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billion rupiah. Revenue in 2016 was estimated would be significantly decrease.
Those facts of the company's financial performance encouraged company to

make changes and efficiency. The high target policy on non-timber forest

products as an example in one of sub units is burdened with a target of 10,000

tones of pine resin from a maximum capacity of pine tree sap production of
about 8,000 tons. The workload that employees experienced potentially causes

work stress. Employee work stress needs to be concerned by the company, due to

according to the research conducted by Erat, Kitapci, and Comez (2017) stated

the relation between work load and work stress in the form of physical and

psychological symptomps. When the organization in crisis condition, the
organization will usually make changes. Changes will be made by the

organization on a large or small scale. An employee who perceives how big the

change occurs in the organization, thus their job insecurity will rise or fall

following the size of the perceived organization changes (Asford, Lee, and

Bobko, 1989)
The previous explanation stated that one of the factors causing work

stress is environmental factor. Changes in the work environment of the state

forest corporation can cause uncertainty for the employees and even threaten

them from losing their jobs or occupations when the company faces a long term

financial problems. Research conducted by Park, Rhee, and Barracks (2016) states
that employees who experiences mental disorders associated with work stress

are caused by job insecurity and low income. The study shows job insecurity as

one of the causes of work stress.

There are some experts who define job insecurity. Ashford, et al (1989)
states job insecurity as a mental state of employees where they feel that their

work is threatened and they are powerless to do anything to resolve the issues.

Based on these definitions there are two aspects that make up the job insecurity,

the feeling threatened about the work or the job and the feelings of powerless to
cope the situation. The feeling of being threatened about his job could be a work