PERCEPTION OF THE EKAS BUANA COASTAL COMMUNITY TOWARDS THE LARGE-SCALE SEAWEED INDUSTRY DOWNSTREAM MODELING PROJECT

Abstract

The large-scale seaweed industry downstream modeling project on the coast of Ekas Buana
village, East Lombok district, has been made a national strategic project by the central
government. The potential of natural resources owned by the Ekas Buana coast has made
policy makers from the center to stakeholders at the regional level utilize the coastal area
optimally and complexly with a relatively narrow area. The purpose of the study was to
determine the perception of the Ekas Buana community towards the large-scale seaweed
industry downstream modeling project. The data collection method used a questionnaire.
Data was reduced using a Likert scale and simple statistics and to obtain conclusions were
described qualitatively descriptively. The results of the study obtained the perception of the
community of cultivators towards the large-scale seaweed industry downstream project in the
categories of know, agree, and positive, a percentage score of 33.4% was obtained, and in the
category of Don't Know, Disagree, Not Positive a percentage score of 35.8% was obtained,
and in the category of Very Don't Know, Very Disagree, Very Not Positive a percentage
score of 17.6% was obtained, meaning that these three categories still dominate the
perception of the unexpected category, namely a score higher than the most expected score.
The perception of the community from the government, business elements and community
leaders was dominated by a good perception, where the respondents' answers were dominated
by the most expected answer, namely 43.56%.The conclusion of this study is that the
perception of the Ekas Buana community towards the large-scale seaweed industry
downstream project is dominated by people who have a negative perception, disagree, and
don't know