Friday (19.3.2010), Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Fadel Muhammad received Mangroves Map of Indonesia Implementing Task (Plt) Deputy Director General for Natural Resources Survey of the Basic BAKOSURTANAL, Suwahyuono. Provision of this map as a sign of the launch of Mangroves Map of Indonesia by BAKOSURTANAL.
The launch coincides with the map held National Jamboree Come implementation Mangrove Planting in Depok Beach, Pekalongan, Central Java, which was organized by the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, and supported by the National Working Group on Mangroves (KKNM) and the Provincial Government of Central Java, Pekalongan regency and municipal government.
We accept Mangroves Indonesia Map, Fadel Muhammad had shown to the Governor of Central Java, Bibit Waluyo, and Regent Pekalongan, Siti Qomariyah, mangrove locations in the Central Java region on the map.
In his speech, Fadel Muhammad calls from 530 kilometers of mangrove land that stretches along the north coast of Java, recorded 700-800 hectares have been damaged, and the worst damage was in Central Java coast with a length of 325 kilometers. To determine the condition of the mangroves Mangroves Map of Indonesia issued.
Map of Indonesia Mangroves are presented in the form of books and maps. Mangroves map of Indonesia includes the presence of mangrove locations throughout Indonesia.
The book contains a map of Indonesia Mangroves as plants and mangrove ecology, and policy dilemmas in the management of mangrove mangrove mapping, changing areas and a description of mangrove conditions in each province.
Indonesia Mangroves map was made by BAKOSURTANAL to respond to changes in qualification requirements and the ecological status of the land, which recently received attention in various provinces.
Mangrove has very important meaning in coastal areas because it can reduce abrasion occur. As stated by the Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, "The average abrasion reached 10 meters per year, but the facts on the ground more precisely. If you do not control the planting of mangrove and abrasion, so after that (coastal areas)".
According to FAO (2007), mangrove area in Indonesia is the world's largest, 19 percent of mangrove areas of the world. So widely and so important benefits from various aspects, both ecological and socio-economic, then we should give attention to the mangroves for sustainable environmental management.
By Agung C.
