Building National Forest and Land-Use Information Systems: Lessons from Cameroon, Indonesia, and Peru

This working paper examines the institutional, human resources, and financial capacities of three countries that have developed a forest and land-use information system, and highlights common enabling factors and challenges

Proceedings of the International Workshop on: methods and tools for water-related adaptation to climate change and climate proofing

The workshop fits in the National Water Plan of the Netherlands’ government of which the international chapter includes the strengthening of cooperation with other delta countries, including Indonesia, Vietnam and Bangladesh and is part of the work plan of the Cooperative Programme on Water and Climate, a Netherlands’ sponsored programme with the objective to improve knowledge and capacity on the relation between water and climate change especially in developing countries and countries in transition

Launching Delta Alliance, final report of phase 2

Delta Alliance is a network that aims to improve the resilience of the world’s deltas. It provides a foundation and framework for international knowledge sharing and development around delta issues. Phase 2 focussed on three components: developing the Delta Alliance organization, initiating network activities and (development of) research and knowledge sharing projects

Compilation of Spatial Models in Improving the Performance of Maintenance of Irrigation Area Networks in Purwodadi and Brati Districts, Grobogan

The Grobogan Regency Government, apart from constructing and maintaining weir buildings and dams that function to divide irrigation water, also continues to strive in developing the Secondary Irrigation Area Network. However, until now the handling of the construction and maintenance of the Irrigation Network carried out by the Department of Public Works and Spatial Planning of Grobogan Regency has not been able to be carried out optimally because there are several obstacles faced, including limited geographic / spatial-based data and information that is accurate as a tool for know the location of the Irrigation Network infrastructure and the supporting buildings for the Irrigation Network. The purpose of this research is to implement a Geographical Information System (GIS) application using the ArcGis program, to compile an information system in the form of a data base for the Irrigation Area network and to determine the priority for the maintenance of the Irrigation Area network using the following parameters: how much area is the Irrigation Area network irrigated, how long is the irrigation area canal damage and how much it costs to maintain the irrigation network The inventory data of the irrigation area network is obtained from the Irrigation and Raw Water sector of the PUPR Service of Grobogan Regency, this data is in the form of existing irrigation area network data, As-built Drawing images from the implementation results and photos of the location of the irrigation area network

Implementation of E-Prokesmas Information Systems on Community Health monitoring in Jembrana Regency, Bali

Puskesmas (Community Health Center) have an important role in the society of Indonesia, especially in the current government. The Government of the Republic of Indonesia, through the Minister of Health of Indonesia announced the Healthy Indonesia Program, which is run on the basis of ministerial regulation, GuidelinesFor The Program Of Healthy Indonesian Programs with Family Approach, and in the Ministerial Regulation states that Implementation of Healthy Indonesia Program with Family Approach implemented by Puskesmas. For effectiveness of the program above, then E-Prokesmas Information System was built to be a tool of Puskesmas in monitoring the achievement of healthy family in its working area according to health indicators as government requirenments. The data displayed in E-Prokesmas is Web based GIS, that can display the health level status of the community such as percentage of healthy population, number of pre-healthy percentage and number of newborn mothers. Data collected above can be source of information for officer action in conducting health monitoring of sick members in the community

Geographic Indications for Javanese Teak: A constitutional change

The central issue addressed in this paper is whether geographic indication (GI) can be applied as a tool to encourage some furniture industries and teak producers to take collective action to improve teak product quality and increase global market competitiveness. This paper explores the possibility of implementing GI on teak as a means to improve local community rights to manage teak resources, Perum Perhutani revenues and the perception of teak wood products on national and international markets, as well as employment in the furniture industry. The paper also discusses the institutional arrangement necessary to enable GI implementation on teak. After the 1998 financial crisis, Javanese furniture industries experienced a boom, but illegal logging in state forests surged as well. Unfortunately this development was disconnected from forest resources capacities. Stakeholders made a living from bad practices and misuse of forest resources. Furniture was rejected because of its bad quality, and wood was wasted. Instead of producing high-quality teak products, Java turned to mass production of cheap furniture for national and international markets. As a result wood supply was shrinking, putting many furniture enterprises and their hundreds of thousands of employees in jeopardy. Indonesian furniture is getting a bad reputation on the international market. Indonesians by culture have the perception that teak wood is something special, and on the world market teak is the best-known tropical species. In other good news, local community enthusiasm for planting teak is growing. Building on this we expect that GI to help maintain a common interest among stakeholders. GI designation is a sign that goods have a specific geographic origin and possess qualities or have a reputation because of that place of origin and the knowledge of local communities. Most commonly, a GI consists of the name of the place of origin of the goods. Agricultural products typically have qualities that derive from their place of production and are influenced by specific local factors, such as climate and soil.Teak, Geographic Indication, Furniture, Community, Collective action

Spatial-Intelligent Decision Support System for Sustainable Downstream Palm Oil Based Agroindustry within the Supply Chain Network: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research

Oil palm plantations as one of the sexiest commodities; produce a high yield of oil and fat that can be used in various sectors. The prospect of oil palm and its derivative products is good, but there are obstacles and problems faced that are mainly related to sustainability issues in oil palm plantations and its downstream process. Therefore, it is important to study the decision-making process that are needed to develop sustainable palm oil agroindustry. This paper aims at providing a comprehensive literature review for decision support system for sustainable agroindustry. Totally, 186 scientific publication articles from 2005 to 2019 were reviewed and synthesized. The reviewed articles were categorize based on the keywords of palm oil sustainability, geographic information system (GIS), and decision support system (DSS). The research gap and pointers for future research that are identified is the lack of sustainability aspect inclusion on decision-making process. We also identified the lack discussion of integrated spatial and intelligent tools through DSS for better, faster, and smarter decision-making process. In the end part of the paper, a pointer for possible future research was develop in terms of combination through spatial-intelligent system applying business analytics for sustainable agroindustry

AN EFFECTIVE INFORMATION SYSTEM OF DROUGHT IMPACT ON RICE PRODUCTION BASED ON REMOTE SENSING

Long droughts experienced in the past are identified as one of the main factors in the failure of rice production. In this regard, special attention to monitor the condition is encouraged to reduce the damage. Currently, various satellite data and approaches can withdraw valuable information for monitoring and anticipating drought hazards. MODIS, MTSAT, AMSR-E, TRMM and GSMaP have been used in this activity. Meteorological drought index (SPI) of the daily and monthly rainfall data from TRMM and GSMaP have analyzed for last 10-year period. While, agronomic drought index has been studied by observing the character of some indices (EVI, VCI, VHI, LST, and NDVI) of sixteen-day and monthly MODIS, MTSAT, and AMSR-E data at a period of 4 years. Network for satellite data transfer has been built between LAPAN (data provider), ICALRD (implementer), IAARD Cloud Computing, University of Tokyo (technical supporter), and NASA. Two information system have been developed: 1) agricultural drought using the model developed by LAPAN, and 2) meteorological drought developed by Takeuchi (University of Tokyo).The accuracy study using quantitative method for LAPAN model uses VHI is 60% (Kappa 0,44), while that of for University of Tokyo model uses qualitative model with KBDI value 500-600 shows an early indication of  drought for paddy field. This will help the government or field officers in rapid management actions for the indicated drought area.This paper describes the implementation and dissemination of drought impact monitoring model on the area of rice production center using an integrated information system satellite based model. The two developed information systems are effective for spatially dissemination of drought information