An analysis of public participation on critical land, in Randangan watershed, Pohuwatoregency

Abstract

The aims of this study are to identify the public participation level in the planning, implementation stages and evaluation on the activity of critical land rehabilitation of Randangan watershed as well as to examine the association of internal and external factors with public participation level on the critical land rehabilitation activity at Randangan watershed. This study was conducted at Randangan watershed, Pohuwato regency, Gorontalao province from September to November 2015. The study was used survey approarch and purposively determined. There were 60 samples from 150 population collected through systematic random sampling. The data were analysed with internal and external factors associated with the public participation level. The result indicated that the public participation level on the critical land rehabilitation on Randangan watershed in Pohuwato regency at the level of planning is low, while on the implementation stage is moderate and the factors that related to the critical land rehabilitation covered internal factors such as age, education, land width and earning level. Meanwhile, the external factors are intensity of socialization program, the role of companion and availability of rehabilitation infrastructure. The internal and external factors had strong correlation with public participation level is significant, a=0.05, consisted of land width at implementation stage (-0.283*), and intensity of program socialization at evaluation stage (0.293*).