Community Participation in Preservation Efforts of the Lakes in Depok City

Abstract

Depok is a city that has the most lakes in West Java. Those lakes have several functions as flood controller, recreation area and fishpond. Every year, lakes in Depok City are getting constricted and minimized, it would cause the lakes to be slowly disappeared. It could happen because of human where they should have taken the role in preserve lakes, so that community participation is very important to do. The research objective was to analyze the level of community participation in the form of thought, wealth, energy, skill, and social in lake preservation in Depok City. This research uses the descriptive method with the quantity of area samples are in 3 subdistricts and human samples are 100. Data tabulation uses coefficient correlation and contribution experimental. The result of analysis shows the level of community participation in thought, property, and skill has a low relation towards lakes preservation. While community participation in power and social has a medium relation towards lakes preservation. Government’s effort to increase the community role in lake preservation in Depok City such as urging people to join the community, join some planting community petition and empowering them to make a small quay and be responsible of water games’ treatment in the recreation area.