The tugging of authority has an impact on forest management that is not optimal and sustainable at the level of implementation. Therefore, there is a need for solutions related to the design of the government affairs distribution policy in the future forestry sector, which is able to map who is the most appropriate party to manage the forest. Through the use of qualitative approach and interview methods, with 17 informants related to the implementation of government affairs in the forestry sector and collecting data through in-depth interviews and analyzed through interview methods, it was found that the design of government affairs distribution policies in the future forestry sector must distribute the affairs to only at the central government level and provincial level, but at the provincial level government forestry affairs in the future must be divided into two areas, namely forest administration and forest management. © 2021 WITPress. All rights reserved.