This is one of a series of FFPCP Reports prepared during 1999 and 2000 by the Forest Fire Prevention and Control Project, and produced through bilateral cooperation between the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry and Estate Crops and the EU European Commission. Together they cover the field-level prevention, detection and control of vegetation fires in Sumatra; they are available in English and Bahasa Indonesian. This report has 6 sections: (1) Introduction; (2) The use of fire in land management - Commercial logging, Forest conversion and new plantations, The petroleum industry, Smallholders, Transmigration schemes, The invasion of the wetlands, Accidental fires, Arson; (3) The record of vegetation fires in Indonesia - An overview, The major fire years since 1980, The non-drought years in Sumatra; (4) The economic implications; (5) Land management institutions and laws - The institutions, The legal framework; and (6) And the future?
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