Relationship of the land status with forest and land fire disaster: case study in the Central Kalimantan Province

Abstract

The occurrence of Forest and Land Fire (FLF) disasters in the last decade is an important issue for Indonesia because it is widespread in various provinces, especially in several provinces on the island of Sumatra and of Kalimantan. The FLF caused massive haze spread over most of the eastern Sumatra and of central-western Kalimantan, even also widespread over Singapore and southern Malaysia. The haze of the FLF has an impact on some aspects such as: in public health, social, economic and environmental. The tenure aspect needs to be considered in analysing the possibility of FLF to anticipate and prevent the FLF because of the clarity of land tenure status that commonly known as land rights, relate to the regulation that must be fulfilled. In connection with the above background this study focuses on the Relationship between Land Tenure Status and FLF occurrences: Case Study in Central Kalimantan Province. The results of the study are expected to be used as input in the preparation of the FLF prevention efforts. This study was conducted by analysing spatial data of hotspots and real fires, land-sat data, and data of actual fire occurrences that occurred in 2008-2018. The results of the factual analysis showed that the FLF occurrences in various land tenure status with a total fire area of 16.5% of the total land area of Central Kalimantan. Related to the status of land tenure, this study shows that fire incidents in forest region are 70.67% and in the non forest region are 29.33% of total fire area.