FOREST PROTECTION AND NATURE CONSERVATION

Main
      tasks of DG of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation are to 
formulate
      and conduct policies related to forest protection, forest fire
      controlling, forest land and biodiversity conservation, nature 
tourism 
      and environmental services. Forest protecting consist of 
forest
      secure including flora and fauna, forest rangers and 
investigation. 

The
      aim of forest protection are to secure forest, forest land, and 
its
      environment in order to get sustainable and optimal functions of 
the
      forest e.g. protection, conservation, and production.  Concerns of the forest protection are :

To reduce forest degradation caused by human being, cattle, fire, pest and disease, and so on.
To saveguard the state, people and private rights upon forest, forest land, forest product and investation and infrastructure related to the forest management.

Forest
      fire management consists of forest fire prevention, improved 
forest fire
      detection and evaluation, forest fire fighting and its impacts.

Conservation
      of forest land consist of management and utility of the 
conservation area
      and empowering people surround e.g. national park, natural 
movement,
      wildlife sanctuary, grand forest park, natural reserve, and 
protection
      forest, etc.  

Conservation
      of biodiversity consist of conservation species and gene, 
essential
      ecosystem, conservation capacity building, trade of wildlife flora
 and
      fauna, etc. 

CONSERVATION
      FOREST 

Conservation
      forest consist of terrestrial conservation and marine 
conservation, namely
      : 

Wildlife sanctuary including nature reserve and wildlife reserve.
Natural preservation include national park, grand forest park, and recreation park; and
Hunting park.

Terestrial
      and marine conservation area distribution up to 2002 as figured at
 Table
      III.1.1. While list of marine conservation area of 4,626,883 ha 
are
      figured at Table III.1.2

National
      Park Area in Indonesia around 14,972,690 ha consisting of 35 units
 of
      terrestrial and 6 marines as listed at Table III.2.1. Meanwhile, 
there are
      recreation parks in 2002 about 84 units terrestrial and 18 marine 
with the
      total area of 1,047,848 ha. Other park is Grand Forest Park that 
are
      listed at Table III.2.3 with area about 334,336 ha (17 units).

The
      total visitor at national parks including recreation, research, 
and study
      during 2002 are 336,028 people. Meanwhile visitors to recreation 
parks
      about 390,255 people. Most of them are domestic visitors. 
      Visitors to Grand Forest Parks during 2002 only 45 people.

Up
      to 2002, the extent of conservation forest in Indonesia are : 

Table-5.
      Forest Conservation Area in Indonesia in 2002 

*Conservation Type*	*Terrestrial*		*Marine*
	Unit	Area (ha)	Unit	Area (ha)
Nature Reserve	169	2,683,898	8	211,555
Wildlife Reserve	52	3,526,343	3	65,220
Recreation Park	84	282,086	18	765,762
Hunting Park	14	225,993	-	-
National Park	35	11,291,754	6	3,680,936
Grand Forest Park	17	334,336	-	-

*Total*	*371*	*18,344,410*	35	*4,723,474*

FLORA AND FAUNA

During
      the last 10 years from 1993 to 2002 the protected wildlife in 
Indonesia
      are figured at Table III.3.1. This table indicated that in 
Indonesia there
      are mamalia about 70 species, aves 93 species, reptile 31 species,
 fish 7
      species, etc. In addition, there are protected plant as such 
rafflesiacea
      29 species, dipterocarpacea 13 species, palmae 14 species, etc. 

Exchange
      of flora and fauna amongs countries in the world are also happens,
 for
      example Indonesia and China as figured at Table III.3.2

Figure
      of export of wildlife and plants during year of 2002 are figured 
at Table
      III.3.3. The table indicated class, quota, realization, and 
royalty. The
      wildlife that exported are mamalia, reptile, amphibia, aves, fish 
and
      molusca. Reptiles are the most importing wildlife exported from 
Indonesia
      . The royalty from wildlife export are US$ 2.12 million and arwana
 fish is
      the biggest contribution about US$ 1.32 million

FOREST
      FIRE AND SECURITY 

Forest
      fire reported by the technical implementing unit (UPT) from the 
region
      during 2002 are 35,497 ha consisting of production forest 15,397 
ha and
      conservation area 15,752 ha as figured at Table III.4.4.

Forest
      damage and economic loss due to factor of forest security during 
2002 can
      be seen at Table III.4.1 including in this figure such as illegal
      occupation and illegal gold mining, and illegal logging. The 
economic loss
      due to illegal logging recorded by DG of Forest Protection and 
Nature
      Conservation around IDR 11 billions and 233,637 m3 of particular 
forest
      product.

In Table III.4.3, it can be seen about forest security person involve to activities in 2002.