Tropical Natural Resources Management through Integrated Bio-Cycles System for Renewable Energy Sovereignty

Abstract

Indonesia is blessed with abundant natural resources and a very strategic location, but also a center for natural disasters. The over-exploitation of natural resources has resulted in severe damage to nature, the environment, and life. Indonesia has lost wet tropical forests, oil mines, and coal mines in only a short time. The paradigm shift from mere exploitation to efforts to empower natural resources will provide benefits and shift from the concept of the red and green economy to the concept of a blue economy that is oriented towards sustainable development. Integrated Bio-cycle System (IBS) is the management of ecological landscapes based on natural cycles of land and biological resources. The cycle of water, air, energy, carbon, organic matter, food, nutrients, production, plants, and monetary resources is managed in an integrated and sustainable manner. The program focuses on reusing, reducing, recycling, refilling, replacing, repairing, replanting, rebuilding, and rewards. Energy is an essential requirement for economic development to accelerate the improvement of human welfare. The potency of organic material as a source of renewable energy through biomass, biogas, biofuel, bioreactors, algae fuel, bio-hydrogen, and other sources is essential for sustainable development in tropical ecosystems. Empowerment of renewable and sustainable bioenergy needs to be supported with better biotechnology through genetic enhancement, environmental manipulation, purification, packaging, and compression, in order to get higher added value in the environmental, economic, socio-cultural, and human health aspects.