Refining National Forest Cover Data Based on Fusion Optical Satellite Imageries in Indonesia

Table 2

Forest cover and its change in each province of Indonesia for 2017 and 2021.

Province	Area (in thousand hectares)
	Forest change 2017–2021	Forest extent (2021)	Forest extent (2017)
Aceh	132.93	2,910.63	3,043.55
Bali	12.28	270.75	283.03
Banten	16.34	305.31	321.65
Bengkulu	53.74	774.39	828.13
DI Yogyakarta	1.88	25.16	27.03
DKI Jakarta	0.00	0.29	0.29
Gorontalo	33.49	696.64	730.14
Jambi	213.58	946.97	1,160.55
West Java	56.67	879.81	936.48
Central Java	44.46	602.21	646.67
East Java	33.96	864.74	898.71
West Kalimantan	1,078.09	3,878.73	4,956.82
South Kalimantan	346.33	1,073.98	1,420.32
Central Kalimantan	984.53	7,246.75	8,231.28
East Kalimantan	1,106.35	6,692.91	7,799.26
North Kalimantan	246.18	5,803.00	6,049.19
Bangka Belitung Islands	71.10	224.29	295.39
Riau Islands	0.11	308.22	308.33
Lampung	89.14	330.43	419.56
Maluku	121.34	3,540.94	3,662.27
North Maluku	237.23	2,355.92	2,593.15
West Nusa Tenggara	35.40	837.13	872.52
East Nusa Tenggara	41.06	1,276.83	1,317.90
Papua	2,181.22	20,739.35	22,920.57
West Papua	383.78	8,702.95	9,086.74
Riau	207.35	1,614.62	1,821.97
West Sulawesi	119.75	932.95	1,052.69
South Sulawesi	241.84	1,639.88	1,881.72
Central Sulawesi	460.88	3,803.48	4,264.36
Southeast Sulawesi	213.35	1,949.57	2,162.92
North Sulawesi	92.35	850.26	942.61
West Sumatra	227.44	1,890.63	2,118.07
South Sumatra	362.89	1,035.81	1,398.69
North Sumatra	199.02	1,767.82	1,966.84
Total	9,646.04	86,773.35	96,419.38

The bold values depict the grand totals of forest cover at the national level.