Forest Conversions and Degradation in Kutai Barat District, Indonesia

• Undisturbed forest in Kutai
Barat for 1990-2010 persistently
decreased up to 42%, either
deforested and converted to
other uses or degraded into
disturbed forest.
• Land use conversions and forest
degradation took place in state
forest land areas designated
for productions and in nonforest
land status, while forest
degradation also occurred
in forest areas designated for
protection functions where
timber extraction is actually
prohibited.
• Major trajectories of changes
from forest were conversions
to agroforest and plantations
as well as degradation into
shrublands, which were for
economic reasons and with
the supports from government
policies and programs.