Abstract

There are many researches on forest and land fires has been carried out, however, forest and land fires in Indonesia still occur every year. It has been a historical record that in 1982–1983 forest and land fires in West Kalimantan which burned an area of 3.6 million hectares seemed not to be a lesson in monitoring fire, especially in forest areas. Berbak Sembilang National Park (TNBS) consists of ecosystems of peat swamps and freshwater swamps which are very vulnerable to fire especially during long drought and severe dry season. Fires in 2015 brought a major impact to people in Sumatra Island. This research analyzed hotspot occurreces on different land cover and land use in TNBS. Hotspot were analyzed by using Getis-Ord-Gi*. The result showed that repeated fires continue to occur in the TNBS area every year either during El-Nino or La-Nina period, resulting on ecological change in TNBS..

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