Measuring Conservation Outcomes of Tambora National Park Management

Establishing a new national park aims to intensify management effectively. Effective management will provide successful conservation outcomes. Tambora National Park is a new national park declared in 2015. The manager and stakeholders expect the success of the conservation outcome of Tambora National Park management. The researchers proposed formulating the jointly expected conservation outcomes to be assessed based on established indicators. This paper aimed to formulate and evaluate the jointly expected conservation outcomes of Tambora National Park management. The analysis consisted of four stages: (1) compiling the jointly expected conservation outcomes, (2) identifying indicators of significant values of the protected area, management cycles, and management impacts into conservation outcome criteria, (3) collecting data on the significance and values of the protected area, management cycles, and management impact based on the perspective of managers and stakeholders, and (4) interpreting conservation outcome values. Five jointly expected conservation outcomes were obtained. Generally, the Tambora National Park management has provided good conservation outcomes but was not balanced. The biodiversity protection has not gone well, but the socio-economic aspects have been good. Furthermore, the socio-economic conservation outcomes directly impacted the surrounding community. In practice, protected area management must be balanced to protect their biodiversity.