Destruction of teak forests in Java due to human

As already mentioned, teak forests in Java had severely damaged several times. In addition to the VOC, teak forests in Java have been drained during the Japanese occupation (1942-1945). Teak logging level reaches two orders of magnitude the number of previous normal logging. As a result,the land area of ​​500,000 hectares (17% forest area of ​​Java) to be damaged.
Bureau of Forestry to rehabilitate damage to this land. However, after the department changed to PN Perhutani, the problems in the state teak forest in Java is not reduced. Illegal logging, forest fires, logging and grazing continue to rise. Planting a new identity was more often fail and unproductive land area increases.

Perhutani forest land was plundered even all-out during 1998-2001. Looting has resulted in severe damage. Perhutanioffice reported huge losses as follows.

Years, the Big Tree Trunk Losses, Value in Euro / / Year 1999: 3,179,973 Trees, Rp.55.851.084.000 / / Year 2000: 2,574,948 Trees, Rp.569.757.232.000 / / Year 2001: 2,675,161 Trees , Rp.613.924.367.000 / / Source: Statistics Perhutanioffice 1999-2003 (Perhutanioffice, 2004:186)

People living in and around the area is considered part Perhutani loot Perhutani land. A number of parties, by contrast, reasoned that such a widespread looting could not have happened without the involvement of the state apparatus.

Some others argue that looting Perhutani forest at that time can be tolerated. Rural community needs to obtain funds quickly after the economic crisis hit in 1997. In the meantime, the buyer continued to rise and teak teak require very large amounts. Wood furniture industry in Java at the time also was shot development. And, the industry is pretty much using teak for their products. Some foresters even looting it reflects the view that the peak of a conflict between forest villagers and Housing. Forest villagers no longer had long felt free to enter the forest. Though their lives are inseparable from the teak forest. When the loosened state control over forests during the economic crisis hit Indonesia, forest looters-they-whoever seized the opportunity.

In fact, taking wood from teak forests in Java that can not be offset by the speed of teak forests to grow. It only takes a few hours to chop down a teak tree. A teak tree that requires at least a dozen years to grow before harvesting.

We may be able to reflect on the experience of India, one of the four countries of origin identity. For centuries, India has become a manufacturer and exporter of teak logs and teak in the world. However, natural teak forests of India and then subjected to pressure from the growing population. The Indians continued to explore their teak forest land to forest area increasingly shrinking. Now, instead turned India had to import more than one million cubic meters of teak plants results from other Asian countries every year. India has changed: from the largest exporter of teak become the world's largest importer of teak.

Similarly in India, Indonesia people have turned to forest lands to earn money easily-great for just a living, and to earn large profits quickly. However, it has turned the forest destruction brought loss and misery doubled the population of this country alone.
In recent years, a number of natural disasters, such as widespread soil erosion, flooding the larger, and degraded land, the more often the case in Indonesia, including Java. Perhaps, this is due to the direct and indirect functions of ignoring non-economic forest.