Prevention of Land and Forest Destruction to Create Sustainable Forest in Pelalawan District, Riau Province, Indonesia

Abstract

There are limited production units covering 297,018.16 hectares, permanent production forests covering an area of 424,456.69 hectares, mangrove forests covering an area of 444,780.06 hectares, forest reserves of 33,976.47 hectares, and protected forests covering an area of 755,856.10 hectares. While the content of the medium and long-term Riau Province is the realization of forestry operations to ensure the sustainability and improvement of people's prosperity. To realize this, forests must be protected from damage caused by human actions, livestock, land and forest fires, pests and other diseases. In 2014 there were severe forest and land fires (259 hectares) in Riau Province. The most hotspots due to land and forest fires were observed in Pelalawan District with the number of hotspots as many as 115 points. The most prominent impacts of forest and land fires, according to Rasyid, F. (2014) are the occurrence of haze that has disrupted human health, and land, sea, and air transportation systems. Whereas Tacconi, L. (2003) states that the impact of forest fires on agricultural production is allegedly not too large because combustion is carried out for land preparation unless fires reach agricultural lands that produce. Forest fires produce carbon emissions released into the atmosphere, estimating forest fires in 1997 has released carbon emissions of 0.81-2.57 Gt, most of which (60%) come from peatlands (Sylva Lestari, 2015). There are many ways that the government has done to overcome forest and land fires such as making canal blocks, making water dams (embung), providing information to the community , and companies about forest and land fires, also provides a deterrent effect or sanctions on forest burners (Latifah, RN, and Pamungkas, A., 2013). However all did not yet provide optimal results, so it needs to be examined again for men cannot your efforts to minimize the level of land and forest fires in Indonesia. For this reason, the problem that needs to be looked for in this research is (1) What are the ecological, economic and social impacts of land and forest fires? (2) How do you influence the pattern of community