Java is the most populated island in the world. In 2000, forest area in Java covered about 2.0 million hectares but in 2005 it decreased to 1.2 million ha. Regardless of the debate on the different methodology of forest inventory applied in 2005 that resulted in under estimation fi gure, the decrease of forest cover in Java is obvious and needs immediate response. Spatial modeling of the deforestation will assist the policy makers to understand the process and to take
it into consideration when decisions are made. Moreover, the result can be used as data input to solve environmental
problem resulted from deforestation. We modeled the deforestation in Java by using logistic regression. Percentage of deforested area was considered as the response variable, whilst biophysical and socioeconomic factors that explain the current spatial pattern in deforestation were assigned as explanatory variables. Furthermore, we predicted future deforestation process, and then it was validated with actual deforestation derived from MODIS satellite imagery between 2000-2008.