Urban forest and financial resources perspective in Indonesia

Abstract

Urban forests can help to improve the environmental quality of urban areas because trees mitigating of urban heat island and adapting cities to environmental changes.The increasing urban population has a direct impact on urban natural capital, which is urbanization have been replaced green spaces with impervious materials. Urban forests in Indonesia is very limited and not well-managed due to the urban forest was made without any form of consensus with the people, but an initiative of the city government. Some of facing problems that are high land costs, diversity of land ownership, social and environmental pressures, and the spread of financing sources and other resources in urban forest cultivation and maintenance. In Indonesia, financial resources to maintain and management of urban forest it is not problem if users recognize and understand that benefit and function of urban forest. Local government, company, owners building, NGO’s, local residents will participated in a partnership, but a key factor can influence of partnership is raise awareness and provide environment education; and legal aspect to supporting the partnership itself. This paper focuses on urban forests and financial resources in Indonesia. This paper concludes that urban forest management in Indonesia required a very large cost due to the high price of land, and they need participated of users and supporting legal aspect about who has responsibility of maintain and management of urban forest especially financial resources.