1. DEVELOPMENT OF PALM OIL PLANTATION
AND ITS EFFECT ON EXISTENCE OF
PRODUCTION LIMITED FOREST
Case Study: LIMITED PRODUCTION FOREST IN
MUKOMUKO REGENCY
AHMAD MEDAPRI H, SH

2. Education Background and
Employment
• Under Graduate : Law Faculty of Andalas
University, West Sumatera
• Major in : Law
• Working for : Law Bureau at Goverment Office
of Bengkulu Province
• Position : Staff

3. INDONESIA

4. Research Backgroud
• Bengkulu province has 435,116 hectares plantation area in 2010.
• Growth of oil palm plantation area from 166.627 hectares in
2009 to 190.787 hectares in 2010. Most of the oil palm
plantation in Bengkulu owned by private estates.
• Muko-Muko Regency is one of the main locations of oil palm
plantations in the province of Bengkulu.
• There are many rights of Enterprises that issued by local
governments of Mukomuko Regency in the Limited Production
Forest Zone.

5. Plantation area in Bengkulu Province

6. Theoritical Base
• Economics Development
• Development Theory
• Agricultural economy
• Forestry

7. Tables of Palm Oil Productions and Poor
Population in the Province of Bengkulu
(BPS-Statistics Indonesia)
Palm Oil Production (Tons) Poor population (%)
700,000 25.00
23.00
600,000 602,735 615,624 22.13
20.00 20.64
500,000 18.59 18.30
450,278
15.00
400,000
373,815 373,815
300,000
10.00
200,000
5.00
100,000
0 0.00
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

8. The number of farmers from the five
major plantation sector in the province
of Bengkulu in 2009
2,792 21,724
97,598
57,741
Most of the
59,258 farmers work in
Palm Oil oil palm
Rubber
plantations
Robusta Coffee
Arabicca Cooffe
Cacao

9. Problem Questions
1. How is the development of palm oil plantations
in the Mukomuko Regency?
2. How does the existence of limited production
forest area in Mukomuko Regency?
3. What is the impact of the development of palm
oil plantations on the Limited Production Forest
in Mukomuko Regency?

10. The three actor
The Goverment of
Mukomuko
Palm Oil Plantation The Farmer
Limited
Production
Forest

11. Research Statements
" Development of oil palm plantations affect the
limited production forest in Mukomuko
Regency “
“In 2007 when analyzing land cover in the
District of Muko Muko, more than 6,000
hectares of forest have been taken over by
plantation companies,”(Gunggung Senoaji, Forestry Faculty
Lecturer At The University of Bengkulu)

12. Research Objectives
1. To know the development condition of oil palm
plantations in Mukomuko Regency.
2. To know some constraints in the development of
the agricultural sector, especially oil palm
plantations.
3. To find the impact of the development of palm
oil plantations for the Limited Production Forest
area in Mukomuko Regency?

13. Research Method
Field research
This method related to the effort of collecting data and also
discussion and interview. Those data are Spatial
Regulation, Forestry Regulation, region income, Statutes, the
result of interview and other related data.
Librarian research
In order to have the real ovarview about the research theme,
the librarian research will help to construct theoritical base as
the guide-line to come to thesis statement and conclution.
Time Series Analysis
This analysis is needed to show and prove the correlation
between dependent variables and independent variables by
using statistical tools of analysis. It also will help to analize the
variation of data, the trend and tendencies.