Abstract:
Coastal communities are a group of people who live together inhabiting coastal areas to form and have a distinctive culture related to their dependence on the use of coastal resources. The understanding of coastal communities in civic culture is that civic culture is an idea related to the moral or ethical identity of citizens towards the environment. Community participation in environment protection is important, studying cultural issues in Indonesia cannot be separated from knowledge of national values. This research is called descriptive qualitative. The sample technique used is purposive sampling.