PERAN SERTA MASYARAKAT TERHADAP KELESATARIAN KAWASAN HUTAN MANGROVE DI KELURAHAN SETAPUK BESAR KECAMATAN SINGKAWANG UTARA KOTA SINGKAWANG

Mangrove forest is vegetation community which dominated by some various trees that be able grow and branch out in tidal an muddy beach area. The abrasion that has taken on coastal of Kelurahan Setapuk Besar can make relize people to keep and conserve mangrove forest area. Society’s participation is an effort for growing spirit and sense of belonging towards of each developmental based on complicity into planning, implementing, and evaluation. This research purposed to know how far society’s participation that consist from motivation, communication, coordination, and mobilization. Along with to analyze society’s characteristic from ages, educational, job, and clans. This research has been done 2 weeks continuously on mangrove area of Setapuk Besar. The research used survey method with interview technique, to determine the sample, it was used purposive sampling technique for primary and secondary data. And the data has been obtained be analyzed and presented descriptive qualitatively. Based on the result of research about society’s participation that consist from motivation of society to conserving the mangrove forest on society’s environment, communication, that bind up well between people become two-sides relation, and also increased society’s participation of that. Some effort that has been done by people are as follow planting of mangrove trees, maintenanced, and also cleaned mangrove forest area of Kelurahan Setapuk Besar.Keywords: Participation, Mangrove Forest, Society