Profil Deforestasi di Sulawesi Selatan dan Sulawesi Barat Deforestation Profile of Regency Level in South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi Province Azhari Ramadhan 1), Syamsu Rijal.2), Roland, A. Barkey2) 1) Mahasiswa Laboratorium Perencanaan dan Sistem Informasi Kehutanan, Fakultas Kehutanan, Universitas Hasanuddin, Makassar,
[email protected] 2) Staf Pengajar, Fakultas Kehutanan, Universitas Hasanuddin, Makassar ABSTRACT Deforestation is a permanent change of forest cover area to permanent non-forest cover area. The area of forests of South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi in 2015 covering an area of 2,216,212.98 ha. The conversion of forests to non-forests needs to be known in their respective characteristics per time period so that the deforestation profile of deforestation occurring in South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi can be better explained. The period of this research is from 1990-2000, 2000-2010, 2010-2016. This study also relates the existence of forests with the policy of regional autonomy before and until the validity (actual). This study aims to identify the profile of deforestation occurring in South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi as well as the usefulness of this research as information in recognizing and controlling deforestation in South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi. This study was conducted from early May until the end of September 2017 using land cover data of BPKH wil. VII Makassar for 1990, 2000, 2010, 2016, and administrative data of South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi provinces, overlapping as secondary data of this study. The land cover class is divided into 2 coverings, forest area and not forest area. The first is deforestation analysis by looking at reduced forest area, then deforestation profile analysis to identify variables that affect deforestation incidence, and calculation of deforestation rates.