Percentage of coral reefs’ health in Pamujan Besar Island, Banten Bay, Indonesia

• Published in: IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science 2021-10, Vol.860 (1), p.12008
• Main Authors: Mujiyanto, Sugianti, Y, Afandy, Y A, Rahayu, R, Budikusuma, R A
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Coastal waters; Coastal zone; Coasts; Coral reefs; Electric generators; Islands; Shallow water; Steam electric power generation; Steam power; Sustainability; Underwater photography; Water depth
• ISSN: 1755-1307; 1755-1315
• DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/860/1/012008

This research aims to analyze the environment health status with its percentages of coral reef in Pamujan Besar Islands, Serang Regency Banten Province. The island is one of the small islands near Karangantu, Bojonegara and Pulo Ampel coastal water. Also, the island is susceptible to develop gas and steam-powered electric generator areas. Data collected done in July and November 2018 at the same transect and focused on shallow waters. The sampling method was by underwater photography transects established at two depth areas of ± 3-4 m (shallow water). The result shown the value of coral reef cover at shallow water was 65.51 % (west side), 32.28 % (north side), 4.77 % (east side) and 2.20 % (south side). The coral reef’s health in Pamujan Besar inside in poor to moderate category (noted: all condition dominated poor category). This probably is because Pamujan Besar Island water is close from Karangantu, Bojonegara and Pulo Ampel coastal areas. Various activities such as commercial service lines, transportation, gas and steam-powered electric generators station, and high process discharge from Karangantu, Bojonegara to Pulo Ampel. This condition indeed calls attention to ecosystem sustainability, especially the coral reefs in Pamujan Besar Island. One way to improve it is to improve the vegetation along with the Karangantu, Bojonegara and Pulo Ampel coastal areas.