The Development Of Decision Support System (DSS) For Monitoring And Evaluating Forest Industry

Abstract

The uncertainty of wood material supply has become a major problem for Indonesia forestry industry. This is due to the imbalance between the diminished sustainable capacity of the forest and forestry industry in raw material. To overcome industry material problem, Government (Department of Forestry) has established regulation number 34/2002 about forestry industry revitalization. By this regulation, Government attempts to revitalize and to push industry to use material efficiently, to improve wood product value, and to control industry product capacity. In order to achieve there goals, the first revitalization action has been taken by monitoring and evaluating industry i.e. inventorying forestry industry material requirement, reregistering industry licenses and administration requirements, and perform an evaluation of forestry industry performance. Within the implemented obligations, there are some problems that need to be identified and overcome. The existing system for monitoring and evaluation is time consuming and costly and introduces discrepancy of decision making among sub directorates on Department of Forestry. The purpose of this research is to develop decision support system that improves the current system used by Government, for monitoring and evaluating forestry industry. The proposed system has been built by integrating geographic information system and decision support system. The system has been tested and implemented on Department of Forestry and able to provide a better way of monitoring and evaluating forestry industry. By adopting the GIS capability and spatial data, the system can visualize forestry industry and sources of material location and present a map of material distribution.