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Article: Improving the management of Indonesia's national parks: lessons from two case studies. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
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- Borneo Research Bulletin
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- January 1, 1999
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MacAndrews, Colin. 1998, Improving the management of Indonesia's national parks: lessons from two case studies. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies. 34(1): 121-37.
Since the 1970s, Indonesia has moved quickly to protect its rich biodiversity. By the mid-1990s about 8.2 per cent or 19.4 million hectares of total land and coastal areas had been placed under protection. Thirty-four key locations have been designated national parks, twenty-eight of them terrestrial and six marine. As yet the management of these areas has proved less than adequate. This is due partly to funding, partly to staffing levels which do not permit proper surveillance, and partly to the ...