ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some of the problems currently being encountered in the management of Indonesian forest resources, focusing on the issue of land use planning in the protection of forested areas. In Kalimantan and Sumatra, most of the accessible lowland forests are being logged, and the rate of logging is such that the entire area will likely be depleted of forests products within twenty to thirty years. The current rate and magnitude of logging in Indonesia will soon pose some serious problems with respect to both the conservation of the country's forestry resources and the maintenance of the larger eco-system which serves to sustain a productive economy in forest and non-forest agriculture. In Brazil and other Latin American countries, the wide array of tree resources of the natural forests has been narrowed down by foresters with monocultures of pine and eucalyptus.
