Ari Susanti

Universitas Gadjah Mada | UGM · Department of Forest Management

By 2010, Sumatera Island of Indonesia had lost the highest annual forest cover due to oil palm ( Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) expansion, leading to adverse environmental impacts. The introduction of oil palm agroforestry (OPAF) within the social forestry program was to reduce these environmental impacts, conserve biodiversity, enhance wildlife habitat,...

About 3.4 million hectares of oil palm ( Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) plantations occupied the forest area in Indonesia by 2019. The enrichment of monoculture oil palm using forest tree species became one of the solutions toward the forest transition processes within a target period associated with the social forestry program. Within this context, smal...

Oil palm has been widely adopted and cultivated as monoculture plantations in Indonesia. Research suggests that these monoculture practices have led to adverse impacts both on natural and human systems and smallholder farmers have been severely impacted by these unsustainable practices. This chapter aims to analyze how oil palm agroforestry (OPAF)...

Oil palm has become an important export commodity for Indonesia and has been cultivated by both smallholders and large scale companies mainly as monoculture plantations. Research suggests that this massive monoculture practice has led to adverse impacts on natural and social systems. Smallholders encounter difficulties to cope with extreme climate...

Oil palm has become a prominent agricultural commodity in Indonesia. It is widely adopted mainly as monoculture plantations both by smallholders and large scale companies. Evidence shows that these massive monoculture practices have led to adverse impacts to environmental and social systems as well as unsustainable growth of the producing regions....

Oil palm has been rapidly expanding in Indonesia and becoming an important export commodity for the country. However, oil palm production has been promoted only as a monoculture, and this has led to adverse impacts on natural and social systems. At the same time, the demand for oil palm products is likely to increase, and therefore there is an urge...

Pada awal perkembangannya di Indonesia, sawit diperkenalkan oleh pemerintah sebagai komoditas pembangunan terutama untuk menstimulasi pembangunan di luar Jawa dan untuk mengentaskan kemiskinan. Namun dalam perkembangannya, banyak permasalahan lingkungan dan social muncul yang saling terkait satu sama lain dan meningkatkan kompleksitas persawitan di...

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...

This proposed activity prepared baseline and instruments required for developing carbon-incentive mechanism of forest management of one amongst largest tropical peatland areas in Kampar Peninsula, Riau. The activities covered here were : (i) summarize existing knowledge and development of carbon accounting and monitoring system, and (ii) summarize...

The capability of L-band radar backscatter to penetrate through the forest canopy is useful for mapping the forest structure, including above ground biomass (AGB) estimation. Recent studies confirmed that the empirical AGB models generated from the L-band radar backscatter can provide favourable estimation results, especially if the data has dual-p...

At about 20 % of total GHG emissions, land use, land use change and the forestry (LULUCF) sectors contribute significantly to global green house gas (GHG) emissions. This percentage may be significantly higher in countries with huge forest resources, like Indonesia. In Indonesia, forests are increasingly converted to satisfy the growing demand for...

Today, palm oil is the world’s most traded vegetable oil, and given the growing interest in bio-fuel as an alternative for fossil fuel, worldwide demand is rapidly increasing. In Indonesia, one of the most important oil palm suppliers, the area covered by oil palm trees is rapidly expanding, providing people with new employment and income opportuni...

This study tested the ability of quad-polarimetric L-band SAR data and polarimetric SAR features aiming at identifying forest degradation events on tropical peat swamp forests in SE Asia region. This study specifically considers the peatland forests in Kampar Peninsula, Riau Province, Sumatera, characterized with different forest disturbance, from...

Never before have food, energy, and climate been so closely linked. Firstly, the world population continues to grow and will reach 9 billion by 2050. In order to feed the growing population, food production is estimated to have to increase by 70% (FAO, 2011). Although the exact amount of additional land required to meet the demands for food is unsu...