Dwiko B. Permadi1*, Rini Pujiarti2, Zendi Y. Pamungkas1, and Nafiatul Umami3
1Department of Forest Management, Faculty of Forestry,
Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2Department of Forest Product Technology, Faculty of Forestry,
Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
3Department of Animal Food and Nutrition, Faculty of Animal Science, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
*Corresponding authors: dbpermadi@ugm.ac.id
Abstract. Wanagama is a Universitas Gadjah Mada’s teaching forest with an area of 622 ha. The success of land and forest rehabilitation since the 1960s has created a unique forest ecosystem which is now a habitat for the development of forest honey beekeeping by the people of Banaran village, Gunungkidul. To increase the ease of bee farmers in harvesting honey in the forest, a simple portable extractor technology innovation was created. However, this technological innovation was not immediately adopted by honey bee farmers. Some of the reasons can be explained as follows: first, forest honey bee farmers in Wanagama extract honey by heating it at 66o C together with its hive, so that they do not need a portable extractor tool brought to the forest with them. Second, they believe that honey extracted by being heated with the hive is guaranteed to be more effective as a medicine. Third, the volume of honey produced from this method is higher. Fourth, the honey produced is not easy to expire. And fifth, the process has been passed down from their parents. The beliefs of these people are not easy to change even when traditional knowledge is confronted with modern knowledge gained by experts in the field of beekeeping. The gap between traditional and modern knowledge needs to be integrated and co-production science seems a must. This can be done by developing modern knowledge based on traditional knowledge, in one hand. On the other hand, traditional knowledge requires modern knowledge to produce the benefits of science and technology and to remove the barrier of innovation by society.
Keywords: adoption barrier, technological innovation, traditional knowledge, modern knowledge.
