Seashore Community Engagement Program for A Clean Seawater at Banyu Biru Village

Abstract

This paper present the community engagement program conducted at Banyu Biru Village in Banten, Indonesia related to seacoast waste and water quality. Banyu Biru Village has a potency to increase its economic gain from tourism. The aim of our community engagement program is to collect the water and seacoast waste database. These data can be used as a benchmark for evaluating the environment based on BlueMetric indicators created by Universitas Indonesia. The results of socialization and outreach activities revealed that majority of respondents aged 26-35 years old (30%), female (100%), having elementary education background (86.7%), and unemployed (70%). Other measurement results show that most respondents have fair of knowledge about seawater pollution (56.7%), fair attitude (56.7%), and implemented the organic waste management (53.3%). The types of waste that have been processed by some residents of Banyu Biru Village are organic waste by burning. To increasing the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours are needed so the goal of protecting the environment from the danger of water pollution can be achieved. It is hoped that the BlueMetric program can be carried out sustainably and can also be applied in other regions in Indonesia.