The Correlation Between Perception And Behavior Of River Pollution By Communities Around Brantas Riverbank In Malang

Abstract

Water is the most important element of the natural resources so that water pollution is a serious threat to the
well-being of the earth and its inhabitants. River water as a source of important functions in the community is needed but
human can cause water pollution. The purposes of this study are to determine the public perception of maintaining
cleanliness, pollution behavior in the Brantas riverbasin, and the relationship between perception and behavior. The method
used is a closed interview in accidental sampling technique. The respondents are people who live in the Brantas riverbank,
Malang. Data were tested using Spearman correlation test because the data were not normally distributed. Spearman
correlation of test results obtained significance value of 0.996 means that the public perception does not correlate with the
behavior of pollution in the Brantas River basin. Conclusions of this research are that public perception agree maintaining
cleanliness, communities near Brantas riverbank often behave to pollute the river, and there is no correlation between the
perception and behavior of river pollution by communities around the Brantas riverbank in Malang.