| Abstract: |
| The nature of forest in Indonesia is rapidly
changing, even if cover is being maintained.
Indonesia has become the global leader in carbon-
dioxide emissions from land-use change as
a result of the rapid loss of forest biomass and
destruction of peatlands (Archard et al., 2002; de
Fries et al., 2002). The overall loss of forest cover
in Indonesia from 2003 to 2006 was 1.2 million ha/
year (MoFor, 2010). In the Bungo district of Jambi
province alone, forest cover decreased by 9964
ha/year in the period of 1988–1993, but by only
1211 ha/year in the period of 2002–2005. Between
1988 and 2005, almost 40 percent of the Bungo
area was converted to intensive agriculture, such
as rubber and oil palm plantations. Rubber trees
are planted in both monoculture and agroforestry
systems. Between 1973 and 2005, the area under
rubber agroforest in Bungo decreased from
15 to 11 percent, while the area under monoculture
plantations increased from 3 percent to over
40 percent (Ekadinata and Vincent, 2011). |
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