The Conditions Ambon Bay Waters And Its Relationship with Behavior of The Sorounding Community

Abstract

Ambon Bay Area has the abundance natural resources and ecosystems includes mangrove forest ecosystem, seagrass meadows and coral reef ecosystems that very unique and has the potential to be manage to support it sustainability. Many activities around the coastal TAD potential to the decrease TAD environmental quality. This research was conducted to determine of potential sources of contaminants, water quality condition TAD, the level of public participation in environmental conservation and to formulate an alternative management of the coastal TAD. The results found a potential source of pollutants for the region that is scattered around the coastal TAD oil (Oil spill) from the ship activity TAD surrounding waters and domestic wastewater and organic waste both non organic waste. Status of water quality in the coastal waters based on the calculations with STORET methods is chategorized as class C , with a total score of - 28. The level of public participation was measured at five sample villages based on three aspects: 1) perceptions of nature and ecosystems, 2) the level of participation in government programs and 3) the level of participation of individuals or groups, result show that people with high participation were 46%, the middle were participation of the community was 39%, and people with low participation many as 15%. AHP analysis results show that the actor who became the top priority in managing the government with figures TAD is 0.3416. Supporting factors that have the priority in managing the natural resource potential TAD is 0.2969 and purposes become the main priority in management is the creation of good environmental quality. Alternative management measures should be taken to manage the Bay of Ambon is a collaborative management mechanisms (Co-Management) as the main priority in the management, followed by community-based management and a government-based management.