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Lake Toba Experience and Lessons Learned Brief Lake Toba Experience and Lessons Learned Brief Haryatiningsih Moedjodo*, LakeNet Country Director-Indonesia, [email protected] Payaman Simanjuntak, Lake Toba Heritage Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia Peter Hehanussa, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Cibinong, Indonesia Lufi andi, West Java Environmental Impact Management Agency, Bandung, Indonesia * Corresponding author 1. Introduction level. Biophysically, the cool, refreshing environment, clean air, and fertile soil of the region make it an ideal place for human Lake Toba is Indonesia’s largest lake, located in the province settlement. It is no surprise, therefore, that the ancestors of of North Sumatra, 176 km to the west of the provincial capital, the Batak ethnic minority chose it as their permanent site for Medan. Lake Toba can be reached by car from Medan within settlement centuries ago. It was here that their descendants three hours. By plane, Medan is 40 minutes away from developed into the fi ve ethnic Batak groups; namely, the Singapore and two hours from Jakarta, the capital city of Angkola-Mandailing, Karo, Pakpak-Dairi, Simalungun and Indonesia. Toba. Samosir Island and the Toba lakeside is the site of the original Batak culture, containing invaluable historical objects As the largest volcano-tectonic lake in the world, Lake Toba is and artifacts, art and culture. In fact, Batak culture is still alive 87 km long in the northwest to southeast direction, and has and present here, preserved in its original form. a width of 27 km. Located 904 meters above sea level, and with a maximum depth of 505 meters, the lake is one of the The unique geographical position of the lake facilitates a country’s important tourist destinations. The natural beauty range of economically-signifi cant sources of livelihood for of Lake Toba has been internationally recognized. The lake’s the population, mainly derived from the abundant freshwater blue waters, gracious residents and fascinating Batak culture resources and the dense tropical rain forests. The number draw tourists from all over the globe to the remote destination of human settlements scattered throughout the Lake Toba of Lake Toba (Souder 1999). Figure 1 shows details of the Lake Toba basin. 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The remainder of %DNDUD the catchment area can be classifi ed as hilly (43%) and %RXQGDULHVDQGORFDWLRQVDUHDSSUR[LPDWH mountainous (30%), with DQGVKRXOGQRWEHFRQVLGHUHGDXWKRULWDWLYH ,/(&1( peaks over 2,000 m above sea Figure 1. The Lake Toba Basin. watershed today is about 366 settlements, mainly in the form following text provides a summary of organisms identifi ed in of small villages to medium towns (EIMA, undated). the lake and other measured parameters. 2. Background 2.1.1 Flora Emerged macrophytes: Nelumbo nucifera, Nymphaea sp. Lake Toba is located at the center of a topographic culmination some 300 km long in North Sumatra. This topographic Floating macrophytes: Eichhornia crassipes, Lemna minor, culmination is called the Batak Tumor, and runs parallel to Azolla pinnata, Spirodella polyrhiza Sumatra Island, with Lake Toba located at its very center. The 300 km long Batak Tumor is dissected a little west of its Submerged macrophytes: Patamogeton malaianus, P. center by the 1,625 long Sumatra Fault which stretches from polygonifolius, Myriophyllum spicatum, Ceratophyllum the Sunda Strait to Banda Aceh. The origin of Lake Toba was demersum, Hydrilla verticillata, Chara sp. fi rst explained as a volcano-tectonic depression (Bemmelen 1949), and later explained as the result of a series of caldera Phytoplankton: Amphora, Cocconema, Asterionella, Synedra, formations combined with faulting activity (Nishimura 1984; Gomphonema, Orthosira, Navicula, Mastogloia, Pleurosigma, Hehanussa 2000). The lake covers an area of 1,103 km2, Nitzschia, Genicularia, Botryococcus, Synechococcus, Samosir Island has a land area of 647 km2, and the smaller Anabaena, Oscillaoria Pardapur Island is 7 km2. The length of the lake is 87 km, and its circumference measures 294 km. 2.2.2 Fauna Zooplankton: Cyclops, Cladocera The lake basin area is surrounded by precipitous cliffs with elevations ranging between 400 to 1200 m above the lake Benthos: Macrobrachium sintangensis, Brotia costula, Thiara surface. The latitude and longitude of the lake’s water surface scabra, Melanoides tuberculata, Melanoides granifera, range between 98°30' E; 3°05' S and 99°20' E; 2°40' S. The Anentome helena, Lymnaea brevispira, L. rubiginoca, surface water temperature ranges between 24°C to 27.6°C. Physastra sumatrana, Corbicula tobae One single large river, the Asahan River, drains the lake to Fish: Tilapia mossambica, Aplocheilus pachax, Lebistes the Strait of Malaka in the east. The lake water surface is recticulatus, Osphronemus goramy, Trichogaster trichopterus, 904 meters above sea level. Using the cable method, Stehn Channa striata, C. gachua, Clarius batrachus, C. nieuhoffi , C. reported a maximum water depth of 529 meters in 1939, while sp., Nemachilus fasciatus, Cyprinus carpio, Puntius javanicus, recent measurements based on an acoustic echo sounder P. binotatus, Osteochilus nasselti, Lissochilus sp., Labeobarbus method indicated a maximum depth of 505 meters (Hehanussa sora, Rasbora sp. and Takara 2003). This 24-meter discrepancy in the water depth could be due to the measurement method used for its 2.2.3 Biomass determination, since the echo-sounding method used in 2003 Table 1. Submerged Macrophytes [g (wet. wt.)/m2]. is considered more accurate than the cable method used in Station Potamo- Myriophylum Others Total 1939. During this last (2003) measurement, it was observed geton sp. spicatum that many parts of the lake bottom showed a broad and fl at bottom, relatively deeper in the north, while shallower Lotung 2,470 130 ‹ 25 2,600 in the south. The annual lake water level fl uctuation is 1.5 Onan 2,800 150 0 2,950 meters, although a lake level drop of 2.5 m (due to extensive Runggu hydropower production) was reported in the late 1980s. The Parbaloan 1,833 310 520 2,663 water discharge from Lake Toba through the Asahan River was Urat measured up to a value of 102 m3/second. Tongging 1,947 157 ‹ 25 2,104 Lumban 150 1,640 0 1,750 Evaporation is a critical factor in the water balance calculations Sitorus for a lake. It was measured at three stations, Palipi, Gurgur Balige, and Pulau Tao (Anonymous 1990). Measurements at Pulau Tao showed an average evaporation varying between 2.2 Hydrometeorological Features of the Lake and its 3.5-5.5 mm/day. In contrast, evaporation at Haranggaol was Drainage Basin lower because of the wind velocity, temperature and humidity that differ from the Palau Tao station. The pattern of wind speed and direction varies for the lake. During January to April, the wind speed can reach 4 m/s, in 2.1 Biophysical Features June 8.8 m/s, and in October 7.1 m/s. If strong winds blow during June to October, large waves as high as 1.8 m may be Overall, information on the biophysical features of the lake induced. and its drainage basin is scarce, being restricted to several fi eld measurements conducted in the past. Nevertheless, the 390 Lake Toba Table 2. Climate Data at Balige. namely whether or not they occurred recently (i.e., less than Mean Temp. Precipitation 75,000 years ago) or whether they resulted from a series of (°C) (mm) geological up-doming, blasting, faulting, sedimentation, and January 19.1 174 up-wrapping that took place since two million years ago. February 20.1 167 Lake Toba has lately been reported as being the largest caldera March 20.9 187 lake in the world. This conclusion was based on a report by April 20.5 193 van Bemmelen, who described the lake as a volcano-tectonic May 21.0 133 depression. According to van Bemmelen’s hypothesis, the lake June 20.7 104 history began with the formation of a Batak Tumor, with an oval-shaped, 300 km by 150 km region, located between the July 21.2 71 present Wampu River in the north, and the Barumun River in August 21.0 116 the south. The up-doming produced a region with elevations September 21.0 132 up to 2,000 m, as shown by the tops of such mountains as Mt. October 20.4 215 Sibuatan (2,457 m) in the northwest, Mt. Pangulubao (2,151 m) in the east, Mt. Surungan (2,173 m) in the SE, and Mt. Uludarat November 20.5 188 (2,157 m) in the west. December 20.2 199 Annual 20.6 1,879 Combined with previous scientifi c studies by Marel (1947), Tjia Source: Based on Nontji (1990). and Kusnaeny (1976), Karig et al. (1979), and Hamilton (1978), we concluded that the formation of Lake Toba was not a single Surface water temperatures at various locations (oC): event, but rather a combination of complex events. It was the Haranggaol: 27; Tigaras: 27; Tomok: 26; Simanindo: 27; product of a series of events occurring east of the Sumatra Pangururan: 27; Nainggolan: 27; Parapat: 27; Porsea: 26.
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