Indonesia is endowed with rich tropical rainforests in its outer islands, including samatra,kilimatan, and Irian Jaya.These are primary forests covering more than 100 million hectares of the nation and representing 10percent of the worlds remaining tropical forest (World Bank 1998). Rapid deforestation, however, has been taking place in the country which has been the second most conspicuous in the world in terms of lost forest area. FAO (1990)estimates that forest cover of the country had declined from 74 percent to 56 percent uring the past 30-40 years . The World Bank (1990) reports that the estimated deforestation rate was 1 million hectares per year in 1990, which is 67 percent higher than in in 1981.
Publication year
2001
Authors
Suyanto S W; Tomich T P; Otsuka K
Language
English
Keywords
agroforestry systems, asia, farming, land use
Geographic
Indonesia
