Currently, Indonesia already have 6 Biosphere Reserves, namely: Gede-Pangrango, Tanjung Puting, Komodo, Kutai, Siberut and Leuser, which all of them are in a form of national park.This 'establish' conventional concept of biosphere reserve has to be a national park, seems need to be reformat. Because by doing so it will allow wider applicable to other areas in Indonesia.
There has been different ways of looking at how a biosphere reserve take form. First and quite establish concept is that biosphere reserve has to be a national park. The second is that the idea that biosphere reserve is not a matter of status, instead it is more than that, it is the matter of management. The newly proposed biosphere reserve is Giam Siak Bukit Batu which located in Riau Province is currently not a national park, instead it is actually a part of a forest concession areas that dedicated for conservation areas ( 72, 255 ha) by the Sinar Mas Forestry Group. If the first concept will be applied, then the proposed area will have to be converted to national park, and surely if not it will bring many pro-contra, looking at the fact that most national parks in this country failed to achieve its goals and become degraded land as well. So the second idea offered more down to earth concept that basically tries to implement the conservation platform which is to save, study and to use. More focal point will be on research and carbon trade based on the REDD platform.
