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. 2024 Jun 19;10(12):e33291.
doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e33291. eCollection 2024 Jun 30.

Dynamics of Land use and Land cover in the Belitung Island, Indonesia

Dina Oktavia  1 , Santi Dwi Pratiwi  2 , Nadia Nuraniya Kamaludin  3 , Millary Agung Widiawaty  4 , Moh Dede  1   5
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Dynamics of Land use and Land cover in the Belitung Island, Indonesia

Dina Oktavia et al. Heliyon. .

Abstract

Belitung Island, situated in the Southeast Asian tin belt, experiences substantial transformations in land use and land cover (LULC) driven by mining activities, impacting both local economic growth and the ecosystem. This study aims to elucidate the dynamic LULC changes on Belitung Island and evaluate deforestation trends. LULC data spanning from 1990 to 2020 were acquired from The Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK), employing supervised classification of satellite imageries. The dataset demonstrated an overall accuracy ranging from 0.79 to 0.92 and was reclassified into six types based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC's classes, encompassing forest, cropland, grassland, other land, settlements, and wetlands. Our research unveiled a notable reduction of over 25 % in forest cover within the past 30 years. Notably, 2020 exhibited instances of reforestation, which subsequently transformed into cropland (0.57 %), grassland (0.32 %), and other lands (0.39 %). Belitung Island grapples with challenges related to sustainable development, environmental conservation, and food security. Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) emerges as a potential strategy to address some of the socioeconomic and ecological issues.

Keywords: Bangka-Belitung; Conservation; Deforestation; Heath forest; LULC.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Map of the study area.
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Map of the distribution of population and population growth in belitung and belitung timur, based on data from the Indonesian statistical agency (2020).
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LULC Classes in Belitung Island based on reclassification from KLHK to IPCC.
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LULC changes in Belitung Island for the years 1990, 2000, 2011, and 2020.
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The area of LULC changed.
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