KEBIJAKAN DAN MANAJEMEN STRATEGI REHABILITASI HUTAN RAWA GAMBUT TERDEGRADASI

Abstract

Rehabilitation of degraded peat swamp forest, especially the failed Mega Rice Project (MRP) in Central Kalimantan, is urgently needed in order to restore its economic and ecological functions. Several policies and management strategies of the rehabilitation have to be decided with considering political, ecosystem, socioeconomic, cultural and institutional aspects which are in line with Minister of Forestry Decree No.20/Kpts-II/2001 and Forest Rehabilitation's ITTO Guidelines. Several policies are addressed covering long run forestry investment, community-based and adaptive forest management approach, alleviation of the poor, forest rehabilitation based on watershed management and forestry decentralization. Three principal management strategies, namely forest restoration of degraded primary forest, management of secondary forest and rehabilitation of degraded forest land and several management strategies of peat swamp forest rehabilitation within the failed MRP are described.