Social problem is phenomena that always exist in society in any part of the world. As long as society continues to change, social problems continue to emerge. People who work in Social Entrepreneurship must understand social problems because by understanding the breadth and depth of the problem, they will be easier to find opportunities to take preventive, resolving, or constructive actions, even the potential to bring up creative ideas to answer problems that are considered difficult to solve.
Social Entrepreneurship: What Can Young People Do? became the topic of the Stube HEMAT Yogyakarta training to enrich students' understanding and initiate social entrepreneurial pilot ideas. One of the training series was in the form of group study visits with eight students choosing a destination, namely Akar Napas Community in a mangrove conservation forest area in Baros, Bantul regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta (12/11/2022).
The Akar Napas Community is an example of a non-profit Social Entrepreneurship engaged in mangrove conservation, empowering and assisting local communities. The participants discussed with Shanty Ardha Candra and Momox, a couple who started the community on November 4, 2021. With the background of its members as students of nature lovers and environmental activists, the community departed from the problem of the loss of some mangrove forests on Baros beach due to inaccurate planting zone and difficulty in cultivating Sonneratia Caseolaria, one type of mangrove vegetation as the main stronghold in land zoning. The mangrove area is an important area for capturing CO2 and emitting O2 for the respiration of creatures on earth. Currently, Akar Napas Community is also developing other potencies of mangroves managed by the community without destroying the ecosystem, such as eco-printed batik and natural dye inks for written batik which are processed from leftover mangrove seed that has already grown.
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Complementing the learning in the Baros mangrove area, the students observed the land related to the mangrove vegetation nursery guided by Momox. They learned several types of mangroves cultivated there, including Sonneratia, Avicenniaceae, and Rhizophora. In planting zoning, the mangrove area is divided into three zones, namely: 1) zone one, or the leading zone with the sea, with Sonneratia or commonly called the Apple Mangrove; 2) zone two, or middle zone planted with Avicenniaceae species; and 3) zone three, at the very back planted with Rhizophora or what can be called Bakau.
Conservation activities have a positive social impact on the environment around the mangrove forest which can now be used as agricultural land and provide direct awareness to the community, especially young people in Baros village about the importance of mangrove forests. The study visit also witnessed the real threat of waste which is dumped through rivers that flows through Yogyakarta city to end up here.
Through study visits, students captured a new understanding of the types of social entrepreneurship and opportunities for its development so that each participant has aspiration and motivation to develop the community potency to answer social problems, especially related to the environment. ***
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