Analisis Willingness to Pay Masyarakat terhadap Mata Air Aek Arnga di Desa Sibanggor Tonga, Kecamatan Puncak Sorik Marapi, Kabupaten Mandailing Natal
Abstrak: Water is an important
element in human life. Water is used for various purposes including for drinking,
domestic using, and all human activities. The purpose of research was to
analyze the economic value of Aek Arnga spring and the factors that affect the
value of the willingness to pay (WTP) for the payment of environmental services
community. The method was used in this research was Contingent Valuation Method
(CVM). CVM was a method of survey techniques that asked residents about the
value or price of the commodity they accepted to pay that didn’t have market’s
value as environmental goods. The factors that effected respondent’s
willingness to pay for environmental services in this research was the average household
income, the amount of water users, and the amount of water need. WTP’s value
obtained from this research was the value that would be given by the
respondents for the environmental services that was producted by Aek Arnga
spring per liter per household. The average WTP values of respondents was Rp. 109.65/Hh/day
while the total value of WTP was Rp. 14,692.83 /day. The value of environmental
services of Aek Arnga spring by community was around 9,454,715.45 liters/year.
While the potential value of Aek Arnga spring was Rp. 1,036,709,549.09 /year
that could be done to restore ecology of the forest area of 9.40 ha.
Penulis: Siti Maryam Nasution,
Agus Purwoko, Kansih Sri Hartini
Kode Jurnal: jpkehutanandd150147
