Located in South Sumatra province, the Forest Fire Prevention and Control project is developing an integrated forest fire management system with government, community and commercial interests.

More specifically it aims to :

1. Analyse the causes of land and forest fire in the province.

2. Establish operational procedures for fire prevention and control, taking into account their major causes and set up structures for active participation of local populations in close cooperation with national and provincial authorities.

3. Provide hardware and software and train local experts to receive and process images from the NOAA satellite system for the detection of fire "hot spot".

Starting in 1995, the project runs until Desember 1999. A second phase project is being considered.

EU is contributing a EUR 4.1 million grant to the project budget of EUR 4.6 million.

For further information, please see the homepage project

http://www.mdp.co.id/ffpcp.htm