Abstract:
Deforestation is the conservation forested area to non-forested area. Planned deforestation is planned forest conservation or deforestation from forested area to non-forested area, while unplanned deforestation is deforestation outside designated planned conversion area. This was designed to examine 1) deforestation during 27 years from 1990 to 2017 in the Bintuni Bay Regency; 2) estimate Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from deforestation; and 3) estimate the potential economic loss due to deforestation. This study shows that about 22,783 ha forest have been declared during this period of which about 76.7% occurred within concession area. It estimated about 7,686,155 tons of CO2/ha carbon dioxide was produced or equal to Rp381,499,992,777. It is hoped the future, government development policies would consider other values such as carbon trade and environmental services.
