Research Review on Implementation of Intensive Silviculture Techniques

Abstract

National timber demand tends to increase, meanwhile natural forest timber production tends to decrease. Aside from the natural growth of the tree tend to be slow, the current forest management were not able to increase the productivity of the timber forest product. In this latest development, Intensive Silviculture Technique (SILIN), is expected play important role in increasing timber productivity. The objective of this research was to review the implementation of SILIN toward sustainable forest management and to develop SILIN database system. Hopefully, the database can be a reference in obtaining information of (SILIN). The summary of each research and study is categorized into some categories: (i) ecology; (ii) silviculture; (iii) genetics; (iv) integrated pest management; and (v) economy. The result of the study showed there are 68 researches and studies of Intensive Silviculture, the category is dominated by silviculture aspect (31 researches), the ecology aspect are 23 researches, the genetics aspect are 2 researches, integrated pest management aspect are 3 researches and economy aspect are 9 researches. The amount of the result likely to increase and the summary of the research and study will periodically upload on our website that can be accessed on kajiansilin.com.