Investigation of compost production and consumption in Indonesia

169 Sekretariat Perizinan Penelitian Asing Kementerian Riset dan Teknologi DIREKTORI PENELITIAN ASING DI INDONESIA 2013 on clouded leopard activity and behavior in and surrounding Wehea Forest. To pursue this research, I have set 36 cameras in the GGA sub-blocks that have been logged. I have shared my initial results with Professor Soeyitno from UNMUL and directors from GGA and I will produce a inal report for them by December 2013. They have asked me to continue this research into the indeinite future. 104.1 Mr. Brent Robert Loken Warga Negara : Amerika Serikat Jabatan : Doctoral Student Institusi : Simon Fraser University No. SIP : 69EXTSIPFRPSMIX2013

105. Investigation of compost production and consumption in Indonesia

Tujuan Penelitian : Meneliti produksi kompos di Indonesia Bidang Penelitian : Ekologi Daerah Penelitian : DKI Jakarta, Jawa Barat Bogor dan Bekasi Lama Penelitian : 12 dua belas bulan mulai 2 September 2013 Mitra Kerja : IPB Prof. Dr. Armansyah Tambunan Abstract Nowadays demand of compost is expanded in Indonesia. The reason of this trend is to expand the middle class due to the economic development. So, for example, organic rice and vegetables is sold in supermarket. However, actual conditions of compost production and consumption is not yet clariied exactly. For example, the. compost of self-production and self- consumption is not grasped at alL And the compost produced in factory for example production of the factory in the inal disposal site is not revealed clearly. The purpose of my investigation is to clarify the actual conditions of compost supplier. The respondents to my investigation is following actors. 1 Ordinary houses of urban and rural areas 2 Associations of community-based compost production 3 Fertilizer companies 170 Sekretariat Perizinan Penelitian Asing Kementerian Riset dan Teknologi DIREKTORI PENELITIAN ASING DI INDONESIA 2013 4 Final disposal sites 5 Others In addition, for future demand, consumers of compost will be investigated. The respondents to this investigation is following actors: Farmer, Consumers of organic rice and vegetables, and Others. 105.1 Mr. Shunsuke Sasaki Warga Negara : Jepang Jabatan : Ph.D Student Institusi : Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo No. SIP : 331SIPFRPSMIX2013 106.Land use change and seed dispersal in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia Tujuan Penelitian : Mengembangkan model probabilitas kebakaran lahan dan mengkaji peran konigurasi lanskap dalam strukturisasi komposisi pepohonan di hutan Bidang Penelitian : Ekologi Daerah Penelitian : Kalteng Lab. Alam Gambut Sebangau, Stasiun Penelitian Kalampangan Lama Penelitian : 12 Dua Belas bulan mulai 27 Mei 2013 Mitra Kerja : CIMTROP Universitas Palangkaraya Ari Purwanto, SP Abstrak This research visa application is for my proposed ieldwork to be conducted during a 2013-2014 ield campaign sponsored by the American Indonesian Exchange Foundation AMINEF. I Will irst complete three months of language training through a Critical Language Enhancement Award CLEA and ten months of research through a Fulbright Student Research Award. Research will be part 171 Sekretariat Perizinan Penelitian Asing Kementerian Riset dan Teknologi DIREKTORI PENELITIAN ASING DI INDONESIA 2013 of the Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project -Center for International Cooperation in Sustainable Management of Tropical Peatland, University of Palangka Raya OUTROP - CIMTROP UNPAR multi-disciplinary research project which will serve as my sponsor whilst I am at the Natural Laboratory of Peat Swamp Forest NLPSFLAHG and KalampanganBlock C in collaboration with the Center for International’Forestry Research CIFOR which will serve as my sponsor whilst I am in Blocks A and E. The anticipated completion date for my dissertation is 2015. In their natural condition, peat lands bufer saltwater intrusion, prevent looding problems downstream, and have a large capacity for belowground carbon storage and, thus, a high potential to mitigate global climate change. However, ires compromise the provision of these services. Fires are responsible for elevated human mortality, massive carbon emissions, and the loss of forest cover that is habitat for a rich array of endemic lora and fauna. Fire can cause dramatic changes to landscapes where it is a novel disturbance by afecting both the composition and structure of the vegetative community and the landscape coniguration of land cover types. Positive amplifying feedbacks can develop between land cover and ire. In my research, I propose to use remotely sensed data, ield-based measurements, and modeling to evaluate the cause of ire events and the consequences for the forest community in a peat swamp forest. The study site is a former agricultural project in Central Kalimantan called the Mega Rice Project MRP, the goal of which was to convert over a million hectares of intact peat swamp forest into rice paddies. The project failed and was abandoned, but the remaining irrigation canals are causing peat soil drainage and subsidence, leaving the area susceptible to ire, a novel disturbance regime. With my research, 1 propose four speciic aims. First, I will disentangle-the relative efects of human access, vegetation and fuel load, ire history, and climate on ire risk by developing a Bayesian model of ire probability. Second, because ire alters the landscape coniguration of forest fragments, I will assess the role of landscape coniguration in structuring tree composition within forest fragments and the capacity for tree species traits to modify that relationship. Third, because in the absence of forest reestablishment, degraded peat lands will continue to become aerated, resulting in increased susceptibility to ignition and C02 emission, I will evaluate what factors alter the trajectory of vegetative regrowth in the post- burn barren area: establishment limitation from environmental iltering or seed 172 Sekretariat Perizinan Penelitian Asing Kementerian Riset dan Teknologi DIREKTORI PENELITIAN ASING DI INDONESIA 2013 limitation from altered landscape coniguration. Finally, 1 will evaluate how forest fragmentation afects orangutan Pongo pygtnaeiu density. Understanding the underlying mechanisms of how disturbance afects ecological communities is a central goal of disturbance and community ecology, and my research will contribute to the body of work exploring the dynamics between vegetation, fauna, and ire in the peat swamp forest. My work can also inform restoration eforts and land management planning on this complex landscape. 106.1 Ms. Megan Elizabeth Catau Warga Negara : Amerika Serikat Jabatan : Ph.D. Student Institusi : Departemnment of Ekology, Evolution, and Environmental Biologi, Colombia University No. SIP : 168SIPFRPSMV2013 107. Monitoring of atmospheric mercury in Gn. Pongkor gold mining area and in Gn. Halimun-Salak National Park Tujuan Penelitian : Melakukan monitoring kadar merkuri di area penambangan emas Gn. Pongkor dan di TN Gunung Halimun Salak Bidang Penelitian : Ekologi Daerah Penelitian : Jabar Bogor Lama Penelitian : 2 dua bulan mulai 18 Februari 2013 Mitra Kerja : Puslit Biologi LIPI Dr. Joeni Setijo Rahajoe, Dr. Nuril Hidayati Abstrak From 10 February to 9 March 2013 28 days, I will undertake a cooperative study with the Research Center for Biology RCB at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences LIPI to monitor atmospheric mercury in the Gn. Pongkor gold mining area and in 173 Sekretariat Perizinan Penelitian Asing Kementerian Riset dan Teknologi DIREKTORI PENELITIAN ASING DI INDONESIA 2013 Gn. Halimun–Salak National Park. Elemental mercury is used in illegal small-scale gold mining operations known as Pertambangan Emas Tanpa Ijin PETI around Gn. Pongkor in the Cikaniki River basin. Mercury is a highly toxic substance to both humans and the ecosystem. A signiicant amount of mercury is released into the air, water, and soil from the reining processes used in PETI.The current study involves monitoring mercury pollution from PETI. To estimate the levels of mercury pollution, it is important to quantify background levels and also the behavior of mercury at control sites in the national park Stated objectives1. Estimation mercury exposure levels for people and surrounding environments in PETI sites Gn. Pongkor area2. Estimation mercury levels in the uncontaminated site Gn. Halimun–Salak National Park3. Elucidation mercury behavior among environments 107.1 Dr. Yuriko Kono Warga Negara : Japan Jabatan : Research Associate Institusi : Environment and Safety Center, Kagoshima University No. SIP : 054SIPFRPSMII2013

108. Participation under the Inluence of Historical and Contemporary Land Use