Impact of mangrove forest recovery on coastal socio economic conditions on Rugemuk Village, Pantai Labu Subdistrict, Deli Serdang Regency

Abstract

This study aims to analyse the impact of the recovery program on the dynamics of coastal community groups; mangrove forest area; types of catch biota that have economic value; availability of coastal agro-industry raw materials; employment opportunities and coastal household income. The data analysis method used is a comparative method namely the Wilcoxon Match Pairs Test with the t-test and Z-test. To analyse the area of mangrove forests using the map overlay method. The sampling method used was a simple random sampling method with 79 samples for hamlets 3 and 4. The results showed that there were significant differences in group dynamics, mangrove forest area, types of catch biota that were economically valuable, availability of coastal agro-industry raw materials, employment opportunities, income of coastal households before (2012) and after (2017) mangrove forest recovery programs.