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Coastal Ecosystem Rehabitation in Jaya Sub-district, Aceh Jaya District

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Green coast for nature and people after Tsunami

Language(s): English , Author(s): Wetlands International Indonesia Programme

Wetlands International Indonesia Programme (WIIP) with WWF through the Green Coast Project (funded by Oxfam) has facilitated around 31 local NGOs and 29 community based organizations to found the community of suffering from the Tsunami to carry out coastal ecosystem rehabitation integrated with the efforts to create alternative means of livelihood in Aceh-Nias since October 2005. So far, this approach has produced good result because the community participation in rehabitating the ecosystem is related to the incentive provision in the form of business capital loan.

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