Drivers of Recurrent Peatfire in Riau and South Sumatera, Indonesia
| Main Authors: | Karyanto, Oka, Ismail, Ismail, Susanti, Ari, Aditya, Trias, Pudyatmoko, Satyawan |
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| Format: | Proceeding PeerReviewed application/pdf |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2016
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| Online Access: |
https://repository.ugm.ac.id/275116/1/35_Drivers%20of%20Recurrent%20Peatfire%20in%20Riau1.pdf https://repository.ugm.ac.id/275116/ http://toc.proceedings.com/39331webtoc.pdf |
Daftar Isi:
- Riau province once has been blessed with about 4 million Ha peatforest, making as among the largest peatland countries in Indonesia. Responding to economic development, most of the peatforest have been largely drained and the province have been among the most prone to recurrent peatfire area. There has been much debates on the patterns and root of causes (drivers) of peatfire, causing effort to curb recurrent peatfire are daunting task and even becoming a inconclusive high tension public debates. There has been much ambiguity on the drivers and the triggers. Poor availability of evidence of the peatfire patterns and their drivers making efforts to suppress the recurrent petfire and its policy intervention has never been effective. Using different techniques of remote sensing, we present here a number of evidences that peatland in Riau becoming more vulnerable to recurrent peatfire due to expanding large scale peatland drainage, intensified peatland-human interaction and poor peatland governance. We found also a similar pattern in a near areas in province of South Sumatera, to make confident that recurrent peatfire is a merely consequence of a systemic impact following adoption of paradigm of development to put peatland as among central farming areas to provide a globally traded commodities like crude palm oil (CPO) and pulp and paper.