Will Co-management Approach Bring a Good Prospect for Babon River Management in Semarang, Central Java-Indonesia?

Semarang Municipality is passed by Babon river in the Eastern part. This river flows from Ungaran in Semarang Regency at the upper-stream and streams down to Java sea in Demak Regency.This river is utilised by various parties for multi-purposes. Thus, to manage Babon river and its watershed need coordination among the stakeholders. In this case, community as one of the competent stakeholders is considered as the most important role player who determine the success of sustainable river management. Babon river passes Semarang City longer than Semarang and Demak regencies. It seems when the stakeholders of Semarang pay more attention to Babon river will harvest more benefits compared to its costs. It indeed needs sharing in responsibility and understanding among the stakeholders along the watershed of Babon river. Collaborations between G to G (such as Germany and Indonesia) and Local Government (LG) to LG are seriously needed to support the success of the river management. Nevertheless, many efforts have been made on it. As mentioned by Lilin (2000), the existing participation contributed by community and key-persons along the Babon watershed in Semarang City were relatively low. The preliminary survey indicated that introducing co-management approach among the stakeholders in managing Babon river will provide a good prospect in the future. Many evidences have shown the success of co-management approach in managing natural resources in the third world countries in Asia, Africa and the developed ones. Babon river is a common resource, open-access to any parties and transboundary along three regions, thereby, need protocol concept to achieve the optimal management. What are the priority and how co-management should be implemented in Babon river are not easy questions but subject to further research

The Prospect of Co-management in Managing Open Water and Estuaries Resources with Special Reference to Indonesia: a Lesson Learned

Indonesia is a maritime country, composed about 17,500 islands. It has a great endeavor of open waterresources such as river, lake, dam, pond, swamp, etc. which are spread over the country. Multi-tribes and –races are attributed to its habits, tradition, and culture of the communities lived. Given such large territory,especially Indonesia is formed of thousands island, it will be costly to set a formal enforcement andsurveillance in securing the open-access resources (like fisheries, water, etc). Fortunately, each communityhas an indigenous or traditional system to manage the resources. For example: Ikan Larangan (in WestSumatra), sasi (in Maluku), Subak (in Bali), Sedekah Laut (in Java) and so on (Susilowati, 1996; 1999).Rather than waiting a complete formal resource management (and need to be set up by the government) anddo not know when will be effectively apply, thus it will be more reasonable and timely to revive thetraditional system of resource management belongs to the respective community. In short, communityinvolvement in resource management is urgently encouraged, particularly in developing country withlimited budget like Indonesia. This paper is attempt to compile an experienced of Co-management approachto manage the open water resource done by Susilowati (1999, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007). An institutionalanalysis (Pomeroy and William, 1994) and Pinkerton (1989) with necessary modification were applied tothe respective studies. The results indicated that there is a fairly prospect to empower the competentstakeholders (community, government, private, independent parties) to be involved in managing the openaccessresources. However, all parties need to be encouraged for a high intention in participation,commitment and somehow to create their sense of belonging to advocate the resource management. It iseasy to say but hardly to be materialized all the things for Indonesian context, except the leaders (formal andinformal) in the respective region are really committed to conserve the resource

Prospek Pengelolaan Sumber Daya Perikanan Berbasis Ekosistem: Studi Empiris Di Karimunjawa*

The objectives of the study are: to compare the model of fisheries management with conventional versus new paradigm; to explore the prospect of new fisheries management model; to formulate the initial strategy of fisheries management model using EBFM. The ecosystem of Karimunjawa is selected as the pilot project of this research. The competent 25 keypersons were selected using purposive quoted sampling for interview. Descriptive statistics, meta-analysis and AHP were employed to analize the data. The results showed that the conventional fisheries management models were rather ineffective to answer the current situation of fisheries resource. We need facing out to find a suitable approach of fisheries management model. One of the proposed new paradigm is EBFM. This model indicates has a good prospect to manage the fisheries resource in the study area. This study suggests that EBFM model should be under-tried out. If it is acceptable, then the model can be implemented for other region

An Application of Fisheries Co-management Approach of Ikan Larangan in West Sumatra, Indonesia: the Features and Attributes

“Ikan larangan” is a kind of fisheries management system that applied closing seasons of fishing in a portion of river or canal for certain period. There are three types of ikan larangan's management: (1) traditional; (2) semi-traditional; and (3) modern. The total sample of 99 household respondents were withdrawn from the three sites of ikan larangan, i.e.: (1) ikan larangan Lubuk landur (traditional, n=19); (2) ikan larangan Kayu Tanam (semi-traditional, n=20); (3) ikan larangan Pasir Lawas (modern, n=60). The study emphasizes more on the modern of ikan larangan system. This is in attempt to find out the possibility of implementing this system to other places in Indonesia as an alternative of resource management system and for food security purpose as well as for enhancing the fisheries sector and the regional developments. Furthermore, the co-management application of ikan larangan could encourage the implementation of decentralization policy in Indonesia since the system may able to help in empowering people and the available resources to generate the local income. Moreover, the salient characteristics of co-management system for ikan larangan could be adopted to prescribe the acceptable resource management for the similar circumstances of the resource in some places in Indonesia

An Assessment on Fishers' Compliance Behavior in Pemalang Regency, Central Java - Indonesia

The study was conducted due to high incidence of non-compliance by fishers in Central Java fisheries. The overall objective of the study is to examine the compliance behavior of fishers in Pemalang Regency. Eighty-five (n=85) respondents have been selected from the study areas using multi-stages sampling method. Moreover, key-persons from Fisheries Office, Navy and head of fishers' association have also been interviewed to enrich the analysis of the study. Non-compliance behaviour of fishers in this study was viewed from violation of: restricted area (zoning), restricted gears and means (explosive and poison) and administration (such as permits). Model of non-compliance behavior as outlined by Kuperan (1993) and Susilowati (1998) has been applied to analyze the data in this study with necessary modification. Tobit model explained by Gujarati (2003) was employed as the estimation techniques. Most of independent variables such as demographical factors, fishing effort, deterrence indicators and legitimacy variables have expected signs although statistically are not always significant. In general, the model of non-compliance behaviour could portrait the phenomena of violation behaviour of fishers in the study area. It is realized that law enforcement in Indonesian fisheries is weak for several reasons. Therefore, to improve the fishers' compliance perhaps an alternative approach such as empowering the people and its stakeholders should be found

Prospect of Co-management Approach in Managing Fisheries in Indonesia: Closer Look on Ikan Larangan (“Forbidden Fish Farming”) System in West Sumatra

Ikan Larangan is a good example of the revived traditional community-based resource management in Indonesia. Purposive sampling was employed to withdraw 99 household samples in the study area. A research framework for institutional analysis as recommended by ICLARM (Pomeroy, 1993) was applied to this study. The results found that the average score of the 11 key-conditions for successful Co-management is close to 4. This indicates that the prospects for Co-management application of Ikan Larangan system is sound. Therefore, the salient approach of Co-management could be adopted to prescribe acceptable fisheries resource management in Indonesia

Persepsi Publik Mengenai Pengelolaan Lingkungan Hidup di Kota Semarang

The study was done in order to identify whether the level of public perception in assessing environmental management in Semarang city seen from the Pressure, State, and Response (PSR) on several indicators or object to the research of green open space (RTH), urban forests, surface water, ground water, air, and coastal (OECD, 2008, and Kenneth, 2008). It is also providing strategic advice on sustainable environmental management to be applied. It used primary and secondary data with Quoted purposive sampling. Respondent sample was taken as the city of Semarang about 110 people respondents, and 8 respondent's key persons. Analytical methods used were mixed method with a quantitative approach used is descriptive statistics and qualitative approach is done by direct observation in the field and in-depth interviews with key persons respondents. Efforts toward improvement by the community activities in the role in environmental management, among others: (1) Reduce or restrict the use of electronic equipment, (2) Reduce or restrict the use of clean water, (3) Purchase of environmentally friendly products, (4) Recycling waste household, (5) Plant a tree in the neighborhood (reforestation), (6) Participate in managing the environment well, (7) Use of public transportation services in order to reduce pollution levels