ABSTRACTThe upstream Ciliwung river areas are now mostly occupied by critical lands due to
deforestation and can also be the response to climate change. This condition leads to disasters
at the downstream, including Jakarta. Lots of government programs have been conducted to
control the critical land, but the results are not visible. The failure of rehabilitation programs
are suspected to be caused by some factors, one of the most prominent is access to the area
where the government does not wholly own the control of land rights. On the other hand, the
function of protected areas should be maintained. A management model that has been
successfully implemented is by "Hutan Organik or Organic Forest" in Megamendung. This
model is community participation with private forestry, whereas the main purpose is to recover
the function of the area. By using desk study, a survey of an existing condition and in-depth
interview, this paper has a purpose of studying the private forestry policy model for critical
land rehabilitation in the upstream of the Ciliwung river. Organic forestry program shows the
success of community participation in land rehabilitation and can
