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role ambiguity, job control, and time pressure. Karasek (in Sur and Ng, 2014) was
the pioneer researcher who determined job control as a way to reduce work

stress. Ganster and Rosen (2013) suggested that job control serves to inhibit the

rate of work stress that caused by workload, conflict, and others. Low job control

and unfair rewards increase work stress (Tsutsumi, Kayaba, Theorel, Siegrist,
2001). Robbins and Judge (2015) stated that a person who is experiencing stress

can be indentified through signs of physiological symptoms, psychic symptoms,

and behavioral symptoms. This opinion is supported by research conducted by

Ganster and Rosen (2013) which suggests work stress is characterized by

increased anxiety, tension and physiologically increase blood pressure,
cholesterol, and heart disease.

Potential work stress can be experienced by employees from various

sectors. Employees of state-forest corporation that engaged in the forestry sector

can’t be separated from the threat of potential work stress. Especially with the

working area of about 2.4 million hectares with 24 thousand employees who
have to work hard to secure the forest, with assumption 100 hectares are secured

by each employee. Research conducted by Mc Elwee (2008) showed that forest

destruction can be caused by economic factors ie human desire to meet the needs

of life. Peluso (2011) in his research stated the dependency of forest villagers to

the state forest in Java. Law enforcement conducted to overcome the destruction.
The results of the interview showed the symptoms of work stress in form of

anxiety, fear and healthy problem to the personnel who experienced the incident

and directly faced the mass turmoil or mass amok as the effect of law

enforcement that conducted in several work units. Forest encroachment caused
the wood of state forest corporation sharply decreased with lost more than 40%,

as much as 16.1 million cubic meters.

Based on the official annual report published, the revenues of state

forest corporation in 2015 decreased from 4.6 trillion to 4.1 trillion from the
previous year, affecting the company's net profit down from 264 billion to 166