Abstract
Mangrove Forest, located in Kuala Langsa, Aceh Province of Indonesia, is one of the local, regional, national, and international ecotourism destinations. However, there are some issues about the awareness character of the society around Kuala Langsa. This research purpose is to have a better understanding of the people and their knowledge concerning to environmental issues. The technique used in the research was a random sampling interview combined with customized questionnaires as an indicator of understanding about environmental issues awareness taken from 100 respondents. The data value shown by Likert scale as follow: 46.8 percent littering habits, 33 percent toilet sanitation, 36.2 percent reuse of product. The research concludes the awareness character of Kuala Langsa society influenced by the educational level, economic condition, and their opportunity to gain access to the next level of educational grade, and also low frequency of government appeal to the society of how important to always maintain and preserve the Kuala Langsa Mangrove.
Highlights
Environmental awareness is an act or effort conduct by a person or society to prevent environmental destruction around, to improve and maintain the quality of the environment until the benefit and goodness feel continuously[4]
The research aim is to identify the environmental character of Kuala Langsa Society based on Likert scale. a
Information Very Poor/Very Low/Never Not Good/Low/Rarely Normal/Sufficient/Sometimes Good/High/Often Fine/Fantastic. Their profession showed by figure 1. (a). 44% of housewife activities are peeling the oyster given by their families or other member of the society as their side job, 35% work as a fisherman, while 9% of the respondents was a student, and the rest of them had a various profession, such as enterpreneur, labourer, and unemployement.On the interview discussion, generally the population nearby talk most about the economic topics and has less information and knowledge about environmental awareness character, sanitation, quality improvement and conservation, specially around the mangrove forest
Summary
Environmental awareness is an act or effort conduct by a person or society to prevent environmental destruction around, to improve and maintain the quality of the environment until the benefit and goodness feel continuously[4]. National economic and social survey of 2014 data describe the indicator behavior of environmental awareness character such as: water maintainance, waste management, and the care for environment[10]. Even though 71% of this planet is water, only 2.5% of it is plain water, while the rest contains high salinity. Only 1% of that 2.5% could be utilized by a human directly or approximately about 30% of total plain water supply. Based on that condition pushes us to manage and utilize the water efficiently and wisely.
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