Abstract

Pollution of water resources, whether in seas,lakes, or rivers, has been occurring for years. This putstremendous pressure on the coastal environment, especially inreducing environmental quality and biodiversity, causinghabitat loss, and ultimately reducing the quality of life of thesurrounding community. Based on the eco-structure, thecondition of the mangroves on the coast of Indramayu hasexperienced degradation. This study aims to analyze thesustainability status of mangrove forest management in thecoastal areas of Indramayu Regency by applyingMultidimensional Scaling (MDS) and Rap-KMforest which ismodified from Rapid Appraisal for Fisheries (RAPFISH) toevaluate the sustainability of the mangrove forestsmultidimensionally. Based on the results of the analysis, themangrove forests in the coastal areas of Indramayu Regencyare generally less sustainable in all four dimensions, with indexvalues of 47.67 for the ecological dimension, 29.28 for theeconomic dimension, 44.14 for the social dimension, and 42.94the institutional dimension. The lack of sustainability of themangrove ecosystem in Indramayu Regency is also shown inthe results of the leverage analysis on each attributes, where thedominant attributes or sensitive attributes are: the use of thearea for tourism (3.71%) for ecology dimension, the number ofinformal sectors (3.48%) for the economic dimension, theattention of mangrove researchers (3.98%) for the socialdimension, and the capability of the implementation apparatus(3.90%) for institution dimension. Thus, effective strategies areneeded to improve the sustainability of mangrove forests in theIndramayu Regency by considering sensitive factors.