The Overlapping of Land Use in Geothermal Development in Indonesia: Problems and the Solutions

Abstract

Indonesia has huge geothermal resources which are mostly associated with volcanic systems are located in protected areas.i.e. conservation forests or national parks. All activities are forbidden at th areas regarding the current forestry regulation. While utilization and development of the geothermal resources in the areas will create economic benefits but the regulation remains as barriers/constraints of the development, so this contradictions needs to be solved soon.
One of methods to solve this problem was creating memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between forestry Department and local government. This method had been implemented by a local government of west lampung district, Lampung Province, Indonesia in the case of sekincau suoh geothermal area. This paper will share and explain the experience from local government of west lampung district to find a win-win solution in solving the overlapping of land use in sekincau suoh geothermal area.