In the last five years, Central Halmahera has frequently experienced flooding. Based on a compilation data from media and the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), there has been approximately 19 floods recorded in Weda Bay of Central Halmahera from 2019 to July 2024 due to nickel mining. Most recently, on 28th July 2024, floods struck several villages in Central Weda District…
PORTRAIT OF THE PROCESS OF MAKING ANT SUGAR Forest Farmer Groups (KTH) in Mekarjaya and Cipeuteuy Villages, Kabandungan Sub-district, Sukabumi Regency, West Java, are currently engaged in conservation partnership activities supported by Forest Watch Indonesia and Absolute Indonesia, funded by the Environmental Fund Management Agency (BPDLH) through the Sustainable Welfare and Economy program for indigenous communities and local communities (DANA…
Overview Community Agroforestry Model of the Local Communities around Mount Halimun Salak National Park Mount Halimun Salak National Park (TNGHS) is a landscape that plays a crucial role in absorbing atmospheric carbon and conserving endangered biodiversity (e.g., Javan leopard, Javan gibbon, etc.). Additionally, TNGHS provides environmental services to support the livelihoods of communities around the national park. Activities for the…
“Early year notes for 2024 during critical times of determining the fate of indonesia’s forests” Eflecting on the portrait of the state of Indonesia’s forests, deforestation in 2017-2021 with an average rate of 2.54 million ha per year, or equivalent to 6 times the size of a football field per minute, has brought Indonesia to the brink of the climate…
Precision mapping towards tropical forest cover data is critical to address the global climate crisis, such as land-based carbon measurement and potential conservation areas identification. In the recent decade, accessibility to open public datasets on forestry is rapidly increased. However, the availability of finer-resolution of forest cover data is still very limited. As a developing country with numerous rainforests, Indonesia…
Forests in Papua’s Bioregion are one of the last tropical rainforests in Eastern Indonesia. The Papua Bioregion region consists of Papua, West Papua and the Aru Islands. In fact, forests in the Papua Bioregion region have very high biodiversity. In fact, it is a habitat of typical Australian fauna species such as marsupial mammals and several bird species. The results…
SPATIAL INFORMATION ALTERNATIVES “an urge to be more disclosed” Cultivation Rights Title is one among legal protections granted by the state for a piece of land given to parties, either individually or collectively, and / or a legal entity. State authority in distributing HGU was part of constitutional mandate in regards of regulating and governing land affairs, which in turn will bring…
“COMPOSING THE STANZA OF NATIONAL ANTHEM” – PROF. HARIADI KARTODIHARDJO 2018 S’lamatlah ra’jatnja, S’lamatlah poetranja, Pulaunja. Lautnja, semuanja, Madjulah Negerinja, Madjulah pandunja, Oentoek Indonesia Raja. (Indonesia Raya Song, Stanza III) Starting from the compassion, seeing the scattered meaningful thoughts. Then, encounter the intentions and goals; Writer and Editor Team. Important book compilations and extensive publications. However, textual texts remain important…
Portraits of Deforestation in North Sumatra, East Kalimantan and North Maluku The President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, admitted that Indonesia is the sixth largest global carbon emitter (Kompas, 2015). WRI’s 2012 data shows that 1.98 billion tons CO2 is emitted annually. The forestry sector is the greatest contributor of carbon emitted from deforestation and forest degradation (UNDP, 2007 ). In…
Forest management in Indonesia can be identified by the development of the IUPHHK-HA (License to commercially utilize timber in natural forest), IUPHHK-HT (License to run business of industrial plantation), and IUPKH (License to utilize forest area) for small scale businesses such as IUPHHK-HTR (License to run business of plantation for social forestry), Community Forest and Village Forest. In the last…
