Cost-benefit analysis of the marine protected areas in Bintan Island, Indonesia
Wahyudin (a*), Jamaluddin Fitrah Alam (b), Dedy Kurniawan (c), Aulia Rahman (d), Umi Muawanah (e), Jumsurizal (f)

a) Department of Socio-economic Fisheries, Faculty of Marine and Fisheries, Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji
*wahyudinps[at]umrah.ac.id
b) Department of Aquatic Resources Management, Faculty of Marine and Fisheries, Hasanuddin University
c) Department of Aquatic Resources Management, Faculty of Marine and Fisheries, Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji
d) Marine and Fisheries Institute of Riau Island Province, Tanjungpinang City, Indonesia
e) National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Republic of Indonesia
f) Department of Fisheries Product Processing, Faculty of Marine and Fisheries, Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji

Abstract

Coral reef ecosystem is declining around the world due to the anthropogenic and environmental changes. Some program to maintain the productivity of coral reef ecosystem keep promoted by government such as Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). MPAs success in restoring fish populations has led to optimism that they could also benefit corals by indirectly reducing threats like overfishing. The present study aims to evaluated the ecosystem services in term of economic value of MPAs in Bintan Island. The field observation carried out at three stations located in MPAs of Bintan Island on July and November 2021. We used the Total Economic Valuation (TEV) approached to estimate the ecosystem services provided by MPAs. For the value of fisheries production were collected by estimated the fish biomass of using the underwater visual census (UVC) and data collected by interviewed with fishermen using the questionnaire. We combined the data form government for MPAs cover areas, then estimated the Non-use value using the benefit transfer method. The result showed that the structure of coral reef was covered by live coral (40.17%), death coral (33.92%), and other (25.91%). The coral reef condition in Bintan is good categories with 30-40% of live coral covered and it estimated 9,000 kg/ha of fish production. The economic benefit for fisheries and biodiversity was estimated IDR 4.4 and 13 billion per year. However, in this MPAs, the government and NGO was spending the budget for maintaining and monitoring special program around IDR 500 million in 2021. Based on the bioecological value, the benefit provided by the MPAs is higher than cost in term of the spending cost for manage the MPAs in Bintan Island. Majority of fisherman agree to protected the coral reef in surrounding their island because they believe that coral reef is important for the sustainability of their livelihood. In addition, the MPAs is enhance of the biodiversity and the most benefit is directly use for human well-be

Keywords: Ecosystem services- Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)- Coral Reef- Bintan Island

Topic: Marine and Fisheries Socio - Economics and Culture (International)