Ministry of Forestry Encourages KHDTK to Become Forestry Innovation Center

KHDTK Becomes Forestry Living Laboratory

According to Indra, KHDTK has a strategic position in preparing competent forestry human resources.

The area allows education, training, research, innovation, and skill development activities to be carried out directly at the site level.

“KHDTK is the nation's strategic asset. We want KHDTK not only to become a forest area for education and training purposes, but to develop into a living natural laboratory, the birthplace of competent human resources, innovation, technology, and replicable forest management practices," Indra said.

The transformation is expected to make KHDTK not only a place to study forestry theory. The area must also be a space to test and produce solutions to various forest management problems.

However, the effort faces a number of challenges. Several KHDTKs are still constrained by institutional issues, financing, illegal mining activities, and illegal use of areas for agriculture, plantations, and settlements.

These issues have the potential to disrupt the ecological function of the region while hampering education, research, and field learning activities.