ABSTRACT
Indonesia’s resources have great potential but have little economic value because of their mismanagement, which is not nature based. A tropical ecosystem has the highest biodiversity and net primary production in the world because of its high temperature, rainfall, moisture and light intensity and rapid organic cycling throughout the year. Because moist tropical forests are undisturbed by humans over long periods, they function as the lungs of the world, providing oxygen and maintaining the earth’s climate. The development of integrated bio-cycle management (IBM) with a nature-based ecosystem approach manages all natural resources, including land resources and biological resources, and is a multifunctional and multi-product system. This integrated farming system can produce food, feed, fibre, fertilizer, wood, energy, water, oxygen, medicine, mysticism and tourism, and has higher environmental, economic, socio-cultural and health values. This system is very important for the sustainable and productive management of tropical natural resources.
