Proceedings of the 4th Annual Civic Education Conference (ACEC 2022)

Proboscis Monkeys (Bekantan) Rescue Community: A Civic Engagement in the Sahabat Bekantan Indonesia Foundation

Authors
Reja Fahlevi1, *, Nor Raihan Raudina1
1Universitas Lambung Mangkurat, Banjarmasin, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: reja.fahlevi@ulm.ac.id
Corresponding Author
Reja Fahlevi
Available Online 28 August 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-096-1_78How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Civic Engagement; Proboscis Monkey; Sahabat Bekantan Indonesia
Abstract

This research aims to see the form of civic engagement of the Sahabat Bekantan (SBI) Foundation, which has successfully preserved the population of probosci monkeys in recent years. The research approach used in this research is descriptive qualitative by writing down the form of civic engagement. The results of the study obtained that Civic engagement carried out by the Sahabat Bekantan Indonesia Foundation is by rehabilitating proboscis monkeys that are experiencing poor health, a place to conduct research related to probosci’s monkeys and their ecosystems, restoring mangrove Zambia which aims to create a natural, healthy and good ecosystem for the development and preservation of proboscis monkeys, and designing and making a place on Curiak Island as the center of Sahabat Bekantan Indonesia’s activities as an educational place for tourists, students and students to learn about probosci’s monkeys and their ecosystems. The recommendation in this research is that what is done by Sahabat Bekantan Indonesia continues to be sustainable and needs maximum support from the Government to save native primates from the island of southern Kalimantan from extinction.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 4th Annual Civic Education Conference (ACEC 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
28 August 2023
ISBN
978-2-38476-096-1
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-096-1_78How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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