The Influence of Leadership Sustainability on the Quality of Life Bintan Bay Fishermen in Riau Island Provincial

The ability to influence others so that others follow what is the desire of the influential person is a public concept of leadership. Leadership also requires that a leader must have the power to be able to make others follow what a leader cools. A leader is not necessarily effective in carrying out his role as a leader in a community and its environment. An effective leader is if it can bring change to his followers in a community. The change in question is a change in the quality of life of the community. To obtain information on the influence of sustainable leadership on the quality of life, a study was conducted by selecting the coastal fishing community of Teluk Bintan as the object of study. The study was conducted quantitatively by disseminating questionnaires to 318 respondents and strengthened by qualitative information collected through interviews with figures who are considered influential in the community. The findings show that there is a relationship between sustainable leadership and quality of life, and sustainable leadership has an impact on the quality of life of coastal fishing communities in Bintan Bay. The main characteristic of sustainable leadership that the majority expect from the coastal fishing community in Bintan Bay, namely trust, is caring and modest. The sustainable leadership characteristics desired by the community are believed to bring prosperity to the coastal fishing community in Bintan Bay.