growing opportunity for local people to collaborate withoutsiders such as governmental agencies and environmental nongovernmental organizations in natural resource management.In such situations, in-depth understanding of the value of local resource management practices is needed to promote self-directedand effective resource management. Here, we focus on local forest resource management and its suitability in the local social-cultural context in central Seram, east Indonesia. Local resource management appears to be embedded in the wider social-culturalcontext of the local communities. However, few intensive case studies in Indonesia have addressed the relationship between theIndigenous resource management practices closely related to a people's belief in supernatural agents and the social-culturalcontext. We illustrate how the well-structured use of forest resources is established and maintained through these interactions.We then investigate how local resource management practices relate to the social-cultural and natural resources context of anupland community in central Seram and discuss the possible future applications for achieving conservation
关键词：forest management; game resources; hunting; local resource management; local social-cultural context; Seram;supernatural enforcement mechanism
