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