COMMUNITY- BASED ENVIROMENTAL EDUCATION IN COASTAL REGIONS AND ITS ROLE IN THE CONSERVATION OF FISHERIES RESOURCES IN INDONESIA

The southern coastal areas of West Java in Indonesia has the potential of fishery and the conservation of fisheries resources. Most of the people living in coastal areas having livelihood as fishermen. Hence fishermen have an important role as actors in environmental conservation protection, e.g. by managing the zoning system for the sustainability of fisheries resources. This research aims to analyze factors that influence the level of community-based environmental education in coastal areas and their role in conservation of fisheries resources. The method used in this research is a case study using primary and secondary data. The number of respondents used in this research were 30 respondents with purposive sampling technique of taking respondents. The analysis tool used in this research is rank spearman. Based on the results of the research we found factors that influence the level of community-based environmental education in coastal areas, namely attitude, awareness, and action. The strength of attitude (X-1) variable was found to be r_s = 0.556 which indicates that attitude has a moderate relationship to environmental education conservation fisheries resources is turtles (Y). Meanwhile the strength of awareness (X-2) variable was found to be 0.639 which indicates that awarness has a strong relationship. Finally the strength of action (X-3) was found to be 0.509 which indicates that action has a moderate relationship. As a general conclusion of this research we believe that turtle conservation education has a better chance of success, if it can be done by all stakeholders by simulataneously involve together in comunity-based environmental education program.