Partisipasi Masyarakat dalam Rehabilitasi Mangrove dan Dampaknya terhadap Pengembangan Agribisnis Berbasis Masyarakat ( Studi Kasus di Desa Sei Nagalawan Kecamatan Perbaungan, Kabupaten Serdang Bedagai)

Abstract

Public Participation in Rehabilitating Mangroves and Its Effect on the Development of Community Based Agribusiness (A Case Study at Sei Nagalawan Village, Perbaunngan Subdistrict, Serdang Bedagai District). Magistrate Program in Agribusiness, University of Sumatera Utara, in 2013. Public participation in rehabilitating mangroves is very important because of its effect on environmental conservation and people’s income. The objective of the research was to know the correlation between socio-economic factors (age, level of education, and the length of settlement) on public participation and their income and the correlation between the level of participation and people’s income. The socio-economic factors which were correlated with the level of participation and people’s income and the correlation between the level of participation and people’s income would be analyzed descriptively, using Spearman correlation. The result of the research showed that there was 29.23% of the level of respondents’ participation in mangrove conservation at Sei Nagalawan Village, Perbaungan Subdistrict, Serdang Bedagai District, which was categorized as high. The result of the analysis of Spearman correlation about the factors which were correlated with the level of participation and income in mangrove agribusiness showed that the variable of the level of education had significant correlation, the variables of age and the length of settlement did not have any significant correlation, and there was significant and positive correlation between the level of participation and income.

Partisipasi Masyarakat dalam Rehabilitasi Mangrove dan Dampaknya terhadap Pengembangan Agribisnis Berbasis Masyarakat (Studi Kasus di Desa Sei Nagalawan Kecamatan Perbaungan, Kabupaten Serdang Bedagai). Program Magister Agrobisnis. Universitas Sumatera Utara, 2013. Partisipasi masyarakat dalam rehabilitasi mangrove sangat penting karena dapat berdampak bagi kelestarian lingkungan dan pendapatan masyarakat.Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara faktor sosial ekonomi (umur, tingkat pendidikan, lama bermukim) terhadap partisipasi dan pendapatan masyarakat serta hubungan antara tingkat partisipasi dan pendapatan masyarakat. Faktor-faktor sosial ekonomi yang berhubungan dengan tingkat partisipasi dan pendapatan masyarakat, serta hubungan antara tingkat partisipasi terhadap pendapatan masyarakat dianalisis dengan menggunakan analisis deskriptif dan Uji Spearman. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini adalah bahwa secara umum tingkat partisipasi responden dalam upaya pelestarian hutan mangrove di Desa Sei Nagalawan, Kecamatan Perbaungan, Kabupaten Serdang Bedagai sebanyak 29,23% yang dikategorikan tinggi. Hasil analisis Uji Spearman tentang faktor yang berhubungan dengan tingkat partisipasi dan pendapatan dalam agrobisnis mangrove menunjukkan bahwa variable tingkat pendidikan berhubungan secara signifikan dan positif sedangkan variabel umur dan lama bermukim berhubungan secara tidak signifikan dan hubungan antara tingkat partisipasi dan pendapatan menunjukkan hubungan yang signifikan dan positif.