Making Rumpon To Maintain the Continuity of Marine Ecosystem

Marine waters in Indonesia can still be grateful for having a wealth of marine life is quite high, including in the embankment stretch of coral reefs (coral reefs) are very fascinating.

This coral field is a residence and a paradise for sea dwellers, especially coral animals, fish, shrimp and others. For humans the existence of this coral field can also be a special attraction for water sports or diving (scuba diving) or just snorkeling.

With the existence of many spots coral fields in Indonesia should be able to raise awareness of the people of Indonesia to be grateful and try to explore positively. The preservation of this coral field should always be guarded by always anticipating the steps of human destruction.

In Indonesia, various coral reefs that are still quite well spread in many places such as Aceh, Karimunjawa, Bali, Lombok, Borneo, Sulawesi and of course the best is in Raja Ampat, Papua. To be able to reach these places of course required a relatively far enough travel factors with access to transportation facilities that have not been much except Bali, Lombok, Karimun java or Manado (Sulawesi).

So the tour to see this coral field may only be done by some people who are interested and have money. Given the amount of sea in Indonesia is quite extensive, it is necessary to think about making artificial fields artificially.

To note the growth of coral takes a very long time and can not be done instantly. Thus the preparation of artificial coral field must also be carried out continuously with regular maintenance efforts. The idea of making artificial coral fields is to imitate the existence of ships sinking in the sea. After taking decades it turns out in the body of the sinking shipwrecks then grow the coral biota and as the dwelling of the fish. The surface of the parts of the wreck will then be coated by the inherent sponges and grow continuously. In the end this ship site will become a kind of rumpon for the life of coral biota.

Around the beginning of the 1990s, in Jakarta, there was a reduction in pedicab vehicles operating in the Indonesian capital. The existence of becak-becak confiscated this is then used to be made FADs in the area of the Thousand Islands. These rickshaws are drowned in an area in the hope that a few years later it can become a new coral reef area. Although of course this process will take a long time, but this step should be appreciated.

The use of used tires for FADs has also been done in Indonesia with the example-dontoh that I show in the following section.

Thus the existence of this new coral field can benefit marine biota to obtain new shelter. For the people around it also can provide benefits with the increase in fish or other marine animals that can be used as a source of livelihood. In addition, this area can also be a new tourist attraction for alternative locations as an artificial coral field.