MANGROVE MANAGEMENT

MANGROVE MANAGEMENT AS COASTAL AREA PROTECTOR WITH CO-MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS HIERARCY PROCES (AHP) APPROACH

IN PEMALANG REGENCY, CENTRAL JAVA - INDONESIA

Himawan Arif Sutanto¹⁾ dan Indah Susilowati²⁾

¹⁾STIE Bank BPD Jateng, Semarang, Email: himawanmiesp@gmail.com

²⁾FE UNDIP Semarang, Email: indah-susilowati@ro cketmail.com

ABSTRACT

Mangrove as a component of coastal ecosystems that role is quite important, both in maintaining productivity in coastal waters and in maximizing the life of the population in the region. This research is aim to analyse mangrove management in Pemalang regency as the coastal area protector and priority that need to be implemented in good management. The quota sampling used to obtained the number of samples in this research. There are 132 people has participated as the responders consisted of 100 head of household and 32 key-persons. Co-management approach has been applied to determine the sharing of responsibility in mangrove management and Analysis Hierarchy Process (AHP) applied to determine priority in good management of mangrove.

The results of this study indicated that most of people living at coastal area in Pemalang regency is a fishpond farmer which can affect in decreasing environmental in coastal area if it is not managed in correct. The community involvement of mangrove management still less although has been formed care coastal area group but still relying on project from the Government either National and Local. Execution prospect of co-management in mangrove management of Pemalang regency is fairly good. It is indicated by the existence of fisher groups and the existence support from government and by international NGO such as OISCA (Japan) and Wet Land (Dutch).

There are three main priorities of mangrove management that need to be applied; (1) mangrove replanting to rehabilitate function of mangrove properly; (2) extends mangrove coverage, especially in the coastal area; (3) increase community economics can do activity expansion of fish conducting with conservation effort of mangrove or Silvofishery

Keyword: Co-management, Analysis Hierarchy Process, AHP, Mangrove, Pemalang, Coastal Area, Indonesia

27 Provinces' Environments in Crisis

Of 33 provinces, there are around 27 provinces which are in poor condition.

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Elin Yunita Kristanti, Aries Setiawan

VIVAnews - The environmental condition in Indonesia is getting worse. According to Communication Deputy for the Environment and Human Empowerment at the Ministry of the Environment, Hendri Bastaman, every year, the environmental condition is degrading.

"Of 33 provinces, there are around 27 provinces which are in poor condition due to, among others, landslide and and flood. We must seek the solution," he said on Wednesday, March 25.

According to Bastaman, several areas have suffered from terrible damage because of, for example, extreme weather change. "The nature could probably still support, but massive exploitation causes disaster," he added.

In February 2009, the overflown Bengawan Solo river flooded four regencies in East Java. The flood claimed the lives of 16 and inundated thousands of homes and buildings.

The damage in upstream areas caused water debit to increase, causing a dam to wrack.

Not only disaster, the environmental damage has also triggered conflict between humans and animals, especially concerning Sumatran tigers. Six people had been killed by the tigers, whereas the big cats were killed by angry mob.

A number of cases on tigers moving out of the forest has been considered as a nature's alert on environmental damage in the forest. The damage can be inflicted by forest exploitation, illegal logging, forest and land burning.

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Translated by: Ariyantri E. Tarman
source:www.en.vivanews.com

Pertumbuhan Ekonomi Indonesia Makin Down

Sri Mulyani (Menkeu RI)

JAKARTA - Menteri Keuangan Sri Mulyani memastikan pertumbuhan ekonomi Indonesia terancam direvisi kembali atau berada di bawah dari target sebelumnya.

"Secara nyata, dampak dari krisis pertumbuhan ekonomi Indonesia semakin down. Dan ini akibat faktor eksternal," kata Menkeu Sri Mulyani di Gedung Depkeu, Jalan Lapangan Banteng, Jakarta, Senin (16/3/2009).

Namun sayangnya, dia belum mau menyebutkan angkanya, dengan pertimbangan masih ada harapan jika ekonomi Indonesia masih bisa bertahan dari target revisi yang nantinya akan ditetapkan.

Hal tersebut disampaikannya menyinggung tentang dampak bagi Indonesia terhadap prediksi lembaga IMF yang menjelaskan bahwa pertumbuhan ekonomi dunia kembali mengalami penurunan tajam menjadi minus 0,5 persen sampai minus satu persen dari sebelumnya 0,5-0 persen.

source: www.okezone.com

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