<![CDATA[The large-scale seaweed industry downstream modeling project on the coast of Ekas Buanavillage, East Lombok district, has been made a national strategic project by the centralgovernment. The potential of natural resources owned by the Ekas Buana coast has madepolicy makers from the center to stakeholders at the regional level utilize the coastal areaoptimally and complexly with a relatively narrow area. The purpose of the study was todetermine the perception of the Ekas Buana community towards the large-scale seaweedindustry downstream modeling project. The data collection method used a questionnaire.Data was reduced using a Likert scale and simple statistics and to obtain conclusions weredescribed qualitatively descriptively. The results of the study obtained the perception of thecommunity of cultivators towards the large-scale seaweed industry downstream project in thecategories of know, agree, and positive, a percentage score of 33.4% was obtained, and in thecategory of Don't Know, Disagree, Not Positive a percentage score of 35.8% was obtained,and in the category of Very Don't Know, Very Disagree, Very Not Positive a percentagescore of 17.6% was obtained, meaning that these three categories still dominate theperception of the unexpected category, namely a score higher than the most expected score.The perception of the community from the government, business elements and communityleaders was dominated by a good perception, where the respondents' answers were dominatedby the most expected answer, namely 43.56%.The conclusion of this study is that theperception of the Ekas Buana community towards the large-scale seaweed industrydownstream project is dominated by people who have a negative perception, disagree, anddon't know]]>
