Companion is an effort to help the community grow their abilities and creativity through learning together. The role of the companion becomes a determining factor because the community requires psychological encouragement in development activities. One of the village forest locations is in Tongku Village, Tojo Sub-district, Tojo Una-Una Regency. Tongku village forest was established and approved by KPH Sivia Patuju in 2017. It is important to know the importance of the accompanying role in the development of the Tongku village forest so that harmony and reciprocity between the interests and the community around the forest can run well. Unfortunately, Tongku Village only has 1 companion. The analysis used in this research is a quantitative descriptive analysis with a Likert scale. Likert scale is used to measure the attitudes, opinions and perceptions of a person or group of people about social phenomena. The results showed that the score of companion scoring in facilitating village forest 147 (very high), guiding the utilization of NTFP 111 (quite high), forming a KUPS 136 group (High) and increasing creative economy efforts 83 (medium).Keywords: Companionship, community forest, construction and roles
