The actual use of urban forest for Jakarta's dwellers

[摘要] Urban forest is urban landscape feature serves as recreation area for urban dwellers. Jakarta has 15 urban forests spread all over Jakarta. Urban forest is urban landscape feature serves as a recreation area for urban dweller. How the actual use of urban forest by Jakarta city's dwellers is important to evaluate. The objective of this study were to analyse the extent of each urban forest coverage can reach by walk and how many dwellers's villages were visiting the urban forest from inside and outside Jakarta. This study combined field based interviews of urban forest's visitors with GIS analysis. As a result, University of Indonesia (UI) Forest (55 ha) and Dukuh Forest (0,58 ha) were identify as the largest (36 villages, 6.696,38 ha) and smallest urban forest (2 villages, 38,20 ha), respectively. Overall 73,33% visitors came from within the urban forest coverage area, whereas the rest (26,66%) came from outside. Therefore the actual use of urban forest has proven that urban forest as one of recreation area for Jakarta city's dwellers.

[发布机构] Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Agriculture, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Indonesia^1

[效力级别] 农业科学 [学科分类] 农业科学（综合）

[关键词] Actual use;Coverage area;dwellers;GIS analysis;Indonesia;Urban dwellers;Urban forests;Urban landscape