Parangtritis Coastal Area: An overview upon conservation and development plan towards pseudo-urban coastal management

Yogyakarta coastal areas posses numerous natural, human and cultural resources. The development plan of Yogyakarta is pursuing a noble community via integrating marine and coastal civilization. The southern coastal area is somewhat posing rural characteristics nowadays, however with many development potentials introduced to the area, it might seem the coastal areas is creating pseudo urbanism. The progressing development is mandatory and unavoidable issue in the planning decrees. Trans-region development lanes along the southern coast of Java, particularly via coastal dunes along Parangtritis area, raise an issue of conservation and development. How these phenomena fit into each other? This paper offers argumentation and scientific overview upon conservation and development which had been very much an issue currently at Parangtritis coastal area.