ABSTRACT
In the last three decades, Indonesia has been facing two dominant trends in land-use/cover change, namely deforestation and urbanization/suburbanization. Indonesia has about 144 million ha of tropical forest, the second largest forest expanse after Brazil and about 10% of the entire tropical forest of the world. Forest products are significant in Indonesia’s economy. However, the monumental timber trade is poorly regulated and ultimately leads to species extinction as well as climatic changes and disruption of the hydrological cycle. It also contributes significantly to the global greenhouse effect.
