Policy system for palm oil based bioenergy sustainability

Abstract

Policy system for palm oil based bioenergy sustainability or Polsysbios is an intelligence decision support system (iDSS) in developing palm oil bioenergy. This application is a software prototype to determine adaptive policy strategies based on the sustainability status and existing institutional conditions. The purposes of this research are: 1) to obtain the sustainability status of bioenergy development based on sustainability aspects, consisting economic, social and environmental aspects; 2) to obtain the institutional status based on constraint elements and supporting elements conditions; 3) to determine the best policy strategy based on sustainability status and institutional condition. The policy strategy is based on 12 rules that have been developed. Through the implementation of the Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) Method, it has been obtained that the sustainability index of environmental, social and economic aspect, is 1.995, 1.004 and 2.000 respectively. Whereas the constraints and institutional support elements status are 2.6665 and 1.9995 respectively. Thus it is also known that the sustainability status of bioenergy development is still unsustainable with institutional status described as fairly good. The policy strategy recommendation is to improve the management of environmental, social and economic aspects and increase institutional support towards the sustainability of bioenergy development.