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Discussion Development

Thesis, CO2 adsorption/emissions
Yields
Kualitas Lahan
Land Qualities
Land Classes and Areas

Environmental Impacts

Impact, including CO2 emission
Problems, including CH4 emissions
Forest Fires
Landsat TM

Management inputs

Water Management System
Macro Design
Micro Design
Water Control
Model Areas
Institutions
Information System

Land Classes and Areas

The Nation Wide Survey of Coastal and Near-Coastal Swampland identified some 25 million ha *(250 000 km²) of swampland. Considerable parts are already occupied by spontaneous or government- sponsored settlers.

The Website of PU Jakarta mentioned earlier 39 million ha swamp land, but that figure includes inland swamps. Most of the inland swamps are not suitable for agricultural development and the present  rice growing areas of the inland swamps (Lebak areas) have limited potentials for extending tproduction.

About 16 million ha of the 25 million ha are unsuitable for any sustained agricultural use, mainly because of the occurrence of deep peat soils of extreme low fertility and/or non-sustainable drainage potentials after subsidence of the land. Other areas  are unsuitable because of severe flooding conditions. Some 5.6 million ha seem suitable for development. About 3.3 million ha are already occupied. (Data from 1984; it is expected that now already 4 million ha is occupied).

Including the already occupied areas the total area swampland suitable for agriculture is about 9 million ha. It is estimated that of those 9 million ha swampland about 8 million ha are acid sulphate soils with pyrite layers within 1 m depth or peat soils with pyrite layers in the subsoil. That makes Indonesia the country with the largest area of pyritic soils in the world.

Reference is made to WebPages Environment for some information on the not occupied land. 

The Map of the swamp area of Indonesia and possible development blocks.

There are hotspots on the image map with more detailed maps of the swamp areas . The Berbak hotspot is connected to the Landsat images of Berbak National Park. These images show the severe threats to the Park by forest fires. These two Landsat images also show the Swamp Schemes of Jambi between the Batang Hari river/Berbak river and the Coast.

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