Peatland Fire
Mitigation: Indigenous People’s Way in Surviving Economic and Ecological Sustainability
Arisanty Deasy, Rajiani Ismi, Hastuti Karunia Puji, Putro Herry Porda Nugroho and
Abbas Ersis Warmansyah
Disaster Advances; Vol. 15(9); 1-7;
doi: https://doi.org/10.25303/1509da01007; (2022)
Abstract
Peatland fires in Indonesia have generated significant losses economically and environmentally
but mitigation efforts to decrease these effects have been limited. This study aims
to analyze the types of fire catastrophe mitigation carried out by neighborhood
agencies and pick out the constraints of land fireplace mitigation. This lookup
is qualitative learning with in-depth interviews with fire care neighborhood groups,
firefighting corps and landowners in areas regularly affected by the fires in South
Kalimantan, Indonesia. The consequences confirmed that the neighborhood and landowners
had been dedicated to defending peatland from fires. The area extinguished flames
by way of the usage of boreholes and firefighting facilities.
Landowners commit to preserving their productive agricultural land; however, they
overlook the unmanaged or deserted property. Mitigation is minimal due to a shortage
of water sources and technological know-how limitations, which regularly failed
to overcome peatland fires. Utilizing deserted land inclined to hearth into productive
land is beneficial for preserving land from burning to keep monetary and ecological
sustainability.
