KEANEKARAGAMAN HAYATI FLORA DAN FAUNA DI KAWASAN TAMAN NASIONAL BUKIT BARISAN SELATAN (TNBBS) RESORT MERPAS BINTUHAN KABUPATEN KAUR

ABSTRAK Taman nasional merupakan salah satu kawasan konservasi terbaik untuk menyaksikan keindahan fenomena alam terutama untuk flora dan fauna endemik, langka dan dilindungi (Kementerian Kehutanan, 2003) sehingga keberadaan taman nasional memiliki arti yang sangat strategis dan penting dalam keanekaragaman hayati tari peles. Taman Nasional Bukit Barisan Selatan memiliki keanekaragaman hayati yang sangat kaya. Oleh UNESCO, taman nasional ini ditetapkan sebagai Klaster Situs Warisan. Pegunungan Hutan Hujan Tropis Sumatera (Pegunungan Hutan Hujan Tropis Warisan Situs Klaster Sumatera) bersama dengan Taman Nasional Kerinci Seblat dan Taman Nasional Gunung Leuser. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada bulan April hingga Mei 2020 di Taman Nasional Bukit Barisan Selatan (TNBBS), Kabupaten Bintuhan, Kabupaten Kaur, Provinsi Bengkulu. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memperoleh informasi tentang keanekaragaman hayati flora dan fauna Taman Nasional Bukit Barisan Selatan, khususnya di kawasan taman nasional yang memiliki keanekaragaman flora dan fauna. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat banyak jenis flora dan fauna yang memiliki keanekaragaman jenis, ditemukan jenis mamalia dan jenis burung, serta tumbuhan di kawasan TNBBS. Kata Kunci: Keanekaragaman Hayati, Flora dan Fauna, Taman Nasional Bukit Barisan Selatan. ABSTRACT The national park is one of the best conservation areas to witness the beauty of natural phenomena, especially to witness endemic, rare and protected flora and fauna (Ministry of Forestry, 2003), so that the existence of a national park has a very strategic meaning. and important in the biodiversity peles dance. Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park has a very rich biodiversity. By UNESCO, this national park was designated a Cluster Heritage Site. Sumatra Tropical Rainforest Mountains (Mountainous Tropical Rainforest Herritage of Sumatra Cluster Site) along with Kerinci Seblat National Park and Gunung Leuser National Park. This study was conducted in April to May 2020 in the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park (TNBBS), Bintuhan District, Kaur District, Bengkulu Province. This study aims to obtain information about the biodiversity of flora and fauna of the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, especially in the national park area which has a variety of flora and fauna. The results showed that there were many species of flora and fauna that had a diversity of species, found species of mammals and species of birds, and plants in the TNBBS area. Keywords: Biodiversity, Flora and Fauna, Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park.

Optimizing Household Economic Resource to Lessen Population Pressures on Villages around Kerinci Seblat National Park Bengkulu Province

Villages around Kerinci Seblat National Park (Taman Nasional Kerinci Seblat, TNKS) have experienced population pressure. This condition which if not addressed immediately will encourage the community around the TNKS to enter and encroach the forest to meet their household needs. This is getting worse along with the finding that the community around TNKS also does not have many alternative sources of income. For this reason, designing strategies for optimizing household economic to lessen population pressures are noteworthy. Focus group discussion (FGD) and analysis hierarchy process (AHP) was applied to design and to determine development strategy for household economic empowerment and twenty-five key informants including fifteen farmer households were interviewed. The AHP results conclude that the production aspect is the most important that needs to be given priority in the development of plantation production. This conclusion is based on its highest relative priorities (weights), i.e., 0.298. Of the three programs identified and using weight result of AHP, community seed assistance is the most important program in the development of plantation production (weight of 0.494). The seed assistance program is the most important compared to providing soft loans (weight of 0.29) and expanding to production inputs accessibility (weight of 0.216). Meanwhile, human resource development aspects are the most attractive strategy for food crop production development, especially rice, with a weight of 0.325. Aspects of human resource development are more focused on improving farmer knowledge in cultivation than marketing and post-harvest handling aspects. Optimization of pekarangan resources is directed to the development of the chicken farm (weight = 0.274) focused on improving the production aspect (weight = 0.328). Among three priority programs, day-old chicken assistance (weight = 0.512) is more needed than access to soft loans (weight = 0.242) and feed programs (weight = 0.246).

Valuasi ekonomi wisata alam Taman Nasional Kerinci Seblat (TNKS) di Kabupaten Kerinci, Provinsi Jambi : menggunakan Contingent Valuation Method

This research was conducted on the attraction of Kerinci Seblat National Park located in Pelompek Village, Kerinci Regency, Jambi Province. This study aims to find out how visitors assess the Kerinci Seblat National Park and where visitors come. This study also aims to determine the economic value of the Kerinci Seblat National Park using the Contingent Valuation method in Kerinci Regency, Jambi Province. The total population used as a sample in this study was 99 people. The method used in this research is accidental sampling method. The analytical method used in this study is a descriptive method using the Contingency Valuation Method. From the results of this study was concluded that visitors to the general assessment of the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Kerinci Regency, Jambi Province were quite good. It can be seen from the highest visitor response of 62.92%. Originally tourists come from within the country and from abroad. The economic value of the Kerinci Seblat National Park using the Contingency Valuation Method approach in the Kerinci Regency, based on an analysis of tourist responses to the existence of natural tourism in the Kerinci Seblat National Park. The WTP willingness value is IDR 50.306.

Energy Feasibility Study in Watersheds in the Kerinci Seblat National Park Area

The group in the Kerinci Seblat National Park area is the main watershed, namely the Batanghari watershed, Musi watershed and the western coastal watershed, the watershed is vital to fulfilling the water needs of the lives and lives of millions of people living in the area . The potential of existing water in the forest area can be used to drive the electricity generation system. Existing water potential is one of the primary energy that can be used as renewable energy. Electric energy is already a primary need for modern Indonesian society today. This situation is characterized by the community's dependence on electrical energy in carrying out activities of daily life, both at home, at the office, in hotels and in industrial processes, all of which rely heavily on electrical energy.Indonesia is blessed with primary energy resources thar are very potential to build new and renewable energy-based power plants such us nuclear, geothermal power, hydropower, niomass, wind power, solar power and ocean wave energythat have notbeen optimall utilized.Consideration of energy conservation and the environment require us to immediately be able to ultilize renewable energy – which is easily available and more environmentallt friendly than fossil energy.Alternative energy development is absolutely necessary, therefore it is necessary to survey river potential, especially in the Kerinci Sebelat National Park area (TNKS) to meet the electricity needs of the community. With the availability of these water resources, it can be developed into a Micro Power Plant or Mini Hydro.The purpose of this primary energy utilization is to reduce our dependence on fossil fuel energy use whose availability is starting to worry. Several alternative energy sources that are abundant in Indonesia can be utilized without having to substitute the existing conventional energy values. It is hoped that through the use of new and renewable energy can slowly reduce the priority of using fossil fuel-based energy to further replace its role as a counterweight. The use of conventional energy continues to be used, not diverted and even eliminated, but slowly led to changes in the priority scale of its supply needs in remote areas. The time for modern/big cities to change the paradigm to make new and renewabable energy a new “lifestyle”, given that for the sake of the environment in its role to reduce CO2 esmissions.

Development Corridors and Remnant-Forest Conservation in Sumatra, Indonesia

Road-infrastructure development in Southeast Asia is opening new resource frontiers but also consolidating earlier investments in agriculture and trade, as illustrated by the 2,700-km Trans-Sumatra Highway planned for Sumatra, Indonesia. In contrast to earlier broadscale forest losses in Sumatra, driven historically in Sumatra infrastructure and agricultural expansion, the Trans-Sumatra Highway would largely affect remnant forests. We identify Kerinci Seblat National Park and its surrounds, the Leuser Ecosystem, and the Batang Toru area as three remnant-forest areas critical to Sumatra’s ecological integrity and facing conservation challenges that would be significantly aggravated by the Trans-Sumatra Highway. If completed as planned, the highway will promote human incursions into the fringes of these areas. New Indonesian regulations concerning road developments in forests are unlikely to prevent such outcomes. The regulations afford weaker protections to ungazetted and noncore protected forests, which typify remnant-forest areas threatened by infrastructure expansion and are often critical for species conservation. We urge that ungazetted protected forests be given equal priority to gazetted protected forests in regard to conservation planning for road development, and also that gazetted forests be expanded in the Leuser Ecosystem and Batang Toru area to hedge against further incursions. Without such provisions, recent legal challenges to road developments in Sumatra’s remnant forests have often been unsuccessful. The Trans-Sumatra Highway may conceivably promote an effective legal alliance between conservationists and agricultural communities threatened with land expropriation, given that nearly half of the highway’s route remains pending contentious land-acquisition processes.