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SUPIANDI
Visiting Research Fellow
(Term: February 17, 2009 - August 15, 2009)
Southeast Asian　Documentation
Land and Water Resource Management

Research Interests

Management of the Indonesian Peat Based on Ecosystem Unique: The Use of Local Knowledge and Modern Technology in order to Implement Sustainable Agriculture in Peat Land

In Indonesia, comprehensive information of peat land management for agriculture is still very rare. In fact, peat land management is a hard thing to do, because basically peat material is instable. Drying and wetting processes on peat land through drainage system can be hoped to affect peat material stability. If peat material becomes too dry then the organic materials decomposition process will be faster and peat material will be irreversibly drying. It means that in aerobic condition peat is very fragile and easily destroyed. However, in the anaerobic condition, peat decomposition process actually can be last even though very slow. Even though there are a lot of successful stories, failure of peat land development for agriculture carried out by government was often found. The failure was mostly caused by mismanagement in controlling the so called “good agricultural practices” in peat land which is accelerated by two things as follows:

1. There is a lack of attention to traditional wisdom and/or local knowledge, while in traditional community from generation to generation has already understood the strengths and weaknesses of environment around them. The community has even already known the appropriate technology that must be used. On the other hand, modern community is still not much conducting the careful principle on managing peat; peat exploitation is still dominant compared to its conservation and restoration. Therefore, local knowledge should be developed in order to enhance a basic knowledge for sustaining agricultural development in peat land.

2. In the use of peat land, inter-sector conflicts of interest or even the conflicts between sub-sectors are still dominantly happened. As a consequence, the managerial concept and integrated coordination is still ignored. For the future, therefore, a new model of peat land management for sustainable agriculture in Indonesia must be considered and proposed. The model will be developed in more detail during I carry out the research at the CSEAS-Kyoto University.

Academic Career

10 / 2000
Professor in Land Resource Management, Department of Soil Science and Land Resource, Faculty of Agriculture, IPB

10 / 1993 – 09 / 1994
Visiting Research Scholar at the CSEAS-Kyoto University

11 / 1988
Doctor of Agriculture, Kyoto University

03 / 1985
Master of Agriculture, Kyoto University

12 / 1974
Graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Soil Sciences, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) with specialization on Soil Science

Position
04 / 2004 – 05 / 2007
Vice President of Int’l Society for Southeast-Asia Agricultural Sciences (ISSAAS)

12 / 2003 – 11 / 2007
President of the Indonesian Soil Science Society.

06 / 2003 – 05 / 2007
Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, IPB.

04 / 1999 – 03 / 2003
Vice President for Student Affair, IPB.

05 / 1996 – 03 / 1999
Chairman of the Department of Soil Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, IPB.

Main Publications

1. Supiandi, S. 2004. Ecological issues of the Mega Rice Project: Case study of swampland development in Central Kalimantan. pp. 73-87. In Furukawa, H. et al. (eds.), Destruction, Health, Development: Advancing Asian Paradigms. Kyoto Univ. Press and Trans Pacific Press.

1. Supiandi, S. 2001. Increasing the productivity of the Indonesian tropical peat through controlling several toxic phenolic acids J. Agrivita. 22:170-176

1. Supiandi, S. 2000. Critical water content of the Center Kalimantan’s peat in relation with irreversible drying (in Indonesian) J. Tanah Trop. 11:21-30.

1. Supiandi, S., and N.B.E. Sulistyono. 2000. Studies on several inherent pro-perties and behavior of peat: Losses of CO2 and CH4 through the processes of reduction-oxidation (in Indonesian). J. Tanah Trop. 10:127-135.

1. Supiandi, S., and Riwandi. 2000. The relationship between total iron with humification degree and derivative phenolic acids in peat of Jambi and Center Kalimantan (in Indonesian). J. Agrista. 4(1):10-16.

1. Supiandi, S., S. Dohong, and T. Prasetyo. 1997. Phenolic acids in Indonesian peat. pp. 289-292. In, Riley, J.O., and S.E. Page (eds.), Biodiversity and Sustainability of Tropical Peatlands. Smith Settle, UK

1. Supiandi, S. 1990. Studies on the Holocene peat deposits in the coastal plains of Jambi, South Kalimantan, and Brunei: Research based on fossil pollen analysis (in Indonesian). Geol. Indon. 13(1):37-61.

1. Supiandi, S. 1990. Studies on peat in the coastal plains of Sumatra and Borneo: IV. A study of the floral composition of peat in the coastal plains of Brunei. Southeast Asian Studies 27(4): 461-484.

1. Supiandi, S. 1989. Studies on peat in the coastal plains of Sumatra and Borneo: III. Micro-morphological study of peat in the coastal plains of Jambi, South Kalimantan, and Brunei. Southeast Asian Studies 27(3): 339-351.

1. Supiandi, S., and B. Sumawinata. 1989. Studies on peat in the coastal plains of Sumatra and Borneo: II. The clay mineralogical composition of sediments in the coastal plains of Jambi and South Kalimantan. Southeast Asian Studies 27(1): 35-54.

1. Supiandi, S. 1988. Studies on peat in the coastal plains of Sumatra and Borneo: I. Physiography and geomorphology of the coastal plains. South-east Asian Studies 26(3): 308-335.

1. Supiandi, S., and H. Furukawa 1986. A study of floral composition of peat in the lower Batang Hari river basin of Jambi, Sumatra. Southeast Asian Studies 24(2):113-132.

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