Endrawati Fatimah
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Economic ; Forest
The BIMP-EAGA (or simply EAGA) is Asia’s largest regional grouping. It stands for the Brunei Darussalam Indonesia Malaysia the Philippines – East ASEAN Growth Area. The EAGA comprises the entire sultanate of Brunai Darussalam; 10 provinces in the Indonesian islands of Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Maluku, and Irian Jaya; Sabah, Serawak, and Labuan in Malaysia; and Mindana and Palawan in the Philippines. This economic cooperation began in March 1994 and it emphasize on the seven sector comprise of three productive sectors (agriculture, fishery and forestry; industry and tourism) and four supporting sectors (trade, investment and financial service, human resource development; transportation and communication; and power and energy). In the 2005’s pond map, the BIMP-EAGA countries agree to focus on some commodities to be developed those are halal meat production, coconut palm oil, seaweed cultivation, virgin coconut oil and herbal (especially ginger).nBased on the characteristics of the resources describe in this paper, the coconut palm oil commodity is only feasible to be develop in Indonesia and Malaysia. However, since the availability of land in Malaysia is not as large as Indonesia, Malaysia in the future will move to focus only on the development of the coconut palm oil industry not on the coconut palm plantation. Furthermore, the huge land available in Indonesia area is mostly primary forest which has global ecological values. This paper wants to identify the impact of un-control coconut palm plantation development on the availability of forest are in Indonesia. This paper are recommends that Indonesia should not success the BIMP EAGA cooperation through the deforestation for the coconut palm plantation development but Indonesia should emphasize on the use of other resources such as for tourism or fishery development or use its strategic location to be the trade centre for BIMP.n
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