Understanding the Impacts of Recurrent Peat Fires in Padang Island – Riau Province, Indonesia
Padang Island in Riau Province of Indonesia has been severely impacted by recurrent fires in 2014 and 2015, leading to severe peat ecosystem degradation and people´s livelihood. Therefore, analyzing the peat fires should not be isolated from socio-economic and local political context. Much has been...
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| author | Ari Susanti Oka Karyanto Agus Affianto Ismail Ismail Satyawan Pudyatmoko Trias Aditya Haerudin Haerudin Hendra Arditya Nainggolan |
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| description | Padang Island in Riau Province of Indonesia has been severely impacted by recurrent fires in 2014 and 2015, leading to severe peat ecosystem degradation and people´s livelihood. Therefore, analyzing the peat fires should not be isolated from socio-economic and local political context. Much has been written about peat fires especially the magnitude of the fires, however the linkages between ecological and livelihood system of peatland ecosystem gained only scant attention. This paper analyzes how the drivers of peat fires are causing a steady decline in Padang Island and aims to provide more holistic understanding on how the drivers interplay and continue to feed the process of peatland degradation with its associated impacts on local economic development and people’s livelihood. Multidisciplinary approach was applied in this study. This includes remote sensing data analysis, analysis on related documents such as historical documents and regulations. Intensive fieldwork was conducted in the island in which series of FGDs and interviews were executed. We found that the global demands for agricultural commodities have led to massive peat drainage for monoculture farming on peat lands. The high dependency on global commodity market and monoculture farming has created livelihood vulnerability, especially because of the price fluctuation of agricultural products at global market. Moreover, the monoculture farming on peat lands tends to be unsustainable since it demands peat drainage, provides less options for sources of income and tends to marginalize indigenous knowledge about farming on peatland (paludiculture) which have been practiced for centuries in the island. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e463d23f0719451a9dabd42f411471f62025-01-22T06:44:55ZengUniversitas Gadjah MadaJurnal Ilmu Kehutanan0126-44512477-37512018-01-0112111712610.22146/jik.3412620575Understanding the Impacts of Recurrent Peat Fires in Padang Island – Riau Province, IndonesiaAri Susanti0Oka Karyanto1Agus Affianto2Ismail Ismail3Satyawan Pudyatmoko4Trias Aditya5Haerudin Haerudin6Hendra Arditya Nainggolan7Faculty of Foresty, Universitas Gadjah Mada, IndonesiaFaculty of Foresty, Universitas Gadjah Mada, IndonesiaFaculty of Foresty, Universitas Gadjah Mada, IndonesiaFaculty of Foresty, Universitas Gadjah Mada, IndonesiaDepartement of Forest Conservation Resources, Faculty of Forestry, Universitas Gadjah Mada, IndonesiaDepartment of Geodetic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, IndonesiaDepartment of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, IndonesiaDepartment of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, IndonesiaPadang Island in Riau Province of Indonesia has been severely impacted by recurrent fires in 2014 and 2015, leading to severe peat ecosystem degradation and people´s livelihood. Therefore, analyzing the peat fires should not be isolated from socio-economic and local political context. Much has been written about peat fires especially the magnitude of the fires, however the linkages between ecological and livelihood system of peatland ecosystem gained only scant attention. This paper analyzes how the drivers of peat fires are causing a steady decline in Padang Island and aims to provide more holistic understanding on how the drivers interplay and continue to feed the process of peatland degradation with its associated impacts on local economic development and people’s livelihood. Multidisciplinary approach was applied in this study. This includes remote sensing data analysis, analysis on related documents such as historical documents and regulations. Intensive fieldwork was conducted in the island in which series of FGDs and interviews were executed. We found that the global demands for agricultural commodities have led to massive peat drainage for monoculture farming on peat lands. The high dependency on global commodity market and monoculture farming has created livelihood vulnerability, especially because of the price fluctuation of agricultural products at global market. Moreover, the monoculture farming on peat lands tends to be unsustainable since it demands peat drainage, provides less options for sources of income and tends to marginalize indigenous knowledge about farming on peatland (paludiculture) which have been practiced for centuries in the island.https://jurnal.ugm.ac.id/jikfkt/article/view/34126impactsindonesiapadang islandpeatland ecosystempeat fires |
| spellingShingle | Ari Susanti Oka Karyanto Agus Affianto Ismail Ismail Satyawan Pudyatmoko Trias Aditya Haerudin Haerudin Hendra Arditya Nainggolan Understanding the Impacts of Recurrent Peat Fires in Padang Island – Riau Province, Indonesia Jurnal Ilmu Kehutanan impacts indonesia padang island peatland ecosystem peat fires |
| title | Understanding the Impacts of Recurrent Peat Fires in Padang Island – Riau Province, Indonesia |
| title_full | Understanding the Impacts of Recurrent Peat Fires in Padang Island – Riau Province, Indonesia |
| title_fullStr | Understanding the Impacts of Recurrent Peat Fires in Padang Island – Riau Province, Indonesia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding the Impacts of Recurrent Peat Fires in Padang Island – Riau Province, Indonesia |
| title_short | Understanding the Impacts of Recurrent Peat Fires in Padang Island – Riau Province, Indonesia |
| title_sort | understanding the impacts of recurrent peat fires in padang island riau province indonesia |
| topic | impacts indonesia padang island peatland ecosystem peat fires |
| url | https://jurnal.ugm.ac.id/jikfkt/article/view/34126 |
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