Poverty of Traditional Fisherman Percut Village Percut Sei Tuan District Deli Serdang District

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10.2991/icoposdev-17.2018.63How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Fishermen, Poverty, empowerment

Abstract

As an archipelagic country, Indonesia has the marine economy resources especially the abundant fishery resources. The potential has not been well managed, still small contribution of marine and fishery sector to national income, only 14.7% of total product broto domistik (PDB) Indonesia, compare with other countries, Japan only has 31.000 km coastline but contribute 55% GDP . The dramatic phenomenon between the potential and utilization of marine resources is directly proportional to the life of coastal communities who mostly work as fishermen. Some leteratur meyebutkan, fishermen are a group of poor people, even when compared with other agricultural groups in the agricultural sector, traditional fishermen can be included into the poorest group. Using qualitative approach this study analysis factors which contributed to the presistence of poverty among traditional fisherman remained poor despite the abundance of natural resources and government's empowerment program. The study demonstrates that the poverty of traditional fishermen is influenced by two factors: The first internal factors include: limited human resource quality, limited business capital and capture technology, difficulty of diversification of fishing, and a wasteful lifestyle that is less oriented toward the future. The two external factors include: fisheries development policies are more productivity oriented to support national economic growth and, fishery product marketing system is more profitable intermediary traders, toke, damage to coastal and marine ecosystems, the use of fishing equipment is not environmentally friendly, weak law enforcement against destructive environment, limited post-harvest processing technology, limited job opportunities in non-fishery sector available in fishing village.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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