Forests are natural infrastructure that provides important environmental services, including the provision of various commodities, both from the wood and non-wood groups. On the other hand, the high economic value of forest products is also a cause of disturbance to the sustainability of the forest itself. Forests that once covered more than 70% of Indonesia's land are now threatened by deforestation rates that exceed one hectare per year. This is exacerbated by the fact that the forestry curriculum has not been able to respond to the increasingly complex needs and challenges of forestry, especially in terms of optimizing utilization and ensuring the preservation and sustainability of forestry resources.
The facts mentioned above show that the biggest challenge in forestry education is the provision of human resources capable of protecting, manipulating, developing, and managing forests and all the products and services in them in a sustainable manner. This requires a new paradigm of forestry education that prioritizes the engineering aspects of forestry bioprocesses and biosystems.
The Forestry Engineering Study Program is expected to be the answer to the problems of Indonesian forest management. This study program covers strategic areas that are developed based on 10 (ten) basic concepts.These concepts represent a holistic perspective towards more environmentally sound and sustainable forest management.
Dengan menjadikan sepuluh konsep tersebut sebagai landasan, dikembangkan bentuk pendidikan keilmuan interdisipliner yang memadukan ilmu kehutanan (forestry science) dan rekayasa (engineering) yang diaplikasikan dalam perekayasaan berbasis bioproses serta biosistem untuk untuk menghasilkan professional forest engineers. Lulusan tersebut diasah untuk memiliki kemampuan utama dalam menjaga kelestarian hutan, memanipulasi hutan untuk pemanfaatan berkelanjutan dan membangun/mengkonstruksi hutan-hutan baru.
Berdasarkan landasan konsep di atas, kami merumuskan Program Studi Rekayasa Kehutanan dengan visi dan misi sebagai berikut.
Visi
“Menjadi program studi unggul dalam membangun hutan tropika.”
Misi
“Mengembangkan pendidikan dan penelitian di bidang kehutanan dengan mengintegrasikan sains dan rekayasa untuk menjaga kelestarian hutan, memanipulasi hutan untuk membangun hutan-hutan baru yang bermanfaat bagi masyarakat Indonesia secara berkelanjutan.”
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