Over 433 hectares in Petungombo provides fertile soil for rubber, coffee, clove, and coconut plantations. Around 386 hectares make up the productive fields, while the remainder consist of protected forest, lava fields, settlements, and roads. A part of that productive land, precisely 138 hectares, had been worked by the local farmers until 1959, when the troops of Regional Military Command V/Brawijaya arrived.

Under the colonial Dutch governme