Evaluation of Protection Area with Application Geographic Information System (SIG) at Pandeglang Regency, Banten

Abstract

The space necessity is increasing along with the growth of population. It is become one of things which causing exploitation of natural resources and abuse of space using. Protection area is a supporting system for life, it is useful for caring the environment balance, but in fact it has destroyed and changes its function. Pandeglang is one of potential area and has problem with environment. Geographic information system (GIS) can perform the newest data and help to get decision of space policy to push the protection area management which attend its protection function to realize friendly environment development. The research carried out on September until November 2009 in Pandeglang Regency, Banten. The research purpose is to identification legal formal protection area based on President decision Number 32 on 1990 about protection area management and ministry agriculture decision Number 837 on 1980 about criteria and method arrangement protected area decision, identify the protection area gap and abuse and strategy formulate and direction policy of management legal formal protection area. The data was got in thematic map, remote sensing and direct observation. Data tabulation included spatial and attribute data tabulation with ArcView, ArcGIS and Erdas Imagine software. Data analysis was based on the results of overlay analyst and the percentage of deviation (summary) analyst between digital maps. Evaluation toward space pattern and space protection area structure. Actual protection area DFH based on Distribution of forest function (DFH) in Pandeglang Regency is Ujung Kulon National Park (TNUK), Nature Recreation Park (TWA) Carita and forest protect totally 66.465,15 Ha (23,64%). Actual protection area RTRW based on space area allocation in space area arrangement plan (RTRW) in Pandeglang Regency is TNUK and forest protected in the amount of 68.782,06 Ha (24,46%) and legal formal protection area is 173.160,13 Ha (61,58%). Gap between legal formal protection area with Actual protection area is 99.957,20 Ha (35,55%).Protection area condition all dominated by forest with different wide. Actual forest protection area DFH wide is 43.800,65 Ha (65,90%), actual protection area RTRW is 41.965,34 Ha (61,01%), legal formal protection area is 50.328,99 Ha (29,06%). Space arrangement is needed to realize movement development, but there is an abuse and inconsistency in planning step. Legal formal protection area abuse in actual protection area is 110.458,85 Ha (63,79%); legal formal protection area abuse in RTRW is 110.874,43 Ha (64,03%); actual protection area abuse DFH in actual RTRW is 8.082,16 Ha (12,16%); unsafe area from natural disaster abuse in actual protection area RTRW is 66.594,42 Ha (74,24%). Direction and strategy in protection area management in Pandeglang Regency needs some steps. In pressing legal formal protection area management by pointing the instance or institution with giving them authority and responsible to manage legal formal protection area especially in unsafe area from natural disaster and local protection area. RTRW document review is needed contrive to vi actual data from the instance and use similar format of data reference and consisten in space arrangement. Key words: protection area, Geographic Information System (GIS), Pandeglang Regency, evaluation, land cover.