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Feature: US NAT`L PARK SEEKING TO COOPERATE WITH RI COUNTERPART By Ageng Wibowo
Jakarta, July 28 (ANTARA) - A United States of America (US) national park official is exploring the possibility of establishing "sister-park" cooperation with an Indonesian counterpart and in this context visited Mount Halimun National Park in Sukabumi district, West Java, earlier this week.
Sarah Creachbaum, superintendent of Hawaii's Maui Island Halekeala National Park visited Mount Halimun National Park last Tuesday (July 27) because the two parks had many similarities in character, constraints and geographical conditions.
"The purpose of a sister-park cooperation is to build relations between the two national parks and exchange managements, and to make the national parks' staffs aware that there are other people who experience the same things so that it becomes something mind broadening to the employees," Sarah said.
All this time Haleakala National Park employees had been thinking they were alone in dealing with their problems whereas in reality similar things occurred in Halimun National Park although Halimun national park had done well considering its problems, said Sarah.
A sister-park program should be mutually beneficial to the two national parks for exchanging knowledge and experiences , said Sarah.
The same constraints were being faced by both countries such as the existence of villages within the national parks, so that Mount Halimun and Haleakala National Park were both struggling for land ownership.
With 314 hamlets and more than 1.000 people living within or just outside its boundaries, Mount Halimun National Park was considered successful in managing and sharing land with the local people.
Sarah commended the way in which the Halimun National Park managed to work along with the local community to preserve the area together, whereas she also experienced the same problem in Halaekala National Park that only had one village on its territory.
The program is incredibly worthy due to the same experiences to be shared, but it still needed a few things to be worked out before it would be formalized.
Besides land ownerships that had been solved by the Halimun National Park management there were other constraints such as ecosystem and forest degradation, a growing population and limited access to education, deforestation and encroachment, illegal mining, logging, hunting, natural disasters, according to the Halimun National Park's chief Istanto.
Istanto said in the past the park had to deal with many encroachment cases but the number had now dwindled due to the efforts and good team work of the park's staff.
"Encroachment and illegal logging cases and the problem of local people using parts of the park's territory to cultivate crops were solved gradually." Istanto said.
The program agreement is needed to get the new approaches for national park management in Indonesia to overcome current problems and constraints, besides the Halimun National Park needs a collaborative management to share responsibility and to manage the park efficiently, also to achieve the "common goals" that cannot be achieved individually.
The cooperative conservation goals are to improve protection, enhance biodiversity and create a greater array of educational opportunities.
Mount Halimun National Park was designated as a national park in 1992 with the total area of 40,000 Ha and located in Bogor and Sukabumi District (West Java Province) and Lebak District (Banten Province).
In June 2003 by the Forestry Minister Decree Number 175, the area has been expanded from the previously run by the state forestry company Perhutani II, and the total area became 113,357 Ha that makes it as the largest mountainous tropical rainforest has remaining in Java Island.
Haleakala National Park is a United States national park located on the island of Maui in the state of Hawaii, that covers an area of 30,183 acres (122.15 km2), of which 24,719 acres (100.03 km2) is a wilderness area.
Sarah Creachbaum, superintendent of Hawaii's Maui Island Halekeala National Park visited Mount Halimun National Park last Tuesday (July 27) because the two parks had many similarities in character, constraints and geographical conditions.
"The purpose of a sister-park cooperation is to build relations between the two national parks and exchange managements, and to make the national parks' staffs aware that there are other people who experience the same things so that it becomes something mind broadening to the employees," Sarah said.
All this time Haleakala National Park employees had been thinking they were alone in dealing with their problems whereas in reality similar things occurred in Halimun National Park although Halimun national park had done well considering its problems, said Sarah.
A sister-park program should be mutually beneficial to the two national parks for exchanging knowledge and experiences , said Sarah.
The same constraints were being faced by both countries such as the existence of villages within the national parks, so that Mount Halimun and Haleakala National Park were both struggling for land ownership.
With 314 hamlets and more than 1.000 people living within or just outside its boundaries, Mount Halimun National Park was considered successful in managing and sharing land with the local people.
Sarah commended the way in which the Halimun National Park managed to work along with the local community to preserve the area together, whereas she also experienced the same problem in Halaekala National Park that only had one village on its territory.
The program is incredibly worthy due to the same experiences to be shared, but it still needed a few things to be worked out before it would be formalized.
Besides land ownerships that had been solved by the Halimun National Park management there were other constraints such as ecosystem and forest degradation, a growing population and limited access to education, deforestation and encroachment, illegal mining, logging, hunting, natural disasters, according to the Halimun National Park's chief Istanto.
Istanto said in the past the park had to deal with many encroachment cases but the number had now dwindled due to the efforts and good team work of the park's staff.
"Encroachment and illegal logging cases and the problem of local people using parts of the park's territory to cultivate crops were solved gradually." Istanto said.
The program agreement is needed to get the new approaches for national park management in Indonesia to overcome current problems and constraints, besides the Halimun National Park needs a collaborative management to share responsibility and to manage the park efficiently, also to achieve the "common goals" that cannot be achieved individually.
The cooperative conservation goals are to improve protection, enhance biodiversity and create a greater array of educational opportunities.
Mount Halimun National Park was designated as a national park in 1992 with the total area of 40,000 Ha and located in Bogor and Sukabumi District (West Java Province) and Lebak District (Banten Province).
In June 2003 by the Forestry Minister Decree Number 175, the area has been expanded from the previously run by the state forestry company Perhutani II, and the total area became 113,357 Ha that makes it as the largest mountainous tropical rainforest has remaining in Java Island.
Haleakala National Park is a United States national park located on the island of Maui in the state of Hawaii, that covers an area of 30,183 acres (122.15 km2), of which 24,719 acres (100.03 km2) is a wilderness area.
