Leverage Factors at Red Brick Production Centers in Sinar Tanjung Village, Banjar City, West Java Province

Abstract

The existence of a certain traditional red clay brick production area has helped to boost the community’s economy. Although the sporadic existence of production units, in which many were not established based on a research stage with the concept of sustainable development, has consequently generated environmental damage. Land as a non-renewable natural resource has limited carrying capacity and its utilization needs to be regarded carefully for the present and future generations. This study aims to identify leverage factors that can act as an intervention for better environmental management at the red brick production centers in Sinartanjung Village, Pataruman District, Banjar City, West Java Province. The present research is based on the concept of sustainable development triangle (economic, ecological, and social dimensions) incorporated with analysis of Rapid Appraisal for Fisheries (Rapfish)-Multi Dimensional Scaling (MDS) from the results of the assessments of 25 red brick production units. It starts with the identification of sustainability issues to be discussed, determination of the analysis unit and attributes, data entry, and Rapfish analysis to determine the area’s sustainability status and leverage factors. The results showed that red brick production centers were not yet sustainable obtaining a value(64.47). Moreover, the leverage factors identified were: profit transfer (economic dimension), level of air pollution (ecological dimension), the trend of changes in the livelihoods of the local communities (social dimension).