• Corpus ID: 58898552

THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF FOREST HYDROLOGICAL SERVICES: A CASE STUDY AT BUKIT SULIGI PROTECTED FOREST, THE UPPER PART OF SIAK WATERSHED, RIAU

@inproceedings{Rahmat2012THEEV,
  title={THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF FOREST HYDROLOGICAL SERVICES: A CASE STUDY AT BUKIT SULIGI PROTECTED FOREST, THE UPPER PART OF SIAK WATERSHED, RIAU},
  author={Mamat Rahmat and Sofyan P. Warsito and Wahyu Andayani and Dwidjono Hadi Darwanto and Takahiro Fujiwara},
  year={2012}
}

• M. Rahmat, Sofyan P. Warsito, +2 authors T. Fujiwara
• Published 2012
• Geography

Bukit Suligi Protected Forest (BSPF), situated in the headstream area of many rivers in Riau Province, plays an important role in providing hydrological services such as flood prevention in the rainy season and water supply in the dry season. Siak River is one of the rivers which runs from BSPF. The objectives of this study are to clarify the recent condition of BSPF and to estimate the economic value of BSPF’s hydrological services. Contingent valuation method was employed to elicit people’s willingness to pay (WTP) for the hydrological services. Interviews were carried out in Dayo Village, which is located in the upper part of Siak Watershed and adjacent to BSPF. The sampling rate of respondents was 8% of the total households in Dayo Village. The findings showed that an average WTP value of the respondents was 113,000 IDR per household per year. This value indicated the indirect benefit which people obtained from hydrological services of the BSPF area. Moreover, based on the calculation result of these values to the total amount of the household and forest area, the economic value of hydrological services of BSPF was 73,096 IDR per hectare per year.