GFMC: New Reports of the European Union Project “Forest Fire Prevention and Control Project” (FFPCP)

(1995-2001)

In1995 the Government of Indonesia and the European Union started the Forest FirePrevention and Control Project in South Sumatra (FFPCP). This project was partof the larger European Union’s Indonesian Forestry Program. The FFPCP wasimplemented from 1995 until 2001. The old website address is partially stillfunctioning:

• http://www.mdp.co.id/ffpcp.htm 

Asa follow-up to the FFPCP, the South Sumatra Forest Fire Management Project (SSFFMP)started in January 2003 with a planned 5-year implementation period. The newSSFFMP project is mainly set in a provincial context and in accordance with theFinancing Agreement to work with stakeholders in South Sumatra Province andselected priority districts.

• http://www.ssffmp.or.id/

 Between1999 and 200 the FFPCPprepared twenty reports covering the field-level prevention, detection andcontrol of vegetation fires in Sumatra:

Thesereports can be downloaded on this website:

• Vegetation fires in Indonesia: Operating procedures for the NOAA-GIS station in Palembang, Sumatra by I.P. Anderson, I.D. Imanda and Muhnandar (PDF, 310 KB)

• Vegetation fires in Indonesia: the interpretation of NOAA-derived hot-spot data by I.P. Anderson, I.D. Imanda and Muhnandar (PDF, 1 MB)

• Vegetation fires in Sumatra, Indonesia: the presentation and distribution of NOAA-derived data by I.P. Anderson, I.D. Imanda and Muhnandar (PDF, 1.9 MB)

• Vegetation fires in Indonesia: The fire history of the Sumatra provinces 1996-1998 as a predictor of future areas at risk by I.P. Anderson, M.R. Bowen, I.D. Imanda and Muhnanda (PDF, 3.8 MB)
• Vegetation fires in Sumatra, Indonesia: a first look at vegetation indices and fire danger in relation to fire occurrence by I.P. Anderson, I.D. Imanda and Muhnandar (PDF, 1.4 MB)
• The training of forest firefighters in Indonesia by M.V.J. Nicolas and G.S. Beebe (joint publication with GTZ) (PDF, 2.4 MB)
• Fire management in the logging concessions and plantation forests of Indonesia by M.V.J. Nicolas and G.S. Beebe (joint publication with GTZ) (PDF, 1.4 MB)
• A field-level approach to coastal peat and coal-seam fires in South Sumatra province, Indonesia by M.V.J. Nicolas and M.R. Bowen (PDF, 3.0 MB)
• Desa Ilalang dan Catatan untuk Guru – a story for children in Bahasa Indonesia. By M. Idris, S. Porte, J.M. Bompard, F. Agustono (illustrator) and staff of FFPCP and Dinas Kehutanan, in collaboration with Dinas Pendidikan Pendidikan Nasional, Propinsi Sumatera Selatan (PDF, 1.6 and 4.4  MB)
• Land management in South Sumatra Province, Indonesia. Fanning the flames: the institutional causes of vegetation fires by J.M. Bompard and P. Guizol (PDF, 3.0 MB)
• The sustainable development of tree crops and the prevention of vegetation fires in South Sumatra Province, Indonesia. Jungle rubber by A. Gouyon (PDF, 2.8 MB)
• Fire zones and the threat to the wetlands of Sumatra, Indonesia, with notes on the 1999 fires by Ivan. P. Anderson and M.R. Bowen (PDF, 2.8 MB)
• Anthropogenic fires in Indonesia: a view from Sumatra by M.R. Bowen, J.M. Bompard, I.P. Anderson, P. Guizol and A. Gouyon. Reprinted from, ‘Forest fire and regional haze in Southeast Asia’ Editors M. Radojevic and P. Eaton. Nova Science, New York, USA. (PDF, 438 KB)
• Vegetation Fires in Sumatra, Indonesia: reflections on the 1999 fires by Ivan P. Anderson, Ifran D. Imanda, and Muhnandar (PDF, 654 KB)
• Vegetation Fires in Sumatra, Indonesia. Oil palm agriculture in the wetlands of Sumatra: Destruction or Development? by Howard J. Sargeant (PDF, 2.6 MB)
• Summary of FFPCP Reports (PDF, 1.6 MB)
• Ringkasan Laporan FFPCP in Indonesian (PDF, 1.7 MB)
• Prosedur Standar Operasional NOAA by Ifran D. Imanda, in Indonesian (PDF, 4.3 MB)
• Fire Management Expert Final Report by Bert H. Borger (PDF, 1.1 MB)
• NOAA GIS Training Expert Final Report by Ivan P. Anderson (PDF, 2.3 MB)
• Proceedings, Land and Forest Fire Workshop in South Sumatra: our common responsibility FFPCP, October 2001 (PDF, 457 KB)

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