Economic Valuation of Mangrove Ecosystems in Area Fahiluka-Lakun Pound in Malaka Regency

Abstract

Mangroves have an important role for life, especially in the field of fishery production, due to increasing human needs, mangrove areas are converted into residential, industrial and recreational areas. The importance of these benefits raises the challenge of knowing how to provide comprehensive value in the mangrove ecosystem. The research was carried out in the Villages of Lakekun, Kletek and Fahiluka. The results showed the total economic value of the mangrove ecosystem was Rp31,787,444,349/year, which consisted of direct benefits of Rp32,515,720/ha/year (26.19%), indirect benefits of Rp111,863,999/ha/year (70 .79%) of the breakwater, optional benefit of Rp.213.773 /ha/year (0.17%) from biodiversity, existence benefit of Rp.1.303.973/ha/year (0.99%) from community willingness to pay and benefits inheritance is 3,251,572/ha/year (2.62%). The factors that influence the willingness to pay, namely the education factor and the amount of responsibility as well as environmental quality are analyzed using 3 indicators, namely temperature, pH and salinity. temperature of 300 to 32? C and for the pH parameters of these three villages are in the quality standard PP No. 22 of 2021, which is 7-8.5 while the salinity of the three villages shows a fairly large number, namely 40 with measurements using a refractometer.