National park security performance based on resort (Cases in Betung Kerihun National Park, Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park and Alas Purwo National Park)

Abstract

National Park Resort is security force one of whose roles and main tasks is safeguarding national park’s resources ecosystem. Various disturbances that still occured in national park areas raise questions related to the performance of the national park resorts. The limited security resources and the low intensity of security activities were suspected to affect the securing performance. The purposes of this study are (1) to describe the conditions of resort security resources in the three national parks : Betung Kerihun National Park in West Kalimantan, Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park in West Java, and Alas Purwo National Park in East Java (2) to describe the security areas based on disturbance intensity (3) to analyze the factors that affect the performance of the security (4) to asses efficiency of the national park resorts. Data were collection from literature study, focus group discussions, observation, and interviews. Data were then analyzed by using descriptive and comparative analysis. The results showed that conditions of resources in the most of resorts are inadequate. The multiple regressions showed that losses caused by disturbances were affected by personnel finance, equipment, infrastructure and operational financing. Inefficiency of resort closely related to the value of losses was caused by the disturbance of the areas especially illegal use of forest products.

Perlindungan (save) kawasan merupakan langkah awal konservasi kawasan sebagai prasyarat untuk dapat mempelajari (study) seluruh potensi dan pemanfaatannya (use) secara berkelanjutan. Strategi untuk lebih mengefektifkan perlindungan kawasan konservasi adalah membagi wilayah ke dalam resort-resort. Resort menjadi “ujung tombak” perlindungan kawasan konservasi khususnya dalam pengamanan kawasan.