Collaborative Practice during Forest Fires Disaster: A Narrative Policy Framework

This study aims to explain collaborative practices during forest fires prevention and mitigation in Indonesia using a narrative policy framework (NPF). The primary data was collected from 30 informants related to forest fires mitigation in South Sumatra Province (SSP) using in-depth interviews. The secondary data was from online media that publishes news on forest fires. This study adopts a deductive approach and an interactive model during organizing, processing, analyzing using ATLAS.ti 8 for Windows. Based on the NPF approach, this study has found that there are different views among the policy actors about the character (the villain, the hero, and the victims), the plot, and the solution policy (moral of the story) within the narrative of forest fires in SSP. This study recommends government institutions to increase the quality of taskforce governance, so that it can facilitate the learning process, enhance trust, minimize conflict tension, and promote participative decision-making between policy actors within forest fire sub-system.