Call Prefix : PR-T

Call Suffix : 1994

Call Cutter : D - FoRM 10

Location : SEARCA Library

Format : TD

Publisher : University of the Philippines Los Baños,

Publication Date : March 1994

Publication Place : Los Baños, Laguna, the Philippines :

Summary : The study aimed at evaluating the depletion of natural resources due to economic activity in Indonesia. The evaluation encompassed physical, economic, and national income based on sustainable economic development principles. A natural resource accounting approach was applied in physical and monetary units. Net price method (NPM) and asset value approach (AVA) were utilized to come up with the economic accounts. Integration of the accounts into national accounts was done to estimate net (actual) national income and expenditures, in terms of: net domestic product (NDP), net national product (NNP), net national income (NNI), and net domestic investment (NDI). Two natural resources found nationwide were included in the evaluation: 1) forest (timber) and 2) petroleum. Forest resource accounts encompassed natural dipterocarp forests (outer Java islands) and plantation forests (Java island). Applying the approach showed that net addition in terms of area and volume of the forest resource in islands outside Java was found negative during 1968-1990. The major causes of the depletion were more due to deforestation, rather than logging. For plantation forest in Java, no change in terms of forest area stock was found, but change was noted in forested area. However, the volume of standing stock showed positive net changes during 1976-1990, due to its depletion (harvest etc.) which was less than the forest stand growth. The forest timber stand of the plantation forest was dominated by the younger age classes (immature timber stand) which tends to provide higher growth than its depletion. The depletion of petroleum resource appeared relatively balanced with its discoveries during 1970-1990. However, without new discoveries henceforth, this resource may be completely exhausted by 2010. Negative changes in the total natural resource accounts were detected through economic accounts using price method (NPM) during 1983-1990. However, using asset value approach (AVA) the negative changes were occured only during 1983.