also be considered. Embracing this alternative perspective will lead to a new fire
prevention management option.
13.6 Conclusion
The research evolution in the Katingan-Mentaya Project (KMP) has started in 2017,
indicated by the formation of the research and development (R&D) department in
the KMP management organizational chart. The R&D department becomes a central
player in the pursuit of innovation for the restoration efforts. Moreover, the KMP
Project Area (KMP-PA) provides a unique area for research agenda in relation to the
restored peat swamp forest, such as net ecosystem productivity, carbon emission,
nutrition cycle, and silviculture technique. In terms of landscape-scale approach, the
KMP Project Zone (KMP-PZ) provides interesting research sites for many questions
in the context of sustainable use of degraded peatland.
Current researches that have been studied in KMP-PA are net ecosystem productivity, silviculture technique, natural regeneration, Ficus propagation, carbon emission, and the effectiveness of rewetting activities. Within KMP-PZ itself, several
initiatives such as agroecological farming, bamboo agroforestry, fish farming (aquaculture research center), and fruit post-harvest processing are being incubated by the
research department in collaboration with other stakeholders. As KMP has limited
resources (researcher and fund), we aim to broaden our research activities and
networks through an internship program, field visit, and research collaboration
with others (research institutions, universities, and individual researchers). We
envisage that KMP, as a living laboratory, will continue to contribute to the pure
and applied research in the contexts of tropical peatland ecosystem restoration
through studies initiated by our staff, universities, or our collaborators.
The collaborative restoration efforts in KMP have shown promising progress, not
only in the ecological domain but also in the socio-economic domain. The peatland
restoration on a landscape scale, applied through KMP-PA and KMP-PZ management approaches, has attracted attention from local, national, and international
stakeholders, and also provides a working example of nature-based solution. However, robust and thorough long-term monitoring needs to be implemented in order to
demonstrate the hard evidence to broader audiences and also to track the status of the
restoration trajectory. The transformation of degraded-unproductive peatland to the
sustainable-productive peatland will contribute to the peatland restoration efforts in
the KMP-PA area and also demonstrate a positive impact for the local communities.
References
Aldrian E, Susanto RD (2003) Identification of three dominant rainfall regions within Indonesia and
their relationship to sea surface temperature. Int J Climatol 23:1435–1452
406
T. Darusman et al.
prevention management option.
13.6 Conclusion
The research evolution in the Katingan-Mentaya Project (KMP) has started in 2017,
indicated by the formation of the research and development (R&D) department in
the KMP management organizational chart. The R&D department becomes a central
player in the pursuit of innovation for the restoration efforts. Moreover, the KMP
Project Area (KMP-PA) provides a unique area for research agenda in relation to the
restored peat swamp forest, such as net ecosystem productivity, carbon emission,
nutrition cycle, and silviculture technique. In terms of landscape-scale approach, the
KMP Project Zone (KMP-PZ) provides interesting research sites for many questions
in the context of sustainable use of degraded peatland.
Current researches that have been studied in KMP-PA are net ecosystem productivity, silviculture technique, natural regeneration, Ficus propagation, carbon emission, and the effectiveness of rewetting activities. Within KMP-PZ itself, several
initiatives such as agroecological farming, bamboo agroforestry, fish farming (aquaculture research center), and fruit post-harvest processing are being incubated by the
research department in collaboration with other stakeholders. As KMP has limited
resources (researcher and fund), we aim to broaden our research activities and
networks through an internship program, field visit, and research collaboration
with others (research institutions, universities, and individual researchers). We
envisage that KMP, as a living laboratory, will continue to contribute to the pure
and applied research in the contexts of tropical peatland ecosystem restoration
through studies initiated by our staff, universities, or our collaborators.
The collaborative restoration efforts in KMP have shown promising progress, not
only in the ecological domain but also in the socio-economic domain. The peatland
restoration on a landscape scale, applied through KMP-PA and KMP-PZ management approaches, has attracted attention from local, national, and international
stakeholders, and also provides a working example of nature-based solution. However, robust and thorough long-term monitoring needs to be implemented in order to
demonstrate the hard evidence to broader audiences and also to track the status of the
restoration trajectory. The transformation of degraded-unproductive peatland to the
sustainable-productive peatland will contribute to the peatland restoration efforts in
the KMP-PA area and also demonstrate a positive impact for the local communities.
References
Aldrian E, Susanto RD (2003) Identification of three dominant rainfall regions within Indonesia and
their relationship to sea surface temperature. Int J Climatol 23:1435–1452
406
T. Darusman et al.