Mangrove forest is the major ecosystems that supports life living in coastal and marine. The area of Indonesian mangrove forests in 2005 was 3.062.300 ha or 19% of the world's mangrove forests, Indonesian mangrove forests is greater than in Australia (10%) and Brazil (7%) (FAO 2007). According to Ministry of Environment (2008), the extensive mangrove forests in Indonesia amounting 9.204.840, 32 ha, while the mangrove forest area in undamaged condition was 2.548.209, 42 ha. Destruction of mangrove forests in Indonesia, caused by the conversion of mangrove forests into fishponds. Other causes are land-uses into industrial areas, agriculture, and settlement. As a result, there was abrasion, damage to ecosystems, and loss of flora and fauna, as well as global warming.

To reduce damage of mangrove forests are usually carried out mangrove rehabilitation. On the rehabilitation of mangrove forests, planting success is largely determined by site conditions and planting techniques. For example, a large wavy footprint, muddy footprint, sandy footprint, gravel or rocky tread, stagnant water footprint. And most of the ponds, the magnitude of the problem is a flooded footprint or stagnant water fooprint to a depth of more than 1-2 meters. This has resulted in the planting of mangroves often fail. As a consequence, the condition of stagnant water fishponds will impact on the environmental aspects, social, and economic. Therefore, it is necessary, appropriate technologies and innovative ways to solve the above problem. Rehabilitation of mangrove forests should take into account the ecological, social, and economic. To align the above three aspects, it is needed special treatment by combining innovative technology the rehabilitation of mangrove forests. Previously, there was a technique for the rehabilitation of mangrove forests, namely silvofishery (Njurumana et al. 2010). Silvofishery is a method of mangrove forest rehabilitation that is combined with a pond or fishponds. The system was considered successfully for the rehabilitation of degradated mangrove and conserve mangrove ecosystems (Wibowo and Handayani 2006). For the rehabilitation of mangrove forests that harbor ponds filled with water, can be done with a Guludan technique (Kusmana and Samsuri 2009). Two of the above is more inclined to provide ecological and economic benefits alone. While the social aspect has not been optimized. Therefore, the above optimization is required with the application of innovative and effective technology that is consistent with the embodiment of Sustainable Forest Management in Indonesia.

From the problems mentioned above, Prof. Cecep Kusmana as my research mentors or supervisor and my group, providing technology solutions for the  rehabilitation of mangrove forests in pond of stagnant water with a depth of 1-2 meters above the line that in accordance with Sustainable Forest Management. This technology is a mangrove forest rehabilitation by applying Guludan technique – based Silvopastoral-fishery has been implemented since 2008-2009 by Prof. Cecep Kusmana in Angke Kapuk Coast and around Soekarno Hatta Airport, Provincial Government of Jakarta. The purpose of implementation of that technique is to rehabilitate degraded mangrove forest and eventually to embodiment Sustainable Forest Management in Indonesia. My group is implementing a research program in Angke Kapuk Coast and highways Sedytamo, Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Jakarta. My research group will run the program in stages to keep consultation with Jakarta government and my supervisor. And InshAllah, I will carry out and expand my project in Jepara Regency or Jakarta.

This study has also been given the award to attend a presentation at the Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang in the framework of the International Environment and Health Conference 2012. Guludan technique - based silvopastoral-fishery is a way of planting mangrove trees in pond of stagnant water with a depth of more than 1-2 meters, which is collaboration with silvopasture and silvofishery system. Silvofishery is agroforestry activities that incorporate forestry and fishery in coastal arena. The realization of that system can be intercropping ponds carried out by farmers in brackish ponds of mangrove forest with cultivating shrimp and fish together in the same forest management. While silvopasture is combination of forestry system and farm or animal husbandary activities in a land management system. The form of silvopasture can be applied in a populated area in the surrounding forest to develop a farm, but do not have a place to grazing, so that the land under the stands can be planted with grass. Thus, silvopastoral-fishery is a form of planting of species of mangrove trees , such as Rhizophora mucronata, R. apiculata, Avicennia sp., Sonneratia sp., and Brugueira sp. around and middle of fishponds, multipurpose tree and grass or shrubs. In addition, it can be cultivated in ponds of various types of fish, such as milkfish, mullet, tilapia and even shrimp. Implementation of the program above is done through a bottom-up approach, namely emphasis on active participation of community. The results of implementation of above program is able to rehabilitate degraded mangrove forests, especially in a stagnant water fishpond with a depth of 1-2 meters. In addition, the application of Guludan technique – based silvopastoral-fishery able to contribute in Sustainable Forest Management in Indonesia with the gains of economic, social, and ecological benefit.