Mangrove Bandar Mangrove mangrove ecotourism in the urban area of Dumai is an attraction between local and international tourists. The uniqueness of Bandar Bakau mangrove ecotourism is the school of nature, the potential for flora and fauna and its mangrove forests. Ecotourism Bandar Bakau is still relatively new, the division occurred in 1999 by community leaders and managed by non-governmental organizations and local communities. Mangrove ecotourism has 24 types of species and not all of their potential can be used to increase ecotourism because of the ability of people who do not understand, the high expectations of mangrove township communities for mangrove ecotourism make ecotourism management difficult to control professionally, so awareness is needed to build an agreement in building strategies local wisdom-based ecotourism development, therefore a mangrove ecotourism development strategy based on local wisdom is needed in Bandar Bakau. This study used a qualitative approach with descriptive methods and the data were analyzed using SWOT. The technique of determining the informants was purposive sampling with observation and in-depth interviews. The research results that have been analyzed illustrate that an alternative strategy for developing mangrove ecotourism based on local wisdom yields 4 important points, first to develop mangrove conservation and rehabilitation as a form of new tourism potential in mangrove ecotourism in Bandar Bakau, second to increase participation and empowerment based on local wisdom of the local community, third formulate regulations and policies to preserve mangroves based on local wisdom of the Malay community,

This study was conducted to investigate and analyze the influence of skills toward migrants' competitiveness and the influence of wisdom toward migrants' competitiveness in Pekanbaru, the capital city of Riau Province, Indonesia. This study employed a quantitative approach in the form of survey. There were 125 migrants who participated in this study who were chosen using quota sampling technique based on the classification of migrants' activities. The first finding shows that there is a significant influence between migrants' skills and their competitiveness. Secondly, migrants' wisdom has certain positive yet insignificant influence toward their competitiveness. The results of this study also show that migrants' competitiveness has been satisfying. Migrants are also known to have strong basic characteristics to achieve certain target or to reach their success. KEY WORDSMigrants, motivation, competitiveness, skills, wisdom.City is an ecosystem of life which also becomes the machine of life for cities provide various source of living. Thus, this machine is expected to be effective and efficient in serving the people. Cities are a set of functional arrangement in which houses, jobs, shopping centers, and services are clearly separated. This makes sub urban areas which were considered as recreational spots now have been used as expanded residential area. Pekanbaru is one of big cities in Indonesia which is located in a strategic location. Pekanbaru has 12 sub-districts and 58 villages in approximately 632.26 km 2 area. 24% of the area has been used as residential area (around 75% of this area), government offices, trading area, educational area, industrial area, military area, airports, and so on. Around 76% of the city area are protected forest, farms, forest, etc. Pekanbaru needs larger city area since the number of the people is highly increasing. This has led the city to remain narrow available area. The high population is dominated by the high number of migrants in Pekanbaru.Starting from the implementation of local autonomy as stated in the Act Number 32 of 2004 on local governance, local governments are given chances to develop and raise their own economy. Hence, small cities are well developing and attract job seekers to migrate there. The same phenomena also occurs in Pekanbaru which as much as 60.8% of the population are migrants and Pekanbaru has reached up to 9.2% of economic growth every year (Dinas Kependudukan dan Catatan Sipil, 2010). Migrants refer to residents who live in Pekanbaru in a certain length of time and who have fulfilled conditions as migrants in the form of Kartu Ijin Pendatang (KIP) which is an identity card for legal migrants given by the municipal government issued by the Dinas Kependudukan dan Catatan Sipil (Distardukcapil), according to Local Act No.5 of 2008. Subagyo (2002 stated that environmental damages are triggered by two factors; natural factors and human made factors. Those factors are highly correlated to each other since environmental damages caused by natural events mi...