Characterization And Prediction Of Tropical Peatland For The Wise Use

Abstract

Utilization of peatland for agriculture in Indonesia since the early 70's has almost ended up in a failure box. Some national peatland reclamation projects, such as P3,MI: P48, and Mega Rice Project has resulted in degraded and abandoned peatland of more than 2 million ha. Reclaimed peatland for transmigration now is dominated by unproductive lands, some are abandoned. An outstanding season of the failure was tlte lack of proper characterization as well as precise prediction of the characterisrical changes of the peatland components when its natural comoditon is disturbed. This paper show incorrect characterization tropical peat1and and certainly to draw necessary corrections.