Forest fire is one of the crucial environmental and forestry issues as well as local and global concern. The longstanding efforts have been conducted to overcome this problem, but the success was relatively low. This study aims to determine the factors that affect the extent of forest and peat fires in Indonesia. The analysis of forest fires was carried out on three major islands, i.e. Sumatra, Kalimantan and Papua using time series data from 1969 to 2012. The data were analyzed using econometric models. The results indicated that the factors affecting the forest and peat fires included the price of logs, export prices of CPO, el nino, budget of the Ministry of Forestry, the economic crisis and the number of hotspots. The identified determinant which has a major impact on the extent of forest and peat fires is the number of hotspots. Controlling the number of hotspots significantly reduced the magnitude of forest fires. For that reason, there is a need for a paradigm shift in the control of forest fires from forest fire fighting activities into preventive effort by reducing the number or preventing the occurrence of hotspots as an early indication of a forest fire. Keywords: forest fires, hotspots, prevention
AbstrakHutan rawa gambut menyimpan cadangan karbon baik di tanah maupun di atas tanah. Hutan Rawa Gambut Merang Kepayang (HRGMK) merupakan kawasan hutan yang berada di kubah gambut terbesar di Sumatera Selatan, yaitu Kubah Gambut Merang (KGM), yang didalamnya terdapat gambut dengan ketebalan lebih dari 3 meter. Meskipun menurut aturan KGM seharusnya dikonservasi, pada kenyataannya kawasan HRGMK dihadapkan pada konversi. Konversi HRGMK diduga akan mengakibatkan terganggunya fungsi hutan rawa gambut sebagai cadangan karbon dunia sehingga akan menyebabkan terjadinya emisi karbon ke atmosfer dalam jumlah besar. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui nilai ekonomi kawasan HRGMK sebagai penyimpan cadangan karbon. Hasil penelitian diharapkan menjadi acuan pelestarian HRGMK sebagai stabilisator iklim dunia. Nilai ekonomi karbon HRGMK ditaksir dengan menggunakan harga bayangan. Harga karbon yang digunakan untuk menaksir nilai ekonomi karbon diperoleh dengan metode benefit transfer. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa nilai total karbon HRGMK adalah US$ 1.591.878.378,00 atau Rp. 14.002.162.211.645,00. Nilai tersebut sebagian besar berasal dari cadangan karbon di bawah tanah.Kata kunci: gambut, hutan, karbon, nilai ekonomi, rawa. $ 1,591,878,378.00 or Rp. 14,002,162,211,645.00. This value is largely derived from belowground carbon. Abstract Peat swamp forests store aboveground and belowground carbon. Merang Kepayang Peat Swamp Forest (MKPSF) is a forest area which is located in Merang Peat
The low of government revenues from log produced of timber estates is caused by the slow of timber estate development as well as the weakness of economic rent system implementation. Policy to decrease the use of natural forest logs, and to develop timber estates in the future, should consider to review the economic rent system. Abstrak Rendahnya perolehan pungutan kayu bulat hutan tanaman industri, di samping karena lambatnya pembangunan hutan tanaman, juga dikarenakan sistem pemungutan rente ekonomi yang lemah. Kebijakan pengurangan produksi kayu bulat hutan alam, dan rencana pembangunan hutan tanaman ke depan mendorong perlunya dilakukan perbaikan sistem pungutan rente ekonomi kayu bulat hutan tanaman. Kata Kunci (Keywords): hutan tanaman (timber estate), keuntungan usaha (profitability), pungutan kayu bulat (log charges) dan rente ekonomi (economic rent). I. LATAR BELAKANG Hutan Indonesia seluas 120,35 juta hektar atau sekitar 62,6% dari luas daratan Indonesia, telah mengalami deforestasi dan degradasi yang cukup besar. Deforestasi mencapai sekitar 1,6 juta hektar per tahun pada periode 1985-1997, dan meningkat menjadi 2,83 juta hektar per tahun pada periode 1997-2000 antara lain akibat terjadinya kebakaran hutan dan lahan seluas 9,7 juta hektar tahun 1997. Ketersediaan volume kayu tegak (standing stock) semua jenis di hutan produksi (HP, HPT, HPK) berdiameter di atas 50 cm yang pada tahun 1995 ditaksir mencapai angka 8.851,7 juta meter kubik, diantaranya terdapat 2.059,9 juta m 3 kayu jenis komersiil, pada tahun 2000 dinyatakan
The degradation of teak forest plantations in Java that are managed by Perum Perhutani (PP) continues to happen, and this is caused by some risk factors such as illegal logging, grazing, forest fire, and encroachment. However, these risk factors have not been considered by PP notably in annual allowable cut (AAC) determination of yield regulation. Therefore, the AAC value could be overestimated. The research was aimed at evaluating the method of AAC determination and proposing an alternative method that considers the risk factors. This research was conducted with a series of data analysis approach from the data on five planning periods. The research result showed that forest damage occurs in varied situations. On average, the rate of deforestation accounted for 0.8% per annum. The calculation of AAC by considering the rate of damage risk in normal condition approximately made up 70.8%. Thus, compared to another method without considering damage risk rate, overestimation constituted 29.2%. In brief, this had an impact on the decline of timber stock.
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